Gallieno Ferri (21 March 1929 – 2 April 2016) was an Italian

comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...

artist and illustrator. He was born in

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...

. In 1960 Ferri met writer

Sergio Bonelli Sergio Bonelli (2 December 1932 – 26 September 2011) was an Italian comic book writer and publisher. He is best known as creator of '' Zagor'' (1961) and ''Mister No'' (1975), as well as a comics publisher through the publishing house Sergio ...

and they created the comic book '' Zagor''. Ferri illustrated Zagor from the first issue, drawing numerous stories. He also illustrated all the covers of the regular series. In 1975, when another character, '' Mister No'', was first introduced, also written by Sergio Bonelli, Ferri illustrated numbers #1 and #2 of the regular series, and designed the cover illustrations for numbers #1 through #115. Other characters created by Ferri include ''Maskar'', ''Thunder Jack'', ''Jim Puma'' and ''Capitan Walte''.

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* 1929 births 2016 deaths Italian comics artists Artists from Genoa {{Europe-comics-creator-stub