Giorgio Rebuffi (7 November 1928 – 15 October 2014) was an Italian comics artist.
Born in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, Rebuffi started his career in 1949 when, still being a university student at the Faculty of Medicine, he created the character
Sceriffo Fox ("Sheriff Fox") for the publisher
Edizioni Alpe
Edizioni Alpe (also known for a time in the late 1940s as Edizioni Subalpino) was an Italian publishing house founded in 1939 and active until the late 1980s. Based in Milan, it published a series of magazines focusing on popular fiction genres— ...
.
Shortly after the publisher placed him in charge to cure the stories of
Cucciolo and Beppe, two characters he revolutionised,
changing their appearance, giving them well-defined personalities and enhancing the satirical side of their stories.
[Franco Fossati, ''I grandi eroi del fumetto'', Gramese, 1990.]Tiramolla
Tiramolla is an Italian comic book character created in 1952 by Roberto Renzi and Giorgio Rebuffi.
Tiramolla (English language, English: Stretch-Spring) is a bizarre Superhero that resembles a stick figure with extensible slender body, oval face ...
, characterized by the ability of being able to stretch as he wishes.Trottolino
Trottolino is the title character of an Italian humorous comics magazine.
Background
Trottolino was created in 1952 by Giorgio Rebuffi under the pen name "O'Layne" and was the title character of a comics magazine published between 1952 and 1 ...
(created in 1952) and the wolf Pugacioff (created in 1959).[ Rebuffi was also active as a ]Disney
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...
cartoonist for the Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore () is the biggest publishing company in Italy.
History
The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine ''Luce!''. In 1 ...
publications.[
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References
External links
official website
Italian comics artists
1928 births
2014 deaths
Artists from Milan
Disney comics artists
Italian magazine founders
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