Nicolas Rosso (
Turin
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, July 19, 1910 -
São Paulo
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, October 1st, 1981) was an Italian-Brazilian comic artist. Born in
Italy
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, he studied with the masters
Giacomo Grosso and Giovanni Reduzzi. He also taught Illustration and Costume History at the Bernard Semeriz School of Graphic Arts.
He married Tina Billi in 1937 and had two children: Gianluigi Rosso and Valeria Rosso. He lost almost all of his possessions during
World War II
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, moving to
Brazil
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in 1947 (his family arrived the following year).
In São Paulo, he started working in the Arts Department of Editora Brasilgráfica. After that, he became a freelance illustrator, drawing covers and comics for several publishers.
Rosso has worked with all comic book genres, but his main works were in the horror genre, including the
Coffin Joe
Zé do Caixão , known in English-speaking countries as Coffin Joe, is a character created and nominally played by Brazilian writer, director, and actor José Mojica Marins. An amoral undertaker with Nietzschian beliefs, he is driven by his des ...
comics. He was also a professor at the Escola Panamericana de Artes, which he co-founded. He retired in 1976 for health reasons and died in 1981 after suffering three heart attacks.
In 1986, he was awarded posthumously with the
Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics
Master of National Comics ( pt-BR, Mestre do Quadrinho Nacional) is one of the categories of Prêmio Angelo Agostini, the most traditional Brazilian award dedicated to comics that has been held since 1985 by Associação dos Quadrinhistas e Caric ...
, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to
Brazilian comics
Brazilian comics (known in Brazilian Portuguese as ''HQs, gibis, revistinhas, historietas'', ''quadrinhos'' or ''tirinhas'') started in the 19th century, adopting a satirical style known as cartoon, charges or caricature that would later be cemen ...
for at least 25 years.
References
Italian comics artists
Brazilian comics artists
Prêmio Angelo Agostini winners
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