Pier Lorenzo De Vita (21 November 1909 – 7 April 1990) was an Italian

comic book artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

Life and career

Born in

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, De Vita made his professional debut in 1934 in the magazine ''

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''. In 1936 he started collaborating with ' and ''

Corriere dei Piccoli The ''Corriere dei Piccoli'' (Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones"), later nicknamed ''Corrierino'' ("Little Courier"), was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995. It was the first Italian periodical to make a re ...

'', for which he created the long-running series ''La Primula Rossa del Risorgimento''. In 1938 De Vita debuted on ''

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'' with a comic adaptation of Albert Robida's novel '. After illustrating ''Tuffolino'', a

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imitation for the magazine ''

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'', as well as some adventure comic series such as ''

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'' and ''Oklahoma'', in 1955 he started a long collaboration with

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with a

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story, ''Paperino Don Chisciotte''. He continued to illustrate

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stories often written by Martina until his retirement in 1981. De Vita died in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:De Vita, Pier Lorenzo Italian comics artists 1909 births 1990 deaths People from the Province of Varese Disney comics artists