Alarico Gattia | |
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Born | 9 December 1927 |
Died | 3 September 2022 Genoa, Italy | (aged 94)
Occupation | Cartoonist |
Alarico Gattia (9 December 1927 – 3 September 2022) was an Italian comic artist and illustrator.
Born in Genoa, Gattia started his career in Milan as an illustrator for advertising and for several Mondadori publications, notably Epoca. [1] [2] He made his debut as a comic artist in the late 1960s, collaborating with comics magazines such as Corriere dei Piccoli, Il Giornalino, and Comic Art, and illustrating some Diabolik and Tex Willer stories. [1] [2] He illustrated some volumes of Storia d’Italia a fumetti ("History of Italy in comics"), with texts of Enzo Biagi, and collaborated with the French publishing house Éditions Larousse, illustrating the volumes Histoire du Far West and A la découverte du monde. [3]
Alarico Gattia | |
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Born | 9 December 1927 |
Died | 3 September 2022 Genoa, Italy | (aged 94)
Occupation | Cartoonist |
Alarico Gattia (9 December 1927 – 3 September 2022) was an Italian comic artist and illustrator.
Born in Genoa, Gattia started his career in Milan as an illustrator for advertising and for several Mondadori publications, notably Epoca. [1] [2] He made his debut as a comic artist in the late 1960s, collaborating with comics magazines such as Corriere dei Piccoli, Il Giornalino, and Comic Art, and illustrating some Diabolik and Tex Willer stories. [1] [2] He illustrated some volumes of Storia d’Italia a fumetti ("History of Italy in comics"), with texts of Enzo Biagi, and collaborated with the French publishing house Éditions Larousse, illustrating the volumes Histoire du Far West and A la découverte du monde. [3]