Attilio Micheluzzi (11 August 1930 - 20 September 1990) was an Italian

comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

artist. Born in

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, at the time part of Italy, Micheluzzi graduated in architecture and worked for several years in Africa. Returned to Italy in the early 1970s, in 1972 he started collaborating with the magazine ''

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 ...

'', often under the

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Igor Arzbajeff. Among the best known comics created by Micheluzzi, there were the science fiction series ''Roy Mann'', with texts by

Tiziano Sclavi Tiziano Sclavi (born 3 April 1953 in Broni) is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book ''Dylan Dog'' in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore. M ...

, and the adventure series ''

Petra Chérie ''Petra Chérie'' is an Italian comic series created by Attilio Micheluzzi. Background The comics started in 1977 and it was first published by the weekly magazine ''Il Giornalino''. It features the adventures of Petra de Karlowitz, best kn ...

'' and ''Johnny Focus''. The Napoli Comicon in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adm ...

has held the ''Premio Attilio Micheluzzi'' (Attilio Micheluzzi Awards) honoring comics creators annually since 1998.

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1930 births 1990 deaths People from Umag Italian comics artists {{illustrator-stub

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