Guido Buzzelli (27 July 1927 – 25 January 1992) was an Italian comic book artist, writer, illustrator and painter.

Biography

Buzzelli was born in

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into a family in which his grandfather had been a decorator, his father a painter, and his mother a model. He frequented the Academy of St. Luke and initially decided to follow his father's steps. Later, however, he entered the workshop of Rino Albertarelli, one of the main Italian comic book artists of the time, debuting in the 1950s with the magazine ''Zorro''; he also provided covers for magazines of the publisher Fratelli Spada. Other Buzzelli comics of the time include ''Susan Bill'', ''Alex l'eroe dello spazio'', ''Bill dei Marines'', '' Bambola'' and ''Dray Tigre''. Later, he moved to Spain and then to England, where he produced the strip ''Angélique'' for the ''

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''. After his return to Italy and his marriage to Grazia de Stefani (1960), he initially devoted himself to painting. He returned to comics with a personal project, ''La rivolta dei racchi'' ("The Revolt of the Ugly", 1966), a fantasy history containing a sarcastic metaphor of the class struggle; the work was to be published only in 1970 in France, on the magazine '' Charlie Hebdo''. He soon established himself as one of the most praised comics artists in France and, later, also in Italy, with other stories such as ''I Labirinti'' (1970), '' Zil Zelub ''(1972), ''Annalisa e il diavolo ''(1973), ''L'intervista ''(1975), ''L'Agnone ''(1977), ''La guerra videologica'' (1978), all mixing social themes with fantastic and dream-like atmospheres. In 1973, he received the

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as best illustrator and author in the Lucca Comics convention, followed in 1979 by the French equivalent, the ''Crayon d'Or''. He then started to collaborate with magazines and newspapers such as '' Linus'', '' Alter Linus'', ''

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'', '' Il Messaggero'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Psyco'', '' Corriere dei Ragazzi'', '' Comic Art'', '' Playmen'', ''Menelik'', ''

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'', and, in France, ''Pilote'', '' Métal Hurlant'', ''

À Suivre ''À Suivre'' or ''A SUIVRE'' (English translation: "To Be Continued") was a Franco-Belgian comics magazine published from February 1978 to December 1997 by the Casterman publishing house. Along with the comic book magazines ''Spirou (magazine), ...

'', ''Circus'', ''

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'', ''Fluide Glacial'' and others. Under the pseudonym of Blotz he created several erotic illustration published in France in ''

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'' as well as the collections ''Démons'' and ''Buzzelliades''. In 1976, Buzzelli illustrated ''L'uomo del Bengala'' for

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; for the same publication in 1985, he drew the first giant-size volume of '' Tex Special'', written by Claudio Nizzi (1985). In the 1980s, he collaborated with Italian television and taught in the European Institute of Design. Buzzelli died in Rome in 1992.

Filmography

Sources

* Luca Raffaelli, introduction to ''L'arte di Buzzelli'', ''I Classici del Fumetto di Repubblica'' #57.

External links

Official website
1927 births 1992 deaths Painters from Rome 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian comics artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Europe-comics-creator-stub