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Renzo Calegari
Renzo Calegari (5 September 1933 – 5 November 2017) was an Italian comics artist. Life and career Born in Genoa, Calegari left his studies in accountancy to enter the art studios of Roy d'Ami. He made his professional debut one year later, collaborating with Gian Luigi Bonelli in the series ''El Kid'', ''I Tre Bill'', and in 1955 ''Davy Crockett''. In 1957 he began a fruitful collaboration with Fleetway Publications, in which he specialized in drawing war comics. In 1967 he co-created with Gino D'Antonio his best known work, the long-lasting comic book series ''Storia del West'', which ran until 1980, and for which he illustrated numerous stories. After several years of hiatus, he reprised his activities in the second half of the 1970s, collaborating with the magazines '' Skorpio'', '' Il Giornalino'', ''Orient Express'' and ''Zodiaco''. References External links Renzo Calegariat ''Lambiek Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Regions of Italy, Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of Genoa, had 855,834 resident persons. Over 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera. On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean: it is currently the busiest in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union. Genoa was the capital of Republic of Genoa, one of the most powerful maritime republics for over seven centuries, from the 11th century to 1797. Particularly from the 12th century to the 15th century, the city played a leading role in the commercial trade in Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy ( it, Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic. The state resulted from a decades-long process, the '' Risorgimento'', of consolidating the different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single state. That process was influenced by the Savoy-led Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered Italy's legal predecessor state. Italy declared war on Austria in alliance with Prussia in 1866 and received the region of Veneto following their victory. Italian troops entered Rome in 1870, ending more than one thousand years of Papal temporal power. Italy entered into a Triple Alliance with the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1882, following strong disagreements with France about their respective colonial expansions. Although relations wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical region. Italy is also considered part of Western Europe, and shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. It has a territorial exclave in Switzerland, Campione. Italy covers an area of , with a population of over 60 million. It is the third-most populous member state of the European Union, the sixth-most populous country in Europe, and the tenth-largest country in the continent by land area. Italy's capital and largest city is Rome. Italy was the native place of many civilizations such as the Italic peoples and the Etruscans, while due to its central geographic location in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the country has also historically b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gian Luigi Bonelli
Giovanni Luigi Bonelli (22 December 1908 – 12 January 2001) was an Italian comics, Italian comic book author and publisher, best remembered as the co-creator of ''Tex Willer'' in 1948, together with artist Aurelio Galleppini. Career Bonelli was born in Milan. He founded Sergio Bonelli Editore, Casa Audace Editrice, later to be known as Sergio Bonelli Editore, in 1940. In 1948 he created ''Occhio Cupo'' and ''Tex Willer'' (both drawn by Galleppini). ''Tex Willer'' is among the most popular characters of Italian comics, with translations to numerous languages all around the world. He wrote several early episodes of ''Zagor (comics), Zagor'' (issues #6–10, 13–14). Bonelli remained to supervise the production of Tex until his death in Alessandria. His son Sergio Bonelli (1932–2011) was also a comic book writer, as well as a publisher of comics. External links A short biography of G. L. Bonelli and A. Galleppini 1908 births 2001 deaths Italian comics writers Writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleetway Publications
Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London. It was founded in 1959 when the Mirror Group acquired the Amalgamated Press, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies that merged into the IPC group in 1963, and the Fleetway banner continued to be used until 1968 when all IPC's publications were reorganised into the unitary IPC Magazines. In 1987 IPC's comics line was sold to Robert Maxwell as Fleetway Publications. Egmont UK bought Fleetway from Maxwell in 1991, merging it with their own comics publishing operation, London Editions, to form Fleetway Editions, but the name "Fleetway" ceased to appear on their comics some time after 2002. In August 2016, Rebellion Developments acquired the Fleetway library from Egmont, making it the owner of all comics characters and titles created by IPC's subsidiaries after January 1, 1970, together with 26 specified characters which appeared in ''Buster Buster may refer to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino D'Antonio
Gino may refer to: * Gino (given name) * Gino (surname) * ''Gino'' (film), a 1993 Australian film * ''Gino the Chicken'', Italian TV series See also * * Geno (other) *Gino's (other) Gino's may refer to: *Gino's East, a Chicago-based pizzeria chain * Gino's Hamburgers, a recently revived fast food chain originating in Baltimore *Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti Gino's Pizza and Spaghetti is a restaurant chain with 40 locations, mo ..., various restaurants and fast-food chains * Gina (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storia Del West
''Storia del West'' (i.e. "History of the West") is a comic book series created in 1967 by Gino D'Antonio and Renzo Calegari. Overview A detailed and well-documented historical account of American frontier narrated from the point of view of a family of Irish immigrants, the MacDonalds, the series feature figures such as Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, George Armstrong Custer, Wyatt Earp, Kit Carson. It consists of 73 issues (in its first edition) and it was published by CEPIM Sergio Bonelli Editore (formerly CEPIM and other names) is a publishing house of Italian comics founded in 1940 by Gian Luigi Bonelli (1908–2001). It takes its name from its former president, comic book writer Sergio Bonelli (1932–2011), son of ... from 1967. D'Antonio served as the sole writer and cover illustrator, while artists of the stories included the same D'Antonio, Renzo Calegari, Renato Polese and Sergio Tarquinio. The series was later entirely republished between 1984 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skorpio (magazine)
''Skorpio'' is a weekly anthology comic magazine published in Argentina since 1974 to 1996 and in Italy since 1977 onwards. History and profile ''Skorpio'' was created in July 1974 by Ediciones Record, with Alfredo Scutti serving as editorial director and Juan Zanotto as artistic supervisor. It is named after a character created by writer Eugenio Zappietro (under the pen name Ray Collins) and artist Ernesto R. Garcia Seijas. Because of the artistic freedom it granted, the magazine attracted all the major Argentine comic artists of the time. The magazine got an immediate success. Notable series which were introduced in the magazine include '' Bárbara'' by Ricardo Barreiro and Juan Zanotto, '' Yor the Hunter'' by Zappietro and Zanotto, and ' by Carlos Trillo and Enrique Breccia. ''Skorpio'' also republished and repopulized Argentine classic comics such as '' Mort Cinder'', ''Sergeant Kirk'' and ''El Eternauta''. The magazine eventually closed in Argentina in 1996. The Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Giornalino
''Il Giornalino'' is an Italian comics magazine published in Italy. History and profile ''Il Giornalino'' was founded by the Catholic publisher Edizioni San Paolo of Alba in 1924. During its history, the magazine has published the Italian translation of numerous American and European comics series, such as Looney Tunes, The Smurfs, Lucky Luke, Popeye, Iznogoud, Hanna-Barbera's characters, Asterix and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It also featured adaptations of famous novel and literary works, including '' The Betrothed'', ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'', ''Hamlet'' and others. Original characters published on the pages of ''Il Giornalino'' include Capitan Erik, Commissario Spada, Dodo & Cocco, Jack Speed, Larry Yuma, Micromino, Nicoletta, Petra Chérie, Piccolo Dente, Pinky, and Rosco & Sonny. Authors who worked for ''Il Giornalino'' include Dino Battaglia, Carlo Peroni, Benito Jacovitti, Attilio Micheluzzi, Ferdinando Tacconi, Luciano Botta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orient Express (magazine)
''Orient Express'' was a monthly comic magazine published in Italy from 1982 to 1985. History and profile ''Orient Express'' was founded in 1982 by Luigi Bernardi and intended to offer to its adult audience only high quality stories by Italian cartoonists. The first issue appeared in June 1982. The magazine was published monthly and featured unreleased stories of both well-known and unpublished characters. The magazine had its headquarters in Bologna until 1984 when it moved to Milan. Series published by the magazine include ''Lo Sconosciuto'' and ''I Briganti'' by Magnus, '' Ken Parker'' by Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Milazzo, ''Martin Mystère'' by Alfredo Castelli and Giancarlo Alessandrini, ''Max Fridman'' by Vittorio Giardino, ''Johnny Focus'' by Attilio Micheluzzi, ''Stella Noris'' by Lorena Canossa and Roberto Baldazzini, '' Big Sleeping'' by Daniele Panebarco. A collection of the magazine's best stories, ''Orient Express Collezione'', was published between June 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lambiek
Galerie Lambiek is a Dutch comic book store and art gallery in Amsterdam, founded on November 8, 1968 by Kees Kousemaker (, – Bussum, ), though since 2007, his son Boris Kousemaker is the current owner. From 1968 to 2015, it was located in the Kerkstraat, but in November 2015, the store moved to the Koningsstraat 27. As of 2018, Lambiek is the oldest comics store in Europe, and the oldest worldwide still in existence. The name "Lambiek" originated as a misspelling of the name of the comics character Lambik, from the popular Suske & Wiske comic book series created by Belgian artist Willy Vandersteen. The logo of the shop is an image from the ''Suske en Wiske'' album ''Prinses Zagemeel'' (''Princess Sawdust''). History Only two earlier comic bookstores are known to have opened their doors on the North-American continent (or anywhere else on the world for that matter) prior to the one founded by Kousemaker; George Henderson's Canadian, Toronto-based Memory Lane Books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Births
Events January * January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. * January 28 – " Pakistan Declaration": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled ''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?'', in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls " Pakstan"; this influences the Pakistan Movement. * January 30 ** National Socialist German Workers Party leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. ** Édouard Daladier forms a government in France in succession to Joseph Paul-Boncour. He is succeeded on October 26 by Albert Sarraut and on November 26 by Camille Chautemps. February * February 1 – Adolf Hitler gives his "Proclamation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
