| Dino Battaglia | |
| Born | August 1, 1923 Venice, Italy |
| Died | October 4, 1983 (aged 60) Milano, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Area(s) | artist |
| Notable works | Mark Fury Till Eulenspiegel L'Ispettore Coke |
| Awards | full list |
Dino Battaglia (August 1, 1923 - October 4, 1983) was an Italian comic artist, noted for a distinctive and expressive style, best known for his visual adaptations of classic novels. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)
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Biography
Born in Venice, Battaglia first entered the comic book profession in 1946 co-founding and producing work for the Italian magazine Asso di Picche, where he drew some pages of the Junglemen series. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Here he worked with other Venetian artists, among them Hugo Pratt and Alberto Ongaro. Hugo Eugenio Pratt ( June 15, 1927 – August 20, 1995) was an Italian Comic book creator who combined his strong storytelling [1] When Asso di Picche folded in 1948, the Venetian Group (as they became known) moved to Argentina to work for Italian publisher Cesar Civita. Battaglia remained behind in Italy, opting for marriage instead of joining the Argentine move, but he drew the pirate strip Capitan Caribe, written by Ongaro and published in Héctor Germán Oesterheld's magazine Frontera, and other strips such as Cowboy Kid for Salgari. Héctor Germán Oesterheld (born July 23, 1919, disappeared and presumed dead 1977 was an Argentine Journalist and Writer [2]
In 1950 Battaglia moved to Milan, where he worked for Mondadori's Pecos Bill and for Il Vittorioso. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Pecos Bill is a legendary American Cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous Tall tales of the Old West during American Between 1952 and 1953 he created Mark Fury, a pugilistic strip set in Edwardian England for L'Intrepido. The series was translated and republished in Junior Express between 1955-56, introducing Battaglia to the British market. [2] In 1959 he started a collaboration with English publisher Fleetway through Milan-based Roy D'Ami studio, producing several short stories for Top Spot, Knockout Comic, Thriller Picture Library and Look and Learn. Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a publishing company mainly producing comic magazines for the UK.
Starting in 1960 Battaglia produced a series of adaptations of fairy tales and classic novels for Il Corriere dei Piccoli and Il Corriere dei Ragazzi. The Corriere dei Piccoli ( Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones" nicknamed Corrierino ("Little Courier" was an influential The Corriere dei Piccoli ( Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones" nicknamed Corrierino ("Little Courier" was an influential In 1965 he drew I Cinque della Selena, a science fiction series written by Mino Milani.
In 1967 the magazine Sgt. Kirk published an adaptation of Moby Dick, a work that marked Battaglia's artistic maturity: his drawings achieved the unique, distinctive style that characterised all his later productions. From then on, Battaglia focused on adaptations rather than on original series: he was particularly interested in classic novelists like Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Stevenson, Maupassant and Hoffmann. Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850–3 December 1894 was a Scottish novelist poet and travel writer, and a representative of Neo-romanticism in Guy de Maupassant (gi də mopasɑ̃ (5 August 1850 &ndash 6 July 1893 was a popular 19th-century French Writer and considered one of the fathers of the modern Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann ( January 24, 1776 &ndash June 25, 1822) better known by his Pen name E [1] He illustrated several of these writers' gothic short stories for Linus magazine, earning the title of Master of Darkness. Linus is an Italian comics magazine The first number was published in April 1965 by Milano Libri, a subsidiary of Rizzoli.
During the 1970s Battaglia produced a series of religious works for Il Messaggero dei Ragazzi and Il Giornalino, including the biographies of Antonio da Padova and Frate Francesco, as well as adaptation of classic satires like Till Eulenspiegel (1975) and Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel (1979). Till Eulenspiegel (tɪl ˈʔɔʏlənˌʃpiːgəl Low Saxon: Dyl Ulenspegel dɪl ˈʔuːlnˌspɛɪgl̩ was an impudent Trickster figure who originated The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua In the late 1970s he began working for publisher Bonelli, producing L’Uomo della Legione and L'Uomo del New England for the series Un uomo un'avventura. Sergio Bonelli (born December 2, 1932) is an Italian comic book author and publisher
In 1982 he created his only original series, L'Ispettore Coke (Inspector Coke) for the publisher Isola Trovata, featuring a detective of Scotland Yard who faces strange cases in stories set at the beginning of the 20th century. [1] Only two album publications, I delitti della fenice (The Crimes of the Phoenix) and La Mummia (The Mummy) were completed before the work was interrupted by Battaglia's unexpected death in 1983.
Since 1950, Battaglia's wife Laura De Vescovi collaborated on writing the scenarios and as colourist on his stories. Several comics critics have written theses on Battaglia, and his original artworks have been the subject of many expositions. Because of his preference for adaptations, Battaglia has never reached the notoriety of some of his contemporaries, but the expressive skill of Battaglia have earned him the respect of comics connoisseurs.
Awards
1975: Angoulême Festival, France, Award for best foreign artist[3]
Sources
- Dino Battaglia dossier FFF (Italian)
- Dino Battaglia publications Editions Mosquito (French)
- Dino Battaglia publications in Pilote BDoubliées (French)
- Footnotes
- ^ a b c Lambiek Comiclopedia. Angoulême International Comics Festival ( French: Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême) is the main comics festival in Europe A number of awards was only presented at the Angoulême International Comics Festival for a short time Dino Battaglia.
- ^ a b Dan Dare. Dino Battaglia.
- ^ ToutEnBD. Le Palmarès 1975 (French).
External links
- Dino Battaglia biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
- Dino Battaglia biography on Dan Dare
- Dino Battaglia biography on Enciclopedia del Fumetto (Italian)
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