Sandro Angiolini
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Italian comics
Italian comics are comics made in Italy. They are locally known as fumetto – plural form fumetti – although this latter term is often used in English to describe a specific comic genre . The most popular Italian comics have been translated into many languages...
creator.
In 1966 he was the first to illustrate one of Italy's most important adult comics
Adult comics
Adult comics are comic books intended for adults. They may contain material that might be considered disturbing, horrifying, obscene, profane, immoral, and even pornographic, in contrast to the traditionally considered kid-friendly mainstream world of comics. Many adult comics, however, such as The...
, 'Isabella', written by Renzo Barbieri
Renzo Barbieri
Renzo Barbieri was an author and editor of Italian comics and the founder of the publishing house Edifumetto. He was born in Milan, Italy. He wrote "Manual for Playboys" in 1967, a manual that describes where European playboys live, where they have vacancies, the car they use, and other such...
and Giorgio Cavedon. He was also involved in the creation of Goldrake, Vartan
Vartan
Vartan may refer to:* Vartan , an Italian comic book published from 1969 to 1977Vardan is an Armenian name and may refer to:People with the surname Vartan:* John Vartan* Michael Vartan* Sylvie Vartan...
, Una, Belzeba and La Poliziotta.
Amongst the group of Italian artists who created comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
s for adults between the 1960s and 1970s, (which had become increasingly pornographic by the eighties), the style of Sandro Angiolini stands out. This style originally owed much to Milton Caniff
Milton Caniff
Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.-Biography:...
, one of his initial sources of inspiration, but followed a clear and marked line of development, parallel to the development of Italian fumetti
Fumetti
Fumetti is an Italian word which refers to all comics. In English, the term refers specifically to photonovels or photographic comics, a genre of comics illustrated with photographs rather than drawings. Italians call these fotoromanzi...
, but unique. Characters are drawn in a sometimes simplistic fashion with an emphasis on essential features and strong expressions to complement and move the narration forward. A master of the feminine figure his illustrations always foreground women, from the young and attractive to the elderly, but always creating an atmosphere of sensuality. As a skilled artist he is able to transformed the most innocent situations, charging them with erotic power.
A prolific artist, he has created illustrations for the most varied types of publication, and in periods of most intense activity was known, with the help of some colleagues, to produce two pocket books full of art in a month, amounting to 460 panels in two stories.
Biography
Sandro Angiolini was born in MilanMilan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
on the June 9, 1920. He began the as a student designer in the early 1940s, drawing illustrations and vignette for periodicals. Subsequently he saw various stories rise to attention for the reviews Spell of Palaces, Luna Park of the Rizzoli and Festival di Baggioli. From 1943 to 1948, the Rose of Bagdad was one of the main entertainers of the lungometraggio di Anton. Gino Domenghini distributed then in 1949 and recently restored.
For the Zenith Editions in 1951, the panther of the West realizes Calam, western vaguely inspired to the historical personage of Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane
Martha Jane Cannary Burke , better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok, but also for having gained fame fighting Native Americans...
, (alternative to the Pecos Bill
Pecos Bill
Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. Their stories were probably invented into short stories and book by Edward O'Reilly in the...
), of the Mondadori that in those years went very well); the head will close after 15 numbers. At the same time, it realizes on witnesses of Charles Navy the Invisibile Man, published on the periodical Tomorrow. In the '51 it always begins a long and intense Publishing collaboration with the House Dart realizing covered some for Gim Toro, Capitan Miki, Grande Blek that exited weekly.
In 1952, it realizes on scenarios of Testoni its more famous comic personage, Chicchirichì. As animal anthropomorph uses a galletto, little used animal from the designers who of usual preprefer rats, cats, dogs, goslings or rabbits. Chicchirichì will give the name to the head and will accommodate also personages of authors like Antonio Terenghi, Alberico Motta, Sergio Tarquinio and others; regularity will have one salary until the '56 and quindicinale until the '58. Its appeared comic personages are from remembering moreover others also on other heads, Pinotto, Asso and Giolli, Beccos Bill, Old Paul and Benny, Eye of Ox, the Moschettieri Parrots. Andrea Lavezzolo created for Angiolini the personages of two fugitives Scarafone and Fildiferro. It passes with facility from the comic comic strip to the realistic comic strip and, always for the Dart, the comic strip realizes on scenarios of Renzo Barbers western Billy Rock.
In 1960, in occasion of the Olympic Games
Olympic Games
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of Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, it realizes various illustrations to colors for the Tuttosport daily paper having like topic the disciplines sport. In the first years Sixty for the Publishing House Universe realizes very many vignette umoristiche for White of the Intrepido using the Sangio pseudonym. In the '65 the Invisibile Man resumes the personage to comic strips for the publishing house French Adventures ET Voyages. In the 1966 deep Renzo Barbers the Publishing Sessantasei and exits with two pocket banns designed from Sandro Angiolini, black Goldrake to comic strips the inspired personage several to the secret agents that prolificavano in that moment, that lascerà then to others, and Isabella the Duchessa of the Devils inspired to the Angelic personage of from the novel of Anne Golon
Anne Golon
Anne Golon is a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. She has written a series of novels about a heroine Angelique....
and Serge Golon
Serge Golon
Serge Golon , born Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff, was a writer, the husband of French author Anne Golon, in collaboration with whom he wrote the Angélique series....
who in that period had been transported in some films. The happened one of Isabella is such to be transported in its turn in film, this invites other editori to imitate this line.
In 1969, Furio Viano Publisher, already present in newspaper stand with the black personage Genius in fotoromanzo exits with the version to comic strips of the same one and other new banns Helga, Jolanka and Vartán designed from Angiolini with the aids of Franco Tarantola and Luca Visconti, the witnesses of the first numbers are of the same Furio Viano pass to Paul Ghelardini then. The Geis editions, before, and the Edifumetto, then, the series of Sexy Favole launch on the market in 1972 and Fiabe Proibite, erotic parodies of classic fables. The stories included Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, The Sleeping Beauty, the Prince and the Lupa, Frigilda, the beautiful last Primolino this in rhyming couplet. It realizes also the transposition in version sexy of some classics like the promises Spouses and, in 'the 76 miniseries One, the history of one innocent prostitute acclimatized in XVI the century. Strongly censured to the first escape and ripubblicata then in integral version in years '80 with added of the new tables porno and new episodes.
In 1977, he begins the Belzeba series, personage already appeared in editions of the Edifumetto as only number realized from Stelio Fenzo. While the version of Fenzo is realistic, that one of Angiolini is grotesque; the personage moreover is equipped at the same time of the two series that, be a matter itself of an erotico comic strip, diversification possibility adds to new on history. Acclimatized in Spain, in the period of the Inquisizione, reigning which are created in skillful way parodies of the historical personages and perfido the amusing Torquemada with comicità of Giacinto Friar. The series will continue with 30 episodes and will come resumption, then, in two doubles quantity. His last job is of 1980, the Policeman, did not catch up the levels of the previous series also because Angiolini was not found to its comfort on personages acclimatizes to you nowadays. He died with an unexpected malore October 15, 1985.