Born today Angelo Bioletto

Born today Angelo Bioletto

Angelo Bioletto (30 September 1906 – 26 December 1987)    also known as Nino Bioletto, was born in Turin  ( Italy) and worked in a graphics studio before he started drawing for the daily La Stampa. There, he had his own features, such as ‘Biolette ha Visto’ and ‘Taccuino di Bioletto’. Bioletto was responsible for the merchandising of the radio series ‘I Quattro Moschettieri’, and illustrated some comic adaptations of the serial.

Bioletto joined Mondadori publishers in the late 1930s, where he worked on the ‘Don Chisciotte’ comic with writer Federico Pedrocchi. Bioletto and Pedrocchi have also worked together on ‘La Rosa di Bagdad’ (‘The Rose of Baghdad’, 1949), directed by Anton Gino Domenighini. Other famous names who animated on this picture were Libico Maraja, Federico Pedrocchi and Fernando Carcupino. However, the production of the film folded, and after a brief stint for Carriccio, Bioletto turned to journalism. In the 1948 he returned to comics, illustrating several stories with Disney characters for Topolino.

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Born today Roy D’Ami

Born today Roy D’Ami

Rinaldo Dami (29 September 1923 – 15 February 1979, Italy) who was also known under the anglicized version of his name, Roy d’Ami, was a versatile creator of comics and the head of one of Italy’s most prestigious art agencies of the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Crimson del Grappa, Rinaldo Dami was taken prisoner by the British in North Africa in March 1943. He was sent to a camp in Algeria, and then to the island of Malta. Upon his return in Milan in 1947, Dami started working in the advertising and animation field.

He drew his first comics in 1948, when he found work at the publishing company Cremona Nuova. There, he illustrated series like ‘Blek e Gionni’, ‘Dixy Scott’ and ‘Il Piccolo Sergente’, in a style influenced by Milton Caniff. During the early 1950s, he drew a great many western comics for Audace, including ‘Mani in Alto’, ‘Gordon Jim’, ‘Il Sergente York’, ‘Cherry Brandy’, ‘La Pattuglia dei Bufalli’, ‘Il Ritorno dei Tre Bill’, the Bonelli scripted ‘Rio Kid’ and ‘Pecos Bill’, scripted by Guido Martina. Later on, he created several strips for Corriere dei Piccoli, such as the humorous ‘Scuterino’ and ‘Indianetto’, as well as several scenarios for other artists, such as Carlo Porciani (‘Davy Crockett’, ‘Haywatha’), Leone Cimpellin (‘Nerofumo’), Paolo Piffarerio (‘Apollo il Pollo’) and Ferdinando Tacconi (‘Moby Dick’). Also, he created ‘Piccolo Bisonte’ in Corrierino.

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Born Today Antonio Sciotti

Born Today Antonio Sciotti

Antonio Sciotti, 25 September 1924 – 7 July 1974, Italy, was a Roman artist affiliated with the Giolitti studios. He drew, among others, the ‘Codename: Barracuda’ series for the I Mio Romanzo series of the publishing house Meroni in the 1960s. He also made a series of ‘Dracula’ stories with Alfredo Castelli for Sansoni Editore in 1969.

He worked for Il Giornalino for many years, up until his death in 1974. Sciotti’s most important character was ‘Dev Bardai’, with text written by Renata Geraldini.

Diciamo basta ai professionisti del fumetto

Diciamo basta ai professionisti del fumetto

Goscinny quotes: ”Quand j’ai entendu dire: ‘Le métier de scénariste? C’est à la portée du premier imbécile venu’, j’ai compris que j’avais trouvé ma voie”

Il sistema di assegnare soggetti, sceneggiature e disegni a coloro che sono in agenda del direttore della casa editrice o, peggio, che già da anni le eseguono è stato costruito per garantire alla casta dei fumettisti che il potere di creare storie sia per sempre nelle loro mani. Oggi però comincia a filtrare da più parti la convinzione che i tempi siano maturi per passare a una forma di realizzazione artistica davvero democratica.

Sostituire l’assegnazione attuale con una veramente democratica, una vera democrazia basata sul sorteggio anziché sulla chiamata diretta. Finalmente, bottegai, meccanici, insegnanti, barbieri, gioiellieri, bancari, baristi, fornai potrebbero realizzare le avventure del loro eroe preferito secondo il loro gusto personale.

Xtina comic strips Fall is coming!

Xtina comic strips fall is coming!

Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice (December 21). One of its main features in temperate climates is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees.

Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as “mid-autumn”, while others with a longer temperature lag treat it as the start of autumn. Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere) use a definition based on Gregorian calendar months, with autumn being September, October, and November in the northern hemisphere, and March, April, and May in the southern hemisphere. Persians celebrate the beginning of the autumn as Mehregan to honor Mithra (Mehr).

In North America, autumn traditionally starts with the September equinox (21 to 24 September) and ends with the winter solstice (21 or 22 December). Popular culture in the United States associates Labor Day, the first Monday in September, as the end of summer and the start of autumn; certain summer traditions, such as wearing white, are discouraged after that date. As daytime and nighttime temperatures decrease, trees change color and then shed their leaves. In traditional East Asian solar term, autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on or about 7 November. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are September, October and November. However, according to the Irish Calendar, which is based on ancient Gaelic traditions, autumn lasts throughout the months of August, September and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In the Irish language, September is known as Meán Fómhair (“middle of autumn”) and October as Deireadh Fómhair (“end of autumn”).

In southern hemisphere countries such as Australia and New Zealand, which tend to base their seasonal calendars meteorologically rather than astronomically, autumn officially begins on 1 March and ends on 31 May.

Bitter people/Better people Bo Derek

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Bitter people/Better people Bo Derek

“…What about the fabulous Bo Derek? Here too the genesis is particular. In 1979 his 10th film had been released. A couple of years went by and on a summer morning while going to get the car behind the Chinese Theater on Sunset Boulevard, we came across a young man unloading packs of a magazine about cinema. Chatting about this and that, we agreed on a comic page dedicated to a star of the moment. The alternative ultimately boiled down to Tom Selleck and Bo Derek. Easy choice: Bo. The panels became two of a mini-mini spread entitled Madonna Bo. It was published (we think there are no copies) and the tables were put away in a chest of drawers. One day it reappeared (we are always looking for things that we cannot find and other forgotten ones pop up). So why not send them to Madonna Bo? We packed and shipped them and forgot about it. But it was she who reminded us about it with a beautiful autographed letter. Class is class.”

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