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Guido Zamperoni (21 July 1912 – 30 January 2003, Italy) was an Italian comic book artist, who has worked extensively for the French market. He was born in Milan into an artistic family. His father Louis had founded of the Sartoria Teatrale Zamperoni in 1850, for which young Guido made sketches and designs. He also designed costumes for the famous 1920s opera singer Nella Regini. He began his career as an illustrator with the Giornale dei Viaggi e dell avventure of Editrice Boschi. He drew two Salgari stories, and succeeded Ferdinando Corbella on ‘I pirati della Malesia’. He subsequently began collaborations with Corriere dei Piccoli (‘La Crociera dell’Allegranza’, 1934), the publishing house Vitaliano (‘D’Artagnan’, 1943) and Mario Nerbini’s magazine L’Avventuroso.
At the end of the 1930s, Zamperoni made the comics serial ‘Le Avventure di Gianni Ferro’ with scriptwriter Bea for the Milanese publisher Nicolli. Between 1940 and 1943, he drew adventures of ‘Suetta’ for the collection ‘Le Piu Bella Avventure’ of the publishing house Alpe. During World War II, he made a propaganda comic strip about a fascist resistance leader called ‘O’Scugnizzo’, that was published in Fiamme, a magazine of the Italian Social Republic.
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