Chris Carella making of

Chris Carella making of by graphic novel, Rosa di Jerico.

text, Giancarlo Malagutti, art, Sergio Zaniboni.

After his work as a graphic designer and illustrator for advertisements, Sergio Zaniboni entered the field of comic strips. In 1969, he started out working for the comic magazine Horror. After that, he joined the staff of Diabolik magazine, where he became their main artist. Zaniboni also drew two children strip stories for the Corriere dei Piccoli and Il Giornalino. He was the illustrator for ‘Il Campione’ (the Champ) and ‘Tenente Marlo’ (Lieutenant Marlo) for Il Giornalino. In 1991.

Giancarlo Malagutti began creating stories for the monthly comic Horror in 1973. He has worked on various publications for Ediperiodici and Edifumetto, and for Intrepido and Il Monello of Universo publishers. He has written and inked a number of episodes for Astorinas monthly magazine Diabolik. For If he created the cartoon versions of the Japanese T.V. series ‘Princess Knight and Tiger Man’. He wrote scripts for ‘Lupo Alberto’ and ‘Cattivik’ for Acme and ‘Martin Mystère’ for Sergio Bonelli Editore. He also created the characters ‘Adam’ (drawn by Manlio Truscia), a 1950s cartoonist accused of communism who escapes to Latin America, and ‘Chris Carella’ (drawn bySergio Zaniboni), a young woman living alone in a large modern anonymous city which provides the stage for all kinds of adventures.