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Vintage Advertising: Jacovitti Camillino 1967
Camillino Eldorado presenta Cocco Bill e le sue allegre avventure.
Magazine: Il Corriere dei Piccoli
Autore: Benito Jacovitti
Prodotto: Camillino gelato Eldorado
Anno: 1967
Vintage Advertising: Jacovitti Camillino 1967
Camillino Eldorado presenta Cocco Bill e le sue allegre avventure.
Magazine: Il Corriere dei Piccoli
Autore: Benito Jacovitti
Prodotto: Camillino gelato Eldorado
Anno: 1967
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Franco Caprioli (5 April 1912 – 8 February 1974) was born in Mompeo, in the province of Rieti, in 1912. After a brief career as a painter, he began working as a comic artist for Il Vittorioso in 1936, and remained a contributor to this magazine for the next three decades. His specialty was adventure stories, and his first creation was ‘Gino e Piero’. In the years before World War II, he provided stories like ‘Il Mistero del Budda di Giada’ and ‘Pino il Mozzo’. He additionally made illustrations for Argentovivo and several stories for Topolino (a.o. ‘L’Isola Gioveda’).
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Born today Nadir Quinto
Nadir Quinto (26 November 1918 – 15 March 1994) was born in Milan, and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera. He made his professional debut in 1946 in Il Corriere dei Piccoli. His work also appeared in Dinamite, Albi di Salgari, Festival and L’Intrepido. Between 1954 and 1964, he worked for the British market, doing illustration work and contributing ‘Robin Hood’ stories to Thriller Picture Library.
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Born today Vittorio Cossio
Born in Udine (Udine, 21 november 1911 – Roma, 7 april 1984) Vittorio Cossio (aka Cosvit, Cossvitt) soon moved to Milan, where he began a career in animation, alongside his brother Carlo Cossio. He also began making comics for magazines such as Rintintin, L’Intrépido and Saladino. He did his best known work for Il Corriere dei Piccoli. For this magazine, he created such comics as ‘Balilla Venturino’ in 1935 and ‘Centaurino Diodato’ in 1939. He was also one of the early artists of the publishing house Bonelli (then still called Audace).
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Born today Giorgio Rebuffi
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He restyled the series completely, transforming the main characters from dogs to humans and introducing many new characters, most notably the wolf Pugacioff. That same year, he created the elastic comic character ‘Tiramolla’, together with Roberto Renzi.
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