Luciano Bottaro

Luciano Bottaro ( November 16, 1931 in Rapallo, † November 25, 2006 ibid ) was one of the most popular Italian comic book artist. He is best known for his work for Mondadori; together with Romano Scarpa (1927-2005) and Giovan Battista Carpi (1927-1999), he is one of the " legends " of the Italian Disney comics.

His first works made ​​Luciano Bottaro 1949 for the magazine Lo Scolaro. First Disney comics he drew in 1952, initially he worked primarily with lyricist Guido Martina. Later Bottaro himself was active as a writer, often also put Carlo Chendi in long-standing and fruitful teamwork ideas into scripts to the maestro. In Germany are known mainly Bottaros stories with literary background, there appeared in early issues of onlookers pocket book, actually Luciano Bottaro, however, was more than 50 years working as an illustrator and author. Its main activity was in the fifties to the seventies, since he was overtaken in terms of popularity of younger artists like Massimo De Vita, Giorgio Cavazzano. His best-known figures among the adapted from a Donald Duck short film witch Hicksi, which mainly makes creating numerous stories in Goofy, which was established by Bottaro firmly in the Disney comics. For Rolf Caucasus he was in the sixties some Fix and Foxi episodes. In 1968 he founded with Chendi and Giorgio Rebuffi the studio Bierreci, Disney, Caucasus, Warner Bros. - and other comics produced and existed until 1985. Besides Bottaros Disney comics in Germany and some of his own series known, eg the King of Spades ( Re di Picche ) and especially the little pirate Pepito.