Dino Battaglia

Dino Battaglia ( born August 1, 1923 in Venice, † October 4, 1983 in Milan ) was an Italian comic book artist.

Artistic Career

Battaglia's career as a cartoonist began in 1945 when he, along with his friends Hugo Pratt and Alberto Ongaro the comic magazine Asso di Picche ( German: " Ace of Spades ", named after a comic Pratts ) founded. For the magazine he drew Junglemen (Text: Ongaro ), which was later continued by Pratt. After he had drawn in the 1950s, among others, the Western series Pecos Bill and El Kid, he worked in the 1960s as a permanent employee for the Corriere dei Piccoli magazine Corriere dei Ragazzi and. Later he devoted himself to comic adaptations of literary materials.

According to Andreas C. Knigge Battaglia, whom he has seen in his early works influenced by Milton Caniff, next to Hugo Pratt and Guido Crepax one of the three largest Italian signatories; his drawings are " always quiet and marked by a heavy, melancholy mood ." Battaglia was in 1970 awarded the Yellow Kid and 1975 honored at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême for best foreign artists.

German publications

A contribution to the Battaglia Larousse series La Découverte du monde en bandes dessinées was published in 1981 under the title William Dampier, pirate and naturalist at Bastion in issue 14 of the series The conquest of the world. 1991 was published by Borchert in his anthology series Macau in Volume 6 of the way to the Pacific one written by Mino Milani short story of 1986 addition was published in 2010 -. Contribute Battaglia 140 The man of New England (1979 ) to the series - 2011 Zack 137 "Un uomo, un'avventura ".

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