Gian Luigi Bonelli

Giovanni Luigi Bonelli (also: Gian Luigi Bonelli Gianluigi Bonelli or; born December 22, 1908 in Milan, Milan Province; † January 12, 2001 in Alessandria, Province of Alessandria ) was an Italian author, comic book author and publisher.

Life and work

Bonelli published in 1926 his first poems and texts in Italian magazines and on the further course of the 1920s, three novels. During the 1930s he turned to the comics and was an editor at the publishing house Editrice Vecchi, for which he was responsible, among other things, the series Jumbo, Rin -Tin -Tin and Prima Rosa. During this time, Bonelli wrote his first comic scenarios that have been implemented in the drawing, among other Rino Albertarelli and Walter Molino. In 1940 he became editor of the weekly magazine L' Audace, which was ignored by Editrice Vecchi on Mondadori. In the years 1946 and 1947 Bonelli La Perla Nera issued. Together with the illustrator Aurelio Galleppini he created in 1948 the Western comic Tex Willer. Throughout his life Bonelli created numerous comic scenarios, such as Pluto, El Kid, Davy Crockett and Hondo, but his professional focus was on publishing activity.