Antonio Terenghi

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Antonio Terenghi (born October 31, 1921 in Alano di Piave , Belluno province , † October 26, 2014 in Milan ) was an Italian cartoonist .

life and work

Terenghi began his comic career as a letterer . At the age of 20 he was drafted and taken prisoner by the British in North Africa . Towards the end of World War II , Terenghi returned to Italy and resumed his work as a letterer. In 1951, Gaia Fantasie published his first comic, Poldo e Poldino . The following year Terenghi began working with the publishing house Universo. For this he drew the comics Nuto l'Astuto , Ademaro il Corsaro , Nita la Svampita , Gastone il Pigrone and Pedrito el Drito . Later Terenghi also worked with the publishing houses Dardo and Alpo. The comics Teddy Sberla , Poldo e Poldino , Caribù , Mac Keron and Gionni e Geppina were created . In 2002 he created the comic strip Pianeta Niep .

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , pp. 254-255.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Antonio Terenghi on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on December 11, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Antonio Terenghi on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Terenghi, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Alano di Piave , Belluno Province
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 2014
Place of death Milan