Dino Battaglia

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

Artistic career

Battaglia's career as a comic artist began in 1945 when he and his friends Hugo Pratt and Alberto Ongaro founded the comic magazine Asso di Picche (German: "Pik As"; named after a comic by Pratts). For the magazine he drew Junglemen (text: Ongaro), which was later continued by Pratt. After drawing the western series Pecos Bill and El Kid in the 1950s , he worked as a permanent employee for the Corriere dei Piccoli and Corriere dei Ragazzi magazines in the 1960s . Later he devoted himself to comic adaptations of literary material.

According to Andreas C. Knigge, Battaglia, whom he sees influenced by Milton Caniff in his early work , is one of the three greatest Italian draftsmen alongside Hugo Pratt and Guido Crepax ; his drawings are " always calm and characterized by a heavy, melancholy mood ". Battaglia was awarded the Yellow Kid in 1970 and honored as the best foreign artist in 1975 at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême .

German publications

Battaglia's contribution to the Larousse series La Découverte du monde en bandes dessinées was published in 1981 under the title William Dampier, Pirate and Naturalist at Bastei in issue 14 of the series Die Eroberung der Welt . In 1991, the publishing house Borchert published in its anthology series Macao in volume 6 with The Path to the Pacific, a short story written by Mino Milani from 1986. Furthermore, a contribution by Battaglia appeared in Zack 137-140 with Der Mann von Neuengland (1979) "Un uomo, un'avventura".

In 1990, the Altamira edition of FAB Verlag Berlin published the titles Woyzeck, Der Sandmann / Das öde Haus and Golem from Battaglia's literary comics .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas C. Knigge : Comic-Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 82 .
  2. ↑ 6 ° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS (Italian) , accessed on April 26, 2009
  3. ↑ Overview of winners aut toutenbd.com (French) ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 26, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.toutenbd.com
  4. ↑ Comic Guide: Conquering the World 14
  5. ↑ Comic Guide: Macau
  6. ^ First published in Italy in Corto Maltese 10/1986
personal data
SURNAME Battaglia, dino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1983
Place of death Milan