Franco Caprioli
Franco Caprioli (born April 5, 1912 in Mompeo , Rieti Province , † February 8, 1974 in Rome ) was an Italian cartoonist .
life and work
After a brief career as a painter, Caprioli's comic career began in 1937 when he created several series for the magazines Argentovivo and Il Vittorioso . From October 1938 he worked with Gian Luigi Bonelli . At the beginning of the 1940s, Caprioli drew a number of Mickey Mouse adventures for Il Topolino . From 1943 he drew for the newspaper Il Corriere dei piccoli . After the war , Caprioli worked for Il Topolino and for many years for Il Vittorioso . From the mid-1960s, Caprioli drew for English and French publishers, before he drew several comic adaptations of novels by Jules Verne from 1970 . He died before he could complete A Captain of 15 years ; this was completed by Gino d'Antonio . Four comics have been published in German by Caprioli at Carlsen Verlag under the series title Jules Verne-Comics .
literature
- Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 49.
- Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 130.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Franco Caprioli on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on September 22, 2012
- ↑ a b c Franco Caprioli on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on September 22, 2012
- ↑ a b c d Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 130.
- ↑ Franco Caprioli on comicguide.de , accessed on August 24, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Caprioli, Franco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mompeo , Rieti Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1974 |
| Place of death | Rome |