Giovanni Luigi Bonelli
Giovanni Luigi Bonelli (also: Gian Luigi Bonelli or Gianluigi Bonelli ; born December 22, 1908 in Milan , Province of Milan ; † January 12, 2001 in Alessandria , Province of Alessandria ) was an Italian author, comic book author and publisher.
life and work
Bonelli published his first poems and text contributions in Italian magazines in 1926 and three novels in the further course of the 1920s. During the 1930s he turned to comics and became one of the editors at Editrice Vecchi publishing house, for which he oversaw the series Jumbo , Rin-Tin-Tin and Primarosa , among others . During this time, Bonelli also wrote his first comic scenarios, which were implemented in drawings by Rino Albertarelli and Walter Molino , among others . In 1940 he became editor of the weekly magazine L'Audace , which Editrice Vecchi had transferred to Mondadori. In 1946 and 1947, Bonelli published La Perla Nera . Together with the illustrator Aurelio Galleppini , he created the western comic Tex Willer in 1948 . In the course of his life, Bonelli created numerous comic book scenarios, such as Plutos , El Kid , Davy Crockett and Hondo , but his professional focus was on publishing.
literature
- Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 36.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Giovanni Luigi Bonelli on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on February 24, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e Giovanni Luigi Bonelli on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 24, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonelli, Giovanni Luigi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonelli, Gian Luigi; Bonelli, Gianluigi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian author, comic book writer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan , Province of Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 2001 |
| Place of death | Alessandria , Province of Alessandria |