Guido Buzzelli

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Portrait of Buzzelli, created by Graziano Origa .

Guido Buzzelli (born July 27, 1927 in Rome , Italy ; † January 25, 1992 there ) was an Italian cartoonist and illustrator .

Life

Buzzelli, the son of a painter, made his debut in the mid-1940s by making caricatures for the weekly newspaper Argentovivo . In the following years he worked mainly as a cover artist. In 1954, Buzzelli moved to England and created the comic book Angélique for the Daily Mirror . After returning to Italy in 1965, he turned to painting for a period, but returned to comics in the late 1960s. In 1973 he created the western comic book Nevada Hill together with comic book writer Jean-Pierre Gourmelen . During the 1970s he created numerous erotic illustrations under the pseudonym Blotz and the comic l'Homme de Bengale was created in collaboration with the comic author Gino d'Antonio . In 1985 he took over the western series Tex Willer .

Buzzelli was awarded the Yellow Kid in 1973 at the Salone Internazionale dei Comics comic festival in Lucca .

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 48.
  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 117.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Guido Buzzelli on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on May 10, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Guido Buzzelli on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on May 10, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 117.
  4. ↑ 9 ° SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEI COMICS E DEL FILM DI ANIMAZIONE (Italian) , accessed on May 10, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Buzzelli, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian comic book artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1992
Place of death Rome , Italy