Raffaele Paparella

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Raffaele Paparella (born December 26, 1915 in Milan , † November 11, 2001 ) was an Italian cartoonist .

life and work

Paparella debuted in the second half of the 1930s. In the 1940s he worked for the comic magazine Il Vittorioso , for which he drew the comics Il Terrore del Colorado and Il Segredo di Yuma written by Giovanni Luigi Bonelli . In 1948 he started working for Topolino . Together with the comic author Guido Martina , he created the western comic Pecos Bill the following year , which was followed by another western comic in 1952, Oklahoma . In the following years Paparella drew for the publishing house Bonelli, later also for the British and French markets. After his professional retirement in the mid-1980s, he devoted himself to creating caricatures .

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 194.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Raffaele Paparella on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on February 16, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d e Raffaele Paparella on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 16, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Paparella, Raffaele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Province of Milan
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 2001