Riccardo Rinaldi

Riccardo Rinaldi (* February 24, 1945 ; † March 11, 2006 ) was an illustrator, cartoonist and inventor of the Pichelstein family .

As early as 1955 , he appeared in the Italian television program for children Zurlì, il mago del giovedì . There he acted as a kind of medium for the magician Zurli ("Mago Zurli"): the magician gave him terms that he drew extremely nimble "as if by magic hand" on a blackboard.

Due to an engagement for the Kauka publishing house, he went to Munich in 1963. After a short full-time job, he went into business for himself, but continued to draw Kauka series such as Fix and Foxi , Die Pichelsteiner and Fritze Blitz and Dunnerkiel . He also designed the Siegfried comic series for the erotic magazine PIP .

Since the 1980s he has mainly worked in the advertising industry. The comic series Max and Baxi (for Techniker Krankenkasse ), Heido (for Heide-Park Soltau ) and The Harrycats were created .

Together with Achim Schnurrer , Ingo Stein, Burkhard Ihme , Hansi Kiefersauer , Horst Berner, Eckart Sackmann , Hartmut Becker , Gerd Zimmer and André Roche , he initiated the comics salon in Erlangen in 1984 , for which he also received the annual Max and Moritz Prize designed. The publications Die Kunst der Comics and Die Welt der Bilderfrauen followed (also in collaboration with Achim Schnurrer) .

One of his last projects was the series Das Streichquartett for JUNIOR magazine . The Italian-born draftsman lived in Munich and was married to a German.

literature

• The speech bubble - the great comic magazine. Issue 192, 28th year (August 2003). In it: Peter Wiechmann's search for traces of Kauka with an autobiographical report by Riccardo Rinaldi, pp. 30–33.
• Achim Schnurrer: Riccardo Rinaldi about Rolf Kauka. In: Comic! Yearbook 2008. Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-88834-938-6 , pp. 46-55.

Web links

• Info at Kaukapedia
• Brief information from Kauka ( Memento from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Obituary by Carsten Laqua (PDF; 506 kB)