Rodolfo Torti

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Rodolfo Torti (born June 24, 1947 in Rome , Italy ) is an Italian comic artist .

life and work

After studying animation at the Istituto di stato per la cinematografia e la televisione, Torti began his professional career in the advertising industry and - under the pseudonym Guglielmi - in painting. His first comic book publications originated in the early 1970s for the magazines Croce di Guerra and Nuovo Flash . From 1974 he drew various comics for the magazines Lanciostory and Skorpio , including the Yeti series , which was awarded at the comics salon in Lucca . For the newspaper Il Giornalino , for which Torti drew from 1978, he created the series Firemen (texts by Roberto Dal Pra ' ) and Rosco e Sonny (texts by Claudio Nizzi ). The Rudy X series was created for the Playmen magazine in collaboration with Franco Saudelli and Massimo Rotundo under the community pseudonym Tortelli . From 1986 to 1995 Torti was the artistic director of Comic Art magazine . Starting in 1990 , he drew the Johnson series for the L'Eternauta magazine for the texts by Ottavio De Angelis . It was also during this period that Torti drew several episodes of the Martin Mystère series created by Alfredo Castelli .

Torti has released an album in German from the Jan Karta series . This is also a collaboration with Roberto Dal Pra '.

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , pp. 263-264.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Rodolfo Torti on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on July 25, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d e Rodolfo Torti on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on July 25, 2013
  3. ↑ R. Torti on comicguide.de , accessed on August 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Torti, Rodolfo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy