Sergio Tarquinio

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Sergio Tarquinio (born October 13, 1925 in Cremona , Province of Cremona ) is an Italian cartoonist .

life and work

Tarquinio, who had received training as a painter and decorator, made his debut in 1947 with the western comic Luna d'argento . From 1948 to 1952 he stayed in Argentina, where he worked with colleagues such as Hugo Pratt , among others . After returning to Italy in 1952, Tarquinio began working with the publishing house Dardo, for which he drew the series Marussia , Ray Fox and Condor Gek . At the end of the 1950s, Tarquinio began working with the publishing house Sergio Bonelli and its predecessor company, for which he illustrated the Giubba Rossa and Giudicci Bean series . In 1965, Tarquinio turned to the superhero genre, drawing Superman and Batman for Mondadori . In the 1980s, Tarquinio worked mainly for the Bonelli publishing house, for which he drew the Ken Parker series . His subsequent western comics Fra due bandiere and Nuove frontiere were published in the magazine Il Giornalino .

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 253.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Sergio Tarquinio on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on February 8, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d e Sergio Tarquinio on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 8, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Tarquinio, Sergio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Cremona , Cremona Province