Vittorio Giardino
Vittorio Giardino (born December 24, 1946 in Bologna ) is an Italian cartoonist and author.
Giardino studied electrical engineering in his hometown and graduated in 1969. After nine years in his academic profession, he gave up and decided to become a cartoonist. His first comic book Pax Romana appeared in 1978. In the following year, the first adventures of the private detective Sam Pezzo, whom he created, appeared . Other Giardino comic series, in addition to various individual titles, are Max Friedman , Jonas Fink and the erotic comic strip Little Ego, which is based on Winsor McCay's Little Nemo .
Giardino's drawing style is based on the Ligne claire . He received the Yellow Kid in 1982 and the Harvey Award in 1999 in the Best American Edition of Foreign Material category.
literature
- Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , pp. 112, 160, 174, 227.
- Andreas C. Knigge : Comic lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 210-211.
- Alfred Schuh: Vittorio Giardino . In: Comic Forum . No. 39, 1988, pp. 17-39.
- Oscar Cosulich, Vittorio Giardino , Edizioni Exorma, 2013
Web links
- Literature by and about Vittorio Giardino in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of Vittorio Giardino
- Vittorio Giardino at lambiek.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 112.
- ↑ Brief portrait on sagauitgaven.be (Italian), PDF, 82.5 kB , accessed on January 19, 2016
- ↑ 1999 Harvey Award Winners (English) ( Memento from November 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giardino, Vittorio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian comic book artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |