Sandro Angiolini

Sandro Angiolini (June 6, 1920 - 1985) was an Italian comics creator.

In 1966 he was the first to illustrate one of Italy's most important adult comics, 'Isabella', written by Renzo Barbieri and Giorgio Cavedon. He was also involved in the creation of Goldrake, Vartan, Una, Belzeba and La Poliziotta.

Amongst the group of Italian artists who created comic strips for adults between the 1960s and 1970s, (which had become increasingly pornographic by the eighties), the style of Sandro Angiolini stands out. This style originally owed much to Milton Caniff, one of his initial sources of inspiration, but followed a clear and marked line of development, parallel to the development of Italian fumetti, but unique. Characters are drawn in a sometimes simplistic fashion with an emphasis on essential features and strong expressions to complement and move the the narration forward. A master of the feminine figure his illustrations always foreground women, from the young and attractive to the elderly, but always creating an atmosphere of sensuality. As a skilled artist he is able to transformed the most innocent situations, charging them with erotic power.

A prolific artist, he has created illustrations for the most varied types of publication, and in periods of most intense activity was known, with the help of some colleagues, to produce two pocket books full of art in a month, amounting to 460 panels in two stories.

Biography

Sandro Angiolini was born in Milan on the June 9, 1920. He began the as a student designer in the early 1940s, drawing illustrations and vignette for periodicals. Subsequently he saw various stories rise to attention for the reviews "Spell of Palaces", "Luna Park of the Rizzoli" and "Festival di Baggioli". From 1943 to 1948, the Rose of Bagdad was one of the main entertainers of the lungometraggio di Anton. Gino Domenghini distributed then in 1949 and recently restored.

For the Zenith Editions in 1951, the panther of the West realizes Calam, western vaguely inspired to the historical personage of Calamity Jane, (alternative to the Pecos Bill), of the Mondadori that in those years went very well); the head will close after 15 numbers. At the same time, it realizes on witnesses of Charles Navy the Invisibile Man, published on the periodical Tomorrow. In the '51 it always begins a long and intense Publishing collaboration with the House Dart realizing covered some for Gim Toro, Capitan Miki, Grande Blek that exited weekly.

In 1952, it realizes on scenarios of Testoni its more famous comic personage, Chicchirichì. As animal anthropomorph uses a galletto, little used animal from the designers who of usual preprefer rats, cats, dogs, goslings or rabbits. Chicchirichì will give the name to the head and will accommodate also personages of authors like Antonio Terenghi, Alberico Motta, Sergio Tarquinio and others; regularity will have one salary until the '56 and quindicinale until the '58. Its appeared comic personages are from remembering moreover others also on other heads, Pinotto, Asso and Giolli, Beccos Bill, Old Paul and Benny, Eye of Ox, the Moschettieri Parrots. Andrea Lavezzolo created for Angiolini the personages of two fugitives Scarafone and Fildiferro. It passes with facility from the comic comic strip to the realistic comic strip and, always for the Dart, the comic strip realizes on scenarios of Renzo Barbers western Billy Rock.

In 1960, in occasion of the Olympic Games of Rome, it realizes various illustrations to colors for the Tuttosport daily paper having like topic the disciplines sport. In the first years Sixty for the Publishing House Universe realizes very many vignette umoristiche for White of the Intrepido using the Sangio pseudonym. In the '65 the Invisibile Man resumes the personage to comic strips for the publishing house French Adventures ET Voyages. In the 1966 deep Renzo Barbers the Publishing Sessantasei and exits with two pocket banns designed from Sandro Angiolini, black Goldrake to comic strips the inspired personage several to the secret agents that prolificavano in that moment, that lascerà then to others, and Isabella the Duchessa of the Devils inspired to the Angelic personage of from the novel of Anne Golon and Serge Golon who in that period had been transported in some films. The happened one of Isabella is such to be transported in its turn in film, this invites other editori to imitate this line.

In 1969, Furio Viano Publisher, already present in newspaper stand with the black personage Genius in fotoromanzo exits with the version to comic strips of the same one and other new banns Helga, Jolanka and Vartán designed from Angiolini with the aids of Franco Tarantola and Luca Visconti, the witnesses of the first numbers are of the same Furio Viano pass to Paul Ghelardini then. The Geis editions, before, and the Edifumetto, then, the series of Sexy Favole launch on the market in 1972 and Fiabe Proibite, erotic parodies of classic fables. The stories included Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, The Sleeping Beauty, the Prince and the Lupa, Frigilda, the beautiful last Primolino this in rhyming couplet. It realizes also the transposition in version sexy of some classics like the promises Spouses and, in 'the 76 miniseries One, the history of one innocent prostitute acclimatized in XVI the century. Strongly censured to the first escape and ripubblicata then in integral version in years '80 with added of the new tables porno and new episodes.

In 1977, he begins the Belzeba series, personage already appeared in editions of the Edifumetto as only number realized from Stelio Fenzo. While the version of Fenzo is realistic, that one of Angiolini is grotesque; the personage moreover is equipped at the same time of the two seies that, be a matter itself of an erotico comic strip, diversification possibility adds to new on history. Acclimatized in Spain, in the period of the Inquisizione, reigning which are created in skillful way parodies of the historical personages and perfido the amusing Torquemada with comicità of Giacinto Friar. The series will continue with 30 episodes and will come resumption, then, in two doubles quantity. His last job is of 1980, the "Policeman", did not catch up the levels of the previous series also because Angiolini was not found to its comfort on personages acclimatizes to you nowadays. He died with an unexpected malore October 15, 1985.

External links

[http://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/angiolini_sandro.htm Sandro Angiolini]

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