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3 unusual facts about Gianni De Luca


Gianni De Luca

In the late 1950s he started to collaborated with the Edizioni Paoline, a Catholic publisher, and with their weekly magazine Il Giornalino.

For the series De Luca introduced a number of graphical innovations, which he later used also for the comics version of three Shakespeare's masterworks, Hamlet, The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, written by Raoul Traverso.

De Luca was born at Gagliano and moved to Rome to study architecture; however, he soon moved to comics and started his career as comics artists in 1946 for the magazine Il Vittorioso with Anac the Destroyer series, followed in 1947 by the Da Vinci Wizard, and then The Empire of the Sun and the Last Days of the Earth.



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