Abbott and Costello were an American comedy team composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Their performances in burlesque, on the radio and in film and television made them the most popular [..]
Born in Milan, Castelli began his comic book career at an early age, creating the strip Scheletrino, a humor series for Italian comic book Diabolik, when he was only 16 years old. In 1966, with Paolo [..]
The Altai & Jonson comic seems to be inspired by the classic American buddy cop films and TV series featuring a pair of policemen/detectives dedicated to incredible feats in every episode. As [..]
Angela (June 10, 1922 – February 12, 1987) and Luciana Giussani (April 19, 1928 – March 31, 2001) were two Italian sisters, famous for their comic book anti-hero series, Diabolik. The [..]
Attilio Mussino was born in Turin in 1878. He is known throughout the world for being the illustrator of the first colour edition of Pinocchio. Under the influence of the Modern Style, he made several [..]
Aurelio Galleppini (born August 28, 1917, Casale di Pari – d. March 10, 1994, Chiavari), better known with his nickname Galep, was an Italian comics artist and illustrator, best known as graphic [..]
Bela Lugosi is Dracula. My father, Bela Lugosi, created his signature portrayal of the sophisticated Count on the Broadway stage, which he later brought to Universal Studios in its classic 1931 horror [..]
Benito Jacovitti (March 19, 1923 – December 3, 1997) was born in Termoli, Molise. He was still a kid when he started drawing on the pavement of the village's streets. The son of a railwayman, [..]
Bonvi, pen name of Franco Bonvicini (March 31, 1941 - December 10, 1995), was an Italian comic book artist, creator of Sturmtruppen and Nick Carter strips. Bonvicini was born either in Parma or [..]
Bruno Bozzetto created his first animated short “Tapum, the history of weapons” back in 1958 at the age of 20. This animated short was screened at Cannes and sparked interest amongst the [..]
Hello my name is Bud Spencer! It is 1967 when film director Giuseppe Colizzi approaches me with a job offer. Colizzi, an acquaintance of my wife Maria and admirer of the swim champion Carlo Pedersoli [..]
Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi 24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), was a children's writer born in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and writer of the world-renowned fairy [..]
Cattivik was an Italian humoristic comic book character created by Bonvi (Franco Bonvicini). The character first appeared in 1965. He later appeared in the magazine Tiramolla on 19 July 1970. Later, [..]
Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in London, England, on April 16th, 1889. His father was a versatile vocalist and actor; and his mother, known under the stage name of Lily Harley, was an attractive [..]
Corto Maltese was born in Malta, on July 10th, 1887, the son of a Gibraltan gypsy and a Cornish sailor. From his mother he inherits his Mediterranean features and passion, from his father a longing [..]
Diabolik is the title and main character, an anti-hero, of an Italian comics series. He was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962. His stories appear in monthly [..]
Dylan Dog is an Italian horror comics series featuring an eponymous character (a paranormal investigator) created by Tiziano Sclavi. The series is mainly set in London, where the protagonist lives, [..]
Ugo Fantozzi (also known as accountant Ugo Fantozzi) is an Italian literary and film character, created and played by writer and actor Paolo Villaggio, whose stories are narrated in a successful [..]
He was born in Treviso, the son of Friulan anthropologist Carlo Tullio Altan. He studied at the University IUAV of Venice, but halted his studies to work for cinema and TV as a scenographer and [..]
Friedrich Wilhelm "F. W." Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was a German film director. Murnau was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, [..]
Gallieno Ferri (21 March 1929 – 2 April 2016) was an Italian comic book artist and illustrator. He was born in Genoa. In 1960 Ferri met writer Sergio Bonelli and they created the comic book [..]
Considered the father of fantastic cinema, the creator of the first fantastic film, Georges Méliès is without a shadow of a doubt one of the most important figures in the history of [..]
Geppo is a good-hearted devil, and his naive, shy, compassionate character creates the continuing problems with his "boss", Satan. He officially debuted in 1955 in the comics magazine Volpetto, in the [..]
Giancarlo Berardi (Genoa, 15 November 1949). Born and raised in Genova, during his university years Giancarlo Berardi started to get passionate about artistic expression, making his debut first as an [..]
Cavazzano was born in Venice. He started his career at age 14, as an inker for Romano Scarpa. He produced stories about Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and others. [..]
Giovan Battista Carpi (Genoa, 16 November 1927 - Genoa, 8 March 1999) He is unanimously considered the first Italian Disney author ever. His value as a designer and his perfectionism, the sheer scale [..]
GIOVANNI LUIGI BONELLI, prolific scriptwriter, considered the father of the Italian comic, put his name to Tex Willer, a character created in 1948 for the L’Audace publishing house, an ancestor [..]
Groucho Marx was born on October 2, 1890, in born New York City. The Marx Brothers had a career breakthrough in 1914, as Groucho's quick-witted quips won over crowds. By the 1920s, the Marx Brothers [..]
Born in Milan in 1933, Guido Crepax created his first comic strip at the age of 12. Despite a degree in Architecture, he chose to work in the field of commercial art, on ads for brands like Shell, [..]
Harold Lloyd was born Burchard, Nebraska on April 20, 1893. He was the second son of James Darsie and Elizabeth Lloyd. His ambition to perform… “… goes back to the first time I can [..]
Hugo Pratt (1927-1995) is considered one of the greatest graphic novelists in the world. His strips, graphic works, and watercolors, have been exhibited in major museums, such as the Grand Palais and [..]
From the time he decided to pursue acting, Humphrey Bogart was committed to the art. In the more than 80 films spanning his career, he was never once late to the set or unprepared for his lines. He [..]
Mr Rossi (Italian: Signor Rossi) is a cartoon character created by italian animator Bruno Bozzetto. He was first seen in several short films, about ten minutes each. The show had a life span of 15 [..]
Infinite Statue Story (2007 - 2017) In the early 2000s, a new way of collecting, with an always-growing demand of 3D reproductions of comic and cinema heroes, began spreading among fans. Even though [..]
Born on August 29, 1915, in Stockholm, Sweden, Ingrid Bergman starred in the classic Casablanca, forging an international film career that would see her featured in pictures like Spellbound and [..]
Ivo Milazzo (born June 20, 1947) is an Italian comic book artist. Born in Tortona, Milazzo worked mainly for Sergio Bonelli Editore. He debuted in 1971, drawing some Tarzan stories for the French [..]
Actor Jack Lemmon was born in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts, on February 8, 1925 legend has it that he was actually born in the hospital elevator. The son of a successful businessman, [..]
James Byron Dean was born on February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Dean's father left farming to become a dentist and moved the family to Santa Monica, California, [..]
Actor John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, in Winterset, Iowa. (Some sources also list him as Marion Michael Morrison and Marion Mitchell Morrison.) One of the most popular film [..]
Ken Parker is character from a series of eponym Italian comics created in 1974 by Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Milazzo. He is a widely appreciated character in Italy and all over former Yugoslavia. First [..]
Summer 1941. Over German-occupied France, a Royal Air Force bomber becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. Three of the crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan [..]
Leonardo Ortolani (born 14 January 1967), better known as Leo, is an Italian comics author, creator of the popular comic book series Rat-Man and Venerdì 12. He was born in Pisa. From an early [..]
Born in Venice in 1931, Leone Frollo has always lived in the neighbourhood of the Rialto. He began professionally drawing cartoons in 1948 with a Western. Ten years later, he followed studies in [..]
Libero Gozzini was born in Milan in 1945. He graduated from the Scuola Superiore d’Arte Applicata del Castello Sforzesco (Institute of Applied Arts of Sforza Castle) in Milan, then went on [..]
Nemo was originally the protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by his awakening in the final [..]
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a popular French actor and one of the giants of French comedy alongside Bourvil and Fernandel. His acting [..]
Lupin III, also written as Lupin the Third or Lupin the 3rd, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Monkey Punch. It follows the escapades of master thief Arsène Lupin III, the [..]
Marlon Brando was born ninety years ago, and though he is best known as an icon of the 1950s—the Biker in The Wild One; the New Jersey longshoreman in On The Waterfront—and [..]
Martin Mystère is both the name and protagonist of an Italian comic book. Created by writer Alfredo Castelli and artist Giancarlo Alessandrini, it was first published in Italy by Sergio Bonelli [..]
Michael Jackson, one of the most widely beloved entertainers and profoundly influential artists of all-time, leaves an indelible imprint on popular music and culture. Five of Jackson's solo albums - [..]
MIRKA ANDOLFO, illustrator and colourist, has worked (and still does) with various publishers in Italy, France and the United States. These include: Edizioni Piemme (The Kite Runner), BAO Publishing, [..]
Mister No is an Italian comic book, first published in Italy in 1975 by Sergio Bonelli Editore. Mister No was created by writer Sergio Bonelli under the pseudonym Guido Nolitta, and by artist Gallieno [..]
Boston, end of the twenties. Mona Street is a astute young woman just coming out from college. Mona is twenty-three, soft silhouette, cunningly boasted, an innocent face, with an ironic look and a [..]
Monkey Punch is the pen name of Japanese manga artist Kazuhiko Katō born May 26, 1937, best known for his series Lupin III. In April 2005 he became the professor of Manga Animation at Otemae [..]
Archetype of a whole cinematographic genre and one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of cinema, Nosferatu represents in full how a film can still be a source of inspiration after almost a [..]
He was born in Genoa on 30 December 1932. He is the son of Ettore (1905 - 1992), an engineer of Sicilian origin (native of Palermo), and a Venetian mother, Maria (1905 - 1998), a German teacher. He [..]
Pinocchio, the name a variant of common pinolo ("pine seed"), is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. [..]
Rat-Man is an Italian comic about an inept superhero of the same name, created by Leonardo Ortolani in 1989. Although it was initially meant to be a satire of other superheroes, most prominently [..]
A veritable publishing phenomenon of 2013-14, Sacro/Profano is a series of humorous comics (published in Italy by Edizioni Dentiblù) written, drawn and coloured by Mirka Andolfo. Sacro/Profano [..]
Sergio Bonelli (Milan, 2 December 1932 – Monza, 26 September 2011) was an Italian comic book writer and publisher. He is best known as creator of Zagor (1961) and Mister No (1975), as well as a [..]
Silver, nom de plume of Guido Silvestri (Carpi, 9 December 1952), is an Italian comic book artist, mainly known for having brought to life the comic character of Lupo Alberto. In 1961, the family [..]
The son of a British showman, Stan Laurel had been raised in British music halls. In 1910 he made his first trip to America as a member of the Fred Karno musical-comedy troupe, which also included [..]
Steve endured a difficult childhood. As a young boy, he was shuttled back and forth between his mother's care and his Uncle's farm in Missouri. In his adolescence, his problems at home led him to take [..]
Sturmtruppen was a successful Italian series of anti-war comic books written and drawn by Bonvi, the artistic pseudonym of Franco Bonvicini. It started as four-frame comic strips back in 1968 and [..]
Tex Willer is the main fictional character of the Italian comics series Tex, created by writer Gian Luigi Bonelli and illustrator Aurelio Galleppini, and first published in Italy on 30 September 1948. [..]
Tiziano Sclavi (born April 3, 1953 in Broni) is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian [..]
Inspired to the legend of silent cinema Louise Brooks, Valentina is one of the most famous comic-strip women in the world, the only female protagonist ever. She’s appreciated not only by men, [..]
Giardino was born in Bologna, where he graduated in electrical engineering in 1969. At the age of 30, he decided to leave his job and devote himself to comics. Two years later his first short story, [..]
Walter Matthau is widely recognized as one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century. Working his way up from poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to varied roles in more than 20 Broadway [..]
Winsor McCay, (born September 26, 1867, Ontario, Canada — died July 26, 1934, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American newspaper cartoonist who was also a pioneer of animated films. At age 21, McCay [..]
Zagor is an Italian comic book created by editor and writer Sergio Bonelli (pseudonym Guido Nolitta) and artist Gallieno Ferri. Zagor was first published In Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore in 1961. [..]
