Bruno Premiani
| Bruno Premiani | |
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| Born | Giordano Bruno Premiani January 4, 1907 Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) |
| Died | August 17, 1984 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | Italian |
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Notable works
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The Doom Patrol |
Giordano Bruno Premiani (January 4, 1907 – August 17, 1984), whose work is credited as Bruno Premiani, was an Italian illustrator known for his work for several American comic book publishers, particularly DC Comics. With writer Arnold Drake, he co-created that company's superhero team the Doom Patrol.
The son of a Slovenian Imperial Railway employee and an Italian mother, Bruno Premiani was born in Trieste in what was then Austria-Hungary but which had become part of Italy when Premiami studied at the city's arts and crafts high school from 1921 to 1925. He became a political cartoonist in his maturity, and was expelled from the country for his anti-Benito Mussolini work. He emigrated to Argentina in 1930, but where he worked for the Agencia Wisner advertising agency and the daily newspaper Crítica, for which he did the 1932-1940 educational comic section "Seen and Heard". Italy's Fascist government during this time kept track of Premiani's Critica work, and decreed he would be arrested if he returned to Italy. Premiani did return to attend his mother's funeral in 1950, years after the Fascist regime had toppled.
Through the 1940s, Premiani drew for such Argentine publications as Léoplan and the children's magazine Billiken. In 1947, he began illustrating "Patoruzito Classics" comics-adaptations of literary works for comics artist Dante Quinterno's 1945 Patoruzito comic book. However, as he had with Mussolini, Premiani similarly ran afoul of Juan Perón.
Moving to the United States, where he lived from 1948 to 1952, Premiani found work with DC Comics, beginning as penciler-inker of the four-page Gantry Daniels biography "The Sun-Born Mountain Man" in World's Finest Comics #42 (cover-dated Oct. 1949). Comic book creators were not routinely given credits during this era, and historians have tentatively identified Premiani art in a number of Prize Comics titles, starting with the eight-page "Love-Sick Weakling" in Western Love #2 (Oct. 1949).
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