Roberto Raviola
| Magnus | |
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| Born | Roberto Raviola May 30, 1939 Bologna, Italy |
| Died | February 5, 1996 (aged 56) Castel del Rio, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Area(s) | artist, writer |
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Notable works
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Alan Ford Kriminal Satanik Lo Sconosciuto Necron |
Magnus, pseudonym of Roberto Raviola (May 30, 1939 – February 5, 1996), was an Italian comic book artist, regarded as one of the foremost cartoonists of all time in his country.
Born in Bologna in 1939, he studyied at Academy of Fine Arts. Raviola lived there for his whole life.
Having worked as an illustrator, he started his comics career and his association with Max Bunker in 1964 with the series Kriminal. He took the pseudonym Magnus, from the Latin phrase Magnus Pictor Fecit ("A Great Painter Did It"). During the 1960s the duo became a mainstay of Italian comics creating successful series such as Kriminal and Satanik (1964), Dennis Cobb, Gesebel (1966, only first six stories by Magnus) and Maxmagnus (1968). Magnus' atmospheric use of black and white was instrumental un launching a new comics genre, called fumetti neri (black comics/adult comics).
In 1967 Magnus & Bunker started working on a new series resulting in the May 1969 release of the humorous Alan Ford.
After leaving Alan Ford in 1975, Magnus began an association with Renzo Barbieri's publishing house, which was specialized i the erotic comics genre. In the 1970s works like Midnight of Fire, Ten Knights and a Wizard, Vendetta Macumba and The Living Skull came out. Magnus continued creating the long saga The Outlaws and in 1975 he started the Lo Sconosciuto (a character whose lastname is Unknow, intentional misspelling of "Unknown") series, today considered one of Magnus' finest creations. In 1977 The Company of the Gallows series appeared.
During the 1980s he created two science fictional heroines: Milady 3000 (1980–1984) and Necron's Frieda Boher, written by Ilaria Volpe. Milady, translated also in France on Metal Hurlant magazine, is a science fiction series where Chinese culture, Flash Gordon and Star Wars' influences, erotism and technology are well mixed.
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