Rino Albertarelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian comics artist
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Place of Birth: Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
About Rino Albertarelli
- Rino Albertarelli (8 June 1908 – 21 September 1974) was an Italian comics artist and illustrator. He was born in Cesena.
- He moved to Milan in 1928, debuting in 1935 for the comics magazines ArgentoVivo! and L'Audace.
- Two years later he moved to Mondadori, for which he created his most famous character, Kit Carson, as well as the series Dottor Faust and Gino e Gianni.
- He also worked on "Il Corsaro Nero" for Paperino e altre avventure.
- After the war he slowed his activities as a comic artist, only making a few Emilio Salgari's adaptations for the magazine Salgari and collaborating with some French magazines.In the 1950s Albertarelli abandoned comics to focus on his activity as illustrator.
- After a long hiatus, he returned to comics in 1973 with Daim Press' series I protagonisti del West (also known just as I protagonisti), with which he collaborated until his death in Milan in 1974.
- The series was eventually completed by Sergio Toppi.
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