2023-08-07 12:01:37
Goodbye to Giuseppe Montanari. The historic Emilian designer of Dylan Dog died on August 5 at the age of 86. The publisher Sergio Bonelli gave the news on his website, saying his last goodbyes to the cartoonist: “The entire via Buonarroti editorial team remembers Giuseppe with affection and admiration and embraces friends and family”. Montanari was born in San Giovanni in Persiceto, in the province of Bologna, on November 26, 1936.
His permanent entry into the Bonelli stable took place at the end of the 70s working for ‘Il Piccolo Ranger’, on texts by Decio Canzio and Giorgio Pezzin. He creates some stories for the “Full” container and then definitively enters the staff of Dylan Dog, of which he becomes, in tandem with Ernesto Grassani, one of the best known and recognizable designers, starting from the pages of “The nights of the full moon”. third register of the successful series created by Tiziano Sclavi, released in 1986.
After years of uninterrupted militancy in the team of cartoonists at the service of the Nightmare Investigator, in December 2021 he became the cover artist of the bimonthly “Dylan Dog Oldboy”, forming an unprecedented couple with Paolo Bacilieri.
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