Alberto Giolitti

Alberto Giolitti started working for the magazine Il Vittorioso in the late 1930s. In 1943, he drew his first comic, called 'I Sensa Paura'. In 1946, he moved Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he worked for the publishing houses Lainez and Columba. During this period, he produced police stories and novel adaptations, including 'Quo Vadis?'.

He emigrated to the United States in 1949, where he began a collaboration with Dell/Western Publishing. There, he produced art for 'The Challenge of Zorro', 'Indian Chief', 'Cisko Kid', 'Tonto', 'Tarzan', 'Sergeant Preston', 'Abraham Lincoln Life' and the Four Color Comics series. He also illustrated comic adaptations of television series like 'Lone Ranger's Famous Horse Hi-Yo Silver', 'Gunsmoke', 'Tom Bell', 'Tales of Wells Fargo', 'Have Gun Will Travel' and 'Boris Karloff' and films like 'Alexander the Great', 'Aladdin and the Marvellous Lamp' and 'Gulliver's Travels'.

Giolitti returned to Italy in the early 1960s, but continued to draw 'Turok Son of Stone' for the American market. He founded the Giolitti Studios, which consisted of about about 55 artists, who produced hundreds of pages a month for national and international publishers. The studio provided erotic comics for magazines of the publishing house Edipériodicci (Jacula, Cosmine), but also popular titles like 'Super Black', 'The Phantom', 'Mandrake' and 'Flash Gordon'.

For the US market, they drew comics with Warner Bros characters and several series for Dell/Gold Key, such as 'Freedom Agent', 'Twilight Zone', 'Lord Jim', 'Tarzan', 'Star Trek', a 'King Kong' adaptation', stories for Ripley's Believe It or Not', 'Laredo', 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea', 'Cowboy in Africa', etc. In England, Giolitti's studios was present at the publishing house IPC, where they did 'Jackie and the Wild Boy' in Princess-Tina, 'The Fiery Furnaces' in Tiger and Hurricane, 'Flame of the Forest' in Lion and 'Enchanted Isle' in Tammy. In Germany, they took over the artwork of Hansrudi Wäscher's 'Reno Kid' in Lasso, and produced stories with among others 'Perry Rhodan' and 'Buffalo Bill'.

Between 1986 and 1988, Giolitti drew '5 Anni Dopo' with a script by Pedrazzi in Comic Art, and joined the artists team of Bonelli's 'Tex Willer' in 1989.

Among the artists that worked for the Giolitti studios are:
Giancarlo Alessandrini, Enrico Bagnoli, Massimo Belardininelli, Franco Caprioli, Alfio Consoli, Ugolino Cossu, Roberto Diso, Ruggerio Giovannini, Dino Leonetti, Paolo Morales, Renato Polese, Antonio Sciotti, Alfio Ticci, Giovanni Ticci, Angelo Todaro, Nevio Zeccara.