Texas Stories
(1977-1978)
Publisher Ciarrapico
Authors: Alberto Giolitti, J. Garcia
Issues: 9
This series of comic
books was based on no one particular hero but a different hero in each issue.
Such characters as Buffalo Bill, Reno Kid and other western characters, real
and fictitious.
Alberto Giolitti was born on
November 14, 1923 in Rome, Italy. His family
owns one of the most famous cafés, Giolitti, where he also worked for a while.
He debuted as an artist for
Il Vittorioso
in the late 1940s. After World War II, Giolitti moved to South America, where
he worked for Editorial Lainez and Columba of Buenos Aires. After three years
in there he was able to move to his original destination, the United States;
there he became a mainstay of Western/Dell Publishing, penciling numerous
characters, including Indian Chief, Tonto, Cisco Kid, Turok, and Gunsmoke.
After obtaining American citizenship, in 1960 he returned
to Italy, from where he continued to collaborate with Western and other US and
British publishers. The series he worked on in this period include Gold Key
Comics' Star Trek. For the same company he drew a King Kong adaptation. In Rome
he established a popular studio of comic artists called Studio Giolitti after
himself.
In 1986 he realized a long science-fiction story,
"Cinque anni dopo" ("Five Years Later"), and from the late
1980s he finished several stories of the main Italian comics western character,
Tex Willer.
Alberto Giolitti died in Rome on April 15, 1993.
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