Skorpio is an Italian weekly comic magazine, published
since 1977 by the Roman publishing company Eura Editoriale and since 2010 by
Editoriale Aurea.
It is the "twin" of Lanciostory, magazine
similar in content and editorial layout published by the same publisher. The
Italian magazine including the name of the one originally published in
Argentina from 1974 to 1996 (subtitled El mundo de la grand historieta) by
Ediciones Record.
With the disappearance of the "container
magazines", ie those magazines comic who had no continuing characters, but
anthologies of very different schools of comics each other (examples are
Eternauta, Comic Art, Orient Express) remains, with its “twin”, the only Italian example of periodic
anthology comic.
Initially it exclusively presented works by Latin
American authors and a few Italians, that was also an opening to the Belgian
market.
Renzo Calegari was born in Bolzaneto (Genoa) on September
5th., 1933. He starts working in the comic book world with Studio D’Ami and, in
1955, draws "I tre Bill" (written by Gianluigi Bonelli) and "El
Kid", together with Gino D’Antonio. He later creates "Big Davy"
for Edizioni Araldo, but he becomes officially recognized as master of the
western genre with "Storia del West", where he starts working ,
always with D’Antonio, in 1964. After a brief period of comic book inactivity,
due to his focusing on politics, Calegari returns to his beloved West with
"Welcome to Springville", a miniseries written by Giancarlo Berardi
for "Skorpio", later reprinted in three volumes by L’Isola Trovata
(and, more recently, in a volume publisehd by Le Mani). He did other works for
the "Orient Express" magazine and with "Il Giornalino", for
which Calegari creates the series "Boone" and "Gente di
frontiera". For Tex, Calegari debuted with "La ballata di Zeke
Colter" (penned by Nizzi), printed on Almanacco del West 1994. His art
appears on "Bandidos!", a one-shot published in the summer of 2007
and scripted by Gino D'Antonio.
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