European Western Comic Books ~ Alamo Kid

Alamo Kid originated in Italy on August 4, 1975

Antonio Mancuso (Anthony Mancuso), texts and drawn by Giuseppe Montanari

Alamo Kid is a federal agent a playboy with the women and drinks frozen vodka and loves mutton roasted with pineapple. He confronts criminals in the west during the late nineteenth century. He differs from the similar heroes published in the popular weekly magazines where the authors come from, inserting in the narration with slightly more explicit violence and some more sexy elements than usual. He does not disdain to use the Colt to end the days of the outlaws he has been sent to capture. 

The series began in 1975 in #16 of the magazine LANCIOSTORY and is published for three years in 40 issues with self-contained stories in which the designer Vincenzo Monti also collaborates.

Giuseppe Montanari was born in San Giovanni, Persiceto Italy on November 26, 1936.

He moved to Milan in 1944, where he completed his studies at the Gonzaga high school. He made his debut in the comic strips in 1954 as a collaborator of the editorial studio of Roy D'Amy - with also Renzo Calegari, Carlo Porciani and other great authors - that makes him contribute to I Tre Bill of the publishing house of Tea Bonelli. Starting in 1956, he made some western stories for Edizioni Alpe (appeared in appendix to the Cucciolo and Tiramolla humorous titles). In 1962, he produced the covers of some publications of the Editorial Corno, including Gordon, Maschera Nera, Atomik. Since 1966, he has been in continuous collaboration has begun with the erasers (then Ediperiodici ) erasers of Renzo Barbieri and Giorgio Cavedon, who entrusts him with the covers and stories of Goldrake The Playboy. From 1972, when Barbieri left his partner, he founded Edifumetto , Montanari worked there for at least a decade, creating various characters in pocket format, including Lando. In the same year he works in  association with another cartoonist, Ernesto Grassani, with whom he began a prolific four-handed production that continues today.

Since 1974, with Grassani he has collaborated with the weekly LancioStory, Intrepido and Corrier Boy. Since 1979, with Grassani he began his collaboration - which still continues - with Sergio Bonelli Editore, starting with Il Piccolo Ranger, then Full and, for twenty years, with Dylan Dog. The first of many issues of Dylan Dog, designed by the tandem Montanari & Grassani, is the third Night of the Full Moon (1986), but together they also make, in 1996, the Almanac of Fear and all the Maxi Dylan Dog, since 1998 During a long career, there is also the collaboration with the weekly Corriere dei Piccoli and Il Giornalino.