RIP Giovanni Romanini

Giovanni Romanini has died

Fumetto Logica

March 20, 2020

At the age of 74, Giovanni Romanini, a Bolognese designer and illustrator active since the sixties, known in particular as a collaborator and inker of Magnus, died. The author's friends on social media communicated the news.

After working in the field of animation - collaborating with the TV program Carosello - Romanini made his debut in the world of comics at the end of the sixties, alternating with Magnus in the realization of the Kriminal and Satanik series for Editoriale Corno. In the same period he also inked some books of Alan Ford, maintaining this role even when Paolo Piffarerio took over from Magnus, for a few years. His work thus contributed to guaranteeing stylistic continuity to the series.

Later on Romanini continued his collaboration with Magnus on La compagnia della forca and at the same time he designed black and erotic characters such as Zora, Wallestein, Ulula and Bionika for Renzo Barbieri's Edifumetto.

His last collaboration with Magnus was on Tex Willer - entitled La valle del terrore - scripted by Claudio Nizzi and published by Sergio Bonelli Editore in 1996. Subsequently, he collaborated for four years with the weekly Topolino and became part of the staff of designers in 2000 from the Martin Mystère series by Bonelli.

ROMANINI, Giovanni

Born: 12/27/1945, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Died: 3/20/2020, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Giovanni Romanini’s westerns comic book illustrator:

Tex Willer: The Valley of Terror – 1994 [illustrator]

Tex (il cosiddetto Texone) – 1996 [illustrator]

Tex Willer: Martin Mystery – 2015 [illustrator]