RIP Ivo Pavone

 

The artist Ivo Pavone, collaborator of Hugo Pratt and Héctor Oesterheld, has died

Fumetto Logica

November 22, 2020

On November 20, at the age of 91, Ivo Pavone, contemporary designer of Hugo Pratt, Mario Faustinelli and Alberto Ongaro, of whom he had been a friend and collaborator , died in Venice. 

Born in Taranto in 1929, he moved to Venice in 1938 with his family. There he met Pratt, with whom he joined the group of authors of the magazine Asso di Picche , starting to work as a cartoonist in 1946, before emigrating to Argentina between 1951 and 1962. There he worked for publishers such as Abril and Codex and he published in magazines including Hora Cero  and  Frontera , notably making western stories on Héctor Oesterheld subjects. Around that same time, he worked with Pratt as Sergeant Kirk's inker .

Back in Italy, Pavone worked on Pecos Bill published by Sepim and then, in the seventies, started a collaboration with the publisher Renzo Barbieri. In that same decade he published in magazines such as Lanciostory ,  Skorpio  and  Corrier Boy  and - for Sergio Bonelli Editore - on the western series  Judas  and  Gil . His collaboration with Bonelli continued until the mid-1990s, and his last story appeared in 1994 on Zona X 7.

 

PAVONE, Ivo

Born: 11/12/1929, Taranto, Puglia, Italy

Died: 11/20/2020, Venice, Veneto, Italy

 

Ivo Pavone’s western – comic book artist:

Hueso Clavado - 1946

Verdugo Ranch – 1946

Sergeant Kirk – 1954-1955

Pecos Bill – 1962

Canada Jean – 1963

Giddap Joe - 1963

Jacky West – 1972

Lupo Bianco -1974

Judas – 1969

Judas and Gil - 1980