Eugenio Colonnese
BornEugenio Antonio Colonnese Edit this on Wikidata
3 September 1929 Edit this on Wikidata
Fuscaldo Edit this on Wikidata
Died8 August 2008 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 78)
Santo André Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationComics artist Edit this on Wikidata
Awards

Eugenio Colonnese (Fuscaldo, 3 September 1929 – Santo André, 8 August 2008) was an Italian-born Brazilian comic artist.[1]

Son of a Brazilian mother (who is African, Portuguese and Indigenous) and Italian father, Colonnese moved to Argentina as a child, where he began his career in 1949, working for several Argentine magazines.[2] He moved to Brazil in 1964. Three years later, he created the Estúdio D-Arte with Rodolfo Zalla, with whom he produced several comic books for several Brazilian publishers.[3]

In 1967, Colonnese created his main characters: Mirza, a Mulher-Vampira ("Mirza, the Vampire Woman") and O Morto do Pântano ("The Swamp Dead"), which, although they have similarities, respectively, to Vampirella and Swamp Thing, were created some years before these characters.[4][5]Colonnese worked mainly with horror comics, but he also worked with other genres and did illustration for educational and advertising comics.[6]

In 1985, he was awarded the Prêmio Angelo Agostini for Master of National Comics, an award that aims to honor artists who have dedicated themselves to Brazilian comics for at least 25 years.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Morreu Eugênio Colonnese, mestre dos quadrinhos brasileiros" (in Portuguese). Universo HQ. August 11, 2008. Archived from the original on March 31, 2018. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Morre o quadrinista Eugênio Colonnese" (in Portuguese). Omelete. August 12, 2008. Archived from the original on April 16, 2010. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Eugênio Colonnese". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
  4. ↑ "Eugenio Colonnese expõe na Gibiteca" (in Portuguese). Diário do Grande ABC. January 31, 2002.
  5. ↑ "Nem ele dominava a voluptuosa Mirza" (in Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. August 15, 2008.
  6. ↑ "Entrevista: Eugênio Colonnese" (in Portuguese). Bigorna.net. September 1, 2010. Archived from the original on March 19, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Tudo sobre o Dia do Quadrinho Nacional e o Troféu Angelo Agostini" (in Portuguese). Bigorna.net. December 16, 2005. Archived from the original on October 31, 2021. Retrieved November 3, 2021.


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