Luciano Bottaro

In the same year he began to collaborate with Guido Scala and Franco Aloisi. They were subsequently joined by Carlo Chendi. Unofficially they were called "Rapallo's School", before the birth of the "Bierrecì Studios".

Bierrecì Studios

Besides his work on Disney's characters, he worked on other magazines, creating a lot of characters (Whisky & Gogo, Baldo, Pon Pon, Giò Polpetta, Maramao), and in 1958 he founded the Bierrecì Studios with Carlo Chendi and Giorgio Rebuffi.

The first Bierreci Studios' publication was Re di Picche, a comic book that published the adventures of the king of the cards, a pitiless and blood-thirsty parody of military world, inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

One of his most popular characters was Pepito, the comical adventures of a 17th-century buccaneer who fights, among others, the greedy, grasping but essentially lovable Governor of a Spanish Caribbean colony. Published in various countries in magazines that ranged from monthly to fortnightly, Pepito proved surprisingly more popular outside of Italy than in its country of origin.

Several cartoonists began working with them, including Maria Luisa Uggetti, Tiberio Colantuoni, Ivo Milazzo, Giancarlo Berardi. They worked on several characters, including Mickey Mouse, Uncle Scrooge, Warner Bros. characters.

They also produced the comics version of Carosello, an Italian

Reprints

Fantagraphics has since 2018 reprinted some of Bottaro's Disney comics in volumes of the Disney Masters hardcover series.

• Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket (2018) ISBN 978-1-68396-109-3
• Donald Duck: Jumpin' Jupiter! (2021) ISBN 978-1-68396-414-8

External links

• Luciano Bottaro at Inducks
• Luciano Bottaro at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
• Luciano Bottaro: Biography on the official website
• Luciano Bottaro in bande dessinée: in French