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Fernando Carcupino (1922 – 2003) was an Italian painter, illustrator and comics artist. Carcupino grew up in Milan and studied art under Achille Funi at the city’s Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. During World War II he worked on the animated feature film, The Rose of Baghdad, before serving as a sub-lieutenant in the Granatieri Brigade of the Italian Liberation Corps. Delayed due to the war the film was eventually released in 1949. In 1946, after producing the episode Scacco matto a Coe for the comics series Il Solitario (The Lonely One), he joined his friend Mario Faustinelli on the staff of Asso di Picche and became part of the so-called Venice Group which also included the comic artists and writers Hugo Pratt, Dino Battaglia and Damiano Damiani.
In the early 1970s, he produced a series of risque covers of the weekly magazine, La Giraffa, as well as creating the covers for several Edifumetto publications including Vampirissimo, Fiabe Proibite and I Sanguinari. In 1983 he received the Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from the Italian government for his artistic merits. In 1999 he was also awarded the Caran D'Ache Prize at the Salone Expocartoon in Rome for his life devoted to illustration.
Fernando Carcupino (1922 – 2003) was an Italian painter, illustrator and comics artist. Carcupino grew up in Milan and studied art under Achille Funi at the city’s Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. During World War II he worked on the animated feature film, The Rose of Baghdad, before serving as a sub-lieutenant in the Granatieri Brigade of the Italian Liberation Corps. Delayed due to the war the film was eventually released in 1949. In 1946, after producing the episode Scacco matto a Coe for the comics series Il Solitario (The Lonely One), he joined his friend Mario Faustinelli on the staff of Asso di Picche and became part of the so-called Venice Group which also included the comic artists and writers Hugo Pratt, Dino Battaglia and Damiano Damiani.
In the early 1970s, he produced a series of risque covers of the weekly magazine, La Giraffa, as well as creating the covers for several Edifumetto publications including Vampirissimo, Fiabe Proibite and I Sanguinari. In 1983 he received the Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from the Italian government for his artistic merits. In 1999 he was also awarded the Caran D'Ache Prize at the Salone Expocartoon in Rome for his life devoted to illustration.
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