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A Saturday Footnote
I got to wondering about Gold Key artist Alberto Giolitti after posting last night’s column, and did a little digging around on the net.
I found this entry on Lambiek that I thought was interesting. Turns out Giolitti was running quite a studio operation in Italy through the 60′s and 70′s. It also explains who the backup strip artist on Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Nevio Zaccara, was; he was one of Giolitti’s apprentices/employees/junior guys in the same studio operation, apparently.
 
I read an awful lot of his comics in my youth, I was all over the Gold Key adventure and horror books. In fact, throw in his studio guys’ output and I think the Giolitti operation was responsible for everything I ever bought from Gold Key except the Russ Manning Tarzan. But I never knew his name until last night. I’m glad there are fans out there that keep track of these things.
Here’s a Giolitti page as I remember them looking… typically, you would always find, in some combination: a tough guy, a scared girl, and monsters.
That’s all. Just footnoting. Thought somebody besides me might be interested and I’d save ‘em the Googling.
4 Comments
Evan Waters
July 16, 2006 at 10:21 am
For some reason the style reminds me of Kirby- the texture of the lines seems similar, though that may be the inking.
Phil
July 16, 2006 at 11:14 am
That girl has “saliva strand syndrome”, which I always thought didn’t appear until 1990s XXXTREEM!!! comics.
Pedro Bouça
July 17, 2006 at 4:12 am
Giolitti did quite a lot of stories for italian western
comic Tex. I believe that his very last job was for that
comic, since it had to be finished by his disciple
Giovanni Ticci (who has also been a longtime Tex artist)
due to Giolitti’s death.
Sir Tim Drake
July 18, 2006 at 7:39 am
In the Gold Key issue of Comic Book Artist volume 1, there were features on both Giolitti and Zeccara. I think there was a full interview with Giolitti, but I could be misremembering.