Giorgio Cavedon
Giorgio Cavedon (17 December 1930 – 14 October 2001)[1] was an Italian publisher, cartoonist and screenwriter.[2] Cavedon was most associated with his adult comics he wrote with Renzo Barbieri.[2] His first comic, Isabella was Italy's first openly erotic fumetto.[2]
Biography
[edit]Cavedon was born on 17 December 1930[3] in Brescia. Outside his work in comics, Cavedon was also an accomplished musician, being a member of the Milan College Jazz Society and had the desire to become a filmmaker.[2] In 1953 he shot a short documentary on 16mm and the next year his short film Arturo was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.[2] Cavedon would casually return to the film industry in the next few years, including Renato Dall'Ara's assistant on Scano Boa and directing a part of the anthology comedy film I soldi.[2]
His comic Isabella was published between April 1966 and October 1976 with 263 issues.[2] The comic was later adapted into a film by Cavedon and directed by Bruno Corbucci in his film Ms. Stiletto.[2][4] Cavedon and Barbieri created several other comic series following Isabella such as Jacula, Hessa, Lucrezia, Messalina, Lucifera, and Jungla.[2] Barbieri and Cavedon parted ways with Barbieri in 1972 creating his own company which was the biggest rival to Cavedon's group in the 1970s for erotic comics.[2]
Cavedone continued his interest in film, and directed his only feature film with Ombre, shooting it in 1979 and having it released in 1980.[5][2] Cavedon died in 2001.[2]
References
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "Guida Fumetto Italiano". guidafumettoitaliano (in Italian). 2 April 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Curti 2019, p. 40.
- ^ Poppi 2002, p. 102.
- ^ Curti 2016, p. 129.
- ^ Curti 2019, p. 39.
Sources
[edit]- Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476672434.
- Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.
- Poppi, Roberto (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri (in Italian). Gremese Editore. ISBN 8884401712.
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