Giordano
Bruno Premiani was born in Italy in 1907. As a young man his invested
his artistic talent into becoming a political cartoonist the
anti-Mussolini bent of work caused him to be expelled from his
homeland. In 1930 he emigrated to Argentina and in the 1940’s
worked on "Patoruzito Classics", an Argentine equivalent to
“Classics Illustrated”. Once again his anti-fascist inclinations
made him persona non grata, this time with the Juan Perón regime. In
1948 he left for the US and found work with two publishers; Prize and
more importantly DC. DC provided the majority of his employment and
Bruno worked on strips like Pow Wow Smith, Cave Carson and Tomahawk.
He is perhaps best remembered as the artist and co-creator of the
Silver Age series, The Doom Patrol.
Here
is a job done in the summer of 1949 for YOUNG LOVE issue 4.
Pat
Good post, with accompanying story. Much appreciated. Premiani is little discussed, given the current proliferation of multimedia and comics blogs. Even his art for the Simon & Kirby shop is distinctive. All his work is good-- the well-known DOOM PATROL, of course, but equally his TOMAHAWK, CAVE CARSON and CONQUEST OF MEXICO for Classics Illustrated. The only exception was a mysteriously bad job for UNEXPECTED in the late 1960s. An excellent and underappreciated artist. Thanks for the post.
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