One of if it's not the last survivor of the French-Belgian comic Golden Age has just passed away, by reaching his centenary. Dino Attanasio, whom his life was themed to arts, drawings and music, is been fallen to the Magic Potion (No relation with Uderzo) of comics when he were little, by drawing his first comic pages at a younger age, and years before to immigrate in Belgium for work after times to not be that impressed of the Post-War Italia.
Besides of his many collaborations with the greatest writers and gagmans of that time, his creation, Spaghetti, is evidently what had made him famous and noteworthy to readers, young and old. And with good reason! The character was based of his past experience at an Belgian immigree and René Gosciny's penchant for pun words helped to elevate the high-prestige of an artform in full mutation. Without to be nostalgic of this time, it really were an era where before to played the cartoonists at all cost, you need to known to drawn lots of things and collaborate with other people.
The man does everything -- Like fully created the first official cover art of the Tintin Journal by the launch of Le Lombard in the end of the 1940s to be in part of the first-ever Italian animated movie in 1949 to work for existing series like Franquin's Modeste et Pompon and Bob Morane. Whether it's a cartoonist or one author who tried his hands to relying realism in his work, Attanasio have the rare ability to have done everything until his last breath, where he passed away past Saturday at nearly 100! (He was born at May 8th 1925)
His work need to be celebrated and remembered in these troubled times, for make us thinking that the issues with immigration didn't date of the past ten years and to be a necessary change of the monotony and cynicism of the today's artform, where everyone like better to employed a generic "heroine" from a drawer board than actually met real people or that it all riddled like a bad Paid Infomercial from the early Cable-TV era.
Really the end of an era... and the last one from the Golden Age who have surviving at longer. I don't think we are many who can repeated all these endeavors in hope for a better life instead to mundane journeys that went us nowhere.
To think that some of the best comic illustrators of that era were immigrees like Uderzo or Roba, to coin a word, who just expected a better world after World War II went to an eventual end. We need this more than ever today.
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