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Antonio Rubino (15 May 1880 – 1 July 1964) was an Italian illustrator, cartoonist, animation director, screenwriter, playwright, author and poet. He was the most prolific comics illustrator in Italy before World War I.
After collaborating with several newspapers and magazines, in 1908 he started a collaboration as illustrator and cartoonist with the children's magazine Corriere dei Piccoli, for which he created numerous successful comic characters, notably Quadratino and Italino.B.P. Boschesi, Manuale dei fumetti, Mondadori, 19763. . In the 1920s and 1930s Rubino was also chief-editor and sometimes founder of several children's publications, such as Il Balilla, Topolino, Mondo Bambino, and Mondo Fanciullo.
He also directed several animated films, debuting in 1942 with Paese dei Ranocchi ( The Land of the Frogs), which won the best film award at the Venice Film Festival in the animation category.
The surreal style of Rubino has been variously associated to Futurism,
(2025). 9781560979128, Fantagraphics Books, 2005. ISBN 9781560979128 His film I sette colori ( The Seven Colors, released posthumously in 1955), has been described as one of "the most innovative and eclectic films" in the Italian animation field.
(2025). 9780870708268, The Museum of Modern Art, 2012. ISBN 9780870708268 (1999). 9788820213541, Mazzotta, 1999. ISBN 9788820213541 East Asian painting, (2025). 9788889613504, Tunué, 2008. ISBN 9788889613504 (2025). 9788890308581, Little Nemo, 2008. ISBN 9788890308581 and above all Art Nouveau. (2006). 9781135455309, Routledge, 2006. ISBN 9781135455309 (1996). 9788822004130, Dedalo, 1996. ISBN 9788822004130 (2025). 9788889613207, Tunué, 2007. ISBN 9788889613207
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Categories: Italian Comics Artists, 1880 Births, 1964 Deaths, People From Sanremo, 20th-century Italian Illustrators, Italian Film Directors, Art Nouveau Illustrators, Italian Humorists, Italian Magazine Illustrators, Italian Animators, Italian Animated Film Directors, Italian Surrealist Artists, Italian Dramatists And Playwrights, Italian Male Screenwriters
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