Sad news with Italian Angelo Todaro unfortunately passing this week. Angelo Todaro has had a long history with comic art. he was born in 1945 and at the age of 19 started his career drawing comic stories.
In 1967, he started drawing stories for the publisher Fratelli Spada Edition including drawing 6x stories of the Phantom (two have been published by Frew). Most of his work for Fratelli Spada Edition was drawing Mandrake the Magician.
Like some other Fratelli Spada Edition creators in Felmang and Ferri, he also drew stories for Frew. What is interesting is that he also has drawn a story for Bastei in 1981. From what we understand, he is the only creator to have drawn for those three publishers (Fratelli Spada Edition, Bastei and Frew)
With the creation of the Phantoms World Frew series, we fans where re introduced to the art of Angelo Todaro with our Phantom stories.
He drew 7x new stories for Frew under the Frew Crew banner including writing four of the stories himself. Two of these stories "The Yacht Thieves" and "The New Island of T" are sequel stories of past Lee Falk stories.
Other artistic credits include "Rip Kirby", "Turok, son of Stone", "Gunsmoke", "Buffalo Bill", "Star Trek" for himself and under the Alberto Giolitti Studio. If you would like to learn more about Angelo Todaro, please go to his website.
I was lucky enough to have purchased some art from Angelo Todaro and spent many an hour talking about our love of the Phantom. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, loved ones and friends during this sad time.
