My creators Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Milazzo
GIANCARLO BERARDI, born in Genoa on 15 November 1949, made his début as a
comic book writer by working on such series as "Tarzan", "Silvestro" and "Diabolik". After obtaining his degree, he devoted his work entirely to comics and created texts for "Il Piccolo Ranger" and the stories of "Terre maledette" and "Wyatt Doyle", published in the Rodeo Series. "Tiki",
his first series created together with the illustrator Ivo Milazzo, appeared in 1976, followed, in 1977, by "Ken Parker", his most successful character, exported to 13 different countries worldwide. In the same year he created "Welcome to Springville", together with the illustrator Renzo Calegari. This was followed by "L'uomo delle Filippine", and detective Marvin. In 1986 he wrote the script for some episodes of "Sherlock Holmes", illustrated by Giorgio Trevisan. Then he created "Oklahoma", an hors-series Tex story, and an episode of Nick Raider (nr. 18: "Mosaico per un delitto", and the short stories gathered together in "Fantasticheria" and "Luci e ombre". After starting up "Tom's Bar" and "Giuli Bay & Co.", in 1989, he became one of the founders of the Parker Press, which not only reprinted old episodes of Ken Parker but also produced new ones for the "Ken Parker Magazine". The same formula was continued by the publisher Sergio Bonelli up to 1996, after which the series returned to the "Bonellian" format, appearing every six months, eventually closing in 1998. Since October 1998, Berardi, - pictured above, in a portrait by Milazzo - has been the author and editor of Julia, a new monthly graphic novel by the publisher Sergio Bonelli. Among the numerous recognitions of merit with which he has been honored, mention should be made of the Oesterheld Prize, the Premio Internacional Barcelona de Comics, the Haxtur and the Yellow Kid.
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IVO MILAZZO entered the comics field together with Giancarlo Berardi, who became his main scenarist. They started out making some 'Tarzan' stories for the French market in 1971, and then took on their first humorous series, 'Il Palafita', which appeared in Sorry magazine. Between 1972 and 1973, Milazzi cooperated with publisher Gino Sansoni, drawing stories for Horror and Supervip, as well as some episodes of 'Diabolik'. He joined the Bierreci studios, where he cooperated on Disney comics with Giorgio Rebuffi and Luciano Bottaro, as well as 'Tweety and Silvester' stories for the Italian and French market, again with texts by Berardi.In the 1970s, Milazzo switched to drawing realistic comics. Milazzo and Berardi created the 'Ken Parker' series in 1974, and it was published by Bonelli from 1977. They also started the mini-series 'Tiki' in Il Giornalino, as well as 'Tom's Bar' in Skorpio. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Milazzo's work has appeared in magazines such as Skorpio, Orient-Express ('Marvin il Detective') and Comic Art ('Tommy Steele'). He continued his collaboration with Bonelli, illustrating 'L'Uomo delle Filippine' in the collection 'Un Uomo, un'Avventura', as well as new episodes of 'Ken Parker'. He also illustrated episodes of the Bonelli series 'Nick Raider' and 'Magico Vento'. Milazzo and Berardi founded Parker Editore, and launched Ken Parker Magazine in 1992, that appeared until 1996. From then on, Ken Parker's adventures have appeared in Ken Parker Speciale.(from http://lambiek.net/artists/m/milazzo_i.htm
