Gianluigi Coppola

Gianluigi Coppola (Chiavari, 1928, 16 April 1928 - Genoa, 2015, 24 August) was an Italian illustrator and cartoonist.

After completing the art high school, in 1949 he moved to Milan where he began to collaborate with Goal a comic book published by the Gazzetta dello Sport; he then collaborates with authors such as Ferdinando Tacconi in the Nat del Santa Cruz series and Franco Paludetti in the Sciuscià series. He then moved to England in 1956, where for over twenty years he worked as a draftsman creating various series such as Billy the Kid published on The Sun and others such as Scoop Donovan and Battler Britton.

In the early sixties he stopped working as a cartoonist to devote himself to the illustration of books for Penguin Books, as well as making covers for novels published by various publishing houses such as Corgi, Fontana, Collins, Pan, Granada. He also dedicates himself to advertising collaborating with magazines such as Forum, Observer, Psycology Today.

He returned to Italy in 1979 where he began collaborating with Arnoldo Mondadori for that he made illustrations for classic novels for boys as well as covers of the Oscar series. He also collaborates with the magazines Playboy and Penthouse; returned to work on comics in 1990 realizing for the Sergio Bonelli Editore some stories of the Dylan Dog and Martin Mystère series; after this experience he returned to devote himself to illustration and painting.