{{Short description|Italian illustrator and cartoonist (1880–1964)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Antonio Rubino | image = Antonio Rubino.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date|15 May 1880}} | birth_place = Sanremo, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{Death-date and age|1 July 1964|15 May 1880}} | death_place = Bajardo, Italy | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = Illustrator<br>Cartoonist | years_active = | signature = Antonio Rubino's signature.png }} '''Antonio Rubino''' (15 May 1880 &ndash; 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. thumb|Tomaso Monicelli e Antonio Rubino - The little wayfarer - La Lampada Mondadori 1913

==Biography==

Born '''Antonio Augusto Rubino''' in Sanremo, Rubino graduated in law. Then, as an autodidact, he turned his focus to drawing, debuting as the illustrator of Alberto Colantuoni's book ''L'Albatros''.<ref name=Afnews>{{cite web|title=Antonio Rubino|url=http://www.afnews.info/wordpress/2009/01/09/un-libro-pericoloso|website=Afnews|date=9 January 2009|accessdate=13 November 2015}}</ref>

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.<ref name=Lambiek>{{cite web|title=Antonio Rubino|url=http://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/rubino_antonio.htm|website=Lambiek|accessdate=12 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=xsz>B.P. Boschesi, ''Manuale dei fumetti'', Mondadori, 19763. {{ISBN|8804133635}}.</ref> 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''.<ref name=onnor/>

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.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Craig Yoe|title=Modern arf|year=2008|publisher=Fantagraphics Books, 2005|isbn=978-1560979128}}</ref> 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.<ref name=enc/>

The surreal style of Rubino has been variously associated to Futurism,<ref name=onnor>{{cite book|last1=Juliet Kinchin, Aidan O'Connor|title=Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000|year=2012|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art, 2012|isbn=978-0870708268}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Palazzo Pigorini|title=Depero e Rubino: ovvero, Il futurismo spiegato ai bambini ed il bambino spiegato ai futuristi|year=1999|publisher=Mazzotta, 1999|isbn=8820213540}}</ref> East Asian painting,<ref name=Strips>{{cite book|last1=Carlo Chendi|title=Strips of land, strips of paper|year=2008|publisher=Tunué, 2008|isbn=978-8889613504}}</ref><ref name=Alligo>{{cite book|last1=Santo Alligo|title=Antonio Rubino: i libri illustrati|year=2008|publisher=Little Nemo, 2008|isbn=978-8890308581}}</ref> and above all Art Nouveau.<ref name=enc>{{cite book|last1=Gaetana Marrone, Paolo Puppa (cured by)|title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies|date=26 December 2006|publisher=Routledge, 2006|isbn=1135455309}}</ref><ref name=Strips/><ref name=Dedalo>{{cite book|last1=Pietro Favari|title=Le nuvole parlanti: un secolo di fumetti tra arte e mass media|year=1996|publisher=Dedalo, 1996|isbn=8822004132}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Fabrizio Foni|title=Alla fiera dei mostri|year=2007|publisher=Tunué, 2007|isbn=978-8889613207}}</ref>

==References== <references/>

==Further reading== * Giuseppe Bevione. "[https://archive.org/stream/laletturarivis1905milauoft#page/326/mode/2up Un artista fantastico]", in ''La Lettura''. 1 April 1905. * Rino Albertarelli. "Storia del fumetto: Antonio Rubino", in ''Linus''. n. 1, April 1965. * Giuseppe Trevisani. ''Antonio Rubino. Quadratino e i suoi amici''. Garzanti, 1967. * Paola Pallottino. ''La matita di zucchero. Antonio Rubino''. Cappelli, 1978 * Daniele Riva (ed.). ''Antonio Rubino - Estasi, incubi e allucinazioni 1900-1920''. Gabriele Mazzotta Editore, 1980. * Maria Claudia Capovilla. "Antonio Rubino: formazione di uno stile grafico originale", in ''Arte in Friuli'', 1985. * Claudio Bertieri (ed.). ''Antonio Rubino - L'amico delle nuvole''. Comune di Sanremo, 1995. * Vitaliano Rocchiero. ''Antonio Rubino (1980-1964)'', in ''Liguria'', n. 10-11, October 1998. * Claudio Bertieri (ed.). ''Mondo Fanciullo - Antonio Rubino narratore per ragazzi''. Comune di Sanremo, 2005. * Linda Pacifici. "Far fantasticare fantasticando: gli esordi artistici di Antonio Rubino e Giuseppe Fanciulli", in ''Artista, Critica dell'arte in Toscana'', 2005. * Matteo Stefanelli, Fabio Gadducci (ed.). ''Antonio Rubino - Gli anni del Corriere dei Piccoli''. Black Velvet Editrice, 2009. * Matteo Fochessati. "La cameretta dei bambini di Antonio Rubino alla Wolfsoniana", in ''LG Argomenti'', XLVI, n. 2, April 2010. pp.&nbsp;10–13. * Freddy Colt. "Antonio Rubino, poeta "fantasy" e illustratore", in ''Sanremesità, Volti e risvolti della cultura locale''. Philobiblon, 2013. pp.&nbsp;26–29.

==External links== * {{DBI |title= RUBINO, Antonio Augusto|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-augusto-rubino_(Dizionario-Biografico)|last= Cuozzo|first= Mariadelaide|volume= 89}}

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