Emanuele Taglietti

Emanuele Taglietti (born January 6, 1943) is an Italian illustrator, mostly known for his covers for digest-sized, adult comics whose themes were sex, violence, and horror.

Biography Emanuele Taglietti was born in January 6, 1943 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Taglietti moved on to work as an illustrator for Edifumetto, the biggest publisher of fumetti in Italy. He painted more than 500 covers for such books as Zora the Vampire, Sukia, Mafia, 44 Magnum and Wallestein the Monster. At the time, Taglietti would often paint more than ten covers every month for Renzo Barbieri's publishing house.

By the end of the 1980s, the comics' popularity started to weaken, and Taglietti left Edifumetto to work as an oil painter, as well as an evening-class teacher in decoration and the conservation of murals. When Taglietti asked to have his original works back from publisher Barbieri, in 1988, he was told that all the originals had been stolen and that tempera works used as covers for their adult comic series by publishing house Edifumetto were missing. The whereabouts of the art works was never clarified. An investigation undertaken by Taglietti and Alessandro Biffignandi, who also had his paintings stolen, had to be abandoned for financial reasons. In 2000, he retired from teaching, continuing to work as a murals and watercolour painter. as well taking up the odd illustration job.

Books

Emanuele Taglietti by Luca Mencaroni. Mencaroni Editore (Bari, 2019),