Raphael Carlo Marcello, 1929-2007



Raphael Carlo Marcello, a workhorse of European comics series and newspaper adaptations for decades, died in late December just before Christmas. He had turned 78 in November.

Marcello was born in Ventimiglia, Italy, and began work with a rush in the late 1940s, dropping out of school and moving to Paris. He produced covers and worked with an advertising agency, splitting his time between newspaper and magazine work. Series work and adaptations included Ben Hur, Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist and the Bible. His longest early run on a series was Le Cavalier Iconnu, which ran in Pepito from 1955 until 1970.

Moving to the magazine Pif Gadget in 1970, Marcello saw his greatest success with writer Jean Ollivier on the series Docteur Justice, which would continue until 1993 an in the mid-1970s during its heyday be the subject of a feature film. He also created several series for the magazine. Among several prominent assignments in the second half of Marcello's long career were L'Histoire du Far West (1976-1985) and a Michael Jackson comic for Hachette (1988). He would by 1990 return to his home town in Italy. He remained prolific to a time near his passing, employed by Bonelli with gigs on the series Tex Willer and Zago.


 
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