The self-taught French comic book artist and press illustrator Angelo di Marco began his career at the age of eighteen. 

When he was 23 he was commissioned to illustrate a monthly short story in the magazine La Vie Parisienne, and six months later the illustrated paper Radar, a broadsheet with a circulation of more than a million, gave him a regular commission. There he drew a weekly comic strip for the section called ‘Inouïe’ (Incredible), where they covered freak accidents and encounters, such as the story of a woman who fell from a building and landed in a firefighter’s arms. As he explained, ‘They wanted to see if I could draw movement,’ and strongly-drawn scenes shown from interesting and powerful angles and perspectives became his trademark.

His first comic strip was Capitaine Ardent in Bravo! magazine, later continued in Le Parisien Libéré. During the 1960s he worked with Télé 7 Jours with series like Ivanhoé and Les Trois Mousequetaires (The Three Musketeers). In the 1970s he succeeded Walter Fahrer on the series of comic adaptations of Janique Aimée for the Opera Mundi agency, and produced stories with writer Roger Lécureux for Pif Gadget. In 1988 he started a comic version of the American television series Knight Rider (named K-2000 in France) for Dargaud.

In the late 1980s, under the pseudonym Arcor, di Marco began drawing erotic comics for Bédé Adult, including the Henri Filippini scripted Doctor Sex series, but he also continued to draw illustrations for newspapers, including France-Soir, Radar, Détective, and France Dimanche.

We are very grateful to our Russian friend Yuri for suggesting the inclusion of this artist, and for supplying some of the images.