Antonio Rubino

Antonio Rubino (15 May 1880 – 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.

Then, as an autodidact, he turned his focus to drawing, debuting as the illustrator of Alberto Colantuoni's book L'Albatros.

[1] 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.

[6] The surreal style of Rubino has been variously associated to Futurism,[4][7] East Asian painting,[8][9] and above all Art Nouveau.