Leone Frollo is an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
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artist.
Frollo debuted in 1948 with a
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called Sui Grandi Laghi ("On Great Lakes"). From 1958 to 1968, he worked for
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agency
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, doing war stories. After that, until the mid-1980s he did works in several genres, including fantasy and horror, but specially erotic comics. His main work in the erotic genre in this period is
BiancaneveBiancaneve is an Italian erotic comic book, created in 1972 by Renzo Barbieri and Rubino Ventura and illustrated by Leone Frollo. Fairlie Wayne is the real name of the main character.-Overview:...
, based on
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, and
LuciferaLucifera is the eponymous anti-heroine of an Italian comic book popular in the seventies.The 'Lucifera' character is a demoness/succubus dedicated to fighting the forces of Goodness. A frequent visitor to Hell, she also enjoys sending others there to be tormented...
and
YraYra, the vampire is an Italian comic book erotic character. She was drawn by Leone Frollo and Rubino Ventura. Yra is a 12-episodes fumetti series published from 1980 to 1981 by Edifumetto....
that he did for
EdifumettoEdifumetto was an Italian publishing house of comics, founded by Renzo Barbieri.A recent example of their publication is Biancaneve by Leone Frollo and Necron by Magnus of 1981.Some of their titles are vampire-themed:...
.
After 1987, he changed his style and drew some series for the
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market: Malicieusement Femmes, Mona Street and
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.