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Sergio Tarquinio

Italian painter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ3956303 ↗
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Sergio Tarquinio (13 October 1925 – 11 January 2026) was an Italian painter and comics artist.

Tarquinio specialised in creating adventure comics for a general audience. Notably, his stories appeared in monthly magazines sold in French newsstands and were known as "pocket-sized comics".

Tarquinio died in Cremona on 11 January 2026, at the age of 100.

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External links

Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sergio Tarquinio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.