Dodici racconti meravigliosi della Regina Fabiola

Illustration created in mixed media (mainly tempera) for one of the stories in the children's book "Dodici racconti meravigliosi della regina Fabiola", published by Fabbri in 1964.

Actually, this is not an illustration for a comic book, but for a children's book. However, I like Lupatelli (aka Tony Wolf) very much and his work is obviously close to that of a comic artist, so I hope the purists will forgive me ;)
He is not yet the Tony Wolf of the ‘Le storie del bosco’, but the poetic and refined stroke that humanises animals in a fairytale-like manner and the meticulous attention to the rendering of the tiniest details (the insects sitting on the garlic stalk) are already his trademark.