Alfredo Chiàppori
Alfredo Chiàppori (born August 27, 1943 in Lecco ) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator .
After completing an art degree in Fano in 1965, Chiàppori worked as a painter before becoming a teacher of art and history in his native Lecco in 1967. In 1968 Chiàppori created his best-known cartoon character Up il Sovversivo , a man standing upside down on the ceiling. In 1969 he published his first drawings in the Italian comic magazine Linus . His breakthrough came in the early 1970s, after he had already published several books. Since then Chiàppori has drawn for various newspapers and magazines and illustrated numerous books.
literature
- Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 56.
Web links
- Biografia ( Italian ) In: alfredochiappori.it . Archived from the original on February 27, 2005. Retrieved June 9, 2018.
- Alfredo Chiàppori at lambiek.net (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chiàppori, Alfredo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian comic book artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lecco |