Paolo Piffarerio
Paolo Piffarerio (born August 27, 1924 in Milan , Lombardy , † June 30, 2015 there ) was an Italian cartoonist .
life and work
During his training at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera , Piffarerio drew his first comic book , Capitan Falco , published in 1943 for the Alberto Traini publishing house . This was followed three years later by the comic Meazza e Ridolini . In 1953, Piffarerio interrupted his comic career by starting as an illustrator in Gino and Roberto Gavioli's animation studio . The series Billy West , Maschera Nera , El Gringo and Milord emerged from 1961, mainly in collaboration with the comic author Max Bunker . In 1968 he started working with Eurêka magazine . For which he created numerous short stories in addition to Fouché, un Uomo nella Rivoluzione . In the mid-1970s, Piffarerio replaced Roberto Raviola , who was under the pseudonym Magnus, in the Alan Ford comic series . In the following years he adapted literary works as comics for the newspaper Il Giornalino .
literature
- Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , pp. 203-204.
Web links
- Paolo Piffarerio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Addio a Piffarerio, storico fumettista italiano. (Video) In: video.corriere.it. Corriere TV , June 30, 2015, accessed July 2, 2015 (Italian).
- ↑ a b Paolo Piffarerio on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on August 5, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Paolo Piffarerio on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on August 5, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piffarerio, Paolo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan , Lombardy , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 2015 |
| Place of death | Milan , Lombardy , Italy |