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Paolo Piffarerio

Paolo Piffarerio

Italian comics artist (1924–2015)

Paolo Piffarerio (27 August 1924 – 30 June 2015) was an Italian comics artist and animator.

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Biography

Born in Recanati, the son of a silversmith and a seamstress,[1] Piffarerio studied at the Brera Academy, where he met Gino Gavioli. In 1953 Gavioli and Piffarerio founded "Gamma Film", a pioneering company in the field of animation in Italy.[1][2] Piffarerio realized several animation shorts for the TV show Carosello, as well as The Long Green Sock (Italian: La lunga calza verde), a 1961 film about the history of Italy scripted by Cesare Zavattini.[3]

Piffarerio's first comic character, Capitan Falco, was created in 1943.[1][4] He collaborated with writer Max Bunker on a number of comics series, including Viva l'Italia (1961), Maschera Nera (1963), El Gringo (1965) and Alan Ford, where he pencilled about one hundred issues between 1975 and 1984.[4][5] Piffarerio also collaborated with journalist and writer Enzo Biagi for his book series La storia d'Italia a fumetti, and was the author of a number of comics adaptations of novels and historical biographies for Il Giornalino.[4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    Stefano Lorenzetto (14 December 2014). "È stato il papà di «Carosello» Oggi non compra più nulla". Il Giornale. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Addio a Paolo Piffarerio, disegnatore di Alan Ford e animatore di Carosello". La Repubblica. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  3. [3]
    Gian Piero Brunetta. Storia del cinema mondiale, Volume 1. Einaudi, 1999. ISBN 9788806143466.
  4. [4]
    "Paolo Piffarerio". Lambiek. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  5. [5]
    Francesco Borgoglio (30 June 2015). "Ci ha lasciato Paolo Piffarerio, storica matita di Alan Ford". BadComics. Retrieved 1 July 2015.


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