Paolo Piffarerio
| Paolo Piffarerio | |
|---|---|
| Born |
27 August 1924 Recanati, Italy |
| Died | 30 June 2015 (aged 90) |
| Occupation | Comics artist |
Paolo Piffarerio (27 August 1924 – 30 June 2015) was an Italian comics artist and animator.
Biography
Born in Recanati, the son of a silversmith and a seamstress,[1] Piffarerio studied at the Brera Academy, where he knew Gino Gavioli, with whom he founded "Gamma Film", a company considered a pioneer in the field of Italian animation.[1][2] With Gavioli and Gamma Film Piffarerio realized several animation shorts for Carosello, as well as The Long Green Sock (Italian: La lunga calza verde), a 1961 medium length film about the history of Italy written by Cesare Zavattini.[3]
Piffarerio started his activity as a comics artist while being at the Brera Academy, creating the comic character Capitan Falco in 1943.[1][4] He collaborated with Max Bunker to a number of comics series, such as Viva l'Italia (1961), Maschera Nera (1963), El Gringo (1965) and Alan Ford, he illustrated for about one hundred issues between 1975 and 1984.[4][5] Piffarerio also collaborated with Enzo Biagi for his La storia d'Italia a fumetti, and was author of a number of comics adaptations of novels and historical biographies for Il Giornalino.[4][5]
References
- 1 2 3 Stefano Lorenzetto (14 December 2014). "È stato il papà di «Carosello» Oggi non compra più nulla". Il Giornale. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ↑ "Addio a Paolo Piffarerio, disegnatore di Alan Ford e animatore di Carosello". La Repubblica. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ↑ Gian Piero Brunetta. Storia del cinema mondiale, Volume 1. Einaudi, 1999. ISBN 9788806143466.
- 1 2 3 "Paolo Piffarerio". Lambiek. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- 1 2 Francesco Borgoglio (30 June 2015). "Ci ha lasciato Paolo Piffarerio, storica matita di Alan Ford". BadComics. Retrieved 1 July 2015.