Makkox

Marco Dambrosio (Makkox)
Marco "Makkox" Dambrosio in 2014 at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
Marco "Makkox" Dambrosio in 2014 at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia
Born30 August 1965 (1965-08-30) (age 59)
Formia, Italy
Nationality Italy
Years active2007–present
Known forPropaganda Live

Makkox, pseudonym of Marco Dambrosio (born 30 August 1965) is an Italian satirist, cartoonist, illustrator and television creator.[1]

Career

Born in Formia but raised in Gaeta, Dambrosio was raised artistically by an aunt who was a professor of scenography. His passion for drawing began as a child with Donald Duck comics, which continues to inspire his work today. At 8 he would spend his days sketching and drawing still-life sets prepared for him by his aunt.[1]

While working as a graphic designer for the retail industry, on 28 February 2007 he made his web debut with the blog Canemucca, adapting his strips vertically to fit the scrolling of internet pages.[1] He soon achieved success and began to collaborate with the daily newspaper Liberazione, with the weekly information magazine Internazionale and with publisher Coniglio Editore, appearing in their comic magazines Blue and Animals and publishing his first comic book with them in 2009: Le [di]visioni imperfette (The imperfect divisions).[2]

Since May 2010 he has published a monthly magazine, Il Canemucco, with Coniglio Editore.[3] Initially six issues were planned, but publication was definitively interrupted after the release of issue four.[4] A collection of the best cartoons were printed in October 2011 by BAO Publishing with the title Post Coitum – Satire di un Tardo Impero (Post Coitum – Satires of a Late Empire). Also in 2011 two collections of stories from magazines by Makkox were published: Se muori siamo pari  (If you die we're even) and Ladolescenza (Adolescence).[5]

From 2013 to 2017 Dambrosio was a regular guest on the Rai 3 show Gazebo, of which he is also the creator. In September 2017 he created the LA7 show Propaganda Live, and is the main interlocutor of host Diego Bianchi.[6]

He currently publishes cartoons with L'Espresso, Il Foglio and Il Post.[1][7]

In 2020 he published his autobiography Nuove mappe del Paradiso (New maps of Paradise) with the publishing house People founded by Giuseppe Civati.[8]

TV shows

References

  1. ^ a b c d Magazine, Italics (2020-06-05). "Makkox: The Italian Cartoonist Bringing Laughter To A Distraught Nation". Italics Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
  2. ^ Makkox (23 October 2009). "Le visioni imperfette". Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Il canemucco :: ComicsBox". www.comicsbox.it. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
  4. ^ Marcello, Durante (2 October 2011). "Canemucco - di chi è la colpa della chiusura?". Blogo. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  5. ^ Mazza, Daniela Odri (2011-10-11). "Makkox: Se Muori Siamo Pari, l'intervista". Conversazioni sul Fumetto (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-12-28.
  6. ^ "Propagandalive". La7.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-22.
  7. ^ "Citofonare Makkox, partecipa all'intervista in diretta a Marco D'Ambrosio". L'Espresso (in Italian). 12 June 2019. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  8. ^ Padovani, David (2021-03-01). "L'ucronia della propria vita raccontata da Makkox". Lo Spazio Bianco (in Italian). Retrieved 28 December 2024.