Paolo Piffarerio

Paolo Piffarerio
Born	(1924-08-27)27 August 1924 Recanati, Italy
Died	30 June 2015(2015-06-30) (aged 90) Milan, Italy
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 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. Stefano Lorenzetto (14 December 2014). "È stato il papà di «Carosello» Oggi non compra più nulla". Il Giornale. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
2. "Addio a Paolo Piffarerio, disegnatore di Alan Ford e animatore di Carosello". La Repubblica. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
3. Gian Piero Brunetta. Storia del cinema mondiale, Volume 1. Einaudi, 1999. ISBN 9788806143466.
4. "Paolo Piffarerio". Lambiek. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
5. Francesco Borgoglio (30 June 2015). "Ci ha lasciato Paolo Piffarerio, storica matita di Alan Ford". BadComics. Retrieved 1 July 2015.