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

Paolo Piffarerio
Born	(1924-08-27)27 August 1924 Recanati, Italy
Died	30 June 2015(2015-06-30) (aged 90)
Occupation	Comics artist

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 studying at the Brera Academy, where he created 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]

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[fr] Paolo Piffarerio

Paolo Piffarerio, né le 27 août 1924 à Milan, et mort dans la même ville le 30 juin 2015[1], est un dessinateur de bande dessinée italien.

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