Massimo Mattioli (25 September 1943 – 23 August 2019)[1] was an Italian artist and cartoonist.[2] He was known for his humorous children's work and adult comic book series. He's also a person who designed Om Nom from the first-three seasons of Om Nom Stories.
| Massimo Mattioli | |
|---|---|
 Mattioli in 1995 | |
| Born | 25 September 1943 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 23 August 2019 (aged 75) Rome, Italy |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Notable works | Squeak the Mouse |
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Biography
editMattioli was born in 1943.
Mattioli debuted in 1965 in the periodic comic book Il Vittorioso with Vermetto Sigh. He was also published in Corto Maltese and Frigidaire.[3] In fact, he was one of the founders of Frigidaire.[4][5]
Later he moved to London, where he made comics for the Mayfair magazine. In the early 1970s, he created Pasquino for the Paese Sera newspaper. In 1973 he began his collaboration in the Il Giornalino, creating the character Pinky. In 1977, in association with Stefano Tamburini, he created the underground magazine Cannibale. In 1978, Cannibale published the first adventure of Joe Galaxy. In 1982, he created the Squeak the Mouse series, a parody of Tom and Jerry.[6] Mattioli collaborated with Italo disco duo Righeira and created the cover artwork for their debut single, "Tanzen mit Righeira", released in 1983.[7] Mattioli was recognized with many prizes, including the French prize Phenix in 1971, the Yellow Kid in 1975 and Romics d'Oro in 2009.
References
edit- ^ "È morto il fumettista Massimo Mattioli". Il Post (in Italian). 26 August 2019. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ^ Healey 1998, p. 358
- ^ Moliterno 2000, pp. 177–178
- ^ Pagello, Federico (December 2012). "Cannibale, Frigidaire and the multitude: Post-1977 italian comics through radical theory". Studies in Comics. 3 (2): 231–251. doi:10.1386/stic.3.2.231_1. ISSN 2040-3232.
- ^ Castaldi 2010, p. 8
- ^ Schuddeboom, Bas. "Massimo Mattioli". Lambiek. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
- ^ Beatrice 2007, p. 171
Book sources
edit- Beatrice, Luca (2007). Sound & Vision. Damiani. ISBN 9788889431986.
- Castaldi, Simone (2010). Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-777-6.
- Healey, Robin (1998). Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929-1997. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-0800-8.
- Moliterno, Gino (2000). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-14584-8.
External links
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