Paolo Piffarerio
{{Short description|Italian comics artist (1924–2015)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1924|08|27}}
| birth_place = Recanati, Italy
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2015|06|30|1924|08|27}}
| death_place = Milan, Italy
| occupation = Comics artist
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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,{{cite news|last1=Stefano Lorenzetto|title=È stato il papà di «Carosello» Oggi non compra più nulla|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/stato-pap-carosello-oggi-non-compra-pi-nulla-1075459.html|accessdate=1 July 2015|work=Il Giornale|date=14 December 2014}} 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.{{cite news|last1=Stefano Lorenzetto|title=È stato il papà di «Carosello» Oggi non compra più nulla|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/stato-pap-carosello-oggi-non-compra-pi-nulla-1075459.html|accessdate=1 July 2015|work=Il Giornale|date=14 December 2014}}{{cite news|title=Addio a Paolo Piffarerio, disegnatore di Alan Ford e animatore di Carosello|url=http://video.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/addio-a-paolo-piffarerio-disegnatore-di-alan-ford-e-animatore-di-carosello/205806/204900|accessdate=1 July 2015|work=La Repubblica|date=1 July 2015}} Piffarerio realized several animation shorts for the TV show Carosello, as well as The Long Green Sock ({{langx|it|La lunga calza verde}}), a 1961 film about the history of Italy scripted by Cesare Zavattini.{{cite book|last1=Gian Piero Brunetta|title=Storia del cinema mondiale, Volume 1|publisher=Einaudi, 1999|isbn=9788806143466}}
Piffarerio's first comic character, Capitan Falco, was created in 1943.{{cite news|last1=Stefano Lorenzetto|title=È stato il papà di «Carosello» Oggi non compra più nulla|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/stato-pap-carosello-oggi-non-compra-pi-nulla-1075459.html|accessdate=1 July 2015|work=Il Giornale|date=14 December 2014}}{{cite web|title=Paolo Piffarerio|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/piffarerio_p.htm|website=Lambiek|accessdate=1 July 2015}} 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.{{cite web|title=Paolo Piffarerio|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/piffarerio_p.htm|website=Lambiek|accessdate=1 July 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Francesco Borgoglio|title=Ci ha lasciato Paolo Piffarerio, storica matita di Alan Ford|url=http://www.badcomics.it/2015/06/ci-ha-lasciato-paolo-piffarerio-storica-matita-di-alan-ford/69466/|accessdate=1 July 2015|work=BadComics|date=30 June 2015}} 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.{{cite web|title=Paolo Piffarerio|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/piffarerio_p.htm|website=Lambiek|accessdate=1 July 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Francesco Borgoglio|title=Ci ha lasciato Paolo Piffarerio, storica matita di Alan Ford|url=http://www.badcomics.it/2015/06/ci-ha-lasciato-paolo-piffarerio-storica-matita-di-alan-ford/69466/|accessdate=1 July 2015|work=BadComics|date=30 June 2015}}
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Category:Italian comics artists
Category:Italian animated film directors
Category:Italian animated film producers
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