Born in Bruneck (South Tirol, Italy) on August 3, 1954. He lives
and works in Turin (Torino, Piedmont, Italy). He works in the comics
field, as a creator (he created the BABs
and many other
characters), as a script-writer (for some colleagues and sometimes for
The Walt Disney company), as a drawer, and as a comics divulger (he
teaches in several schools and universities, organizes meetings, gives
lectures etc.). He was one of the founders of the Italian cartoonists
society Anonima Fumetti in 1982 and of the new
Anomina Fumetti
in 1993, founded to promote the comics literature
and its authors. He has been also founder of the
Franco Fossati Foundation,
the Italian Union for comic
artists,
the Italian national centre for
comic art Centro Nazionale del Fumetto,
the daily news agency afNews
and worked for the establishment of an
Italian Comics Museum.
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