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Cipzagmapu
Mixed Media
Encre noire et aquarelle sur papier blanc grand format
Description
Parue dans le journal grand format "Zipzagmapu", cette planche, au montage extraordinaire, concentre tout l'art de l'auteur. On y retrouve tout d'abord ses personnages favoris comme Zagar ou le détective Tom Ficcanaso, son humour décapant aussi, avec la grosse dame qui lit le journal et dont les seuls seins la sauvent de l'engloutissement. Le surréalisme fantastique s'y donne à coeur joie avec les monceaux de téléphones qui sonnent en même temps, son serpent-salami et ses vers de terre coiffés d'un bonnet. Bref, une planche en couleurs directes, un montage sophistiqué, une ambiance inimitable, qui signent l'oeuvre d'un dessinateur italien unique, à l'oeuvre abondante avec plus de 60 personnages et plus de 150 livres.
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About Benito Jacovitti
Benito Jacovitti is probably the most famous Italian satirical cartoonist, best known for his absurd and humorous series full of grotesque characters and bizarre events, like 'Cocco Bill' and 'Zorry Kid'.
National fame came through Jacovitti's collaboration with Il Vittorioso, that lasted from 1939 to 1969. One of his first creations for his magazine was the character 'Pippo'.Together with his companions Pertica and Palla, Pippo formed the hilarious threesome 'I tre P' ('The Three P's'), whose adventures appeared in the Catholic weekly until its disappearance in 1969.
Between 1949 and 1980, generations of Italians grew up with Jacovitti's 'Diario Vitt', a series of school diaries that Il Vittorioso's publisher A.V.E. published as a companion to their main magazine. Jacovitti enlightened the pages of these diaries with his many well-known characters, and dealt with themes like loyalty, friendship, brotherhood and solidarity.
Jacovitti was additionally present in the satirical weekly Il Travaso delle idee from 1949 throughout the 1950s. He made an anti-communist story with Federico Fellini, as well as the comic stories 'Sempronio', 'Pasqualino Rififì' and 'Alonzo'. To avoid problems with his main employer, publisher A.V.E., he signed his work for Il Travaso "Franz". Starting in the early 1950s Jacovitti made editorial cartoons for the frontpage of newspaper Quotidiano.
