Andrea Pazienza

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Andrea Pazienza
Andrea Pazienza in a black and white photo, standing sideways looking at camera, a parked car behind him
Pazienza in 1974
Born(1956-05-23)23 May 1956
San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche, Italy
Died16 June 1988(1988-06-16) (aged 32)
Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy
EducationUniversity of Bologna

Andrea Pazienza (Italian:

comics artist and painter
.

Biography

Early life

Pazienza was born in San Benedetto del Tronto, province of Ascoli Piceno, in 1956.[citation needed] Growing up in his father's town of San Severo in Apulia, he enrolled in 1974 at the Department of Arts, Music, and Entertainment of the University of Bologna.[1]

Career

He made his debut in the spring of 1977 in the magazine Alteralter with his first comic story, "Le straordinarie avventure di Pentothal" (Pentothal's extraordinary adventures), the

underground comics and Walt Disney. He was especially fond of the character Goofy, which he appropriated for a humorous spoof on Italian hippiedom of the 1970s entitled Perché Pippo sembra uno sballato ("Why Goofy Looks Like a Pothead"), and a later, unfinished story entitled La leggenda di Italianino Liberatore ("The Legend of Italianino Liberatore", referring to his old friend Tanino Liberatore
).

Pazienza developed a personal body of work, alternating between playful comic cartooning—at times politically charged–and much more elaborate, dark, disturbing

black humor
throughout.

In 1980, he created the character

Corto Maltese
and Comic Art, while also producing movie and theatre posters, scene designs, record covers, and advertising. He was extremely prolific through the 1980s, penning hundreds of single-panel cartoons as well as longer, intricate stories usually centred on Zanardi. Pompeo, his last graphic novel, which depicts the gradual downfall of a heroin addict (a largely autobiographical character) up to his eventual suicide, is generally considered his masterwork; the post-face to this work testifies that Pazienza tried to start a new life and, for a while, quit drugs.

Death and legacy

Andrea Pazienza died at age 32 in Montepulciano, from a heroin overdose.[4]

The nonprofit association Centro Fumetto Andrea Pazienza was created in his honour to help young cartoonists develop their skills.

In 2011, Andrea Pazienza was picked as the first of 150 Italians, a list of the country's most influential people, which was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of

Italian unification.[5]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture
  2. doi:10.1386/stic.3.2.231_1
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  3. ISBN 978-1-60473-777-6
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  4. ^ Gino Moliterno, ed., Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture
  5. ^ 150 Italiani — Un progetto a cura di Fabriano boutique (2011)
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