Enrico Macchiavello
Born in Genoa on 6 November 1974. An artist, illustrator, writer of comics and cartoon films, he trained artistically and professionally at Gualtiero Schiaffino's Feguagiskia Studios, at the Scuola del Fumetto in Chiavari and at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa. His incursions into the world of advertising and merchandising have led him to create successful cartoon adverts and, if the older among you will…
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remember the cartoon ads for Ceres beer, the younger will certainly not have missed the collection of Skifidol cards, a gang of cheerfully grotesque characters from Officina Comunicazione. As an illustrator he has done several children's books including La camera delle meraviglie (with Anselmo Roveda, Coccole Books, 2013); Dragon Boy (with Guido Sgardoli, Piemme, 2015); DinoBook (with Dino Ticli, Coccole Books, 2016), Terra pianeta inquieto (with Dino Ticli, Coccole Books, 2017), Legambiente prize - A book for the environment, 2018, I mostri dell'Inferno, In viaggio con Dante (with Anna Lavatelli, Le Rane - Interlinea, 2021), Zoombi (with Stefano Ascari, Edizioni El, 2021), La versione del tardigrado improbabile (with Barbascura X, DeAgostini, 2021), Il bambino e l'uccellino (by Naim Frashëri, Egnatia, 2022). In 2013 he was guest of honour at the Rapallo International Comics Festival. In 2017 he signed the corporate image of the 36th Andersen Prize. In 2018, he published his first graphic novel Ragazzino va all'inferno. He teaches drawing and illustration at the Genoa Comics Academy, cartoons at the Linguistic Academy of Fine Arts and at the International School of Comics.
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