Alberto Rapisarda was born in

Conegliano Conegliano (; Venetian: ''Conejan'') is a town and ''comune'' of the Veneto region, Italy, in the province of Treviso, about north by rail from the town of Treviso. The population of the city is of people. The remains of a 10th-century castle ar ...

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in 1964. He is an

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and

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artist who started writing and drawing comics in the mid-1980s for the

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based Frigidaire Magazine. Since 1983, he has also collaborated with Zio Feininger, a

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school and cultural association which was founded in

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Andrea Pazienza Andrea Pazienza (; 23 May 1956 – 16 June 1988), was an Italian comics artist and painter. Biography Early life Pazienza was born in San Benedetto del Tronto, province of Ascoli Piceno, in 1956. Growing up in his father's town of San Severo in ...

Lorenzo Mattotti Lorenzo Mattotti (born 24 January 1954) is an Italian comics artist as well as an illustrator. His illustrations have been published in magazines such as ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cosmopolitan'', ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', ''The New Yorker'', ...

and others, and has the goal of promoting Italian cartoonists through exposition and live performance.

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1964 births Living people Italian comics artists People from Conegliano Date of birth missing (living people) {{Europe-comics-creator-stub