Athos Careghi (
Correggio 1939), is an Italian cartoonist of emilian origin. He is an
autodidact
Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions (such as schools). Generally, autodidacts are individua ...
and works and lives in
Milan.
Biography
He worked for newspapers in
Belgium and the
Netherlands and was a worker in a rubber factory and a miner in a
coal mine. Back in
Italy he started studying and working as a
typist and eventually graduated in Economics and commerce.
He does not use words (or balloons) in his cartoons and is nicknamed "Silence".
One of his most famous
characters is
Fra Tino
A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the o ...
, a young, joyful, candid and speechless monk.
Now works for "IL GIORNALINO".
References
1939 births
Living people
Italian comic strip cartoonists
Italian comics artists
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