Daniele Panebarco (born 4 October 1946) is an Italian cartoonist. Born in

Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the cap ...

, while he was still being a student at the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

Panebarco debuted as a cartoonist for the magazine ''Off-Side''. In 1973 he won a national contest for cartoonists organized by the newspaper ''

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'' and started collaborating with the newspaper. In 1976 Panebarco had his breakout with the critically acclaimed noir-humorous series ''

Big Sleeping Big Sleeping is an Italian noir-humorous comic series created by Daniele Panebarco. History and profile Inspired by Raymond Chandler's novels, the main character of the series is a private detective loosely based on Philip Marlowe. The series f ...

'', which debuted in the magazine '' Il Mago'', and was later published in a large number of other publications. He later created other series, such as ''Piccolo Lenin'', an imaginary account of the

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's childhood, and ''Nick Martello'', a satire of Communism. Panebarco is also active in the field of animation (the TV-series ''Good Morning Osvaldo'', 1988) and in the video-game design. In 1995 he founded the company Panebarco & C., specialized in 2-D and 3-D graphics and animation.

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1946 births Living people Italian comics artists Italian comics writers University of Bologna alumni Writers from Ravenna {{Italy-artist-stub