Mario Uggeri (17 February 1924 – 8 March 2004) was an Italian comic artist, illustrator and painter.

Life and career

Born in

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, after getting a degree of technical engineer at young age Uggeri was an actor and a production designer in a stage company.Luciano Secchi. "Uggeri, Mario". ''Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto''. Editoriale Corno, 1978. pp.741-2. During the

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he became a partisan in the Italian resistance movement, and captured by Germans he was interned for two years in the Dachau concentration camp. Freed in 1945, the same year he started his career a comic artist, realizing the series ''Revegant'' for Torelli Editore. In 1947 he created the comic strip ''Le avventure del partigiano Pesce'' for the newspaper ', and in 1949 he started his most successful character, ''Rocky Rider'', published in the magazines ''

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'' and '' Il Monello'' until 1963. In 1959 he started a long collaboration with the children magazine ''

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'', for which he created a number of characters. He also collaborated with

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, illustrating the comic series ''Ipnos'', ''Yuma Kid'' and several episodes of ''

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''. Since 1967 Uggeri became the official cover-illustrator of ''

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'', succeeding to Walter Molino. He was also illustrator for magazines, including ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Amica'', as well as for books, being the official illustrator of the series of

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novels ''Tommy River'' by

Mino Milani Mino Milani (3 February 1928 – 10 February 2022) was an Italian writer, cartoonist, journalist and historian. During his career he also used several pseudonyms, including Stelio Martelli, Eugenio Ventura, Piero Selva, Mungo Graham Alcesti and ...

as well as a frequent cover-illustrator for the publisher

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. In 1984 Uggeri decided to retire from comics as to focus on painting. He died of cardiac and pulmonary pathologies in 2004, aged 80 years old.

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