Sergio Barletta (born 20 November 1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator.

Life and career

Born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, Barletta made his debut at very young age for the Saturday insert of the newspaper ''

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'' ''Fuorisacco'', Franco Fossati. "Sergio Barletta". ''Guida al fumetto satirico & politico''. Gammalibri, 1979. and later collaborated with several magazines as an illustrator.Maria Grazia Perini. "Barletta, Sergio". ''Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto''. Editoriale Corno, 1978. p.170. In 1968 he created for the magazine ''

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'' the comic strip ''Mr. Manager'', but after the refusal of the magazine to publish it as too politicized, the strip landed on the magazines ' and ''

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'', to which Barletta also contributed with illustrations and vignettes. Later he collaborated as a satirical cartoonist with Italian and European magazines. For his style has been compared to

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. Since 1960 Barletta has also been

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of several publications and since 1965 he has been also active as a painter. Starting from 1967 he published several comedy books.

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* 1934 births Living people Artists from Bologna Italian comics artists Italian illustrators {{Italy-comics-stub