Daniele Panebarco

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

Born in Ravenna, while he was still being a student at the University of Bologna Panebarco debuted as a cartoonist for the magazine ''Off-Side''. In 1973 he won a national contest for cartoonists organized by the newspaper ''Paese Sera'' and started collaborating with the newspaper.

In 1976 Panebarco had his breakout with the critically acclaimed noir-humorous series ''Big Sleeping'', 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 Vladimir Lenin'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. Provided by Wikipedia