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Benito Jacovitti

Born

in Termoli, Italy

March 09, 1923

Died

December 03, 1997

Website

http://www.jacovitti.it/

Genre

Comics, Illustration

Influences

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Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli, Italy. The son of a railwayman, he entered Macerata's art school at age 11, graduating to Firenze's art institute five years later. In 1939 Jacovitti started working for the Florentine satirical magazine Il Brivido and, a year later, he began an almost 30-year long collaboration with Il Vittorioso, a Catholic comic magazine targeted at teenagers and young adults that only published Italian artists. There he created several characters: Pippo, Pertica e Palla, Oreste il guastafeste, Chicchiricchì, Cip l'arcipoliziotto and his nemesis Zagar, Giacinto corsaro dipinto, Jack Mandolino, La signora Carlomagno, adaptations of classic like Ali Baba and Don Quixote, and parodies of famous comics like L'onorevole T Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli, Italy. The son of a railwayman, he entered Macerata's art school at age 11, graduating to Firenze's art institute five years later. In 1939 Jacovitti started working for the Florentine satirical magazine Il Brivido and, a year later, he began an almost 30-year long collaboration with Il Vittorioso, a Catholic comic magazine targeted at teenagers and young adults that only published Italian artists. There he created several characters: Pippo, Pertica e Palla, Oreste il guastafeste, Chicchiricchì, Cip l'arcipoliziotto and his nemesis Zagar, Giacinto corsaro dipinto, Jack Mandolino, La signora Carlomagno, adaptations of classic like Ali Baba and Don Quixote, and parodies of famous comics like L'onorevole Tarzan and Il mago Mandrago. During this period, he also contributed cartoons to the satirical weekly Il Travaso delle idee. Starting from 1949, Jacovitti produced a series of cartoons for school diaries, named I Diari Vitt (short for Vittorioso). These books made him a household name among kids and parents, and he kept producing them until 1980. In 1956 he began working for the newspaper Il Giorno, where he created his best known character, the cowboy Cocco Bill, as well as the private eye Tom Ficcanaso. Ten years later Jacovitti left Il Giorno to join Il Corriere dei Piccoli, then the most popular weekly publication for kids, for which he renewed old characters as Cip l'Arcipoliziotto and Zagar, and created new ones like Zorry Kid and Tarallino Tarallà. In 1973 he published the controversial Gionni Peppe on the left-wing oriented magazine Linus, followed in 1981 by Joe Balordo. Jacovitti's unique artstyle is immediately appealing to both kids and adults: his characters sport huge noses and feet, his pages are chock full of details and all sort of objects and weird creatures born from his untamed creativity. While most of his production was geared toward humour and parody, Jacovitti did not shy away from more controversial material like the erotic book Kamasultra (based on the Kama Sutra) and political cartoons. During his career, Jacovitti created more than 60 characters and produced around 150 books, ...more

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Benito Jacovitti’s books

Average rating: 3.88 · 357 ratings · 48 reviews · 84 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Classici del Fumetto di Repubblica, #38: L'arte di Jacovitti 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cocco Bill osa 1: Kamomillacowboy saapuu kaupunkiin by Benito Jacovitti, Kirsi Kinnunen (Suomentaja), Saila Kinnunen (Suomentaja) 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacovitti: Diario Vitt (I Classici del Fumetto di Repubblica - Serie Oro, #20) 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kamasultra 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zorrykid. Tutte le avventure del vendicatore mascherato 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cocco Bill: Diquaedilà by Benito Jacovitti, Luca Salvagno (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cocco Bill ja junarosvot really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cocco Bill n. 1 (iFumetti Imperdibili): Album de Il Giorno n. 1, gennaio 1962 (Italian Edition) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cocco Bill ja pormestarin juonet 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1957	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacovitti stories. Vol. 1 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars