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Benito Jacovitti
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Benito Jacovitti (March 19, 1923 December 3, 1997)

was an Italian comic artist.

Benito Jacovitti

Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli, Molise. He was still

a kid when he started drawing on the pavement of the
village's streets. The son of a railwayman, Benito entered
Macerata's art school at age 11, graduating to Firenze's art
institute five years later. Here he received the nickname
lisca di pesce ("fishbone") because of his thin figure, that
he will use as his signature during his career.
In 1939 Jacovitti started working for the Florentine
satirical magazine Il Brivido and, a year later, he began an
almost 30 years 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, Chicchiricch, 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.

Born

March 19, 1923

Termoli, Molise, Italy

Died

December 3, 1997

Nationality

Italian

Area(s)

Cartoonist

Notable works

Cocco Bill

http://www.jacovitti.it

Starting from 1949, Jacovitti produced a series of cartoons for school diaries, named I Diari Vitt (short for
Vittorioso) and published by A.V.E. 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, then owned by Enrico Mattei, 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 the glorious 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 as Zorry Kid, Tarallino Tarall and others.
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 (like his salami, often drawn with little legs or smiley faces). While most of his production was
geared toward humour and parody, Jacovitti did not shy away from more controversial material like the
erotic book Kamasutra and political cartoons.
During his career, Jacovitti created more than 60 characters and produced around 150 books, making him
one of the most prolific and original artists in comic book history.

External links

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Benito Jacovitti - Wikipedia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Jacovitti

Official website (http://www.jacovitti.it)

Cocco Bill and other characters bibliography (http://muuta.net/CoccoBill)
article from Lambiek Comiclopedia (http://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jacovitti.htm)
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Categories: 1923 births 1997 deaths People from the Province of Campobasso Italian comics artists

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