Massimo Mattioli

Massimo Mattioli
Mattioli in 1995
Born(1943-09-25)25 September 1943
Rome, Italy
Died23 August 2019(2019-08-23) (aged 75)
Rome, Italy
AreaCartoonist
Notable works
Squeak the Mouse
massimomattioli.com

Massimo Mattioli (25 September 1943 – 23 August 2019) was an Italian artist and cartoonist. He was known for his humorous children's work and adult comic book series.

Biography

Mattioli was born in 1943.

Mattioli debuted in 1965 in the weekly comics magazine Il Vittorioso with Vermetto Sigh. He was also published in Corto Maltese and Frigidaire. In fact, he was one of the founders of Frigidaire.

Growing up into an interest in cartoons, he admired Tex Avery, George Herriman, Johnny Hart and Carl Barks.

Later he moved to London, where he made comics for the Mayfair magazine. Between 1968 and 1973, he produced M le magicien for the French children's weekly Pif, later collected in 2003 by L'Association in a single volume .In the early 1970s, he created Pasquino for the Paese Sera newspaper. In 1973 he began his collaboration in the Il Giornalino, creating the character Pinky. In 1977, in association with Stefano Tamburini, he created the underground magazine Cannibale. In 1979, the satirical magazine Il Male published the first adventure of Joe Galaxy, that will be later published in Cannibale, Frigidaire and Comic Art. In 1982, he created the Squeak the Mouse series, a parody of Tom and Jerry. Mattioli collaborated with Italo disco duo Righeira and created the cover artwork for their debut single, "Tanzen mit Righeira", released in 1983. Mattioli was recognized with many prizes, including the French prize Phenix in 1971, the Yellow Kid in 1975 and Romics d'Oro in 2009.

In 2022 Fantagraphics has published a collected edition of the series Squeak the Mouse.

References

  1. ↑ "È morto il fumettista Massimo Mattioli". Il Post (in Italian). 26 August 2019. Archived from the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  2. ↑ Healey 1998, p. 358
  3. ↑ Moliterno 2000, pp. 177–178
  4. ↑ Pagello, Federico (December 2012). "Cannibale, Frigidaire and the multitude: Post-1977 italian comics through radical theory". Studies in Comics. 3 (2): 231–251. doi:10.1386/stic.3.2.231_1. ISSN 2040-3232.
  5. ↑ Castaldi 2010, p. 8
  6. ↑ "Massimo Mattioli". lambiek.net. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
  7. ↑ "M le magicien". L'Association (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2026.
  8. ↑ Schuddeboom, Bas. "Massimo Mattioli". Lambiek. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  9. ↑ Beatrice 2007, p. 171
  10. ↑ "Squeak the Mouse". Fantagraphics. Retrieved 23 October 2026.

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