Sergio Staino, Bobo’s cartoonist, has died

He died in hospital in Florence Sergio Staino. She was 83 years old. The cartoonist, Bobo’s father and former director of the Unit, had been ill for some time and had been hospitalized for a few days. Maybe not everyone remembers his face, but his characters are unforgettable, above all Bobo, clearly left-wing, certainly anti-hero, lucid and realist, capable of making fun of his political side, especially when ideology took over .

Satire was in his DNA and one of his last interviews he said a phrase that tells a lot about the current political situation. «Today there is less need for satire. Today politicians desecrate themselves.”

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He was born in Piancastagnaio, in the province of Siena, on 8 June 1940. He was the son of a carabiniere. He had studied architecture and taught technical education for a long time. He lived in Scandicci. Comics and satire did not immediately become his profession. Bobo, glasses, big belly, beard, baldness and PCI card, was born in 1979 for the magazine Linus. In 1982 Staino became the cartoonist ofUnit, a newspaper he would direct from 2016 for a short period. Always with Bobo and the rest of the family, his wife Bibi, his children Ilaria and Michele, his partner Molotov. In 1986 he directed Tangosatirical supplement of the PCI newspaper, later replaced by Heart.

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The Corriere della Sera recalls that «Umberto Eco said that a scholar of the future, unaware of Italian events, would have found in Bobo’s strips an excellent source for understanding the changes that have occurred in our society since the 1980s». His position, although on the left, was always autonomous. He didn’t like populism and instead appreciated, as an atheist, part of the Catholic world. Despite a progressive loss of sight he had always continued to work. Since 2017 he has been designing for The print.


Source: Vanity Fair

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