Although he died at 44 after a long illness, the legacy of Combed Thunder, aka Andrea Paggiaro, remains a painstaking work that pays homage to the intelligence and wit, to the controlled irony of a professional who has broken down reality in a never banal and never predictable way. Born in Pisa on 27 September 1976, trained in Bologna, first at Dams and then at the Drosselmeier Academy for editors and booksellers, Tuono Pettinato owes its stage name to The library of Babel, one of the best known books by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the name from which he starts to specialize more and more in biographical illustrations, graphic novel e vignette.
Thanks to his works, readers are guided by the hand to discover biographies of extraordinary professionals, from Galileo Galilei to Alan Turing, but also the horrors of the news that Tuono Pettinato has always tried to represent in his own way (exemplary, in this sense, is Little body, a long reflection by the artist on the role and responsibility of the media in the story of a tragedy). The series The Ricattacchiotti, published weekly by Republic XL, becomes a must for amateurs who find their boards also on Animals e Linus. Together with the SuperFriends, the collective he was part of together with other young talents such as Ratigher, Lrnz, Dottor Pira and Maicol & Mirco, Tuono Pettinato then founded the magazine Hobby Comics e Pic Nic, the first Italian free press dedicated to the world of comics, as well as many works that continue to demonstrate its creative sensitivity.
His first book is called Apocalypso! – The cheap years. For Rizzoli he then published the graphic novel Garibaldi – Truthful account of his valiant deeds for the use of young minds, Enigma – The Strange Life of Alan Turing, We are the champions, It’s not the end of the world, Big in Japan e Chatwin. Cat by force, stray by choice. His latest book is Neri & Scheggia in the Gallery. Emanuele Vietina, the director of Lucca Comics & Games, said that “Andrea shared with all the people who are part of the Festival the love for the same languages, the fantastic imaginaries, the founding values, expressing them with lightness and depth that were proper to him and the unique sensitivity of which he was capable ».
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