AndreaPazienza made his debut in 1977, at the age of just over twenty, publishing in Alter, a supplement to the monthly magazine Linus, with a series entitled 'The extraordinary adventures of Pentothal'.
The events were set in Bologna, and reflect the mood and unease of a generation which led to the youth protests of the 1977 Movement.
During these years, Pazienza worked for magazines such as Cannibale, for which he created a parody of Disney's Goofy, and Frigidaire, a monthly publication using cartoons to accompany the stories and photographic reports.
Pazienza was born in San Benedetto del Tronto, province of Ascoli Piceno (Marche), in 1956.
Pazienza quickly developed an extremely personal body of work, alternating between playful comic cartooning and much more elaborate, dark, disturbing graphic novels, often dealing with drugs and wanton violence, with a liberal scattering of fl humor throughout.
AndreaPazienza died at age 32 in Montepulciano, probably by overdose.
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