Bruno Bozzetto’s Cartoon for “Iranian Green International Cartoon Exhibition”
Bruno Bozzetto (born 3 March 1938 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian cartoon animator, creator of many short pieces, mainly of a political or satirical nature. He created his first animated short “Tapum! the weapons’ story” in 1958 at the age of 20. His most famous character, a hapless little man named “Signor Rossi” (Mr. Rossi), has been featured in many animated shorts as well as starring in three feature films: “Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness” (1976), “Mr. Rossi’s Dreams” (1977), and “Mr. Rossi’s Vacation” (1977).
In 1965, Bozzetto produced his first feature-length animated film: West and soda, a parody of American Western films. In 1968, Bozzetto released VIP my Brother Superman, a superhero spin-off.
However, his best-known work is probably the 1976 feature film Allegro non troppo, a montage of short pieces set to classical music in the manner of Disney’s Fantasia, but more humorous in nature, economical in execution and with more sophisticated narrative themes. After a long break, Bozzetto produced a live-action film in 1987, “Under the Chinese Restaurant”, his last feature film work until assisting on the pilot for “Mammuk” (2002), an animated film set in prehistoric times (now being produced by Rai Cinema and The Animation Band).
1990 saw the release of Grasshoppers (Cavallette), which was a nominee for the Best Animated Short Oscar.
In 1995, he produced an animated short for Hanna Barbera’s “What A Cartoon” series entitled “Help?” and in 1996, in cooperation with RAI and with the support of Cartoon (Media Programme of the European Union), he created “The Spaghetti Family” a 26-episode cartoon television series.
In recent years Bozzetto has turned his hand to flash cartoons, most notably with the award-winning “Europe and Italy”, a witty and graphically elegant commentary on European vs. Italian sociocultural attributes.
Bruno Bozzetto’s Cartoon for “Iranian Green International Cartoon Exhibition”
Awards (selected recent)
(2003) Bergamo International Cinema Festival: Career award (Premio delle mura)
(2000) Zagreb Film Festival: Special Jury Award “for original observation of human diversity”
(1998) Zagreb 13th World Festival of Animated Films: Life Achievement Award “for outstanding and universal contribution to the development of the art of animation”
Born in 1971, Nicolas Vadot spent his childhood in France and in Belgium. He studied visual communication at the Ecole de Recherches Graphiques (ERG) in Brussels and graduated from the degree course in 1993. After sporadic publications in various small newspapers, his first cartoon was published in the weekly Belgian magazine Le Vif/L’Express on December 1993. He soon became the official political cartoonist for the magazine and a selection of his work was published in 1998 in a book under the title of Dans Le Vif du Sujet. In 1999 the editor of Le Vif/L’Express entrusted him with his own page, La Semaine de Vadot (Vadot’s Week), in which he illustrates the week’s national and international political events. From 2004 until 2007, he was the regular cartoonist for Cash Magazine. He now works for the daily financial newspaper L’Echo, in which he publishes everyday.
Cathy Wilcox was born in 1963 in Sydney, Australia, where she grew up. She studied visual communications, where she gravitated towards illustration, humour and words. During her studies she worked in a department store, which allowed her to closely observe the human species.
Pierre Wiazemsky (Wiaz) was born in Rome in 1949. After university he studied advertising art and Political cartooning. Since 1972 he has worked for the French weekly magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. In 1968 he drew his first cartoons for the magazines Pop Music and Best.
Jim Morin was born January 30, 1953 in Washington D.C. He started drawing cartoons at the age of seven, taking as his initial influences the work of Walt Disney, Jay Ward, and Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The social and political upheaval during the 1960s prompted an interest in current events. Upon graduation, Morin began his editorial cartooning career at the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise and Journal and the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch. In December, 1978, he joined the staff of The Miami Herald. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by King Features. Jim Morin’s many honors include the 1996 Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation, 1992 National Cartoonist Society Award, Overseas Press Club Awards in 1979 and 1990, and numerous others. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1977 and 1990. Morin is the author of three books: Famous Cats, Jim Morin’s Field Guide to Birds, and a political cartoon collection, Line of Fire.
Mohd Nor bin Khalid (born 1951) aka Lat started his professional career at the age of thirteen when his cartoons were published in Majallah Filem and Movie News. While still in his teens, his first comics ‘Tiga Sekawan’ and ‘Keluarga Si Mamat’ appeared weekly in the newspaper Berita Minggu. By 1974, his artistic talent was recognized and he became
Bernhard Willem Holtrop (Willem) was born in the Netherlands in 1941. His cartoons, strips and comics are directly inspired by world news and his chronicles depict the current cultural life (both emphasizing graphic expression): “Revue de Presse” and “Chez les Esthètes” for “l’Hebdo Hara-Kiri” then “Charlie-Hebdo”, “Chez les Esthètes” for “Charlie Mensuel”.His strips and drawings for the press were published in, amongst others, Phosphore, Bijster , Cocktail Comix, Provo , Métal Hurlant, La Grosse Bertha, 50 millions de consommateurs, Zéro, Anathème, Vrij Nederland, l’Echo des Savanes (deuxième période), Hara-Kiri , Lard-Frit , Rouge, Réciproquement, Aloha, l’Horreur est Humaine, Zoulou, Rigolo (la famille “Surprise”d’un jeu des 7 familles), BD-l’Hebdo de la BD, Passages , Politis, HP/De Tijd , Le Fou Parle, Siné Massacre, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Télérama, Mords-y-l’oeil , Lui, Strapazin, (Le Petit) Psykopat (Illustré) ,…. then gathered into albums.
Andrzej Krauze, an illustrator, cartoonist, poster designer, was born in Poland in 1947. He had his first drawings published in 1966 and in 1973 graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Worked in Poland for weeklies Szpilki (1970 – 1977) and Kultura (1974 – 1981), and a publishing house Czytelnik (1974 – 1980), who published three collections of his drawings (1977, 1978 and 1980). He won numerous satirical awards in Poland (Gold, Silver and Bronze Pin) and elsewhere (1st Prize in Forte dei Marmi’s Political Satire competition in 1982, Victoria and Albert Museum’s Award for illustration in 1996).
Garrick Tremain is highly regarded as both a painter and one of the New Zealand’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. A New Zealander by birth, he was a city child who wished he’d been a country kid. Consequently he left school to work on farms and sheep stations. It was here, in the smoko rooms and shearing sheds that his drawing ability first raised eyebrows, and he returned to the city to test his suspected talent in commercial art studios. For ten years he climbed the advertising ladder before deciding he could best combine his love of art and the rural environment by becoming a landscape painter. Since 1972 he has been a full time professional painter and in 1988 decided to add the string of political cartooning to his bow. When time allows he takes respite from the easel at the piano or on the golf course.
Heng Kim Song (Heng) has been the freelance editorial cartoonist for Lianhe Zaobao, the largest Chinese daily in Singapore, since 1984. He currently produces 5 cartoons a week for the daily. He also contributes regularly to other newspapers in Asia, and his cartoons on international issues are also reprinted in major international publications.
Malcolm Evans has drawn cartoons for as long as he can remember. Beginning as a professional cartoonist in the 1960s he first worked on the local paper in Tauranga, New Zealand. After travelling to Europe in the mid sixties, when he worked on the Express and Star in England, Evans returned to New Zealand before joining its biggest daily paper The New Zealand Herald. Eight years later he left to found a graphics studio, before returning to the New Zealand Herald again, until 2003. Evans supports the Editor’s right to decide what his paper will publish, but he believes that, in the tradition of Hogarth, Low and many others, a cartoonist should be free to say whatever is fair comment. And it was during this time that some of Evans’ most powerful cartoons were published by the Herald and he was twice voted Qantas New Zealand Cartoonist of the year. Today Evans supplies cartoons to New Zealand’s biggest farming newspapers and to New Zealand catholic. He also draws caricatures, paints in acrylic and sculpts in bronze. Evans has published twelve books of cartoons and has illustrated many books and essays.
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