Panebarco

Daniele Panebarco (born 4 October 1946 in Ravenna, Italy) is an Italian cartoonist, animator, and video-game designer. While studying at the University of Bologna, he made his comics debut in the magazine *Off-Side*. In 1973, he won a national cartoonist contest organized by the newspaper *Paese Sera*, which led to a regular collaboration. His breakthrough came in 1976 with the critically acclaimed noir-humorous series *Big Sleeping*, which first appeared in the magazine *Il Mago* and was later widely reprinted. He went on to create *Piccolo Lenin*, an imaginary take on Vladimir Lenin’s childhood, and *Nick Martello*, a satire of Communism. Panebarco also worked in animation, notably on the TV series *Good Morning Osvaldo* (1988), and ventured into video-game design. In 1995, he founded Panebarco & C., a company specializing in 2-D and 3-D graphics and animation. Though his work in comics is relatively compact—credited on 24 issues, primarily for the series *La Città Futura* in 1978—his inventive, satirical voice and genre-blending style left a lasting mark on Italian comics.