Davide Toffolo (born January 17, 1965,

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, Italy) is an Italian author of comics books, including graphic non-fiction works, and musician.

Life and work

Davide Toffolo studied at the DAMS (Dipartimento di Arte, Musica e Spettacolo – In English: Department of Arts, Music and Entertainment) of the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna (, abbreviated Unibo) is a Public university, public research university in Bologna, Italy. Teaching began around 1088, with the university becoming organised as guilds of students () by the late 12th century. It is the ...

. When Davide Toffolo started to play music, his native town

was already one of the most important cities for the Italian

punk rock Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...

scene which emerged in the late 1970s because of the closeness of the American military base in

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. Members of his band, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti (''Three happy dead boys''), are known for wearing a skull masks and not letting the fans take pictures or videos without the skull masks. In 2005 his band together with a few bands from the neighboring

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, which has a similar punk rock tradition from the 1970s, went to an overseas concert tour in South America. It could be assumed that conversing with fellow punk musicians from

he had heard of the existence of

Gonars concentration camp The Gonars concentration camp was one of the several Italian concentration camps and it was established on February 23, 1942, near Gonars, Italy. Many prisoners were transferred to this camp from another Italian concentration camp, the Rab co ...

for the first time, and decided to write the non-fiction comic book titled ''Italian winter'' about it in 2010. It is based on documents from official archives in Slovenia, collected by Paola Bristot, art historian at

.A blog post with quotations from correspondence between Davide Toffolo and Paola Bristot during her research and collecting documents
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Comic books (Italian editions)

* ''Piera degli Spiriti'' (with Giovanni Mattioli), Kappa Edizioni, 1996 * ''Animali'' (with Giovanni Mattioli), Kappa Edizioni, 1998 * ''Fregoli'', Kappa Edizioni, 1998 * ''Fare Fumetti'', Vivacomix, 2000 * ''Carnera, la montagna che cammina'', Vivacomix * ''Intervista a Pasolini'', Biblioteca dell'immagine, 2002 * ''Anatomia di una adolescenza'', Vivacomix, 2005 * ''Il re bianco'', Coconino Press, 2005 * ''Très! Fumetti per il teatro'', Coconino Press, 2008 * ''Lezioni di fumetto'', Coniglio editore, 2009 * ''L'inverno d'Italia'' (in English "Italian winter"), Coconino Press, 2010 * ''Graphic Novel is Dead'', Rizzoli, 2014 * ''Il cammino della Cumbia'', Oblomov Edizioni, 2018 * ''Graphic Novel is Back'', Rizzoli, 2019 * ''Come rubare un Magnus'', Oblomov Edizioni, 2020 * ''L'ultimo vecchio sulla Terra'', Rizzoli, 2021 (with Remo Remotti)

Comic series

* ''Fandango'', Cult Comix, 1999–2001 * ''Cinque allegri ragazzi morti''

References

1965 births Living people Italian comics writers {{Europe-comics-creator-stub