Angelo Carlo Chendi (10 July 1933 – 12 September 2021) was an Italian

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...

. Since 1952, Carlo Chendi wrote hundreds of stories with characters from

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Early life

Chendi moved at a young age from

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

, to

Rapallo Rapallo ( , , ) is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, located in the Liguria region of northern Italy. As of 2017 it had 29,778 inhabitants. It lies on the Ligurian Sea coast, on the Tigullio Gulf, between Portofino and Chiav ...

, in

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, where he started his career as a cartoonist.

Career

Chendi became one of the pillars of the so-called school of Rapallo, along with Maestro

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and his friend

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, with whom he founded in 1968 the group Bierrecì (acronym of Bottaro, Rebuffi, Chendi) without, however, stop working with the

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in the realization of Disney stories. His career took place between the area of Tigullio and Milan, where he participated in, among other things, the creation of the magazine ''King of Spades'', the first of Studio Bierrecì, and implementation of traditional Italian of Great Disney Feature his series was one of his most famous and appreciated, in collaboration with Luciano Bottaro. With Bottaro he began the great saga of Rebo, the tyrant of

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. He died on September 12, 2021, at the age of 88.

Recognition

In 1996, Chendi received the Yellow Kid as the best author. In 1994, he won the prize Cover Silver from the

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. In 2001, he won the prize UGiancu for best screenwriter. Important Disney inventions include extraterrestrial duck O.K. Quack and detective Umperio Bogarto (both designed by

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), the secret identity of Donald Duck "agent QQ7" (the story Mission Bob Fingher had acclaim Disney Americana), and the duet between Pippo and Witch Hazel. In 2010, he won the Prix Papersera award.

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Carlo Chendi
Inducks 1933 births 2021 deaths Italian cartoonists Disney comics artists Italian comics writers People from the Province of Ferrara {{Italy-artist-stub