Mario Uggeri (17 February 1924 – 8 March 2004) was an Italian comic artist, illustrator and painter.

Life and career

Born in Codogno, after getting a degree of technical engineer at young age Uggeri was an actor and a production designer in a stage company.Luciano Secchi. "Uggeri, Mario". ''Enciclopedia Mondiale del Fumetto''. Editoriale Corno, 1978. pp.741-2. During the

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he became a partisan in the

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, and captured by Germans he was interned for two years in the

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. Freed in 1945, the same year he started his career a comic artist, realizing the series ''Revegant'' for Torelli Editore. In 1947 he created the comic strip ''Le avventure del partigiano Pesce'' for the newspaper ', and in 1949 he started his most successful character, ''Rocky Rider'', published in the magazines '' Intrepido'' and '' Il Monello'' until 1963. In 1959 he started a long collaboration with the children magazine '' Corriere dei Piccoli'', for which he created a number of characters. He also collaborated with

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, illustrating the comic series ''Ipnos'', ''Yuma Kid'' and several episodes of '' Tex''. Since 1967 Uggeri became the official cover-illustrator of '' La Domenica del Corriere'', succeeding to

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. He was also illustrator for magazines, including ''

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'', '' Gazzetta dello Sport'' and '' Amica'', as well as for books, being the official illustrator of the series of

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novels ''Tommy River'' by Mino Milani as well as a frequent cover-illustrator for the publisher Sperling & Kupfer. In 1984 Uggeri decided to retire from comics as to focus on painting. He died of cardiac and pulmonary pathologies in 2004, aged 80 years old.

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