Massimo Cavezzali (11 February 1950 – 10 May 2023), also known as Cavez, was an Italian comic artist and illustrator, whose career spanned over 40 years.

Life and career

Born in

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, Cavezzali started his career in 1976, collaborating with the comics magazine '' Il Mago''. He then collaborated with numerous comics magazines including ''

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'', '' Paese Sera''. Among his best known works is ', a comic strip about a sexy anthropomorphized duck, and ''DIO S.p.a.'', a comic strip about a fictional God. In 2004 he illustrated ''Ogni volta che sono Vasco'', a comic biography about singer-songwriter

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. Among his last works is ''Comic Submarine'', a fictionalized biographical graphic novel about

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. Cavezzali died on 10 May 2023, at the age of 73.

References

External links

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