Overview
- He died in Milan at age 94, with Il Giornale first reporting the news on November 4.
- Rising from Paese Sera and Panorama in the 1970s, he became a fixture at La Repubblica and later contributed to La Stampa, Il Giornale and QN titles.
- He popularized front-page, day-to-day political cartoons and was long known as the 're della satira'.
- His career included high-profile legal clashes, notably a conviction after a Bettino Craxi complaint and a 1999 lawsuit by Massimo D'Alema that was later withdrawn, which preceded his exit from La Repubblica.
- He is credited with roughly 14,000 cartoons, received honors including Milan’s Ambrogino d’oro, led Il Male in 1979 and co-founded the Satyricon insert, and in 2023 donated his archive to the Triennale di Venezia.