Biografia

Andrea Paggiaro was born in Pisa in 1976. In the early 2000s, inspired by Borges, he takes up the pseudonym Tuono Pettinato and founds the alternative label “Donna Bavosa” together with Ratigher. This leads him to work with Maicol&Mirco, LRNZ and Dr. Pira, with whom he will later found the Super Amici collective. The works he realizes at that time – then gathered in the collection Apocalypso. Apocalypso. Tuono Pettinato: Gli anni dozzinali (Coniglio Editore, 2009) – are drawn "deliberately badly and in a hurry so as to save time for more exciting and fun things." Together with Super Amici, he founds the magazine "Hobby Comics" (GRRRzetic) and the free-press "Pic Nic", whose pages host the works of comics artists such as Paolo Bacilieri, Francesca Ghermandi and Adriano Carnevali. Since 2005 he makes children’s books for the publishing house Campanila. He published the autobiography Il magnifico lavativo (Topipittori, 2011) and achieved greater success with a series of biographies, always halfway between surreal humor and psychological insight: Garibaldi (Rizzoli Lizard, 2010), Enigma (about Alan Turing) and Nervermind (about Kurt Cobain). He collaborates with the magazines "Vice", "Rolling Stone", "ANIMAls", "GQ", "Link" and "XL Repubblica" (for which he designed the Ricattacchiotti series). His style is a combination of light sketched caricature and serious topics treated with irreverent sarcasm, as in Corpicino (GRRRzetic, 2013), which deals with the unhealthy relationship between media and crime report.