Carlo Chendi


Angelo Carlo Chendi is an Italian cartoonist.
Since 1952, Carlo Chendi has written hundreds of stories with characters from Disney comics.

Early life

He moved at a young age from Ferrara, Rapallo, in Liguria' where he started his career as a cartoonist.

Career

He became one of the pillars of the so-called school of Rapallo, along with Maestro Luciano Bottaro and his friend Giorgio Rebuffi, with whom he founded in 1968 the group Bierrecì without, however, stop working with the Mondadori in the realization of Disney stories.
His career took place between the area of Tigullio and Milan, where he participated, 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 Saturn.

Recognition

In 1996 he received the Yellow Kid as the best author.
In 1994 he won the prize Cover Silver from the Walt Disney Company.
In 2001 he won the prize UGiancu for best screenwriter.
Important Disney inventions include extraterrestrial duck O.K. Quack and detective Umperio Bogarto, the secret identity of Donald Duck "agent QQ7", and the duet between Pippo and Witch Hazel.
In 2010 he won the Prix Papersera award.