Daniele Panebarco


Daniele Panebarco is an Italian cartoonist.
Born in Ravenna, while he was still being a student at the University of Bologna Panebarco debuted as a cartoonist for the magazine Off-Side. In 1973 he won a national contest for cartoonists organized by the newspaper ' and started collaborating with the newspaper.
In 1976 Panebarco had his breakout with the critically acclaimed noir-humorous series Big Sleeping, which debuted in the magazine Il Mago, and was later published in a large number of other publications. He later created other series, such as Piccolo Lenin, an imaginary account of the Vladimir Lenin's childhood, and Nick Martello, a satire of Communism.
Panebarco is also active in the field of animation and in the video-game design. In 1995 he founded the company Panebarco & C.''', specialized in 2-D and 3-D graphics and animation.