Filippo Scòzzari

Filippo Scòzzari (Bologna, 1946), is an Italian comics artist, painter and writer, one of the main figures of the 1970s underground art movement. Known in his first comic at Mondadori's Il Mago under the pseudonym "Winslow Leech", he has worked for Re Nudo and Il Mago, Radio Alice of Bologna, Cannibale, Il Male, Frigidaire, Blue, Panorama, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Glamour International.

Career

His career began in the 1970s, appearing in various underground satirical publications; in 1979 he collaborated with the satirical weekly publication Il Male, and in subsequent years he was published in Cannibale, Frigidaire, Fri'Zzer, Tempi Supplementari and Il Lunedì della Repubblica.

During those same years he also appeared Re Nudo, Linus, Vogue, Spaceships Today, Panorama, and Alteralter.

His comics have been published in France, Brazil and Greece.

Most of his work in the comics field has been collected in eight books published in Italy by Primo Carnera Editore and Coniglio Editore, in France by Albin Michel, in Brazil by Conrad Editora.

He has written six novels, an anthology of his best New P-Porno tales and a theatrical work, Heart in Slices. He held several exhibitions in Italy: in Rimini, in Montecchio Emilia, in Rome, in Reggio Emilia, in Milan, in Turin, in Bologna and, abroad, in Athens.

Among his comic books are a graphic novel based on Raymond Chandler's screenplay The Blue Dahlia (La Dalia Azzurra, 1981), a collection of stories from his underground period (Doctor Jack, 1982), a collection of his early science fiction short stories (Mud and Oxygen, 1992) and various collections of his work published in FRIGIDAIRE magazine (Women, 1987, Sister Big Tooth & others Battles, 1992).

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