Sergio Staino died this morning in hospital in Florence. The 83-year-old journalist and cartoonist became famous for his “Bobo” cartoons, in which the eccentric hero comments on Italian and international political events and draws particular attention to the Italian left. Staino, the unit’s former director, had been hospitalized for several days: He had been ill for some time and was first hospitalized in November 2022.
Born 83 years ago in Siena, after graduating in architecture, he taught technical education at various high schools in the Florentine province. In 1979, he published his first Bobo strip in the comics magazine Linus. Over the years, he collaborated for many newspapers and magazines, including Tango, a satirical weekly magazine born within Unità, which Staino founded in 1986 and ran until its closure in 1989.
Staino is best known for his iconic character Bobo: the hero of his strips, Staino’s alter ego constantly struggled between his loyalty to the Italian Communist Party (then the PDS and eventually the PD) and his disillusionment with certain parties. elections. From his ironic observatory in Scandicci, he commented sarcastically about the newspaper, which concealed its utopian trust in the Italian left and was not very accepting of the party’s ‘progressive’ turns.
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“He was an intellectual who left his mark on a significant part of the imagination of the left with his irony, intelligence and pen.” Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein reminds us of this. “We all grew up with his cartoons, his characters, his wonderful jokes. We will miss him very much and in the coming weeks and months we will make sure that the Democratic community remembers him with the great love that binds him to us. We remember him with our deepest feelings. We offer our condolences to his loved ones, to the people who loved him and worked with him”, comments Schlein. .
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Source: Today IT
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