Marco Dambrosio (Makkox) | |
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 Marco "Makkox" Dambrosio in 2014 at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia | |
| Born | 30 August 1965 (age 59) |
| Nationality |  Italy |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Known for | Propaganda Live |
Makkox, pseudonym of Marco Dambrosio (born 30 August 1965) is an Italian satirist, cartoonist, illustrator and television creator. [1]
Born in Formia but raised in Gaeta, Dambrosio was raised artistically by an aunt who was a professor of scenography. His passion for drawing began as a child with Donald Duck comics, which continues to inspire his work today. At 8 he would spend his days sketching and drawing still-life sets prepared for him by his aunt. [1]
While working as a graphic designer for the retail industry, on 28 February 2007 he made his web debut with the blog Canemucca, adapting his strips vertically to fit the scrolling of internet pages. [1] He soon achieved success and began to collaborate with the daily newspaper Liberazione , with the weekly information magazine Internazionale and with publisher Coniglio Editore, appearing in their comic magazines Blue and Animals and publishing his first comic book with them in 2009: Le [di]visioni imperfette (The imperfect divisions). [2]
Since May 2010 he has published a monthly magazine, Il Canemucco, with Coniglio Editore. [3] Initially six issues were planned, but publication was definitively interrupted after the release of issue four. [4] A collection of the best cartoons were printed in October 2011 by BAO Publishing with the title Post Coitum – Satire di un Tardo Impero (Post Coitum – Satires of a Late Empire). Also in 2011 two collections of stories from magazines by Makkox were published: Se muori siamo pari (If you die we're even) and Ladolescenza (Adolescence). [5]
From 2013 to 2017 Dambrosio was a regular guest on the Rai 3 show Gazebo, of which he is also the creator. In September 2017 he created the LA7 show Propaganda Live , and is the main interlocutor of host Diego Bianchi. [6]
He currently publishes cartoons with L'Espresso , Il Foglio and Il Post . [1] [7]
In 2020 he published his autobiography Nuove mappe del Paradiso (New maps of Paradise) with the publishing house People founded by Giuseppe Civati. [8]
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