The great cartoonist Giorgio Forattini has died at the age of 94. Il Giornale reports this on its website. Born in Rome in 1931, Forattini was in fact among the first political cartoonists, starting in 1971 from Paese Sera to arrive first at Panorama and then at Repubblica, where he created the Satyricon insert. He was also a cartoonist at La Stampa, then in the 2000s at Giornale and the QN newspapers.
His irreverent portraits of the main political protagonists are famous: Bettino Craxi represented as Pietro Gambadilegno or even Mussolini, Giovanni Spadolini naked, Massimo D’Alema as Adolf Hitler (but in communist guise), Giovanni Goria invisible, Piero Fassino skeletal, Giuliano Amato as Mickey Mouse, Silvio Berlusconi and Amintore Fanfani short in stature, Walter Veltroni as a caterpillar, Lamberto Dini as a toad, Rocco Buttiglione as a monkey, Nicola Mancino as a wild boar, Luciano Violante as a fox, Romano Prodi as a communist priest, Umberto Bossi as Pluto sometimes naked or dressed as a Templar knight.