Gianfranco Tartaglia, aka Passepartout, is an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and cartoonist. He made his debut in 1977, together with the lyricist Pietro Gorini, in the pages of “La Città Futura”. The following year he moved to “Paese Sera”, where he created strips and cartoons of customs and current affairs, before moving in 1980 to the daily newspaper “Il Messaggero”, for which he drew the daily political satire cartoon until 1990.
In the early 1980s he collaborated with the comic magazine “Eureka”, publishing strips dedicated to the youth conditions and social climate of the Years of Lead. In 1990 he received the Forte dei Marmi Prize for Political Satire for the volume “Leader bene chi leader ultimo”, published by Gremese Editore. Since 1991 he has also created economics strips for “Corriere della Sera”.
Throughout his career he has collaborated with numerous national newspapers, including “l'Unità”, “L'Avanti”, “La Repubblica” and “Corriere della Sera”, as well as magazines and weeklies such as “L'Europeo”, “Il Mondo”, “Mondo Economico”, “Liberetà”, “Panorama”, ”Auto Oggi”, “Sale & Pepe”, “Moda”, “Playboy”, “Playmen”, “Blue” and “Travel People”. At the same time, he has worked in the fields of illustration and animation, creating theme songs and animations for Rai and Mediaset, as well as posters and communication campaigns for public bodies and institutions. He has also collaborated with major companies and publishing companies, including Toyota, Mercedes, Enel, Telecom, Treccani and EDS.
Since 2002, he has combined his artistic activity with a commitment to dissemination, collaborating with the Chair of Clinical Nutrition at the University of Naples, directed by Professor. Franco Contaldo, for communication projects on eating disorders. Since 2004 he has been a professor of Alternative Communication Methodologies at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in the Speech Therapy degree course at the Faculty of Medicine. Since 2019 he has taught Anatomical Deformation at the International School of Comics in Rome.
Author of numerous books and collections of vignettes and illustrations, Passepartout has published, among others, “Leader bene chi leader ultimo”, “Smack the cat on the front page”, “Sviso, let it print”, “Pleasure first”, “History of obesity with a happy ending”, “I live in alternating phases”, “My friend Don Quixote” and “Il Belpaese”. His production ranges from political satire to popularization, from editorial illustration to comics, with a style recognizable for irony, graphic synthesis and attention to social and cultural themes.