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rgio Figus (http://www.fumetti.org/autori/figus.htm) was born in Turin on 7 November 1958. Desirous from an early age of becoming a comic book author, at the age of 17 he began drafting his first scripts, which he submitted to Edizioni Paoline. Passionate about Disney characters from a very young age, and Carl Barks in particular, he wrote his first Mickey Mouse story for “Topolino” in the autumn of 1980: it was “Zio Paperone e il Carro Ittita” (‘Uncle Scrooge and the Hittite Chariot’). With by now almost forty years of his career behind him, Giorgio Figus has explored, in most of his stories, the wide range of his interests and knowledge, achieving an effective synthesis between his personality and the stylistic and content cornerstones of Disney fiction. His stories, in fact, range from the science-fiction subject, to the social science-fiction one, as in ‘Papercelsius 154’, an obvious and successful parody of Ray Bradbury’s great ‘Fahrenheit 451’; from the naturalistic one, to the detective story. More recently he tried his hand at the adventure genre, and with historical stories]. In 1986 he created, for the monthly magazine ‘Il Messaggero dei Ragazzi’, the comic strip series ‘La Valle di Mook’, of which he wrote the first episode ‘Attenti al Pelosone!’. In 1997 he took part in the second edition of the ‘Acquaviva nei Fumetti’ competition, presenting a comic strip version of Totò’s famous poem ‘La livella’, drawn by Antonio Lapone. The story won 1st prize. In 2001, he produced, with cartoonist Paolo Mottura, a short comic strip story to advertise the use of the ‘Verde Sacchetto’ (the container for the collection of organic waste). The story was commissioned by the ACEA company of Pinerolo.
