Max Crivello (born 27 February 1958) is an Italian illustrator, painter, screenwriter and art cartoonist.
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History
Max Crivello, a descendant of an ancient family from Milan, born in Palermo in 1958 and he after completing regular artistic studies has travelled and worked in Italy and abroad. His artistic activity has ranged from painting to graphics and comics: since 1975 he began to exhibit and collaborated with several publishers for the printing of graphic folders, illustrated books and comics. Since 1986 he has worked as an independent cartoonist and professional illustrator for the Giornale di Sicilia and since 1987. He has executed several public monuments.
Professional activity
Professor of role at a State Art Institute of the Sicilian territory, before changing role, in 1997 he founded the non-profit cultural Institution "Sicilian School of comics". suspended its activities in 2001.An attempt to resume free courses with an announcement of 2005, but in 2003 the attempt ended with an attack suffered by the Crivello.
Crivello is Director in charge in 1999 of the special inserts sector of the newspaper Oggi Sicilia with the weekly supplement Oggi Sicilia Comics. After a long isolation due to the loss of his wife, Crivello returns to painting with cycles of works dedicated to the characters of the imagination, the world of fairy tales and fiction, with the cycle of Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Conan, The Holy Bible, The stories of Giulio Verne. In the performance of institutional tasks, during his teaching career he organized exhibitions and events with the free patronage of the Municipality of Palermo and the Sicilian Region, including the International Exhibition on Pinocchio and Mafia, Architecture of a pain dedicated to the memory of the two judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Then he publishes the comic strip miniseries Gli Eccellenti dedicated to the victims of the mafia, judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, and General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, conceived and designed together with his students under the patronage of the Regional Province of Palermo.