Biography

Marco De Angelis was born in Rome (Italy) the 7th January 1955 and he is living and working there. He is professional journalist, cartoonist, illustrator and graphic designer.  He studied in the Lyceum, the Art Academy and the Rome University, Faculty of History and Anthropology.

His editorial and gag cartoons, and illustrations, have been published from 1975 on over 200 dailies and reviews.

He published on the daily Il Popolo (from 1979 to 1997, where he was editorial cartoonist and illustrator, redactor in graphic, internal and foreign affairs services), the daily Il Messaggero (cartoonist and illustrator from 1996 to 2003), La Repubblica (redactor and illustrator from 2003 to 2015), Metropoli-La Repubblica, the daily  Il Mattino, the magazines La Discussione, Grazia, I Gialli Mondadori, Panorama, L’Eco di San Gabriele, Frontiere Aperte, Comic Art, Lavorare, Analisi Italia, Confronti, Buduàr, Help!, Comix, Comic Art and the new editions of Il Travaso and Marc’Aurelio, and many specialized reviews.

His works were published also on Il Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Il Sole 24, Il Fatto Quotidiano, many other newspapers and countless websites

He distributes his cartoons also in several newspapers in USA, Canada and Europe. From 1984 also with a syndicate, Rothco Cartoons, then from ‘90 with Cartoonists & Writers Syndicate, then with The New York Times Syndicate and Cartoon Art International (ex CWS). Now he distributes his cartoons with CartoonArts International, Go Comics and Andrews McMeel Universal.

He publishes and distributes his cartoons also on the web platform Cartoon Movement (Netherlands) and Best Cartoons (Romania).

He published on New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Vancouver Sun, World Press Review, Tampa Tribune, International Herald Tribune and many others. He published also on french Courrier International , Le Monde,  Almanach Vermot, France-Cartoons Web magazine, swiss Nebelspalter and Le Temps , german Eulenspiegel, yugoslavian Jez, Ilustrovana Politika and New Macedonia, croatian Feferon, polish Szpilki, czech Rohac, russian Krokodil, turkish Fire and Fenamizah, norwegian Ny Tid - Modern Times Review, brazilian Supapo, etc.

He was editor from Italy of the international cartoon magazine and web site WittyWorld (USA) created by Joseph George Szabo.

He is one of the creators of the humour monthly online Buduàr (from 2012) awarded as “the best humour magazine in the year” in Prize Satire of Forte dei Marmi 2014. He is one of the three members of the Central Committee and editor in chief and publishes cartoons, illustrations and many articles.

He collaborated as graphic designer (logos, dépliant, poster, editorial projects, ecc.), cartoonist and illustrator with Il Popolo, Seip, Edizioni Cinque Lune, Il Messaggero, la Repubblica, Editoriale Metropoli, Coldiretti, Confartigianato, Federtrasporti, Asstra, Regione Lazio, Comune di Roma, Cisl, Postelegrafonici Cisl, Gepi, Nova, Fopri, Algos, Italia Centro Ingrosso, Ministero dell’Interno, Università Bocconi, Comune di Genova and many other factories, societies and associations.

His cartoons have been utilized in programs of italian RAI TV, in programs of TMC-Tele Monte Carlo and other televisions.

He also draws illustrations for many narrative and scholastic children’s books of important publishers like Giunti, De Agostini, La Scuola, Lapis, San Paolo, Salani, European Language Institute, Edizioni Cinque Lune, etc.

For De Agostini he created as author “Ciuccino Mio” (2007) and illustrated with 300 drawings “A story a day, fairy tales for a year”, by Marcello Argilli, 2003, “What do fish all day underwater?”, “What are the bees all the day in the beehive?”, 2004, “What do sharks do all day in the sea?”, 2006, by Eleonora De Sabata.
He also made drawings for the “Tim Tribù” campaign linked to the “La tribù del pallone” series, 2007.
For Giunti he illustrated the seven volumes of the Anthology for the middle school “Ciak, reads!”, 1999 (now published by La Scuola), “The book of grandparents and children”, by Ezio Ponzo, 2001, “The twenty-seven suitcases of Ennesimo Quaranta”,(Premio Bancarellino 2002) and “The left foot of Arnulfo Sementera”, 2003 both by Comini and Minneci. “Question? Reply!”, 2002, “Search the word!”, 2002, “It's Christmas”, 2002, “Fairy tale quiz!”, 2003, “101 Superquiz”, 2004, “Stop & “, 2004, “Enigmistica Superqui”, 2005.
For Lapis he realized, as an author, “Escape in the Third Millennium” (2000) and illustrated “Magic Numbers and Roving Stars”, by Anna Parisi, First Legambiente Prize for Scientific Publication, 2001, and published by various foreign publishers.
For La Scuola he illustrated the six volumes of a mathematics course for the Medias, “Shipping trhough numbers and figures”, 2003, and two volumes of a Course in Technology, “Computer Science” in 2004 and “Education for Civil Cohabitation”, 2006.
For European Language Institute from 1994 he created illustrations for 28 publications distributed in 5 languages in over 40 countries: Azzurro, Ragazzi, Insieme, Tot of English, Kid, Teen, Jeunes, Voilà, C'est Facile!, Ensemble, Zusammen, Kinder, Freunde, Vamos!, Muchacos, Adulescens, and others.

For Edizioni San Paolo he illustrated “La Spirale del salumiere” e “Ci vorrebbe un amico”, written by Antonio Lubrano, 2007.

For Salani he realized the illustrations of “The history of science told to children”,

by Anna Parisi (2020).

For Sax, he designed the cover of ”Stop all: the rainbow!”, 1992.

He created covers for Semmel Verlach (Germania), Ediciones de la Flor (Argentina), many illustrations and covers for Edizioni Cinque Lune (Italy) and many other publishers.

He published some books with his cartoons:

The Agrihumorist (Coldiretti, 1990), Escape in the Third Millennium (Lapis, 2000), Ciuccino mio (De Agostini, 2007), Mondobus (ASSTRA, 2008), Fantabinario (ASSTRA, 2010), Galateo of public transport (ASSTRA, 2011).

He created also many covers and illustrations for Edizioni Cinque Lune and others.

He realized the illustrations and characters for two educational and fun apps for iPad:

"In flight in the Great War" and "Iron Horse Story", created with the work group "The APPrendists".

From his first participation in 1972, and his first award in 1975 (Prize of the press in Bordighera), he won over 30 international first prizes and other 120 awards. Some of them: Golden Palm in International Salon of Humour of Bordighera (Italy) in ’97, two 1st Prizes Council of Europe (’78 and ’90), Golden Date and two Silver Date in Bordighera, 1st prize in Istanbul in 1987 and 2016, Tehran, Krusevac, Belgrade, Sisak, Solin, in italian exhibition like Dolo, Lecce, Città di Castello, Pescara, Pistoia, Chieti, Siena, Trento, Fano, Le Piastre, Ferrara, Sestri Levante, Marostica, Velletri and others. He received important prizes also in Olen (two times the Prize Amnesty International), Belgrade, Bjelovar, Skopje, Montreal, Amsterdam, Paris, Galati, Ottawa, Caldas da Rainha, Porto, Legnica, Stuttgart, Bejing, L’Aquila, Lanciano, Siena, Udine, Ancona, Kütahya, Bangalore etc. Finalist in many competitions.

He was selected two times by Cartoon Home Network International as one of the 10 best cartoonists of 2018 and 2020 in the world.

      In 2022 he was one of the three finalists of the Editorial Cartoon Division of the prestigious Reuben Award of the US National Cartoonists Society, a very rare case for a non-American and unique for an Italian.

      He was a Finalist in 2020 and 2021 in the European Cartoon Award.

He has held solo exhibitions in Rome (1984), Vasto, Nemi, Nola, Ischia, Forte dei Marmi, Fano, Le Piastre, Prague, Stockholm, Bordighera, Saint Just le Martel, the WOW - Comics Museum in Milan, Bangalore, as well as participating in various collective in Italy and abroad.

He exposed in over 970 exhibition and contests (in Italy and in other countries) and his works are published in over 550 catalogues. His works are also exposed in many museums around the world (Tolentino, Tehran, Skopje, Istanbul, Stockholm, Boca Raton, etc.).

He was member of over 50 juries in cartoon competitions and some literary contests: Rome, Bordighera, Tolentino, Le Piastre, Salsomaggiore (all in Italy), Legnica (Poland), Sisak (Croatia), Deva (Romania), Kyrenia (Cyprus), Kragujevac (Serbia), Caen (France), Oslo (Norway), Skopje (North Macedonia), etc. and the literary Prize Racconti nella Rete in Lucca (Italy).

He has a very big library and studies humour cartoons, comic art and History (he wrote many articles about these arguments), interested also of astronomy and astronautics. He has many collections of comics and humour reviews, catalogues of graphic humour exhibitions. He love modelling art and has thousands of model and toy soldiers, trains and boat models, an important and rich archives of ancient and war pictures, hats and military and ethnic objects. He is an expert of classic and medieval epic literacy, of irish, scotch, breton and american country music too.

             Marco De Angelis has been married since 1990, has a son and daughter

             and lives in Rome.