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Hi, dear netsurfers, if you are reading this Bio, there are two possible reasons only  for this: either you are in the site by mistake, or you are my related: and I real suppose to be this second hypothesis. If on the contrary  should you belong  to the other category, make yourself confortable, nibble anything and read here below. My name is Gaggia Matteo, I was born in 1975 October 8, in Assisi province of Perugia, town this last one where I have always lived and live now. Since I remember, I have always hold a drawing pencil in my hand, that’s it. I was already predestined (even if to do what I have not yet understood). So, after Primary and Middle School I enrole (to the Accademy of Art, you would think, not quite) to the senior High School in classic studies and after three years from the high school leaving examination in 1997, I enrole at the "Scuola Internazionale di Comix" in Rome and, as I could not find the exit sign, I stayed there for there for three years. I attended a course for comics strip and obtained a Diploma in the year 2000 with marking 29/30. From the on (wards), the world  would have admired my art, with a bit of a problem; this was known only to myself. As every self - respecting dreamer, I send anywhere my drawings, but very often I get back the same answer: “You are skilful, but at the moment we do not need! You know, comics are going through some difficult times”. Anyway I start to collocate whith an humorous Journal TFR where I earn the astronomic amount of… hear ye hear ye  nothing (fair to middling as first wage). Later on decide to follow the mystical road; no I do not enter the Priesthood, or runaway to India to recover myself, but i ring the bell to the "Edizioni Frate Indovino" base, here in Perugia, and have a hand in planning the drawings for the 2004 edition of the homonymus pictorial calendar. After this learning experience, I return  back to school, no I do not find a job as a porter, but as a teacher for a class of "Comic-strip Laboratory" held in three senior high school of the Umbria Region: among all these experiences, fancy that, i find time to enter a comic-strip competition, as the famous "Acquaviva nei Fumetti", where although without winning, my artwork is noticed by the Jury as a meritorius work. I also collaborate as free lance with the Company "COLORISSIMA" (now Fratelli Albani) in Latina, specialized in shopper's production. Always in Latina I realize  the logo and trade mark for the shop "STE.LLA PARTY" who sells all materials for parties. Here I am, I am 30 years old,with more and more secret wishes, and less an less money in the  billfold, but I do not complain (I shall have to do sometime) and to mention Woody Allen: "My only regrets is: not to be somebody else!". As well as the end of the cartoons: "That's all Folks!". Hey, I'm talking to you, I have come to the end... Can you hear me??

photo by Benedetta Tosi

 

 

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