Menotti

Menotti (pen name of Roberto Marchionni) is an Italian comic artist and a screenwriter. He created comic strips and illustrations for daily papers and magazines including "Frigidaire" - Italy's controversial satirical magazine - "Comic Art" and "Blue". In 2004 his graphic novel Europa, created with Massimo Semerano, was given the Micheluzzi Prize for the best script of the year. In 2005 he studied Filmmaking at NYU and directed his first short film, My Name is Alice, followed by My Wife Is a Zombie (2008). In Italy he went on to write sitcoms and a variety of TV show episodes such as Un posto al sole (1996), La squadra (2000), Incantesimo (1998), 7 vite (2007). With Nicola Guaglianone he wrote the screenplay They Call Me Jeeg (2015), about the first Italian superhero.