Giacinto Mondaini

Giacinto "Giaci" Mondaini was an Italian painter, humorist, cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter.

Biography

Born in Milan in 1903, Giaci Mondaini began his career in the 1930s with his friend, the writer Giovannino Guareschi, at the humor magazine Bertoldo, whose editorial staff repeatedly clashed with the Fascist regime. At the same time, he contributed graphic designs to stamps, billboards, magazines, and comic strips. His daughter Sandra was often his model since she was a baby. He was married to Giuseppina "Joséphine" Lombardini, an Argentine woman from whom he separated immediately after the Second World War, leaving the family.
In 1935, he wrote with Cesare Zavattini the subject for the film I Will Give a Million. After the 1950s, he produced paintings and humorous drawings.
Mondaini died, probably of cardiac arrest, in a camping in Kiens, South Tyrol, on 11 August 1979.