Silver (cartoonist)

{{Short description|Italian comic book artist}} {{infobox comics creator | name = Guido Silvestri | image = Guido Silvestri.jpg | caption = Silver at Lucca Comics & Games in 2008 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|12|9}} | birth_place = Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | alias = Silver | area = | cartoonist = y | notable works = ''Lupo Alberto'' | awards = U Giancu's Prize, 1998 }} '''Guido Silvestri''' (born 9 December 1952 in Carpi<ref name="VitaQuestaAuthor">"[http://www.repubblica.it/speciale/2004/fumetti/lupoalberto/autore.html LUPO ALBERTO - MA E' VITA QUESTA? L'autore]." ''La Repubblica''. Retrieved on 4 February 2012.</ref>), known by his pen name '''Silver''', is an Italian comic book creator. Silver began his comics career as an apprentice of Franco Bonvicini (Bonvi).<ref name="VitaQuestaAuthor"/> Silver created the series ''Lupo Alberto'',<ref>"[http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/base/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=47&ID_articolo=394&ID_sezione=70&sezione= A Milano una mostra per i 35 anni di Lupo Alberto] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120803210213/http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/base/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=47&ID_articolo=394&ID_sezione=70&sezione= |date=2012-08-03 }}." ''La Stampa''. 20 November 2009. Retrieved on 24 April 2011.</ref> which began in 1974.<ref name="VitaQuestaAuthor"/>

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