The cartoonist Sergio Staino hospitalized in serious condition after an illness

Sergio Staino, the cartoonist and former director of the Unit, is hospitalized at the Torregalli hospital in Florence and is in a pharmacological coma.

The

, father of the

who became an icon of political satire, had long had health problems that have worsened in recent days.

The 82-year-old designer

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For years, Staino has been afflicted with an eye disease that made him almost blind but did not stop him from continuing his work.

He is currently a collaborator of the Press and of Avvenire.

Graduated in architecture from the University of Siena.

Staino taught technical education in some Florentine high schools.

Then the great comic adventure to Linus directed by Oreste del Buono and the birth of Bobo, inspired in appearance by Umberto Eco but in reality a graphic representation and alter ego of himself.