Giove Toppi Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1888 - d. 1942

Giove Toppi (2 August 1888 – 21 July 1942) was an Italian cartoonist and the first to draw Mickey Mouse comics in Italy.

Toppi was born in Ancona, Italy and moved to Florence in the 1920s. There, he began what would become a long collaboration with the publisher Nerbini, initially as a cartoonist for the satirical weekly Il 420 and as an illustrator for their novels.

Toppi designed the headline logo and contributed comics to the Topolino, a weekly children's magazine themed on the Disney character Mickey Mouse. He also contributed to other Nerbini magazines such as L'Avventuroso, which was published starting from 1935.