Osvaldo Cavandoli

When he developed his interest in cartoons in 1943, he started working with Nino Pagot, who later created Calimero.

Cavandoli enjoyed worldwide recognition in 1969 with his character La Linea, a simply drawn cartoon born and lived out of a single white pencil stroke.

Cavandoli initially proposed his work for Carosello, an Italian advertisement break broadcast between 1957 and 1977.

Massimo Lagostina, the owner of a popular eponymous brand of cookware, chose it as a testimonial for his advertising campaign.

Following the success of the commercial, La Linea became the protagonist of an animated series subsequently adopted in many European countries.