However, the censorship and other absurd orders issued by the regime, which made a travesty of the content and form of comic-strip stories, prompted Galleppini to temporarily cease all activity in this field. Several comic strip stories came out in "L'Avventuroso", for some of which Galleppini also composed the scripts. In 1940, Galleppini moved to Florence where he started working with the publishing house Nerbini. During the same years he provided the artwork for two long comic-strip stories published by Mondadori, with scripts by Federico Pedrocchi: " Pino il mozzo" and " Le perle del mar d'Oman". He also designed some Covers for "Il Mattino Illustrato" and contributed the artwork for " Il segreto del motore" by Andrea Lavezzolo. From 1937 till 1939 he contributed to "Modellina" with his first illustrated tales - " In terra straniera", " La prova dei coccodrilli", " All'ombra del tricolore", " Le avventure di Pulcino" (the latter a large colour album with a comic slant). Galleppini's first drawings published in a periodical date from 1936: they were illustrated fairy tales destined to "Mondo Fanciullo". When he was 18 years old some of his drawings appeared in animated cartoons created on behalf of a German factory, which produced two-stroke projectors. After spending most of his youth in Sardinia, he abandoned his studies in the second year of the "Istituto industriale" in order to take up drawing and painting, which he cultivated as a self-taught art. Aurelio Galleppini, also known as Galep, the graphic designer of this character and illustrator, was born in Casal di Pari (Grosseto) on 28th August 1917, of Sardinian parents.
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