The greatest miniaturist of our age… Copi was a man of the Baroque, a Shakespeare, magically reincarnated in gay Paris
Cesar Aira
Copi is the sassiest, most decadent, poised, unpredictable, violent, galling, and marvellous of any author in the past quarter century
Charlie Hebdo
About Copi
Born in Buenos Aires in 1939, Raúl Damonte Botana derived his sobriquet COPI from a nickname his grandmother gave him, “copita de nieve,” or “little snowflake.” At 17, he went into exile in Haiti, Uruguay, and New York before finally settling in Paris, where he was a cartoonist, performer, playwright, and novelist. Copi co-founded the Panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowski and wrote a nationally syndicated comic strip. He died of an AIDS-related illness in 1987.