Comic book artist and illustrator from Rome. He began his career as a comic book artist with the EURA publishing house between 1981 and 1989.
Since 1987, he has worked as an illustrator for various publications: Il Messaggero, Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Il Gambero Rosso, NoiDonne, La Stampa, Panorama, Die Zeit, Telemaco, Curcio, Editing, Giunti, De Agostini, and Panini.
He has also collaborated with advertising agencies: Saatchi & Saatchi, J.W. Thompson, McCann-Erickson, Bates, Leo Burnett, Publicis, and Young & Rubicam.
In 1995, he won the Art Director Club award for illustration.
From 1995 to 2005, he collaborated with film productions as a storyboard artist, set designer, costume designer, and set painter.
For the publisher LoScarabeo, between 2002 and 2010, he created “The Tarot of the Sirens,” “The Tarot of the Nymphs,” “The Tarot of Sexuality,” and “The Oracles of Sexuality.”
For the publisher Il Barbagianni, he created the illustrations for “L’Inventafavole” 1 and 2 (2007/2012).
Cover artist for publishers: Sugarco, Fanucci, Armenia, Mondadori Ragazzi.
Since 2005, he has resumed his activity as a comic book artist for French publishers: the fantasy “Soltrois” (Les Humanoïde Associes, 2007); the historical “Chartage” (Soleil, 2010); the steampunk “Sian Loriel” (Le Lombard, 2012/2013); the science fiction “Yttrium” (Glénat, 2012); “Thesee” (Glénat, 2016); the bio “La Ballata Hugo” (Lo Scarabeo, 2021); and “La Ballade de Hugo” (Glénat, 2022) also published in France.
In 2017, he created a Tex story for Bonelli, “La Neve Rossa,” published in MaxiTex in 2021. In 2022, he collaborated with the publisher Tunuè on an episode of the series “Sette Crimini,” “La Violenza.”
He has taught at the Scuola Romana Dei Fumetti since 1999.
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