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ABOUT ME

I made my comic book debut in Italy with the renowned publisher Eura Editoriale, after a career as an advertising art director. In 2005, I began collaborating with DC Comics; for their Vertigo imprint, I co-created DMZ with writer Brian Wood. This controversial series—depicting a hypothetical second American Civil War—achieved massive success worldwide and was adapted into a TV miniseries for HBO Max in 2022. It was my extraordinary work on DMZ that earned me the prestigious Gran Guinigi Award for Best Artist at Lucca Comics & Games in 2007. Following DMZ, I continued to work for major European and American comic book publishers, including Marvel, 2000 AD, Dark Horse, and Panini. In 2010, I co-founded Italian Job Studio, a creative collective active in television and cross-media production. Over the years, my work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe—notably at the Cité de l'Architecture in Paris as part of the Archi & BD exhibition, alongside masters such as Moebius, Bilal, Lorenzo Mattotti, Winsor McCay, and Frank Miller. In 2014, I collaborated with writer Victor Gischler and Boosta (of the Italian rock band Subsonica) to create and illustrate Highway to Hell for Italian Job Studio. Throughout my career, I have also applied my artistic and storytelling talents to brands like Ferrari and BMW Motorrad, and I have worked as a character designer for film and video games. In recent years, alongside my comic book work, I have dedicated myself to contemporary and conceptual art. In 2021, I participated in the Venice Biennale, with three of my works exhibited in the Italian Pavilion.