Authors - Libere di vivere

Elena Barberis

Set designer and freelance illustrator, in 2006 she graduated in Set Design at the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti in Turin and, subsequently, she graduated from the two-year comics course at the Comics and Animation School in Asti. She participates in illustration and comics workshops with artists such as John Howe, Massimiliano Frezzato and Reinhard Kleist. She currently teaches Japanese comics
(manga) at the Comics and Animation School of Asti, collaborates with the online magazine Crunch Ed, and creates storyboards for independent film production companies.

Serena Arato

Artist, teacher and curator, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. She has collaborated with the Moitre Gallery in Turin as assistant curator for various projects and group exhibitions. She was a member of the experimental art collective ‘La Gilda’ for over two years, organising group exhibitions, art evenings and several ‘open galleries’. She has produced many works (painting and illustration) on commission for Italian and foreign clients.

Rossana Berretta

Graduated from the Scuola Chiavarese del Fumetto, she now works as an illustrator for various publishing houses, including the French Piccolia, the Spanish Todolibro, and Bompiani (Porci con le Ali, 2016), and comics designer: MobDY’kk (with Alessandro Sidoti, 1’ class. Romics 2011), the Balthazar L’Implacabile series, and the graphic novels Fenris L’Invincibile (2018) and Le Sorgenti Hvergelmir (2019).
For DV Giochi she made “Bang! The Duel” (2015, pres. at Lucca Comics & Games) and “Bang! The Renegade” (2019). Collaborator of Dimoon Autoproduzioni, she teaches
comics, drawing and illustration (Chiavarese School, private courses and projects for public school).

Elena Bia

Illustrator, cartoonist and teacher. She graduated from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. In the past she collaborated with Espresso, Anonima Fumetti, Red Whale, Studio Arancia and Enarmonia Pictures, creating illustrated volumes, comics and animations. She is currently illustrator for the American agency Astound Publishing for foreign publishing houses (Tighe Publishing, Floris Books, Learning
A-Z, Rourke Educational Media) and teacher of Digital Coloring and Inking at ACME (European Academy of Fine Arts Media) in Novara. In her spare time she dedicates herself to the production of self-produced comics.

Elisa Beli Borrelli

After graduating in Art Graphics from the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, she studied cartooning in Belgium. As an illustrator, she participates in various anthologies including Novel (Eris Edizioni) and Gli ultimi giorni (La Stanza), and self-productions (Sweat Collection, Radio Apocalypse, Bad Moon Rising Magazine, Rimedi, Denti), and she signs L’incontro by G. Cena (Alzani), I segreti di
David Lynch, M. Marino, La Regina di New York, A. Rosa, and Sacerdotesse, regine e imperatrici della musica, by C. Trombella (aall for BeccoGiallo). On the comics front, she collaborates with Pinguini Tattici Nucleari a fumetti, by L. Laneve (BeccoGiallo), and scripts and designs the graphic novel La Chiamata (nominated for the Boscarato prize, Treviso Comic Book Festival 2018) and Nessun altro posto (BeccoGiallo).

Clarissa Corradin

Born in Ivrea, she graduated in painting and illustration at
the Albertina Academy of Turin and is now a freelance illustrator. She has created several publications for children
and young people, including Lucas dalle ali rosse (C. Randall, De Agostini 2018), Il Club dei quattro Ronin (A. Cola, Piemme 2018), Celeste Cenerentola (A. Gozzi, La Spiga 2018), Une vie (G. de Maupassant, P. Hauzy, Eli Readers 2018), Le tour de Jean (D. Hatuel, Eli Readers 2017), and collaborations with Pearson Edizioni.

Federica Di Meo

Manga artist and teacher, she began her studies in the 2000s in Italy, with M. Vannucchi, and then continued in Tokyo, at Yoani Animation Gakuin with the masters Matsuda and Fujita. She collaborated with graphic software companies like Copic, Pentel, Clip Studio Paint and Wacom, and as a designer for DeAgostini and Panini Comics (among the publications, Somnia, manga series in a novel and nine volumes
written by E. Zanzi, with handmade and digital images). She is collaborating with the French publisher Kana on a new series for adults. Since 2008 she has held regular manga courses in Milan, Turin and other cities in Piedmont, as well as workshops throughout Italy.

Hairuo Dong

Born in Beijing, she lives and works in Turin where she attends the Grafica d’Arte School of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions: “Dialogo con l’oriente” (2018), “Lingua Madre” (2018), “Paratissima Torino” 2018, “La vita è segno” (Cologne, 2019), “Paratissima Milano Design Art Fair” (2019), “Here 4 Torino” (2019), “Torino Graphic Days” (2019), “Fisad” (2019).

Nicla Ghibaudo

Born in Mondovì (CN), she enrolled at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, where she attended the Comics Art course of Professor Pierpaolo Rovero. Through this course she came into contact with the Anonima Fumetti association, with which she now collaborates for a series of activities and exhibitions such as “Bushi” (2016) at the
Museo d’Arte Orientale di Torino, and “Operazione Miccia” (2016). She lives in Frabosa Sottana (CN) where she works as a graphic designer and illustrator.

Andrea Iusso

Born in Turin, his education began with graphic design courses and reached the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti in Turin. He combines his activity as a 2D and 3D graphic designer and animator with that of illustrator, which led him to create the boards for La vera storia del Millenium Falcon (P. Cavazza, Carie Letterarie 2016), and that of drawing and illustration teacher.

Alessia Martusciello

Drawer and author of comics, she was born in Savona. She entered “a bottega” by Giulio Chierchini, historical screenwriter and Disney cartoonist, in 1992 she began her collaboration with Walt Disney Co. Italia (titles such as Topolino, Minni, Sirenetta, GM; among her main publications: The GM and the legend of Pegasus, Minni and the spirit of the artist). From 2002 to 2006 she worked on the manga series Witch created by E. Gnone, A. Barbucci and B. Canepa. With the author E. Gnone, in 2004, she deals with character design for the saga Fairy Oak. Since 2010, together with
the author A. Pizzetti, collaborates with the magazines Winx Club (Rainbow Tridimensional), Il Giornalino and Gbaby (San Paolo), and realizes the adaptations of La Freccia Nera and Il Corsaro Nero (EL). For Sergio Bonelli Editore she illustrates Dylan Dog and Nathan Never. More recently, she has collaborated with foreign publishing houses, including Dupuis (series Mes souvenirs en BD and Absolutment
Normal).

Vittorio Pavesio

Born in Turin, he is an author and cartoonist, and started in 1977 by publishing caricatures on Il nostro tempo. In 1978 he created Lockness, his most beloved character. He collaborates with the publishing houses of Paravia, Elledici and Paoline, but also Ferrero, Mattel Toys and Fischer Price. In 1983 he joined the Ettigraffio cooperative. His comics are published in Dolly, Corriere dei Piccoli and Dodo. In 1988 he founded Studio 901 and, in 1994, Anonima Fumetti with G. Goria. In 1995 he created the publishing house Vittorio Pavesio Productions. In 1998 he opened the Libreria 901 Comics Resort. Since 1994 he has been organizing the comics fair Torino Comics, of which he is co-founder and artistic director. In 2004, in France, he founded Pavesio Editions. Since 2007 he has been the artistic director of the Turin branch of the International School of Comics. Bookomics, in Turin, and Cartoonia, in Asti. In 2012, for a project dedicated to the world of comics, he opens “Steamboat l’aeronave del fantastico”. Alongside his institutional commitments, he also worked as an unceasing cartoonist.

Elena Pianta

Born in Asti, she is a comics designer, illustrator and teacher, and began her career in the world of comics in 1996 for Sergio Bonelli, in the magazines Legs Weaver, Gregory Hunter, Asteroid Argo, Agenzia Alfa, Nathan Never. She adapted Don Camillo for Renoir Comics, and collaborated with The Walt Disney Co. Italia, in cult magazines like High School Musical, Kylion and Real Life. She has collaborated on numerous graphic and illustration projects with publishers in Italy and abroad (LDC, Giorgio Mondadori etc.; Penerbitan Pelangibooks – Malaysia). She teaches at various
comics schools, including the International School of Comics Torino and the Comics School of Asti.

Pierpaolo Rovero

Comics designer, illustrator and teacher, he was born in Turin, where he now lives and works. He graduated in Communication Sciences at the University of Turin with a dissertation largely created with comics, and since 1996 he has been a cartoonist and screenwriter for The Walt Disney Co. Italia for the magazine Topolino. In 2004 he realised the comic strip adaptation of M. Rio’s noir novels for the Malone series published by Casterman. Between 2006 and 2007 he published Gate 22 (Pavesio) and the series Terroriste (Glenat), and in 2010 he created the series Mossad (Jungle/Casterman), all based on texts by J-C. Bartoll. Since 2010 he has been working on character design, mainly for animation commercials. He has worked as an illustrator for Ferrero, Shimadzu, Audi, Alfa Wassermann, Grendi, Trenord, Roche,
and other companies. He teaches “comic art” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. In 2019 he published the paper Character Design & Co. (Audino).

Ilaria Ticino

Born in Imperia, she graduated from the International School of Comics and the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. She lives and works there as a freelance illustrator, specialized in graphics and design. She currently works as a cartoonist and colorist with the artistic group Level Up Project and Anonima Fumetti.

Fanny Vagnoni

Painter, illustrator and graphic designer, she was born in Rome and now lives and works in Ravenna. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and continued her studies in Turin at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts. Here, in 2015, she created the illustrations for a text by Jadel Andreetto in the context of the Fanzine Novel project (Eris Edizioni), and for Mamma… non Mamma (Neos Edizioni), awarded at the International Book Fair in Turin. In 2016 she created a mural for the LaGrange12 project of the Building group. Since 2016 she has been working as an animator and
conductor of educational and creative workshops.