Michele Penco was born in Pisa in 1982. He trained artistically by drawing from life, attending a drawing course given by Gipi, one of the greatest authors in the recent history of Italian comics. He drew two tarot decks for Lo Scarabeo Editore in Turin, one of which was inspired by the world of Lovecraft, and illustrated two books for Purple Press.
Incubi (2009), his first book as a single author, has been published by the first round of the Associazione Culturale Double Shot: In a few months the circulation was sold out, receiving numerous awards from critics and the public.
The following year, for the same publisher, Racconti Azzurri, a collection of short stories that will repeat the success of his first work.
In 2012, he exhibited the panels of his works (including illustrations and paintings) at the BilBolBul in Bologna: in the exhibition his ability to change the line at the service of history and the progressive maturation of the sign emerges. We jump from the Lovecraftian atmospheres of the first book to reach the dreamlike and even more captivating ones of the tables that make up Racconti Azzurri.
A multifaceted artist, with a meticulous and naturalistic trait, as well as an author of comics, he is above all a painter and illustrator, managing to master brushes with the delicacy of the great masters and a unique freshness of his kind.
An author destined to talk a lot about himself in the future.