Valerio Piccioni
A Roman illustrator, he made his debut in a 1995 story by Max Living, published by L'Arca Perduta, and in two short stories for L'Intrepido. He later moved to Genoa for a few years, where he collaborated with Maurizio Mantero on an episode of Zona X (The Secret of Magic) and joined the staff of the artists of Julia: The Adventures of a Criminologist, a magazine for which he published 17 issues.
In February 2016, a story he drew, entitled Il lago nero, for Maurizio Di Vincenzo's inks, was published in Maxi Dylan Dog n. 26. The synergy continues in Dylan Dog Color Fest No. 18 (Diabolo the Great) and Dylan Dog Family Day No. 366.
He then continued his collaboration with Sergio Bonelli, creating, together with Maurizio Di Vincenzo, n. 1 and n. 4 of the mini series Zagor, le origini, with the story Cuore cattivo, published in Dylan Dog Oldboy n. 2, with “Le pare del cervello” in Dylan Dog Oldboy n.11 and with ”Fino all'ultimo respiro”, published in Dylan Dog Oldboy n.28.
From 2018 to 2023 he taught at the Bugs Academy comics school. In 2019 he collaborated with Makyo on the volume Les Pierres Rouges, Tome 2 for the publisher Delcourt. Again together with Maurizio Di Vincenzo (and Emiliano Tanzillo), he created the covers of the Bugs Comics monthly Samuel Stern.