GIANLUCA      UGLIOTTA

Comicartist, illustrator, sculptor and musician, he has worked for the most important and prestigious national and foreign publishing houses. He first came into contact with the world of comics as a self-taught artist in April 2004 when he took part in the national 'Pietro Miccia' competition organised as part of Turin Comics, where he was one of the finalists thanks to a short story on the superhero theme. From there he worked first for Cronaca di Topolina on the fantasy series "Avalonia" and later on the noir series "Avatar". In 2005 he published for Eura Editoriale on the weekly Lanciostory with a story by Diego Cajelli. In the same year he published the space opera "Jek Vans" published in Italy on Brand new (Free-Books) and in France for the publishing house Clair De Lune. He then began collaborating with Panini Comics, first on the "X-Campus" project, a revisitation of the "mutant icons" of the Red Whale studio, then for the comic series "Cronache Del Mondo Emerso", set in the fantasy universe created by writer Licia Troisi and with a script by Roberto Recchioni. At the beginning of 2009 he landed on the American market, producing hundreds of pages for the most important publishing houses, including Marvel Comics, for which he produced the miniseries "Dark Reign: Mister Negative", written by Fred Van Lente, and where he was responsible for the graphic restyling of several characters, including Coniglia Bianca. Then he is at work on the acclaimed series "Secret Warriors" written by Brian Michael Bendis and Jonathan Hickman, and later he does the series dedicated to Black Panther, "Klaws of the Panther", written by Jonathan Maberry. In 2010, he also worked for Idw, on the mini-series "G.I.Joe: Operation Hiss" written by Brian Reed. In 2011 he arrived at DC Comics as part of the "Flashpoint" event, working on the series "Lois Lane & the Resistance", written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and also for DC Comics from September 2011 he joined the 52 illustrators chosen worldwide for the reboot of the publishing house "The New 52" working on the regular series "Mr. Terrific", written by Eric Wallace Wallace. Terrific", written by Eric Wallace, where he is also the graphic creator of the character Brainstorm aka Dominic Lanse, who subsequently appeared in various DC comics stories and TV series such as The Flash. Since 2012 he has been working in parallel also for Sergio Bonelli Editore, first on the regular series "Saguaro", then joining the official creative staff of the fantasy series "Dragonero" for which so far he has drawn the story "Il racconto di Yannah" contained in issue 24 "Attraverso l'Erondàr" , the first episode of the 2015 Magazine, issue 39 "Tagliatrice Crudele", the 2018 annual special "La muraglia dei Trolls", and issue 9 of the new cycle "Scacco alla torre" . From 2015 to the present day he also collaborates permanently with the American publishing house Upper Deck, producing many superhero-themed illustrations, such as for Marvel Flair. In 2016 he returns again to work for Panini Comics, first realizing a fantasy story as a teaser for the game "Afterworld" presented at San Diego Comicon and later on the series "Angie digitwin" new comic book by Panini Comics in collaboration with TIM. In 2018 he also collaborates with Aftershock Comics as cover artist, creating the variant cover of the first issue of the series "Her infernal Descent". In parallel, he is also under contract with 2 major French publishing houses, Glènat and Soleil. For Glènat he has published a long graphic novel entitled "Coeurs Gelès" which is part of the successful Flesh & Bones series, also reprinted in Italy by Editoriale Cosmo, while for Soleil, he has the honour of being the first tome in the new series "Les Maìtres Assassins". Also for Soleil, he has produced a volume within the acclaimed series 'Orcs et Gobelin', due out in 2024. Since 2023 he has also been working with the French publishing house Oxymore Editions, for which he is producing a tome within the new historical series 'Titans' . Since 2024 he has been under contract with Boom Studios as cover artist on the acclaimed 'Amory Wars' series. In the field of illustration, he is currently under contract with Blizzard Entertainment, the global video game giant, and in parallel for Marvel Comics in the realisation of several illustrations within the MarvelSnap event. In 2023, he had the honour of designing one of the posters for the tour of the world-famous rock band Coheed & Cambria. In the past, he was involved in the graphic design of the "Yonamba" project, a numerology application for iPhone and iPad released worldwide, for which he created 20 illustrations related to numerology. In 2012, he created the cover for the international medical-scientific magazine 'RNA biology'. And he was among the artists selected, on display at the Museo del Fumetto in Milan, for the event dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Spiderman myth. In the meantime, he is also involved in the film industry as a storyboard artist for advertisements, short films and movies. Among these, he created the storyboards for the film "Mala Vita" by director Angelo Licata, a RAI production that was nominated for the Nastri d'Argento and won many awards, including a special mention of the National Union of Italian Film Journalists. He has been teaching at the School of Comics in Palermo for several years.