Claudio Castellini

Claudio Castellini ( born March 3, 1966) is an Italian comic book artist.

Life and work

Castellini, whose drawing style is influenced among other things by the Americans Neal Adams and John Buscema, began working in the late 1980s as a professional cartoonist. His first published work, a story about the character " Dylan Dog " ( Dylan Dog # 30), was published in 1989 in the Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore.

In 1991, Castellini with the science- fiction series Nathan Never, whose cover he 59 (1996 ) recorded up to issue #, the first time a comic book before, whose concept he himself had developed.

Shortly thereafter, he could come to the U.S. comic Mark Foot: There he initially found work as a draftsman for the Fantastic Four series: Unlimited (1993-1994; # 4-13), as well as co- signatories of projects such as Silver Surfer: Annual # 7 ( 1994) Official and marvel index to the X -Men # 5 ( 1994). By Ron Marz and Peter David written, cross-publisher miniseries DC vs. Marvel / Marvel vs. DC 1996, for the next Castellini Dan Jurgens supplied the drawings, he became the industry's known in the United States. This was followed by projects such as the, also written by Marz, graphic novel, Silver Surfer: Dangerous Artifacts (1996 ), a poster for Green Lantern Gallery # 1 (1996 ), as well as for the mini-series Conan the Barbarian: Conan and the Stalker of the Woods ( 1997, 1-3) and Conan the Barbarian: River of Blood ( 1998 # 1-3).

There were jobs as a cover artist for Ekectra Magazine ( 1996 # 1-2) and Cosmic Powers: Unlimited ( 1995 # 1-4). Then Castellini took over numerous guest artist jobs, so for Best Comics # 24, Starblast # 1 ( 1994), Captain Marvel # 1 (1995 ), Peter Parker: Spider -Man ( 1997 # 77), Shadow & Light # 3 (1998), Blade: Sins of the Father # 1 ( 1998), X-Men Unlimited # 23 (1998), Star Wars: Star Wars Tales # 1-2 ( 1999), Dark Horse Presents # 137, Crossgen Chronicles # 1 ( 2000), Crossgen Sampler # 1 (2000 ) Robotech # 5 ( 2003, cover ), Thundercats: The Return # 4 ( 2003, cover ), The Mighty Thor: Lord of Asgard # 57, 66 (2003), Captain Marvel # 9 (2003 ), America's Best Comics (2004), Fantastic Four: Foes # 6 ( 2005) and Red Sonja # 14 (2006).

Firmer commitments took Castellini in recent years for the six-part miniseries Wolverine: The End ( 2004), as well as the series Batman: Gotham Knights ( 2005, # 19.69-74 ), Superman / Batman ( 2007; # 37, 38) and Countdown (2007, # 22, 24-26).