Alessandro BARBUCCI

Alessandro Barbucci - Festival de Solliès 2016 © Le Monde de la BD

Alessandro BARBUCCI is an Italian cartoonist, also working for animation, especially alongside Disney. At 18 he joined Walt Disney Italy and drew for some of the group’s magazines. A few years later, he taught at the Disney Academie la tecnica del fumeto, while participating in various Disney projects, storyboard for cartoons, animation for others, creation for a series about Donald’s early years. From 1997, he works alongside Barbara Canepa, who will become his wife. He draws, she manages the colorization. Together, they created W.I.T.C.H., then the science-fiction series Sky-Doll, of which they are writers together and which counts, to date, 7 albums (4 volumes + 3 off-series). Since 2013, he has been working on the Ekhö monde miroir series, with Christophe Arleston, for Éditions Soleil.