Collection: Simone Bianchi Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

Simone Bianchi is an Italian comic book illustrator, painter, graphic designer and art instructor, born 1972 in Lucca, Italy. He is known to Italian audiences for his work in comics, CD covers, music videos, TV commercials and role-playing games. His most popular Italian comics is the trilogy Ego Sum. To American comic book readers, Simone Bianchi is best known for his work on comics such as Detective Comics, Green Lantern, X-Men and Wolverine. Simone Bianchi's style is distinguished by his use of ink wash, or watercolor halftones, in rendering his work, a non-traditional technique by mainstream American standards.

For Simone Bianchi, it all began when as a child he was fascinated by the world of illustration, reading the comics of “Corno”, the publishing house that was the first to bring superheroes like Spider-Man, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four and Batman to Italy. This was a passion of Simone, which soon became his profession. At the age of 15 he published his first strips in the newspaper "Il Tirreno”. At 20 Simone began the study of realistic drawing and at 22 he collaborated with “Sergio Bonelli Editore”. In 2000, while teaching at the International School of Comics in Florence, he published "Echi", his first official portfolio. In those years he also collaborated with “Direct2Brain of Latina”, specializing in 3D design, dealing with scripts, storyboards and the study of characters for some video clips such as "Stop the Train" by 99 Posse, as well as designing the covers of some heavy metal music CDs.

In 2004 Simone Bianchi's first work was published: "Ego Sum", a science fiction story whose second volume was published in various European countries in 2005. In the same year Lucca Comics & Games, the International Fair dedicated to comics, animation, games, video games and fantasy and science fiction, celebrates Simone in two ways: by setting up his first solo exhibition entitled "Profeta in patria" (Prophet in his homeland) and by having him create the poster for the 2005 edition. Simone also publishes "Onirika", his third art book. It is in this year that Simone began his collaboration with the most important American comic book publishers. 

For two years Simone Bianchi worked for DC Comics, for which he created covers for Green Lantern, Batman and Detective Comics, as well as the miniseries Shining Knight. In 2006 he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, for which he drew 6 issues of Wolverine, including the significant Issue #50. The following year he produced 6 issues of Astonishing X-Men. For this project he was entrusted with the task of redesigning the official costumes of the X-Men. His line was used by Marvel for the next 6 years in the various titles concerning the mutants. Together with Jeph Loeb, in 2009, he gives life to the new Wolverine's enemy Romolus.

The artwork of Simone Bianchi can be found not just in Comic Books, but around the world. From the Museum of Palazzo della Penna in Perugia to the Galerie du 9ème Art in Paris through the Chuck-Jones Gallery in San Diego - California. In 2010 he drew the miniseries Thor For Asgard in 6 books and the following year, Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force in 3 books. The collaboration with Jeph Loeb on Wolverine returned in 2012. In the 4 issues they will realize together, they created a new female figure close to the mutant - Remus - the second character created by Simone for Marvel. In 2013 Simone Bianchi worked on the 5-book miniseries Thanos Rising, which describes the development of the Titan's personality starting from his birth and the very first years of his life, with texts by Jason Aaron. The CArt Gallery of Rome dedicated to Simone an exhibition in 2013. In 2014 he created 3 issues of New Avengers. Soon after, he started working on Thor and Loki: The Tenth Realm, part of the Original Sin project.  The artwork of Simone Bianchi is currently credited in 446 Issues.