Alessandro Biffignandi (8 October 1935 – 22 January 2017)[2] was an Italian illustrator, mostly known for his covers for digest-sized, adult comics whose themes were sex, violence, and horror.
[1] In 1954, he was accepted as a student in the studio of Averardo Ciriello, a movie theater billboard designer.
[1] In 1958[3] (or 1960),[4] Biffignandi moved to Milan and joined the art agency of Rinaldo Dami (aka Roy D'Ami), which was producing comic strips for the British market on assignment from Fleetway, DC Thomson, and others.
[1] By the early 1970s, the popularity in Italy of the digest-sized fumetti comics whose themes were mostly sex, violence, and horror, was at its peak.
[5] From 1984 onwards, Biffignandi concentrated on magazine and book covers and illustrations,[1] also doing oil paintings on commission.