Attilio Micheluzzi

Despite starting his career at a relatively late age, over the course of twenty years, he created numerous comic book stories such as Johnny Focus, Petra Chérie, Marcel Labrume, Rosso Stenton, Air Mail, Bab-el-Mandeb, Roy Mann, Siberia, Titanic, and Afghanistan.

In 1969, just before assuming the position of Architect of the Royal Household in Libya, he was forced to return to Naples following the coup d'état that brought Muammar Gaddafi to power.

At the age of forty-two, faced with difficulties in continuing his architectural career in Italy, Attilio Micheluzzi decided to radically change profession and began working as a comic book artist.

In 1974, Micheluzzi created his first serialized character, Johnny Focus, producing nearly twenty stories published in Corriere dei Ragazzi until 1976, when he ended his collaboration with the magazine.

In 1976, Micheluzzi began working for Il Giornalino, illustrating the adventures of Capitan Erik, a character created by Claudio Nizzi and previously drawn by Ruggero Giovannini.

His work caught the attention of publisher Sergio Bonelli, who invited him to contribute to the series Un uomo un'avventura (One Man, One Adventure).

During this period, he also adapted I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) for Il Giornalino and created a comic biography of Anne Frank for Messaggero dei Ragazzi.

In 1988, Micheluzzi produced the long story Siberia for Corto Maltese, as well as Il triangolo maledetto (The Cursed Triangle), based on scripts by Federico Povoleri.

During this time, he also created short horror stories for the magazine Splatter by ACME, continuing a genre he had previously explored in works for the American market.

In 1990, Micheluzzi illustrated Francisco Pizarro en Peru - Los trece de la Fama for a major project by Editorial Planeta-De Agostini, titled Relato del Nuevo Mundo.