Simone Bianchi (artist)

Bianchi's style is distinguished by his use of ink wash, or watercolor halftones,[2] in rendering his work, a non-traditional technique by mainstream American standards.

As a child, he had a love of superheroes, and took to tracing and copying illustrations of Spider-Man, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, Batman and Superman before he learned how to read and write.

[2][4] When he was fifteen, he published humor comic strips in the daily newspaper Il Tirreno, and went on to produce cartoons and vignettes in several other regional and national publications.

Subsequently, Bianchi illustrated the premiere issues of Nembo for Phoenix of Bologna, and Rivan Ryan for Comic Art of Rome, and 20 pages of Brendon for Sergio Bonelli Editore.

In 2002 Bianchi, working for Pegaso, illustrated the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, on which resin sculptures were based.

That December, he began work writing and illustrating the first volume of Ego Sum, for Vittorio Pavesio, the 44 pages of which took him most of 2003 to fully paint.

[1] In October 2005 Bianchi's third art book, Onirika, was published by Vittorio Pavesio Productions and presented to the public at a convention in Lucca, for which he painted the official poster,[1] on which he collaborated with his sister Gloria.

Bianchi first ongoing monthly work for an American Marvel book was Wolverine #50 (March 2007) to issue #55 (September 2007), which was written by Jeph Loeb.

[4][9] Bianchi also hopes to continue his work on Ego Sum, the third book of which he has yet to begin, though he has not spoken with Marvel as to whether they would publish it in the United States.

[4] Bianchi and writer Warren Ellis together worked on Astonishing X-Men, having taken over the book after the departures of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday.

Bianchi drawing at a convention
Artwork for the cover of Shining Knight #2 (2005), Bianchi's first American comic book work