Barbara Canepa
- Age: 40
- Gender: Female
- Industry: Arts
- Location: Wonderland : France
About Me
WRITER , ILLUSTRATOR and EDITOR.
Interests
- Born on the 19th January 1969 in Genoa. After reading Architecture at University
- she began working as commercial artist and as illustrator. In 1996
- she started a collaboration with the Walt Disney Company: she took part to several creative projects as illustrator
- drawer and character designer. Together with Alessandro Barbucci
- in 1997 she gave life to the new magazine W.I.T.C.H. In fact
- they took part to the project’s editing
- they created the characters
- the background
- the graphic design and the color of a project that since April 2001 has been having a huge success all over the world. Since 1997
- they have been working on the science-fiction saga SKY DOLL
- published in France by Soleil
- and in USA (Heavy Metal and Marvel)
- China
- Germany… in over 18 countries in all. Acclaimed by the public and the critics
- in the recent years it has been awarded many times as best series of the year
- best color and design throughout Europe. Eventually
- they are the graphic editors of the new series MONSTER ALLERGY
- a comics for kids published in 2003 by Soleil in France
- in Germany by Egmont
- and in 2004 in the rest of the world as a monthly magazine for the Walt Disney Company. Since January 2006
- the series has been brought to TV as a cartoon
- produced by Rainbow
- Futurikom and Disney Channel. Purchased in 2005 by Warner Bros for the USA
- it is aired on Cartoon Network e M6. Currently
- Barbara Canepa is working on Sky Doll 4
- on the gothic series END
- which will be realized in collaboration with an Italian Disney artist
- Anna Merli . END is part of a new Soleil’s collection: Metamorphose
- which she directs. Lastly
- in 2007 she created a new publishing label: Venusdea. It’s a label independent of Soleil which
- strating from 2009
- will feature international artists beyond the comics’ world. It will be edited all over the world in two languages
- and will contain brand new projects
- closer to the field of art than to the comics.
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