Fabrizio Busticchi e Luana Paesani

Born in Milan on November 16, 1953, Fabrizio Busticchi graduated in advertising graphics from the Istituto d'Arte in Monza. He began his career as an illustrator for Rizzoli, then, in the mid-1970s, took on his first work in comics publishing: Corrier Boy (for which he drew the series Edge), Intrepido, SuperGulp!, and Full, the latter published by Sergio Bonelli Editore in 1983. He gave graphic definition to Allan Quatermain, the adventurer-archaeologist conceived by Alfredo Castelli as a precursor to the more famous Martin Mystère and inspired by the character created by Henry Rider Haggard. In 1991 he drew several pages of the Martin Mystère episode in which this literary prototype appears, titled Allan Quatermain (no. 112), and in 1993 he joined the team of artists on Mister No, a title to which he would contribute for many years, working in partnership with Luana Paesani. Again with Paesani on inks, he later drew for Demian in 2006, for Saguaro in 2012, and, that same year, for Universo Alfa, a satellite series of Nathan Never. He passed away in Milan on February 15, 2017.

Born in Rome on April 23, 1970, Luana Paesani attended the Scuola del Fumetto in Milan and made her debut on the historic titles of the publisher Universo: Il Monello and Intrepido. She also worked as an illustrator (covers for books, records, and videocassettes) before, in 1993, making her debut on the pages of Mister No in partnership with Fabrizio Busticchi. After their long experience among the pages of the Amazonian pilot, the duo joined the team of artists on the mini-series Demian (2006), then went on to work together on Saguaro (from 2012) and Universo Alfa.