Pini Segna

Pini Segna (Florence, October 22, 1925 – Salmour, September 13, 2012) was an Italian comics artist, painter, and WWII partisan. After graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1944, he joined the partisans in the Langhe region. Following the war, he moved to Milan and began his comics career in 1946, scripting and drawing for various publishers including Audace.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Segna worked on numerous titles—Carnera, Penna Azzurra, Pantera Bionda, and Mandrake, among others—for a range of Italian and French publishers. His collaboration with what would become Sergio Bonelli Editore (then Daim Press) began in 1977, when he illustrated the adventure series Zagor. In the 1990s, Segna settled in Dogliani, where he focused on painting. After health complications arising from a car accident and subsequent stroke, he spent his last years in a care facility in Salmour, passing away in 2012. He is buried in the Bruzzano cemetery in Milan.