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Original Illustration Drawings "Millie Mix e Naomi" by Italian artist, illustrator and comic author Massimo Rotundo!
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Massimo Rotundo is an Italian comic artist, illustrator and painter.
After attending the Academy of Fine Arts and earning a diploma in decoration, he debuted as a cartoonist by collaborating with Eura Editoriale in 1978 on the magazine Lanciostory, drawing comics and covers. It wasn’t long before his name appeared on other magazines such as Heavy Metal and L’Écho des Savanes.

In the early eighties, the golden age of auteur comics magazines, Rotundo alternated his collaboration among various titles. After Eura’s weekly editions, Rotundo briefly joined L’Eternauta and, in issue 12 of the February 1983 magazine, published L’ultimo viaggio a Delos, a short full-color science fiction story of just four pages with texts by Maria Teresa Contini. After this brief experience Rotundo would return to the magazine’s pages only ten years later with Tigre Tigre, another science fiction comic written this time by Riccardo Barreiro.

In the same period he made his debut in Orient Express, issue 7, January 1983, with the fascinating comics story Il Pescatore, with scripts by Riccardo Barreiro, a science fiction tale set in a possible future devastated by mankind’s recklessness. Subsequently, again in Orient Express, he published Il detective senza nome, scripted by Luigi Mignacco starting from issue 17 of the December 1983 magazine. Both comics were later reprinted in the Gli albi di Orient Express collection. In Orient Express issue 26, November 1984, still with Barreiro scripts, he created the short story of private investigator Lou Alcaide titled Un drago sull’autostrada. Meanwhile he collaborated with numerous fashion and costume magazines but also with comics magazines such as Glamour and Diva.

In 1985 he began collaborating with Comic Art on the story La città del non ritorno, with texts by Giuseppe Ferrandino. The collaboration with the magazine would last a long time and would see the birth of some important characters. In Comic Art appeared the six episodes that make up the comic Esotica, created in collaboration with Franco Saudelli for the supplement L’Espresso Più starting from May 1987. In January 1987, in issue 29 of Comic Art, Sera Torbara makes its debut, a historical-set comic with complex characters and captivating plots, with its first episode: Il volo degli dei. The protagonist, Sera Torbara, is an Ottoman army officer, a deserter and killer. Followed by Le lacrime di Giuda from Comic Art issue 60 of October 1989 and Marcia turca, a series of five short stories published from issue 66 of April 1990, composed of Barcarola, Gavotta, Allegro, Quadriglia and Gran finale, which are actually a prequel to the events told in the first episode. Also in Comic Art from issue 66 of April 1990 appears the character Tovarisc Nina, scripted and drawn by Rotundo, which the author defined as the Perestroika comic, a curious pseudo-communist setting with glamorous, and undressed, women soldiers with no interest in war. The first episode, Guerra calda, shows a near future where Russia did not collapse and the USSR is still standing.

Rotundo also participated in the creation of the multi-author comic Rudy X, published starting from Comic Art issue 37, October 1987; the series, produced by Comic Art itself, saw several authors handling different aspects of the comic. Rotundo took care of studying the look, physiognomies and clothing of the characters while the other involved authors were Traini, Pedrazzi, Saudelli, Coletta, Torti.

For the French publisher Albin Michel he published in 1988 the erotic series Ex Libris Eroticis, which brought him recognition and appreciation in France. These are very short stories where erotism is linked to history and the culture of settings, each time consisting of a different city chosen as the backdrop, reimagining in comics the erotica literature and illustration of the early twentieth century. The comic was later reprinted in the adult comics magazine Blue, starting from issue 4 of April 1991, under the title Atlante Erotico. It was then reissued as a volume with the original title Ex Libris Eroticis. Rotundo’s collaboration with Blue began even earlier, from the first issue of the magazine, including the publication of several short stories; notably, Rotundo himself did the cover of Blue’s first issue in January 1991. For Blue he also created the Chinagirl series, still erotica but with a more exotic setting, the Far East.

Subsequently he was also appreciated for his comic adaptations of literary works, among which La pelle di Zigrino, a novel by Honoré de Balzac, Pasolini, based on scripts by Jean Dufaux, and I miti greci. A comics adaptation of Luciano De Crescenzo’s works.

Since 1998 he has been part of the Sergio Bonelli Editore stable, which involved him from the early stages of the creation of the new character Brendon, conceived by Claudio Chiaverotti, for which he drew several episodes, including the first, Nato il 31 febbraio del giugno 1998. The series is set in a desolate post-nuclear future and Brendon is a classic, spotless, fearless adventurer knight. Starting from issue 46 Rotundo has been entrusted with the covers of the series, previously done by Corrado Roi. Since 2007 he has also been the cover artist of the mini-series Volto Nascosto, created by Gianfranco Manfredi for Sergio Bonelli Editore, in addition to drawing some episodes.

For the many magazines such as Métal Hurlant, Torpedo, Sette with which he collaborated, Rotundo also created short and self-contained stories.

He also collaborated with writer Giuseppe Ferrandino as a illustrator for comics such as Nero and Sandokan.

Among his more recent works, produced directly in volume, is worth noting the horror-tinged saga Prediction (scripted by Pierre Makyo and colored by Emanuele Tenderini) which so far has reached its second episode and published by Delcourt.

Rotundo is also one of the founders and teachers of the Scuola Romana dei Fumetti and also works for cinema and theater. In cinema he collaborated as an illustrator with costume designer Milena Canonero on numerous films and stage productions. He has worked as a sketch artist for Paul Verhoeven’s Crusade, Julie Taymor’s Titus (Oscar-nominated for costumes), Joe Johnston’s Wolfman, and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. In animation he did the character design for the series Ulisse. Il mio nome è Nessuno (Kineo-Diamanti Cartoon On The Bay Award at the Venice Film Festival 2012) produced by RAI and The Animation Band.

Among his awards, in 1990 he won the Yellow Kid for Best Italian Illustrator at Lucca International Comics Salon and in 1992 the F.M. prize of Trani, Foiano city.

Rotundo is also a painter, signing his works under the pseudonym “Max Grecoriaz.” In 2015 he drew for Sergio Bonelli Editore the Texone No. 30 “Tempesta su Galveston” written by Pasquale Ruju.

In 2018 he won the Romics Gold Career Award, with Martin Freeman and Tsukasa Hojo also receiving honors.

In 2021 he drew for Sergio Bonelli Editore the special maxi Tex No. 29 “Mississipi Ring.”

In February 2024, Tex alla francese No. 18 titled “Bounty hunters” with texts by Pasquale Ruju, was released by Sergio Bonelli Editore, on which Rotundo handled the drawings, colors and cover.