Draft:Alessandro Barbucci

Alessandro Barbucci (born 31 October 1973, Genoa) is an Italian cartoonist.

Career
In 1991, at age 18, Barbucci drew his first story for Walt Disney Company Italia. He also contributed to the illustrations of many Disney magazines and other creative projects such as the New Characters Research (1995).

From 1996 to 1998, he taught the drawing technique "tecnica del fumetto" as the Disney Academy in Italy. In 1996, He took part to the character designs and the storyboarding of the Disney Babies cartoons. In 1997, he became the character designer for the 3D animated movie Winnie the Pooh. That year, he was awarded the "Topolino d'oro" both for the Topolino comics Donald Duckling (Paperino Paperotto) he co-created with Diego Fasano and for his collaboration to the Paperinik (PK) comic book.

From 1997 to 2000 he created the W.I.T.C.H. comics series with his spouse Barbara Canepa, for which he was rewarded a "Topolino d'oro" for the second time in 2002.

In 2000, he also started with Barbara Canepa the science-fiction comic book Sky-doll.

In 2003, he launched Monster Allergy with Katja Centomo, Francesco Artibani and Barbara Canepa, as a productor and drawing supervisor.

In 2013, he draw the first comic book Ekhö, monde miroir, written by Christophe Arleston.