About Me
My name's Matteo Casali and I am a professional comics creator based in Italy. Over the past ten years, I've worked for companies in the US (DC Comics, Image, SLG), France, (Casterman, Panini), Germany (Tilsner-Speed, Panini) and of course Italy (Panini, Lizard, Edizioni BD, Magic Press, Coconino and others).Together with artist Giuseppe "Cammo" Camuncoli, in 1997, I founded the comc-lab Innocent Victim, whose members work for many different publishers in Italy and abroad.I have had the honor to be the first Italian scriptwriter to work for a US major comics publisher writing CATWOMAN and JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED for DC Comics.My works include the (still unpublished) miniseries BATMAN: EUROPA for DC Comics and other creator-owned books such as BONEREST, the graphic novel SOTTO UN CIELO CATTIVO ("Under a Vicious Sky"), SILENT DANCE and QUEBRADA.2007 saw the release of the 7th episode of THE SCORPIONS OF THE DESERT (Casterman & Lizard) where Cammo and I inherited the story comics-master Hugo Pratt left unfinished when he passed away in 1995. A true honor and a great commitment.Early in 2008, Panini Comics started publishing a three-issue miniseries titled LA NEVE SE NE FREGA ("The Snow Does Not Care"), the comic adaptation of famed Italian rockstar Luciano Ligabue's bestselling novel.I have two other projects breeding at DC Comics (a graphic novel at Vertigo and a miniseries at Wildstorm), in addition to the next SCORPIONS story we are already working on --something is cooking in France as well, yeah.And I have no intention to stop anywhere soon...
Cheers!- M(p.s.: I have a blog with zero entries and not much time to dedicate to this myspace page, but I will at least update it every once in a while --and you can contact me thru it if needed.)
