Laura Zuccheri

Laura Zuccheri (born Budrio, Bologna, Italy, 4 October 1971) is an Italian comic artist, illustrator, and painter.

Laura Zuccheri
Laura Zuccheri at "O Tour de la Bulle" comic strip festival (Montpellier, 2019)
Born4 October 1971 (1971-10-04) (age 52)
Budrio, Bologna, Italy
Area(s)
Notable works
AwardsGrand Guinigi Award

Biography

Laura Zuccheri is the daughter of former basketball player and coach, Ettore Zuccheri.[1]

She debuted her work in 1992 in the Ken Parker Magazine by Giancarlo Berardi and Ivo Milazzo, which in 1993, was acquired by Sergio Bonelli Editore. In 1994, she drew, together with her colleague Pasquale Frisenda, the Ken Parker western adventure titled "I condannati", with a script by Giancarlo Berardi and Maurizio Mantero.[2] In 1996, she made "Hardware", a comic published in Zona X.[3] The following year, she entered the team of the detective comic, Julia-le avventure di una criminologa, created by Giancarlo Berardi.[4]

In 2006, Zuccheri began her collaboration with the French writer Sylviane Corgiat drawing Épées de verre, a medieval fantasy genre comic made up of four albums, published in 2009 by Les Humanoïdes Associés.[5] For this French publisher, she also made the science fiction comic, Retour sur Belzagor, with a script by Philippe Thirault (2017).[6]

Zuccheri made a special album for Tex, published in 2019,[7] being the first woman to draw this popular Western Italian comic.[1]

She paints landscapes and portraits.[8]

Awards
  • Grand Guinigi Award for Best Art, Lucca Festival, for "Swords of Glass"[9]

References
  1. Borgoglio, Francesco (14 March 2019). "Bonelli, 70 anni di Tex – intervista a Laura Zuccheri". badcomics.it (in Italian).
  2. "Ken Parker Speciale # 1 – I condannati :: ComicsBox". www.comicsbox.it (in Italian). Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  3. "Laura Zuccheri". www.sergiobonelli.it (in Italian). Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  4. "Collaboratori – Sergio Bonelli". www.sergiobonelli.it (in Italian). Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  5. "Les Epées de verre T1 : Yama". www.humano.com (in French). Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  6. "Retour sur Belzagor T1". www.humano.com (in French). Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  7. "Doc! – Sergio Bonelli". sergiobonelli.it (in Italian). 5 June 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-06-05. Retrieved 9 June 2023 – via web.archive.org.
  8. "Laura Zuccheri - Contemporary Art". www.salamonfineart.com. Salamon Fine Art. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  9. "Laura Zuccheri". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
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