Alessandro Costa

Born in 1982. He has been teaching at the “Scuola del Fumetto di Milano” since 2009. As an illustrator, he has created illustrated books and comics for Mondadori (“9” by Luca Campolunghi), Piemme (more than 30 books as an inker, colorist, and illustrator for the Geronimo Stilton series), Il Battello a vapore (“Mostri marini”), Electa (Daniele Cabras “un ragazzo tenero”), Fabbri Editore (Jumbodrillo “maschio Zeta” and “Lei contro Lui” by Casa Abis), Rizzoli (colorist for Luca Usai in “Posaman and Friends”), Panini (illustrator for Disney Anthology in collaboration with Dario Moccia).
He has collaborated with advertising and communication agencies such as Wunderman Thompson and McCann Worldgroup Italia as a caricaturist, visualizer, and storyboard artist with the following clients: Ferrero, Lucky Strike, Adidas, Gazzetta dello sport, Jack Daniel's, Indesit, Pavesi, Tim, and Mulino Bianco.
He has worked for brands such as MICAM, Dea Kids, A.M.S.A., HeikoXplore, Levis Kids, and Confindustria Bergamo. He has created promotional mascots for Belmond Hotels, Barf Evolution, SKY Italia, F.C. Nogaredo, and U.S. Levico Terme.
For several years, he has been illustrating board games for Cranio Creations Srl.
As a colorist, he has created two volumes of Green Hell (text by Alex Crippa, drawings by Francesco Castelli) published by Tatai Lab and released in France by Paquet Edition. For the same publisher, he drew Livania (text by Francesco Vacca), which was also released in France by Claire de Lune and subsequently acquired by Nubes.
For If edizioni, he was the art director for a series of children's books inspired by great characters from Italian comics. (“Eva Kant,” “Blek Macigno,” “Gli Aristocratici,” “Il Maestro”).