My name is Antonio Biella, I was born in Rome on April 15, 1970.
When I was nine, my parents and I moved to Sicily, their homeland.
Since I was a child, I’ve always been drawing, with my parents' approval.
At the end of middle school I attended a vocational school in mechanics and began to study
arts in depth by myself.
Once again I've been living in Rome, for two years, where I had comics lessons and
did military service; then I went back to Sicily where I practiced drawing with more determination.
I love comics so much that I created some stories: in 1993 I realized "Skittle and Meatball",
a series about two strange gosling looking boys, in which I described the simple daily life of provincial teenagers.
In these stories I put the memories of a free and careless childhood spent with my grandparents, during summertime.
In that small mountain village my friends and I used to herd the cows to pasture every day and in the evening we played in the streets.
Between 1994 and 1996, due to my love for music, I cooperated with "Ver Sacrum", a gothic magazine, and with "Old Europa Café", a record company specialized
in industrial and ambient music, creating covers for some of their productions. In 1997 I created a small publishing house, B.G.A. Comix, and I published a collection bearing the same title, made of
eleven monographic books, each dedicated to a young |
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