Riccardo Burchielli (born 27 February 1975) is an Italian artist known for his work on the DC/

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comic book series '' DMZ'', his first work in the United States.

Early life

Burchielli was born in Peccioli, near

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."Interview with Burchielli"
fumettidicarta.

Career

Burchielli began his career in 1997, with a story of Desdy Metus and later he worked for Ediperiodici. From 2003, he illustrated three stories for ''John Doe''. In 2005 he co-created '' DMZ'' with writer Brian Wood. The series was published under

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label. After ''DMZ'', he drew

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, Conan and Avengers. In 2010, he was among the founding members of Italian Job Studio, a creative collective active in the television and cross-media production field. In the same year his works were exhibited at the Cité dell'Architecture in Paris as part of the Exhibition Archi & BD. In 2014 he worked on ''Highway To Hell'', a horror miniseries, written by Victor Gischler and Boosta. While collaborating with Sergio Bonelli Editore on '' Dylan Dog'', he performed work for

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and BMW Motorrad. and as a character designer for cinema and video games. In 2021, ''DMZ'' became a TV series directed by Ava DuVernay for the American platform HBO Max.

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* 1975 births DC Comics people Marvel Comics people Living people People from the Province of Pisa Italian comics artists {{Europe-comics-creator-stub