Igort

• Born 1958-07-26

Igort is an Italian comics artist, illustrator, script writer, and film director. He began his career in Bologna at the end of the seventies, collaborating with numerous magazines: including Linus, Alter, Frigidaire, Métal Hurlant, L'Écho des savanes, Vanity, The Face. Since the nineties, he collaborates with the Japanese publishing houses Kodansha, Brutus and Hon Hon do. In 2000 he founded the Coconino Press publishing house. In 2002 he published 5 is the perfect number, which is Igort's most popular book to date. In 2010, after a long residence between Ukraine, Russia and Siberia, Igort wrote and drew Ukrainian Notebooks. In 2011 he published Russian Notebooks, drawn following a report by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaja. From 2014 on, Igort published his Japanese notebooks.