Lelio Bonaccorso


Lelio Bonaccorso, is an Italian comic artist and illustrator.
He collaborated with prestigious Italian newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Gazzetta dello Sport, L'Unità, Wired and participated in various comic festivals such as Lucca Comics, Napoli Comicon, Etna Comics, Lamezia Comics by exhibiting personal and collective works.
His foreign collaborations, mainly with France, made him well-known also abroad, particularly in Europe, North America and Latin America.
He taught at the School of Comics in Palermo and in Messina. He specialised both in graphic journalism, for which he was awarded in many public occasions, and pop comics, for which Bonaccorso can boasts collaborations with publishing houses as Marvel and Disney.
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Biography

Lelio Bonaccorso was born in Messina, where he attended the local art school. He continued his studies at the School of Comics in Palermo, where he met the screenwriter Marco Rizzo, with which he began a long and successful collaboration started with the publication, in 2009, of the comic "Peppino Impastato un giullare contro la mafia", which won the Satire Prize in Forte dei Marmi, the Giancarlo Siani Prize in Naples and the Boscarato Prize for best screenplay.
Their collaboration continues with the publishing of other comics as “Gli ultimi giorni di Marco Pantani", "Que Viva el Che Guevara", "Jan Karski. L’uomo che scoprì l’olocausto", "Gli Arancini di Montalbano", “La mafia spiegata ai bambini" and “L’immigrazione spiegata ai bambini” "Salvezza" and "A casa nostra...cronaca da Riace", the latter also published in France for Futuropolis.
In 2012 Bonaccorso started to collaborate with Marvel and DC Comics/Vertigo. Moreover, this collaboration with the Italian Panini Comics lead him to the realisation of a series of illustrations of the X-Men, of a monthly cover of the Justice League and of a poster for Warner Bros and Panini/Dcomics.
Between 2013 and 2021 he published: "Á bord de l'Aquarius" and "Chez nous" with Marco Rizzo ; "Vendetta", "Le Pére Turc" and "Le Sarde" with the screenwriter Loulou Dédola; "Caravaggio e la ragazza" based on a script by Nadia Terranova ; ”The Passenger" and "Sinai, la terra illuminata dal sole".
He edited the illustrations of the books: "Il leggendario Federico II" by Valentina Certo, "Capi, colleghi, carriere. Questi sconosciuti" by Marco Morelli, “Ho visto un re”, by Simone Giorgi.
In collaboration with the Sicilian director Antonello Piccione, Bonaccorso created several animated shorts films, among them was "U Piscispada". and "To the stars", which was awarded with various national and international prizes.
Furthermore, he took part in the group exhibition promoted by the Arezzo Wave festival, whose works of art were auctioned off by Sotheby's Milan for charity.
Finally, he realised storyboards for commercials, including "Tuscanini" and “The Italian good style" for Caruso, by Giancarlo Giannini, winner of the Bokeh Fashion Film Festival in South Africa.
In December 2021 Bonaccorso organised and the exhibition “Illustrazioni e fumetti al MuMe", in partnership with the Management of the Regional Museum of Messina, in which he exhibited his works together with those of the artists Michela De Domenico and Fabio Franchi.
He holds training courses, seminars and meetings in various universities, schools and associations, e.g. the Chile Institute of Italian Culture.

Works

Resistenze, BeccoGiallo, 200713, Alien PressAvatar, Cronache di TopoliniaMono, TunuèZero tolleranza, BeccoGiallo, 2008Peppino Impastato. Un giullare contro la mafia, BeccoGiallo, 2009Gli ultimi giorni di Marco Pantani, Rizzoli Lizard, 2011Primo, Edizioni BD, 2011Que viva el Che Guevara, BeccoGiallo, 2011Gli arancini di Montalbano, La Gazzetta dello Sport, 2009Chi si ricorda di Nino Agostino?, in La Lettura 38, Corriere della Sera, 2012Fear itself the homefront, Marvel Comics, 2012The Unexpected, DC Comics - Vertigo, 2012L'invasione degli scarafaggi. La mafia spiegata ai bambini, BeccoGiallo, 2012Il Satiro rubato, in La Lettura 66, Corriere della Sera, 2013Jan Karski. L'uomo che scoprì l'Olocausto, Rizzoli Lizard, 2014Jan Karski, in La Lettura 113, Corriere della Sera, 2014.Uno, nessuno, centomila migranti, in Wired Italia 63, Condé Nast Italia, 2014419 African Mafia, Ankama Editions, 2014La traiettoria delle Lucciole, BeccoGiallo, 2015L'immigrazione spiegata ai bambini, BeccoGiallo, 2016The Passenger, Tunuè, 2016Sinai, la terra illuminata dalla luna, Beccogiallo, 2017
  • Three stories in the mini-series "I pirati dei Caraibi", Disney, 2017Le pére turc, Glénat, 2018 Salvezza, Feltrinelli, 2018... A casa nostra. Cronaca da Riace, Feltrinelli, 2019À bord de l'Aquarius, Futuropolis, 2019To the stars , animated short film, 2019Tarocchi Siciliani, 2019Capi, colleghi, carriere. Questi sconosciuti, Gribaudo, 2020Il leggendario Federico II, Giambra, 2020
  • Cover for Justice League - City edition, DC Comics/Panini, 2020Dylan Dog Color Fest, Sergio Bonelli Editore, 2020Ho visto un re, Gribaudo, 2020Caravaggio e la ragazza, Feltrinelli, 2021Le Sarde, Glénat, 2021Chez Nous, Futuropolis, 2021
  • X-Men cards, Panini/Marvel, 2021Sinai, la terre qu'illumine la lune, Futuropolis, 2021Vendetta, Steinkis, 2021
  • DC Super Challenge poster, Panini/ DCcomics, 2021Vento di libertà, Tunué, 2022Pour que le crime ne paie plus, La Revue dessiné, 2022

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