Paolo Bacilieri is one of the most original voices of Italian comics, an author capable of ranging from research comics to the serial dimension, always asserting his own style. Especially in the adventures of his alter ego Zeno Porno, Bacilieri warns us about the frailty and complexity of contemporary living, thanks to stories in the balance between a metaphorical interpretation, and a fantastic atmosphere that springs up from everyday life.
Bacilieri has interiorized the lection of some comics masters as Chester Gould and Robert Crumb, Andrea Pazienza, Milo Manara, working it out in a style that has evolved graphically into a more and more complex panel, enriched with hundreds of lines, half tones and textures, strokes of whitener and ball-point pen. He made his debùt in 1986, when he was just 21 years old, in the renowned French magazine “A Suivre“ with the story “Il tesoro degli Imbala”.
In 1994 he carries out Durasagra Venezia Uber Alles in which he revisits the triad of Andrea Pazienza's characters Zanardi-Colasanti-Petrilli. After the publication of The Supermaso attitude, he starts the serialization of the adventures of Zeno Porno, a Disney comics scriptwriter, ex-CIA agent, Bacilieri's alter ego, protagonist in Zeno Porno (2005) and La magnifica desolazione (2007), both published in Italy by Kappa edizioni.
He has been awarded with many prizes for his works, published in France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Brazil and US.
Coming out for Bilbolbul the book that collects some of the episodes drawn by Bacilieri for the "Napoleone" series, published by Rizzoli Lizard.