Ivan Lacitignola was born on the shores of Lake Maggiore, in Italy, in 1973. Passionate about all kinds of written tale and narrative from a young age, Ivan collects and plunges himself in US and European comic books, watches hundres of films and reads all genre fiction that comes his way (King, Barker, Poe, Lovecraft, Howard, Verne, and Salgari). In his spare time he plays (too many) video games and goes hiking. Currently, Ivan writes for the videogame industry and is working as a screenwriter on "Runes" (Source Point Press), his first creator-owned work available on the US market.

 

Alessia Teruggi was born in Verbania, a small province in the north of Italy, in 1989. Always a creative mind, as a young child Alessia loves to draw, play videogames and lose herself in
the pages of a good book. She achieved a Bachelor Degree in Biotechnology in 2013, setting aside her more creative self to pursue a career in the science field. After a MSc degree at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), she came back to Italy and starts working for a multinational corporation in Milan. In 2017, she met Francesco Iaquinta and Ivan Lacitignola at their hometown comic shop, and had the chance to explore the world of comic book creation, offering her languange skills for the project “Runes”. Her commitment to the project grew, and she learned digital color techniques.
She is now working with the same creative team on several other projects, but “Runes” is the first available on the US market.

Francesco Iaquinta grew up in a small town in Verbania, a province in the north of Italy.
Passionate about horror and pulp literature (Howard, Burroughs, Doyle, Poe, Lovecraft), after a
brief working period as a comic creator in Italy – and a nomination for the 2015 Boscarato Award
for "Rumble Kid" (Passenger Press) – Francesco got known on the US market with "Croak"
(Alterna Comics), which won him the 2016 Ghastly Award. He was then published in several anthologies: “Cargo” on IF Anthology (Alterna Comics), “Secret City” on Twisted Pulp: Out of the Blue (Stache publishing) and “The City” on Death of the Horror (A Brave Blue World). In 2018 Francesco was awarded with the ComicxCentral People's Choice Award
for the miniseries Sweet Heart (Action Lab), created by the writer Dillon Gilbertson.
The same work won him the 2020 Underrated Comics of the Year and the 2020 Best Horror
Miniserie of the Year. Francesco is currently busy creating "Runes" (Source Point Press), his first creator-owned work available on the US market.