Battestini Roberto

Roberto Battestini is a comic artist, graphic designer and language enhancer. He attended the International Comics School in Rome until 1993. in 1997 he followed the creative writing courses by Vincenzo Cerami (Un Borghese piccolo piccolo/La vita è bella) and Roberto Cotroneo (Otranto); he has been working with prominent Italian Comics magazines since 1996. He also works for scholastics and magazines. In 1997, the comic book Peluche sullo stomaco appeared, the unique comic published in the contatti essays book series and in 2009 emerged Fratelli, which obtained the first prize at "Arena!" comics festival in Bologna and a nomination at the Naples comic book festival in 2010. He also translates comics from English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. He creates the book series "Catecomics" with the EDB publisher in Bologna. He publishes a Saint Francis and John Paul II biography for the Roman publisher Ave. In 2010 and 2011, he won the "Faith in Strips" prize during the CartoonClub festival in Rimini. In 2018 he published the autobiographical graphic novel "A caro Sangue" with the 001 Editions, Turin. In 2018 he won the "Genti d'Abruzzo" prize for the comics category. With the publisher Neo Comics, he publishes the graphic novel Abbà Father, which has recently won the first prize during the Vito Moretti literary festival in the Graphic Novel category. In July, he gets a special mention for the graphic novel Abbà Padre during the Cartoon Club Rimini Festival. He has worked in the field of screenwriting since 2006. He is currently working as a screenwriter with Red Film for a tv series based on his formerly novel A Caro sangue. Prize Lorenzo Bartoli for his career on May 2024 during the Cassino Fantastica comics Festival.