Gabriele Dell'Otto

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Gabriele Dell'Otto
Gabriele Dell'Otto - Studio.jpg
Dell'Otto in 2014
Born (1973-12-20) December 20, 1973 (age 51)
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Area(s)Artist
Notable works
Secret War

Gabriele Dell'Otto (born December 20, 1973) is an Italian illustrator and author whose works have been published in several countries in the fields of scientific illustration, comic books, calendars, lithographies, books, colored graphic folders, and cover work for magazines and video games.

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Early life

Dell'Otto was born December 20, 1973, in Rome. He received a diploma in artistic maturity and registered in the European Design Institute. [1] [2]

Career

In 1998, Dell'Otto started collaborating with the European division of Marvel Comics, producing covers, posters and lithographies for Italy, France and Germany. In Germany he started collaborating with DC Comics and other publishers such as IPP, Egmont Ehapa and MG Publishing.

In 2002 and 2003, the Italian Carabinieri hired him to design the images for their historical calendar.

In 2002, his work was shown to Joe Quesada, the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, who assigned him the art duties for the Secret War mini-series, written by Brian Michael Bendis.

In 2006, he illustrated the cover and promotional images of the Italian version of the Activision videogame Marvel: Ultimate Alliance .

Between 2006 and 2007, Dell'Otto provided the covers of the miniseries Annihilation , which starred the space-based characters of the Marvel Universe. In May 2007, he published the illustrated book Tales.

In 2009, he was the artist of the X-Force mini-series Sex and Violence, written by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost.

In January 2012, Dell'Otto illustrated the spine images for the books in The Official Marvel Graphic Novel Collection. When put together in order, the spines form a complete landscape image. In November, Dell'Otto penciled issues #14–15 of the Marvel ongoing series Avenging Spider-Man. [3] [4] He then drew issues #1 of One-shot Amazing Spider-Man: Family Business. In 2020, Dell'Otto drew the 1990s variant cover for The Joker 80th anniversary 100-page super spectacular #1

Dell'Otto created the poster for the American TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Aftershocks". [5]

Bibliography

Interior art

Cover work

Annihilation Prologue vol.1 #1 (2006)

References

  1. Gabriele Dell'Otto, Lambiek.net. accessed July 13, 2011.
  2. Gabriele Dell’Otto , ComicBookRealm.com. accessed July 13, 2011.
  3. "Avenging Spider-Man (2011) #14". Marvel Comics. November 7, 2012. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  4. "Avenging Spider-Man (2011) #15". Marvel Comics. December 5, 2012. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  5. Towers, Andrea (February 26, 2015). "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. launches second year of art campaign, The Art of Evolution -- exclusive". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on February 28, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2015.