Bio

Elena Casagrande (1983): after she attended the High School, she decided to follow her main passion, drawing, enrolling at the International School of Comics in Rome. While she was at school, she became David Messina's assistant, her teacher, starting to work with IDW Publishing. From that moment the collaboration with IDW continues for many years, working on comic books series like Star Trek (Klingons: Blood will tell, Orions, Q, Spock: Reflections), Ghost Whisperer (The haunted), Angel (Auld Lang Syne, Doyle, Smiletime, A hole in the world, Illyria: Haunted and 6° season), Infestation, True Blood (The French Quarter), Doctor Who (Prisoners of Time) and X-Files (Hosts, Deviations and Florida Man).

Always in USA she works for Marvel, drawing characters like Spiderman (Marvel Heartbreakers – A chemical romance, Ultimate Spiderman #157), Magik (variant cover New Mutant #4), Spitfire (Women in Marvel) and RedHulk (Hulk); for DC Comics she realized some pages of Arrow and The Flash, the mini-series of Vigilante: Southland, the annual of Batgirl - The Brightest star in Heaven, the short story Galentine's Day for the paperback Mysteries of Love in Space and the short story of Batman One for Batman Secret Files, some issues of Catwoman, the short story of Harley Quinn Little Christmas Tree for New Year's Evil, the short story of Wonder Woman The Interrogation for the issue #750 and some pages for the event series Trial of the Amazons; for the Image she has been on the Hack/Slash comic-book series finale; for Boom! Studios she has been the artist of the last series of Mike Carey, Suicide Risk, and illustrated the sequel novel of Big trouble in Little China; she launched the new series of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor for Titan Comics.

She's the artist of the last series of Black Widow for Marvel with Kelly Thompson as writer, Jordie Bellaire as colorist and Adam Hughes as regular cover artist; she and her team-mates won with this series the Eisner Award 2021 as Best New Series. 

She has been component of the Stormbreakers 2023 class and she currently works for Marvel on several titles.

In Italy she had few collaborations with Cronaca di Topolinia (Avalonia Special #3, Sol Mirror #2), Star Comics (La Stirpe di Elan, Jonathan Steel), Tunuè (Mono #2 e #6), Renoir (Tales of Avalon), Manfont (Carlo Lorenzini, Boomouse, Kimera Mendax) and Panini Comics (Il ragazzo Invisibile). She's the regular cover artist on Kalya for Bugs Comics.


She has been a component of the Truckers Studio.

She's a teacher at the Scuola Romana dei Fumetti, in Rome.

**Puoi trovare le mie pubblicazioni estere in italiano pubblicate da Panini Comics, RW Lion, Bao Publishing, Italy Comics e Free Books.

You can find my american publications in several european countries:
- Aleta Ediciones, Fandagonia and Panini Comics in Spain;
- Panini Comics in Germany;
- Akileos and Panini Comics in France.**


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