Diego Simone
Penciler
Diego Simone was born on April 2, 1980, in the city of La Planta, Argentina.
He studied Arts at the Bellas Artes University in La Planta, where he became an art teacher specialising in drawing in 2005.
He also studied drawing and comic art with the illustrator Claudio Fontau, and also studied traditional animation at Crimsonia Studio.
In 2004 Diego started working at A Cuatro Manos studio as an animation assistant, where he drew for the movie "Patoruzito" from Argentina and later "Yo-Rhad and the Astromavericks" for Italy.
During 2005, he worked as animation assistant for the Spanish movie "Gisaku" from Filmax, and also he started working for the American publisher Carnal Comics, where he did the artwork for two short stories for the book "Djustine Tales of the Twisted Best #2".
Also, during that year, along with a group of friends, he started Macavre, a group of artists that perform some art shows.
In 2006, he did the pencils for "Demi Hardcore #3" for Carnal Comics and then a short story for "Rear Entry #11" for Carnal Comics and Eros Comics. He also did the artwork for "Zero #1" and "Zero #2" for Ronin Studios.
Also, he started working at "Belgrano producciones" studio, where he draws and does Flash animations for the series "Heroes (que hicieron historia)" on episodes 3, 4 and 5.
He also did did the illustration for the cover of the poetry book "Los Anos Vendados" by Maria Victoria Dentice, edited by Ediciones Boabab.
In 2007, he did the artwork for "Solar Flair #1" for Zeros 2 Heroes" from Canada, and later "Z2H Bible", a comic that was given out at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, also for Zeroes 2 Heroes.
In 2008 he did a cover illustration for "Young Gods" for Orang Utan Comics Studio, and illustrated the story "Daughters of Lilith" for "Eleventh Hour Vol 1" from AAM/Markosia. He has also now signed on with AAM/Markosia to illustrate a four issue run on "Starship Troopers."
Diego Simone's artwork is deeply influenced by different things, like 80's animated shows, horror movies, manga, anime and Japanese cinema, music from Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, B-movies, Francis Bacon paintings, David Lynch and Takashi Miike movies, Jan Saudek photography and Tsutomu Nihei's artwork, just to name some of his influences!
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