Artist Profile: Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela, an illustrator and cartoonist, resides in Milan, Italy. He is very active in the international underground scene and collaborates around the world with many 'zines, art magazines and comics such as:

Stripburger; Lavirint; You & Me; The Lummox Journal; The Cherotic Revolutionary; The Brown Bottle; Art Life; Mani Art; Pintalo DeVerde; Crystal Drum; Chance; Untergrundblatte; Unwound; Moon Magazine; Lucid Moon; Evasion; Stampa Alternativa; Emozioni; BGA Comix; Innovation Studio; Kerosene; Lo Sciacallo Elettronico; Krimson Leer; Phony Lid Publications; The Benway Institute; Kastello; Cabezabajo; Que Suerte; Topaz; Sunburn; Fagorgo; Entmoot; Pssst zine; zzz zine; Stardust Memories; Helter Skelter; Germinal; and many others.

His artwork also has been used to illustrate the poems of Mark Sonnenfeld, Gary Sneyd, Shannon Colebank, Lisa Massei, Vittorio Baccelli, Michael Kriesel, Gavin Burrows and Cristiano Quadalti.

In 2000 Claudio was a guest at the BREAK 21 Festival in Ljubljana-Slovenia.

His work has been published in various illustration booklets and comics such as "'The Halved Nightmare" and "'The Slavering Rat" (BGA Comix-Innovation Studio-Italy); "'Black Kisses and Other Stories" and "The Book of Secrets" (La Cafetiere Editions-Belgium); "Story" and "Il Bombarolo" (Progetto Siderurgiko-Italy); "'Jeanne Dark You Got Balls" and "The Frogs Ballet"
(self-produced).

Claudio also collaborates with many punk, industrial and metal bands.
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More Claudio links:

www.furtherfield.org/cparentela/docs/index.htm
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www.galerieserrano.com/parentela.htm
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www.opensewer.com/parentela/index.htm
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(black & whited from PCL LinkDump)

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