Enrico Marini

Born on August, 13th 1969 in Switzerland, the Italian artist Enrico Marini, inspired by italian fumetti and comics, is primarily self-taught. He dissects the works of great European authors such as Hermann, Mœbius/Giraud, François Boucq, Arrigo Serpieri, Milo Manara, or Jordi Bernet. Marini admires both Katsuhiro Otomo and Milton Caniff's drawings, which exhibits his broad taste. His comics show his liking of adventure and action. He participates in his first contests at the age of 14 and makes his passion his field of study : he spends four years at Bâle's Institute of Fine Arts, from 1987 to 1991.

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In 1987, Marini wins a young talents contest at Sierre's comics festival, which truly launches his career. He is then introduced to a newly created publishing house, Alpen Publishers, that entrusts him with the drawings for La Colombe de la Place Rouge, written by Marelle. The pages are pre-published in La tribune de Genève and gain the audience's support. Thanks to this first success, he then creates the first volume of the series Un dossier d'Olivier Varèse in 1990. The three following volumes are published between 1992 and 1993 and are written by Thierry Smolderen then Georges Pop. After that, Marini starts a new series with Smolderen in 1992, which ends in 2002. This time, it is a post-apocalyptic project published by Alpen Publishers then Humanoïdes associés, and finally Dargaud, a publishing house Marini will then remain loyal to.

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Marini works with different writers. He illustrates the two-volumes-long comics L'Etoile du Désert with Stephane Desberg, it is the artist's first western. Furthermore, he explores the fantasy genre with the popular creatures that vampires are through the series Rapace, in collaboration with Jean Dufaux. He then starts the swashbuckling series Le Scorpion with his colleague Stephen Desberg before releasing Les aigles de Rome which takes place in antiquity. Finally, in 2017, Marini manages to bring the character of Batman to life through a colorization technique where the ink and the colors are put directly on the same page. Batman Prince Charming introduces an iconic dark knight who's ready to answer the call of his best enemy and of its crew. Noir Burlesque is Marini's latest success. This polar, written in the tradition of noir movies from the 1950s shows a lot more than what the past social conventions allowed in Hollywood.