The author of Gea

  
  
  

UCA ENOCH was born in Milan on 12th June, 1962 and after completing

his studies he dedicated himself to his life-long passion working as a free-lance graphic designer and illustrator both in the editorial and advertising fields. In 1990 he took part in the annual contest held by the "International Congress of Comics and Fantasy" at Prato, winning first prize with his story "Raptus". His professional début came in July of the following year with the 10th. issue of "Fumo di China", the gloomy fantasy story "Eliah" for
which he wrote a second episode, again for Fdc. But his big breakthrough came in 1992 with the short story "Bersek" which came out in issue 6 of "Intrepido". Just a few months later he started the series "Sprayliz" for the same magazine. Right from its start in issue 4, it quickly became very popular with its readers, so much so that in 1995 "Fumo di China" won the Prize for Best Character and Title. Later, still for "Intrepido", he did the comic-strip "Skaters" which was to be taken up in the pages of
"L'isola che non c'è", and the character of "Piotr, the porno coniglio" which has a second episode as yet unpublished. For "Action" he created the comic series "Ninjaboy" and recently he has worked for the publisher Bonelli, writing and illustrating some of the Legs Weaver stories. He has recently signed a contract with Bonelli for a bi-annual with another terrible teenager as its protagonist - Gea - a fourteen-year-old, mad about rock and kendo who divides her life between school, rock sessions with her band and an ongoing battle with intruders from other time-space continuums. The new series came out in June 1999.