In 2010, Bagnarelli founded Delebile, a small independent label that publishes short comic stories by Italian and foreign artists. In 2015, the Society of Illustrators awarded her the Gold Medal in the short form category of their juried Comic and Cartoon Art Competition for her short graphic novel Fish. She is a Graphic Author and has worked on comics for Nobrow 8, Kus and Ampel magazine. Bianca Bagnarelli (born in Milan, Italy) is an Italian-French artist, author, illustrator and cartoonist.

He sees it wherever he looks, whatever he does, and the fragility of his own existence plagues his every thought. So, when a missing girl is found drowned on a public beach, Milo thinks that seeing her will finally lift the veil of the great unknown and provide him with answers to the questions that have overwhelmed him since the day he lost everything.Ī striking and beautiful comic that explores the profound themes of adolescence and loss, while reminding us of our own mortality and just how delicately we are held together.īianca Bagnarelli was born in Milan, Italy. In the quiet heat of the French Riviera, where the long days of blissful summer are tempered by the annual rabble of revellers and sun seekers whose arrival excites a new life into otherwise sleepy towns, a listless and sombre child seeks solace in his questions about death. It is the summer after Milo’s mother and father were involved in a fatal accident and his cousins are visiting at his Grandparents’ crowded house in the Cote D’Azur. Despite the warm, familial setting, Milo cannot escape the grim spectre of death that seems to loom everywhere, he is morbidly fascinated by its presence.

Fish by Bianca Bagnarelli