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    About myself
"Unadjusted. Unconvinced. Uninsured ."
Travis McGee

  I was born in 1966 in Italy. Since an early age an innate restlessness, amplified by a vivid imagination, nurtured by inappropriate reading and fueled by costant dissatisfaction with my surroundings has prompted me to look for better places to be.
   Within a couple of months of graduating from University in 1990, I was off to Malaysia on a one-way ticket. I haven't stopped running since, nor have I gotten  any closer to wherever it is I think I'm heading, but so far I've enjoyed the ride.
   Along the way I've supported myself doing many different jobs, including teaching English, picking fruit, selling jewelry wholesale, working on a shrimp boat and translating Japanese comic-books.
   I have been drawing ever since I can remember but, with the exception of the last 9-10 years, my artistic production has been mostly limited to doodling on books' margins.
 Most of the material that appears in this website has not been published before. If you are interested in any of it, please get in touch with me.

 

  •  1966: Born in Genova,Italy.

  •  1983-84: High school exchange student with the American Field  Service to  Vail, CO, U.S.A.

  •  1984: Graduated from Battle Mountain High School in Eagle-Vail, CO,U.S.A.

  •  1986/87: English and Italian language teacher at the Instituto de Idiomas   Roosevelt, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

  •  1990: Graduated (B.A. in Philosophy) from Universita' degli  Studi of Milan, Italy.

  •  1991/2: English and Italian language teacher in Hong Kong.

  •  1992: House painter in Anchorage,  Ak, U.S.A.

  •  1994: Obtained P.A.D.I. Dive Master certificate in  Boracay,Philippines.

  •  1996-2002: Silver jewellery wholesale dealer in Central America.

  •  1999: First mate on S.V. Sarah Frazer sailing in the South Pacific.

  •  2000: Fruit picker in Australia.

  •  2001: Electrician's helper in, FLA, U.S.A.

  •  2002: Author and illustrator of "The Butterfly Painter", a  children's book.

  • 2004/06: Assistant English Teacher in Junior High Schools ,Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
  • 2004-2007: Translator of the Italian version of Nintendo's Yu-gi-oh video game.
  • 2006: Passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (level 1).
  • 2006-8: English Instructor at Kitasato Medical University (Kanagawa), Meiji Daigakuin University, Meisei University (Tokyo), Japan.
  • 2007-8.Translator of various mangas from Japanese to Italian and English (including Akumetsu, Blood Sucker and Mitsuru Adachi's Cross Game).