Giovanni Rigano

Giovanni Rigano is an Italian illustrator whose work in this catalogue appears as the artist on two graphic novels co-written by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin: Illegal, which traces a boy's migration journey from West Africa to Europe, and Global, following two teenagers on opposite sides of the world confronting the real effects of climate change. Both books use full-colour, expressive artwork to carry emotionally weighty, real-world subject matter to a younger readership, and Rigano's illustration is central to how each story is told -- these are books where image and text share the storytelling load rather than pictures simply decorating prose.

Rigano and writer Andrew Donkin previously collaborated on graphic novel adaptations of Colfer's own Artemis Fowl series, so Illegal and Global continue an established creative partnership between the two of them and Colfer rather than a first-time pairing. Readers drawn to socially conscious graphic novels for younger audiences, or who want a visual companion to Colfer's prose work, are the natural readership for these two titles. As of this catalogue, Rigano's only tracked credits are these two Colfer collaborations, so this bio is scoped to that shared work rather than his broader illustration career.