Gianluca Costantini is an activist and artist who for years fought his battles through the drawing. Accused of terrorism by the Turkish government, he angered many French readers for a short comic about Charlie Hebdo‘s terrorist story. He actively collaborates with ActionAid, Amnesty, Emergency, ARCI and Oxfam organizations. His drawings mapped the story of the HRW Film Festival in London, the FIFDH Human Rights Festival in Geneva, the Human Rights Festival of Milan and the International Festival in Ferrara.
Since 2016 she has accompanied the activities of DiEM25 Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, movement founded by Yanis Varoufakis and actively collaborates with the artist Ai Weiwei.
In 2017 he was nominated for the European Citizenship Awards. In 2019 he received the Art and Human Rights award from Amnesty International.
He has published comic stories on “Internationale“, “Pagina99“, “D la Repubblica”, “Narcomafie” and “Corriere della Sera“ in Italy, on “LeMan“ in Turkey, on “Courrier International“ and “Le Monde Diplomatique“ in France, on “World War Illustrated” in the United States, on the Australia “Mekong Review“. He collaborates with the American information portals CNN, ABC Australia, Words Without Borders and Muftah Magazine, The New Arab and the Dutch Drawing the Times. Collaborates with the italian newspaper “Domani“.
His latest books are Patrick Zaki, una storia egiziana for Feltrinelli, Libia for Mondadori, Fedele alla linea, Diario segreto di Pasolini, Pertini fra le nuvole, Arrivederci Berlinguer, Cena con Gramsci, Julian Assange dall’etica hacker a Wikileaks for BeccoGiallo Edizioni and Cattive abitudini, L’ammaestratore di Istanbul e Bronson Drawings for Giuda edizioni, Officina del macello for Eris Edizioni and Le cicatrici tra i miei denti for NdA edizioni.
Selected collaborations list
- ActionAid
- Arci Nazionale
- Amnesty International Italia
- Filatelica e Numismatica, San Marino
- BeccoGiallo Edizioni
- Bronson Produzioni
- Cesvi
- CNN
- Corriere della Sera
- Courrier International
- D la Repubblica delle Donne
- DiEM25
- Drawing the Times
- Eris Edizioni
- Festival del Giornalismo Culturale
- Festival diritti umani Lugano
- Festival diritti umani Milano
- FIFDH International Film Festival
- Geneva Summit for Human Rights
- Journalism Festival Perugia
- HRW Film Festival di Londra
- Il Mucchio Selvaggio
- Internazionale
- Istituto Gramsci Torino
- laLettura – Corriere della Sera
- LeMan
- Le Monde Diplomatique
- Le Scienze
- Linus
- Muftah Magazine
- Narcomafie
- NdA Press
- Oxfam Italia
- Pagina99
- Ravenna Festival
- SoleLuna Doc Festival
- Story Factory
- The Diplomatic Observer
- The Guardian Changing Media
- The New Arab
- UNESCO
- Words Without Borders
- World War 3 Illustrated
- VITS Virtual Traning Support
