Luca EnochLuca Enoch (Milan, June 12, 1962) is an Italian cartoonist.

After going to a scientific high school he devoted himself to the activity of graphic designer and illustrator, both editorial and advertising. His debut as a comic book author took plac in 1990, at the International Convention of Comics and Fantasy in Prato, where he won first prize with a story entitled Raptus. In July 1991 he published a story in the n. 10 of the Fumo di china fanzine, entitled Eliah, which will be followed by a second episode. In June 1992 he made his professional debut on no. 6 of the Intrepid with the story Berserk and, from no. 14, publishes the Sprayliz series in the same magazine; again for Intrepid he creates the character Piotr the porn rabbit, inspired by Robert Crumb's Fritz the cat. For Action magazine he then publishes Ninja Boy and Skaters (which will later reappear in Neverland). When Intrepid closes, the Sprayliz series continues to be published, in pocket format, by Star Comics for 11 issues.

In 1995 he won the Fumo di China award for best complete author, while Sprayliz won the awards for best character and best title. But this happens just when Star Comics decides to close the register. In 1996 he was also awarded by the IF magazine, during the Cartoomics event, as a "promise of Italian comics".

In 1994 he conceives the character of Gea, a rocker who lives in the world of youth bands but the project will not materialize until 1999. After the experience with Star Comics he collaborates with Sergio Bonelli Editore for which he writes and draws some issues of the Legs series. Together with Stefano Vietti he is studying a new series that should have been called Dragonero.

In 1999 Sergio Bonelli offered him the opportunity to create Gea after having modified some of its characteristics (the rocker originally conceived was transformed into a bulwark in the service of the Archangels, a figure full of mystical and esoteric implications). Despite the fantastic connotation, the author does not neglect explicit references to current affairs and the real world in the stories. The series takes on a six-monthly periodicity and concludes with no. 18, after nine years of publication.

Enoch's characters are also the protagonists of a comic publication by the Ca' Foscari University which deals with the theme of disability (story and screenplay by Antonio Tripodi).

In 2001 he began to publish for the French publisher Les Humanoides Associès Morgana, a techno-fantasy saga written with the illustrator Mario Alberti.

He continued to propose Sprayliz for the independent Florentine publisher Comics & Dintorni, publishing five self-produced books. For the same publisher he publishes PUTPURRI, a collection of short stories previously published in magazines and fanzines.

From January 2002 to August 2003, the series of strips of Daphne & Cloe was released exclusively on the fuorispazio.net site.

Since November 2005 Enoch has also been the owner of an aperiodic column entitled Amarcord, on the ComicUS.it site, in which he deals with comics that have particularly influenced him. Although the author declares that he does not have critical or historiographical intentions, but discursive [1], the cut of the pieces is analytical and objective, albeit with notations of personal taste, and highlights the salient technical aspects of the treated comic.

In 2007 he illustrated The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin published by Mondadori, and published with Les Humanoides Associès the first issue of a new series, Rangaku, with drawings by Maurizio di Vincenzo. In June of the same year, commissioned by Bonelli, together with colleagues Stefano Vietti and Giuseppe Matteoni, he created the comic novel Dragonero which inaugurates the new series of self-contained stories entitled Bonelli comic novels and which since June 2013 has been transformed into a homonymous regular comic series, again by Vietti and Enoch.

\In November 2008 the publication of Lilith began, a six-monthly series again for Sergio Bonelli Editore.

On October 13, 2015, his first novel, Dragonero - The Awakening of the Powerful, was released, based on the adventures and settings of the successful Bonelli Dragonero series.[2] The book came out a year after the previous novel on the character, The Curse of Thule, written by Stefano Vietti. Read More Read Less