Born in Italy in 1969, Raffaele Ienco came to Canada at age 4 and found the wonderful world of comics.
Ienco is best known for writing and drawing (coloring and lettering) “Devoid of Life” (science-fiction/horror) from Image Comics -- published September 2008.
The story involves a hidden planet that is discovered in our solar system by astronomers who are killed by xenophobic aliens bent on keeping their world a secret.

In the past Ienco spent 10 years working in the video game industry serving as the Lead Environment Artist on well known video game properties Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes developed by Silicon Knights. His job was to create and design beautiful and efficient 3D environments and characters for gameplay and cinematics, develop in-game camera technology and methodology, and optimize work pipelines.

Ienco has also created a variety of comic properties including Stygmata and WarZone from Entity Comics and WebWitch from Avatar Press. He has also worked on Zen: Intergalatic Ninja and Stargate: Doomsday World both for Entity Comics.

"Only Hope Remained”, the graphic novel, is a supernatural thriller written and drawn by Ienco and optioned by Platinum Studios of “Men in Black” fame.

Ienco has recently finished his latest graphic novel “Manifestations” (supernatural thriller). In a frightening tale, a young girl's latent psychic power is awakened after a family tragedy.

Ienco lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Devoid of Life and Manifestations are both receiving feature film interest.


He can be reached at raffienco@rogers.com