From 1992 to 1993 he
works with VALLARDI Publishing for kid-oriented fairy tales comic book
“Tiramolla” and for the TV magazine SATELLITE painting cover
illustrations and caricatures .
1994 marks the
beginning of his career as a pin up illustrator: he has the chance to
paint his first cover for SKORPIO published by EURA one of the biggest
comics publisher in Italy: since then several covers every year appears
in the Italian newsstands. In the same year he also started his work
with PLAYMEN COMIX and other titles in the adult industry.
In 1995 he painted
illustrations for PLAYBOY and PENTHOUSE in their italian editions.
During the 90’ he also
collaborates with AIRONE, FARMTOONS, MATITA ANIMATA, MUSICARTOON for
different animation features as a production designer and background
painter.
In 1995 in Los Angeles,
he meets HEAVY METAL publisher Kevin Eastman
and together discuss
the possibilities of his working in the American Market.
Five years later his
first cover for Heavy Metal is out in the U.S.
In 1998, Lorenzo moves
in Los Angeles and he starts working constantly for Larry Flynt
Publications, painting illustrations. There, he draws and paints his
very first comic: ANGEL BABY. Seven burning pages of highly erotic
contents written by Bruce David. Still today, his illustrations appear
periodically in HUSTLER.
In the meantime he’s
still working at different animation projects in Europe for Farmtoons
and selling his paintings to Skorpio and Lanciostory in Italy. Also, he
has not forgotten his first calling of graphic designer and he starts to
collaborate and design for a big exotic fashion company in Hollywood:
FORPLAY.
At the end of 1999 he
gets in contact with Jim Pinto of AEG (Alderac Entertainment Group) and
he start a massive production of illustrations for fantasy and western
card games. In the meantime, NBM publishes one of his paintings for the
cover of SIZZLE.
With the new millennium
Dreamstone starts publishing posters of his artwork
in Australia.
A second cover is
published for
HEAVY METAL
which also features one of Lorenzo’s paintings in the calendar 2002
A very important
collaboration begins in 2001 with
AVALANCHE PRESS:
Mike Bennighof asks him to paint a cover for the fantasy game GREENLAND.
From there, he becomes the main cover artist for Avalanche.
He paints also RAGNAROK
which in 2002 receives a nomination at the Origin Awards as best
artwork.
In 2002 Heavy Metal
dedicates a Gallery to his work, publishes a third cover and starts
printing posters of his pin-up girls.
Spring 2002 starts a
collaboration with Tamara Bane Gallery in Los Angeles, Calendar and
Posters for Heavy Metal and more...
Fall 2002
MG PUBLISHING
releases world-wide his first book: “THE ART OF LORENZO SPERLONGA”
(distributed by
SQP in U.S.A.)
while he continues to
work for LFP.
In February 2003 ,
VERONIKA KOTLAJIC poses
for his two paintings commissioned by MG for the covers (double edition)
of the first issue of the new magazine ARTCORE.