Hello dear visitor, I'm Maddalena Ghidoni, an illustrator living in Reggio Emilia, Italy, where I graduated at Scuola Internazionale di Comics.

From 2019 to 2021, I worked as assistant director, background designer, and character designer for the animated short film The Blue Knight, winner of the Emilia Romagna Film Commission, produced by Azabache Films and in collaboration with Delicatessen. After this experiences, with the same roles adding the storyboard creation, scene composition, and icon designer, I collaborated on other animated products, including video sets for Devco and Kabul for the European Community in collaboration with Azabache Films; marketing videos for Cucini Officine and Calligaris; and the music video Custodi del mondo for Lo Zecchino D’Oro in collaboration with Delicatessen. In the meantime, I did the frame-by-frame cleanup for the animated video sets for the AproOnlus awareness campaigns in collaboration with Delicatessen.

From 2020 to 2021 I designed the layout and lettering of the graphic novel Omnibus Erotika, published by Comma22 Editore, and created social content and curated the catalogue of ZOOlibri Editore in collaboration with Delicatessen.

From 2022 to 2025 I made illustrations for the children's gamebook 10+ Blu, Storia illustrata di un colore published by Giunti Editore, in collaboration with Cristiana Valentini; I also designed graphics and printed cards for Arci Reggio Emilia and private events; I created the Kaleidoscopic Tarot deck and an illustration for Diabolik, il re del terrore, both published by Lo Scarabeo; I also illustrated a set of illustrations for the magazine LiberEtà and some illustrated portraits for Linus magazine. In the meantime I also designed logotype, brand and illustrations for local factories. In those years she also coloured the graphic novels Fondazione Babele Wonderful World I published by Sergio Bonelli, Raymond Capp published by Cosmo Edizioni, Orbit Orbit internal covers coloring, and short comics for Heavy Metal magazine. In 2025 I was screenplayer, director, animator, illustrator for her short animated movie Story of a sad bullfighter, produced by Associazione Culturale Mattador. 

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🏆 From 2024 to 2026, her works have been recognised in some contest: selected for LuccaJunior 2024, winner for Dolly Mattador 2024, selected for CartoonSea 2024, selected for Annual25, finalist for Alina Art Foundation 2025, selected for FLIGHT25, Girona Film Festival 25, Reggio Film Festival 25. Third winner for Sensuability VIII edition, winner for Annual26 animation.

🎓 Since 2024, she teaches at Formart, and since 2025 also at the International School of Comics, and at Arci PicNic.