Marco d’Alessandro (1993) is a cartoonist, illustrator, and doctoral candidate at the Universities of Milan and Bologna within the national programme “Image, Figure, Language”. His research explores play and creativity as spaces of possibility, emergence and meaning-making, intertwining a semiotic approach with incursions into aesthetics, cognitive science, and social psychology. Beyond mythologies and reductionisms, he investigates the dynamic aspects that weave through human and non-human agents, between matter, desire, and rule.

Following an interdisciplinary approach, he is committed to a practice-based research path. Drawing, comics, and the visual arts will serve as both research methodologies and channels of dissemination, within and beyond academia. His publications range from self-produced works to academic articles in comic form, as well as illustrated books for children. He works as a graphic recorder for events and conferences and as an educator in schools—from primary to university level—teaching the generative power of gestures that leave a mark.

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