Born in Catanzaro, Italy in 1962, where he lives and works, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, painter, digital artist, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, textile artist, and freelance journalist.

Active for many years in the international contemporary art scene, he has collaborated with numerous zines, magazines, and publications dedicated to contemporary art, literature, and comics in Italy and worldwide, both in print and online. His work has appeared in outlets including NYArtsMagazine, Turntable & Blue Light Magazine, Komix, LitChaos, Why Vandalism, Thieves Jargon, 180 Magazine, Braintwisting, Stripburger, Lavirint, Komikaze, Mystery Island Magazine, Monoclab, MungBeing Magazine, The Lummox Journal, The Cherotic R(e)volutionary, Sick Puppy, Malefact, Be|Different, UpScene Magazine, Lucid Moon, Tryst, Abusemagazine, Synthesis, Staplegun, Zupi, Mineshaft, The Sound Projector, and many others across decades of independent publishing and now: The Unsafe Journal.