Lucio Zago moved from Switzerland to New York City in 1991, where he has worked as a graphic designer, art director and illustrator. In 2018, he printed and distributed his first graphic novel, Williamsburg Shorts, a depiction of events and characters of a Brooklyn neighborhood's cultural and economic clashes, as witnessed by Lucio, during a dramatic period of gentrification.

Most recently, Lucio has worked with global, non-profit organizations ESCR-Net and FIAN.org to develop illustrated stories about Corporate Capture in the Healthcare and Food Industries. 

Lucio currently resides in Philadelphia, and is working on a graphic novel about his father’s upbringing in Italy during the fascist regime, his experience as an officer in Mussolini’s army during the Abyssinian Colonial War and World War II, his arrest and deportation by the Nazis to a forced labor camp and the long journey home across a ravaged Europe.

Lucio's work has been selected by the Society of Illustrators (2017 & 2018), AI-AP (2018) and Academy of Illustration (2018) and has been published in The Guardian (2017) and Victory Journal (2019 Issue No.15 & 2020 Issue No.18 ).

Alongside comics, Lucio is also developing animations for his storytelling.