Gaia Papoila is an illustrator and comic artist from Italy.

Who am I? (long description)

Hi, call me Gaia please. 

Gaia Carlesso is my real name, Papoila is a stage name. (Papoila means poppy in portuguese, a friend suggested this name years ago).

I'm from Italy, I speak italian and my english is very basic (ugh). I'm currently studying for a MA degree in Illustration.

Before studying I worked as an artist with the team SolEtude for 2 years and we did maany visual novels <3

CONTACTs : gaiapapoila@gmail.com

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Comics and VN: 

[comic] Why don't you like me?

[comic] She kissed me

[vn] A sketchbook about her sun

[comic] 4 pages from Warm Blood

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Awards / nice things I want to remember [eng/it]

2023, "Why don't you like me?" won the 1st place in the Fantasy category at the Minicomic Awards 2023 link

2023, selezione all'Annual 2023 di Autori di Immagini, nella categoria studenti link

2023, selezione per il progetto instagram #raccontamisketchbook2023 di Vanvere

2022, got selected with other 19 pals for the II edition of the Comics Summer Camp in Bruxelles, 2022 link

2020, "Beyond your window" won the Best Italian Debut Game at the Italian Video Game Awards 2020, with the team Soletude. I did the main illustrations.

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Publications digital and printed [eng/it]

2022, Synth/org Anthology vol.2 di Attaccapanni Press, "Micorriza" (16 pages) ideato da Federico di Cera e disegnato da me

2022, 3 inserti a fumetti per la rivista di filosofia pratica La chiave di Sophia, numeri #17 #18 #19

2021, "Gita nei tempi di Crespi d’Adda" (9 pagine) per l’antologia a fumetti di Storioni, progetto di ZTC - Zone a Traffico Culturale con Sara Colaone

2021, "A sketchbook about her sun" vn developed with team SolEtude (steam link)

2021, 4 pages for the webcomic Warm Blood written by Josh Tier

2021, single illustration for Cup of Color.ngo, project zine 3x3 (link)

2020, "Beyond your window" vn developed with team SolEtude (link)

2017, Lilies Anthology vol.2 Stargazer, "She kissed me" (10 pages)

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Publications for unofficial fanzine (mostly for charity and related with miraculous ladybug)

2022, Happily Ever After: A Lovesquare Zine (MLB), 1 illustration, a bookmark

2021, Love Square Zine (MLB), 2 illustrations, a comic, a bookmark, a sticker

2020, 縁 BONDS (Tokyo Ghoul), 1 illustration, a collabs with a writer

2020, True Kinda Love Zine (Steven Universe), 1 illustration

2019, Close to the heart (a kyoani charity zine), 1 illustration

2018, Retrace (Pandora Hearts), 1 illustration

2018, !! DOGS DAYS ARE OVER !! (Inuyasha), 1 illustration

2018, Knocked for six (A J Raffles), short comic

2018, Lunanova (Little witches academia), double page comic