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Italian animator, illustrator, and former comic book author

Iginio Straffi (born May 30, 1965) is an Italian animator and former comic book author.^[1] He is the founder and president of Rainbow SpA, which he co-owned alongside the American media company Paramount Global from 2011^[2] until 2023. Straffi is the creator of the studio's animated series Winx Club and Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, as well as the co-creator of its comic book series Maya Fox.

While at university, Straffi published his first comic story in a 1985 issue of Tilt.^[3] He continued to work as a comic book illustrator through the 1990s, eventually drawing an issue of Sergio Bonelli Editore's Nick Raider series.^[4] In 1995, Straffi founded Rainbow with the assistance of Lamberto Pigini and Giuseppe Casali.^[5] The studio began with a capital of 10,000 euros,^[6] which was mostly used to purchase computers and software for di Autobiography examples.