Igort (pseudonym Igor Tuveri) is a cartoonist, illustrator, essayist and musician. He began in the 1970s, collaborating with magazines such as "Linus," "Alter," "Frigidaire," "Metal Hurlant," "L'echo des Savanes," "Vanity," "The Face" and writing for "Il Manifesto," "Reporter," "Il Corriere della Sera," "la Repubblica." In 1983 he founded the Valvoline group of authors.
Three of his works are noted "Nomadic Pages. Unofficial Stories from the Former Soviet Union" (2012), "Symphony in Bombay" (2013), "Ukrainian Notebooks. The Roots of a Conflict. A drawn reportage" (2014), "Japanese Notebooks" (2015), "Russian Notebooks. On the trail of Anna Politkovskaya. A drawn reportage" (2015), and "5 is the perfect number" (2015).
In February 2018 he was appointed editorial director of Linus.
In July 2018 a new documentary on Igort's work in Japan ("Quaderni Giapponesi - Il vagabondo del manga") was presented at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, which won the audience award.
The summer of the same year, shooting began on "5 is the perfect number", a film starring Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, and based on his own best seller. The direction and screenplay are by Igort. The film premieres at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2019, the Japanese notebooks landed at the British Museum on the occasion of the manga exhibition curated by Paul Gravett.