Gigi Cavenago works as a cartoonist, illustrator, concept artist and art director for animation.
After graduating from high school scientific, he attended the Scuola del Fumetto in Milan and a course in advertising grafic at the Rizzoli Institute for the teaching of grafic arts.
The editorial debut comes in 2005 on various anthology titles with short stories, later he is taken in the staff of Jonathan Steele for Star Comics.
From 2008 he enters the Bonelli stable, for which he draws two issues of the miniseries Cassidy, and four issues of the series Orfani. From 2014 he joins the Dylan Dog team, becoming cover artist for the Maxi series Dylan Dog Old Boy. He returns to the Orphan series for the first issue of the third season, The New World. Upon completion of the job, he is offered to do the celebratory Dylan Dog story for the character's 30th anniversary. Mater Dolorosa, written by Roberto Recchioni and fully
illustrated in color by Cavenago, is published in October 2016. Beginning with issue 363 on November 29, 2016, he becomes the new cover artist for the regular Dylan Dog series replacing the historic Angelo Stano. In November 2019, the first volume of Tiziano Sclavi's new comic book series, Tales of Tomorrow, fully illustrated by
Cavenago, is published.
In September 2021, he leaves his role as Dylan Dog cover artist to go to work with Mark Millar. In 2022 he draws the third miniseries of Mark Millar's The Magic Order for the American market. In 2022 the miniseries Batman/Dylan Dog (in Italian: Dylan Dog/Batman,
L'Ombra del Pipistrello), a crossover between Batman and Dylan Dog scripted by Roberto Recchioni and drawn by Gigi Cavenago together with Werther Dell'Edera, with colors by Giovanna Niro, is published by DC Comics and Sergio Bonelli Editore. From 2023 he began working in the world of animation, as concept artist, character designer. In 2024 he works as air director for the episode "How Zeke got Religion" of the fourth season of "Love, Death & Robots" (Netflix), work for which he wins an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation - Production Design. He then moved on to Sony staff, for "Spiderman_Beyond the Spiderverse" as visual artist.
Currently he is working on character design for an animated series for Warner Brothers.