Francesco Ciampi began his career at the magazine Kaos, doing illustrations, covers and comics from 1993 to 1997. At the same time, he worked for the Parente studios in Milan. He also did several comics for fanzines and underground magazines. From 1995 to 1997, Ciampi did several erotic comics for Selen magazine. For the periodical Blue, he did the continuing stories 'Enke Dreams of Edith' and 'Every Tuesday'. Along with Kevin Eastman, he began 'Consumers' in Heavy Metal magazine in 1999.