Luigi Mignacco

Luigi Mignacco (born June 27, 1960, in Genoa, now living and working in Cabella Ligure, Alessandria) attended the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, first at the University of Florence and then in Genoa. He began writing comics in 1981, collaborating with the weekly Lanciostory, and later joined the If staff, writing a great many stories for Topolino. In 1983 his story Il Detective Senza Nome, drawn by Massimo Rotundo and published in Orient Express, achieved considerable success, including abroad.

In 1986 he began his collaboration with Sergio Bonelli Editore, soon becoming one of its most prolific scriptwriters. He wrote for Dylan Dog, Zagor, Martin Mystère, Dampyr, Nick Raider, and Le Storie, but above all for Mister No, of which he became one of the principal writers and for which he scripted the Nuove Avventure that returned the character of Guido Nolitta to newsstands in 2019.

Between 1986 and 1990 he also worked for Il Giornalino, writing short stories and the science-fiction serial Due Cuori e un'Astronave, drawn by Roberto Rinaldi. He additionally signed several stories for Intrepido, while for Comic Art he created, together with Sergio Zaniboni, the sexy-fantasy Pam & Peter. In 1990 he wrote the serial Corsaro for the magazine L'Eternauta, one of the last works of Attilio Micheluzzi.