Paola Barbato

Paola Barbato (born June 18, 1971, in Milan) lives and works in Verona. After a thousand different jobs, a collection of her short stories—long unpublished—caught the curiosity of Mauro Marcheselli. Her comics debut thus came in 1998, on the pages of the booklet attached to Speciale Dylan Dog 12.

In addition to many adventures of the Nightmare Investigator, for Sergio Bonelli Editore she has also scripted several albums of Le Storie, Corrado Roi's miniseries UT, the three issues of Orfani: Juric, and the Romanzi a Fumetti Sighma, Darwin and Mani nude, the last of which adapts her own novel of the same name.

Her literary debut came in 2007, with the release of the thriller Bilico for Rizzoli. She subsequently published with Piemme, Baldini Castoldi, ES and Il Battello a Vapore. She has also written for television, cinema and theatre.