Pasquale Ruju

Pasquale Ruju (born in Nuoro in 1962) earned a classical high school diploma before graduating in Architecture in Turin. A theater and cinema enthusiast, he trained at the Laboratorio Teatrale di Torino. He later collaborated with Ipotesi Cinema, the school founded by Ermanno Olmi, and made several short films as well as a feature film, Tempo di mezzo. After various theater and television experiences, from 1989 he worked in dubbing, voicing many characters in television series and animated cartoons.

He debuted in comics in 1995, writing the short story Il vicino di casa for Dylan Dog Gigante no. 4. Since then he has written more than seventy scripts featuring the Nightmare Investigator, plus various stories for other characters, including Nathan Never and especially Tex. In May 2006 the miniseries Demian debuted, created and entirely scripted by him. In 2010 came the debut of Cassidy, of which he again wrote all eighteen volumes.