Born in Rome, on August 17, 1977, Alessandro Bilotta wrote stories for Martin Mystère in the late 1990s. His debut as a plot-writer was on albums 261/262, while he was the scriptwriter in full for Martin Mystère n. 265, “Le pietre di Carnac”. In 1999, with other Roman comic authors, he opened a publishing house, Montego, and edited the new edition of "Altai & Jonson" by Sclavi and Cavazzano. He also wrote "Povero Pinocchio", "Il dono nero" and "Le strabilianti vicende di Giulio Maraviglia - inventore". On the latter book, Bilotta began his productive collaboration with artist Carmine Di Giandomenico. For his work on Giulio Maraviglia, in 2001 he won two awards at the Fumo di China Prize: "Best New Author of Realistic Comics" and "Best Character". With Di Giandomenico, he wrote "La Dottrina", published by Magic Press. In 2006, the third volume of this series won the "Attilio Micheluzzi Award", for the "Best Script". In the same year, Alessandro wrote several series for the French market, with Les Humanoïdes Associés, Editions Delcourt, and Vents d'Ouest. With Vents d'Ouest he publishes "Romano", a story that is welcomed and acclaimed by the French critics. Bilotta is also a scriptwriter and story editor for the "Winx Club" animated series, and writes for Dylan Dog: his debut on this series was a story published on Gigante n. 16 in 2007. He also created the "Pianeta dei Morti" saga, published yearly on Speciale Dylan Dog since 2015. For Star Comics, he created, wrote and edited the series "Valter Buio", that won the Romics/Repubblica XL Award for "Italian Character of the Year" in 2010. In 2011-2015 he created and wrote for Il Giornalino the series "Corsari di classe Y", with art by Oskar. For our Publishing House, he also wrote Dampyr n. 172, “La papessa di Roma”, and has collaborated for a long time with our Le Storie series. He wrote, among other stories, “Il lato oscuro della luna” and “Nobody”, winner of another Attilio Micheluzzi Award in 2014 and an ANAFI Award, both for “Best Scriptwriter”. For n. 28 of Le Storie, he created the “Mercurio Loi” character that, two years later, in May 2017, made his debut at the newsstands as a regular series.