Grazia Nidasio

Grazia Nidasio (9 February 1931 – 25 December 2018) was an Italian comic artist and illustrator.

Grazia Nidasio
Born	9 February 1931 (1931-02-09) Milan, Italy
Died	25 December 2018 (2018-12-26) (aged 87) Certosa di Pavia, Italy
Occupation	Comic artist

Life and career

Born in Milan, Nidasio graduated from the Liceo scientifico in her hometown and later from the Brera Academy.^[1][2][3] In the 1950s she started a long collaboration with the children magazine Corriere dei Piccoli, for which she worked for over 35 years, creating a large number of popular characters, starting from Alibella and Gelsomino.^[1][2][4] She is best known for the series Valentina Mela Verde [it] and its spin-off Stefi [it], which between late 1960s and early 1990s recounted in a realistic, tender and humorous way the everyday life of two adolescent sisters of their time.^[1][2][3][5] Her comics have been published in a number of countries, including France, Brazil and Argentina.^[3]

Nidasio collaborated with Corriere della Sera as a cartoonist and an illustrator, and illustrated numerous children books, including several Astrid Lindgren's novels.^[2][6] She also worked in advertising, notably creating the Piccolo mugnaio bianco ("Little white miller") character, i.e. the mascot of the 1980s Mulino Bianco advertising campaigns.^[3][6]

During her career Nidasio was recipient of numerous awards, including the Yellow Kid Award in 1972 and the Premio Andersen [it] in 1987 and in 2001.^[3]