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