Comics Since the 90s Bilotta has created a plethora of comic-book series in Italy and in France. His twenty-year-old partnership with
DC and
Marvel artist
Carmine Di Giandomenico led him to create the Italian steampunk comic book
Le strabilianti vicende di Giulio Maraviglia, followed by
Romano, published by 'Vents d'Ouest', and
La Dottrina, republished in 2019 in a deluxe edition by
Feltrinelli. He is currently one of the main writers of
Dylan Dog, the best-selling award-winning horror comic-book series, for which he created the
Il Pianeta dei Morti spin-off. His first independent series,
Valter Buio, about a shrink for ghosts who operates in the very heart of Rome, was followed by
Mercurio Loi, a professor flâneur who solves all sorts of crimes apparently just by getting lost in Rome's alleys.
Mercurio Loi is the most award-winning Italian one-year run comic-book series ever. In a single run of just sixteen issues Mercurio Loi collected all the awards in the comic-book field:
U Giancu,
Micheluzzi,
ANAFI,
Boscarato,
Gran Guinigi and the
Golden Romics.
Mercurio Loi is a brilliant history professor, a Roman gentleman, and a
flâneur, a dandy who wanders idly through the alleyways of 19th century Rome. Reminiscent of the spirit of
G.K. Chesterton's
Father Brown, Professor Loi ends up being involved in mysterious events, diabolical machinations and secret societies, whose convoluted charades he unravels with good-humoured acumen.
Film and screenwriting Bilotta worked as a screenwriter and story editor for the
Winx Club franchise, co-writing (uncredited) such films as
The Secret of the Lost Kingdom (
Rainbow 2007) besides story editing and writing for the fourth season of
Winx and
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