Salva Rubio is a screenwriter, writer, and more. An associate member of the Writers Guild of America and the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he was a finalist for the prestigious SGAE Julio Alejandro Award, and his work has been nominated for both an Eisner Award and a Goya Award for Best Animated Feature.

Holding a Master’s Degree in Film and TV Screenwriting from UC3M, he has worked as a screenwriter on five feature films for various Spanish production companies, including the Goya-nominated Deep. He has also written for Disney Channel. Additionally, he is a script analyst and has collaborated with companies such as Alta Films, Colomo PC, Instituto Cervantes, F. Carolina, and ICAA.

As a graphic novel writer, he has published The Photographer of Mauthausen (three editions and five translations) and Monet, Nomad of Light (eight translations), which was nominated for an Eisner Award. He currently writes for some of Europe’s most important publishing houses, including Dupuis, Delcourt, Glénat, and Le Lombard.

With Planeta Cómic, he published the spin-off of The Tango of the Old Guard by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. In 2012, he released the novel Zíngara: Looking for Jim Morrison with Suma de Letras (Penguin Random House) and has recently completed his fourth novel, Dance, Laia.

As an essayist, he is the author of the pioneering book Extreme Metal: 30 Years of Darkness (six editions), the most extensive work on the subject ever published. It was followed by a second volume, Extreme Metal: Chronicles from the Abyss, and he was selected to continue the successful Save the Cat! series with the U.S. release of Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies. He is also a regular contributor to Jot Down.