Powerpaola is a Colombian Ecuadorian cartoonist and visual artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She authored the graphic memoir Virus Tropical (2011), which became a movie in 2017 and received critical acclaim worldwide. Por Dentro (2012), Diario (2013), qp (2013), Todo Va a Estar Bien (2015), and Nos vamos (2016) followed. Her work deals with themes of sexuality, feminism, family, and personal identity. She was a member of the international collective Chicks on Comics and No Tan Parecidos and published Las Ciudades que Somos (2018) and Tierra Larga (2019) with them, respectively.