Biography of Tiziano Sclavi

Tiziano Sclavi was born in Broni (province of Pavia) in 1953. He now lives in Milan where he works principally as a comic strip writer. He made his debut in the world of comics writing the texts for Gli Aristocratici in collaboration with Alfredo Castelli.
He worked for several years as the editor of Corriere dei Ragazzi and later for Corriere dei Piccoli and created various comic strip series, including Altai & Jonson, Bizarro, Archivio Zero and JohnJohn va nel West.
He subsequently contributed to Il Giornalino and since 1981 has been the editor of Cepim (which later became Sergio Bonelli Editore), where he wrote stories for Mister No, Ken Parker and Zagor. In 1986 he created his most famous character, Dylan Dog (also known as the "nightmare investigator"). The following year he created the character Roy Mann together with artist Attilio Micheluzzi.
He has invented games for TV programmes, written song lyrics and published about twenty narrative works, including I misteri di Mystère (Bietti 1973, Mondadori 1992), Film (Il Formichiere 1974, winner of the Scanno prize), Tre (Camunia, 1988), Dellamorte Dellamore and Nero (Camunia 1991 and 1992, which provided the material for two films, the first directed by Michele Soavi in 1994, the second by Giancarlo Soldi in 1992), Sogni di sangue (Camunia, 1992), Apocalisse (Camunia 1993, final version of Guerre terrestri, published in 1978), Nel buio (1993, Camunia), Mostri (Camunia, 1994), La circolazione del sangue (Camunia, 1995) and Non è successo niente (Mondadori, 1998).

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Biography of Tiziano Sclavi

Tiziano Sclavi was born in Broni (province of Pavia) in 1953. He now lives in Milan where he works principally as a comic strip writer. He made his debut in the world of comics writing the texts for Gli Aristocratici in collaboration with Alfredo Castelli.
He worked for several years as the editor of Corriere dei Ragazzi and later for Corriere dei Piccoli and created various comic strip series, including Altai & Jonson, Bizarro, Archivio Zero and JohnJohn va nel West.
He subsequently contributed to Il Giornalino and since 1981 has been the editor of Cepim (which later became Sergio Bonelli Editore), where he wrote stories for Mister No, Ken Parker and Zagor. In 1986 he created his most famous character, Dylan Dog (also known as the "nightmare investigator"). The following year he created the character Roy Mann together with artist Attilio Micheluzzi.
He has invented games for TV programmes, written song lyrics and published about twenty narrative works, including I misteri di Mystère (Bietti 1973, Mondadori 1992), Film (Il Formichiere 1974, winner of the Scanno prize), Tre (Camunia, 1988), Dellamorte Dellamore and Nero (Camunia 1991 and 1992, which provided the material for two films, the first directed by Michele Soavi in 1994, the second by Giancarlo Soldi in 1992), Sogni di sangue (Camunia, 1992), Apocalisse (Camunia 1993, final version of Guerre terrestri, published in 1978), Nel buio (1993, Camunia), Mostri (Camunia, 1994), La circolazione del sangue (Camunia, 1995) and Non è successo niente (Mondadori, 1998).

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