Tiziano Sclavi (born April 3, 1953 in
Broni) is an
Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book
Dylan Dog in 1986, for
Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore. More than eighty titles have appeared in the series, which has sold 3 million copies. It has been in collaboration with several artists, including
Claudio Villa,
Corrado Roi, Gustavo Trigo,
Carlo Ambrosini, Luigi Piccatto,
Angelo Stano,
Mike Mignola, Andrea Venturi, Giampiero Casertano and
Bruno Brindisi. The 1994
horror film Cemetery Man was inspired from Sclavi's novel
Dellamorte Dellamore.