''L'Omino Bufo'' is an Italian comic strip created by

Alfredo Castelli Alfredo Castelli (born 26 June 1947) is an Italian comic book artist and writer. Biography Born in Milan, Castelli began his comic book career at an early age, creating the strip '' Scheletrino'', a humor series for Italian comic book ''Diabolik' ...

Background

The comics started in 1972 and it was first published by the comics magazine ''

Il Corriere dei Ragazzi The ''Corriere dei Piccoli'' (Italian for "Courier of the Little Ones"), later nicknamed ''Corrierino'' ("Little Courier"), was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995. It was the first Italian periodical to make a r ...

''. According his author, it was created to "fill a space in the magazine that had been left empty for a technical error". It is the only comics in which Castelli is also artist, with the pseudonym "pittore di santini". After that the ''Corriere dei Ragazzi'' (later ''Corriere Dei Piccoli'') ceased its publications, the comic strip was published in '' Cattivik''.

References

Italian comics titles Comics characters introduced in 1972 Italian comics characters 1972 comics debuts Humor comics {{Italy-comics-stub