Werther Dell'Edera is an Italian
comic book
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artist
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who is best known for ''
Something Is Killing the Children,'' which he provided art for and co-created, and its spin-offs ''House of Slaughter'' and ''Book of Butcher''.
Biography
Werther Dell'Edera was born in
Bari
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,
Italy
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in 1975. He currently lives in
Rome
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, Italy. After finishing high school in Bari, he decided that university did not interest him and chose to move to Rome to attend the Roman School of Comics.
His first job in the comics industry was in 2003 working as a draftsman on ''Road's End,'' published by Magic Press. Followed by working for Eura Editorial on projects ''Detective Dante'' and
''John Doe''.
He then started working with American publishers his first being
Vertigo working on ''
Loveless'', then
''Dark Entries''. He has also worked with
Marvel Comics
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on many occasions, his main comic being ''
Amazing Spider-Man: Family Business.''
They have collaborated with
Sergio Bonelli Editore creating comics; ''Orfani'', ''
Dylan Dog'', and ''Le Storie.''
He worked with
Tiziano Sclavi creating ''The Voices of Water'' in 2019.
In 2019 he co-created ''
Something Is Killing the Children'' with
James Tynion IV published by
BOOM! Studios.
Bibliography
Awards
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Italian comics artists
1975 births
Living people