24 Facts About Tiziano Sclavi

Tiziano Sclavi was born on 3 April 1953 and is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels.

Tiziano Sclavi was born in Broni on 3 April 1953, his mother was a teacher and his father was a communal secretary.

Tiziano Sclavi had lived his childhood and first youth in the Province of Pavia, mainly in Stradella, Canneto Pavese and Certosa di Pavia.

Tiziano Sclavi has been a passionate reader since childhood: he claims he read the entire production of Edgar Allan Poe when he was between six and seven years old, and he has liked scary stories since his childhood, developing a passion of horror and science fiction films.

Tiziano Sclavi started to write when he was still too young pushed by the desire to imitate what he enjoyed.

In 1971, thanks to the interest of Grazia Nidasio who presented him to Mino Milani, Tiziano Sclavi began to collaborate with the Messaggero dei Ragazzi, where he wrote articles and stories often under the pseudonym "Francesco Argento", in honour to Francesco Guccini and Dario Argento, who both would be his colleagues at Corriere dei Piccoli.

In 1972, Tiziano Sclavi met Raffaele Crovi, who would be initially his literary agent and then editor of his novels and stories.

In 1973, Tiziano Sclavi issued a series of crime stories on Il Corriere dei Ragazzi under the pseudonym of Francesco Argento.

In 1974, Tiziano Sclavi published his first short novel, Film, where he tries to unite the horror splatter and the grotesque.

Tiziano Sclavi collaborated with other newspapers belonging to the Corriere della sera group and with the journal Amica and with Salve.

When Corriere dei Ragazzi was closed in 1977, Tiziano Sclavi began to collaborate with Il Corriere dei Piccoli, writing comic series like Allister, Miki, Fantom alongside Sam Peck, Johnny Bassotto, Il Cavallino Michele, La guerra nell'aria and Le pagine della Befana.

In 1978, Tiziano Sclavi published the first version of Apocalisse, formerly entitled Guerre terrestri, issued by Rusconi.

When Corriere della Sera was acquired by Rizzoli Editore, Tiziano Sclavi proposed himself to Bonelli as editor and he was hired in 1981 as proofreader and writer of series like Zagor, Mister No and Ken Parker, creating his own characters.

Tiziano Sclavi returned to write for Zagor on the 1990 special spin-off dedicated to Cico, the Mexican sidekick of Zagor, entitled Horror Cico.

Meanwhile, Tiziano Sclavi crossed a creative and personal crisis which took him away from the character.

From this point, stories signed by Tiziano Sclavi had lost their splatter feature of the first issues and they began to focus more on the surreal and grotesque, with incursions in social and science-fiction themes.

Some characteristics similar to those of Dylan Dog and in some novels of Tiziano Sclavi can be found in Roy Mann, but with more influences of humour, fantasy and paradoxical elements.

The novel was created some years before and the original manuscript was lost, but Tiziano Sclavi reused the main character, Francesco Dellamorte, for a story with Dylan Dog, making him as his alter ego; the novel was then found and published.

In 1997, the full version of Tre was published and Natalia Ginzburg, after reading that version, called Tiziano Sclavi to tell him her appreciation.

Tiziano Sclavi announced so his will to not write novels due to the poor result of selling of his last work.

Tiziano Sclavi wrote for the publishing house for children La Coccinella and in 1999 he took part to the realization of the video-game Dylan Dog Horror Luna Park.

In 2005, Tiziano Sclavi gave more than 8 000 volumes to the Communal Library of Venegono Superiore, collected and preserved in the Fondo Tiziano Sclavi which collects volumes about cinema, music, a wide collection of comics and books about comics, novels of various genres, studies on occultism and paranormal phenomena, photographic volumes and books about graphic.

In 2006, Tiziano Sclavi wrote a story for a Dylan Dog issue published in 2006 and he published a new novel, Il tornado di Valle Scuropasso for Mondadori.

Some works of Tiziano Sclavi had been transposed to cinema: Nero.