Calpurnio

Eduardo Pelegrín Martínez de Pisón (1959 – 15 December 2022), best known as Calpurnio or Calpurnio Pisón (after the Roman gens Calpurnii Pisones), was a Spanish comic artist, illustrator, scriptwriter, animator and video jockey.

Life and career Born in Zaragoza, Pisón started his career in 1983 self-publishing the fanzine El Japo, which included his most famous work, the comic strip El Bueno de Cuttlas. Because of the crudeness of the publication's contents, he decided to hide his identity under the pseudonym Calpurnio.

Besides comics, Calpurnio was also active as illustrator, among other things designing posters, merchandising, advertising and decorations in bullrings, as well as illustrating some literary classics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Blackie Book series Clásicos Liberados. At the time of his death he was working on a comic version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching.