Giuseppe Ferrandino (born 24 January 1958) is an Italian comic book author and novelist. Ferrandino studied Medicine at the University of Naples without completing his degree, but following instead his passion of working as a comic strip scriptwriter.At the end of the seventies, he produced a series of renowned scripts, for publications such as Nero, Lanciostory, Dylan Dog, and Mickey Mouse, reaching the peak of his scriptwriting popularity in the 1980s. Ferrandino lives in Rome, although he often spends lengthy periods in Chicago.