[dubious – discuss] 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.

[1] Because of the crudeness of the publication's contents, he decided to hide his identity under the pseudonym Calpurnio.

[1][2] In 1991 the character was adapted in an award-winning animated television series, curated by the same Calpurnio.

[2][3] 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.

[1][3][4] At the time of his death he was working on a comic version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching.