Dante Quinterno (Buenos Aires City, October 26, 1909 – Buenos Aires City, May 14, 2003) was an Argentine comics artist, agricultural producer, and prolific editorial businessman, famous for being the creator of the Patoruzú, Isidoro Cañones and Patoruzito characters.

He was born in Buenos Aires city, on October 26, 1909, son of Martín Quinterno and Laura Raffo.

His paternal grandfather was originally from Piamonte, and emigrated to Argentina to be an Agricultural producer and a fruit seller.

[1] In 1924 he began sending his drawings to several Buenos Aires newspapers and in 1925 he published his first comic Panitruco, in El Suplemento.

[2] In the 1990s he moved away from the comics world, becoming a businessman, but he continue exploiting his characters with his own publishing and licensee companies; Editorial Universo S.A. and Los Tehuelches S.A.. Married Rosa Schiaffino in 1938, they had three children: Dante, Walter and Mónica.