Jorge Zentner (born February 27, 1953) is an Argentine comic writer and the creator of the Dieter Lumpen character.

[1][2] Zentner was born at Basavilbaso, Entre Ríos, Argentina, into a Jewish family.

In 1977 he was forced to flee Argentina, and lived in Israel, Spain and France.

He began his career as a comic writer in 1979; in 1981 he started a long collaboration with Spanish artist Ruben Pellejero, with whom he realized most of his work.

Le Silence de Malka (1996) won the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1997.