L'Omino Bufo is an Italian comic strip created by Alfredo Castelli.

The comics started in 1972 and it was first published by the comics magazine Il Corriere dei Ragazzi.

[1] According his author, it was created to "fill a space in the magazine that had been left empty for a technical error".

[2] It is the only comics in which Castelli is also artist, with the pseudonym "pittore di santini".

[3] After that the Corriere dei Ragazzi (later Corriere Dei Piccoli) ceased its publications, the comic strip was published in Cattivik.