Ovidiu Zotta (1935–1996) was a Romanian writer of children's stories and an editor, scriptwriter and comic strip designer.
In the late 1960s he created a character, "Dim Dunăreanu" who was a superhero for children and has been called the "Romanian James Bond".
In the late 1960s and early 1970s a new genre of children's magazines emerged in such publications as Cravata roşie, Cutezătorii, and Luminiţa.
[3] In the late 1970s,[4] Zotta was acting as editor-in-chief of Cutezătorii and was also writing and drawing comic strips under the pseudonym "Sandu Alexandru".
The literary magazine Observator Cultural listed Zotta as one of the leading writers of children's literature in Romania, among others such as Dumitru Almaș, Călin Gruia, Gica Iuteș, Octav Pancu-Iași, and Mircea Sântimbreanu.