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WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT DYLAN DOG

ME THE GHOSTLY "COMIC STRIPPER" INVENTOR OF DYLAN DOG, interview with Tiziano Sclavi by Francesco Cordella, appearing in Il Mattino, 3 August 1999: "Dylan Dog doesn't exist. Or perhaps he does. Does Tiziano Sclavi exist? Well maybe he doesn't, since he (almost) never gives interviews. Hurry up and read the questions and answers, this page could disappear very soon."
   
SCLAVI: THE HELL I'VE BEEN THROUGH, interview with Tiziano Sclavi by Cesare Mersail, appearing in Il Corriere della Sera, February 1998: "I would like to be just anybody else: not necessarily Alain Delon, I'd be quite satisfied with Woody Allen…".
   
THE MASTER OF HORROR IS TERRIBLY TIMID AND ONLY LOVES CATS, interview with Sclavi edited by Giovanna Pajetta, appearing in L’Europeo, 23 September 1991: "Tiziano Sclavi, the creator of Dylan Dog, the most successful Italian comic strip, explains for the first time in an interview why kids absolutely adore his paper nightmares."
       
TIZIANO SCLAVI COMIC STRIPS FROM THE OTHER WORLD interview with Tiziano Sclavi by Antonio Gnoli, published in La Repubblica, 30 October 1991. "The stories Sclavi tells are full of intelligence, irony, studded with citations from cultured sources (you may come across a phrase from Baudelaire or maybe from Lewis Carroll). The prevailing mood is the thrill of horror and blood. But it is a geometric horror, planned in the minimum details… ".
      
SO CLEVER HE BLOWS YOUR MIND, by Silvia Sereni. An article appearing in Epoca, 13 November 1991: "He shows up in public so seldom, does Sclavi, that there's already a special iconography that's sprung up to depict him, like in the case of saints who are always portrayed with the same attributes. Tall, powerfully built, black hair, pale complexion, legend has it that he always wear his white shirt hanging out of his trousers, Clark shoes with red laces…"
     
A COMIC STRIP WITH THE CARPENTER GRIFFE, by Ermanno Detti. An article appearing in L’Unità, 2 October 1986: "The project, which not altogether unexpectedly took a year and a half of debate within the publishing house before it could get under way, is very cleverly put together: on the one hand there is an attempt to reach out to the more sophisticated public, which may be somewhat tired of certain bold experiments in comic magazines claiming to be at the vanguard of comics, and on the other, the strip seeks to appeal to the public that has become used to stronger tones."
      
CAUGHT IN THE VERY DELIGHTED ACT, interview with Tiziano Sclavi by Ivano Gladimiro Casamonti, appearing in KING, May 1989: "What pleasure is there in telling stories of horrible murders and gruesome monsters, laced with axes, blood splatter, zombies and poltergeists? And then maybe making some weird joke about it, as we see every month in Dylan Dog, the best and the most loved among Italian horror comics? King sent Ivano Gladimiro Casamenti to try and find out what lies behind this mystery. And naturally it all started on a dark stormy night…"
      
DEAR FRIEND, I'M WRITING TO YOU DIRECTLY FROM HELL, by Manuela Campari. An article appearing in La Repubblica, 26 January 1990: "Maybe it's his aura of mystery, or of fascination, but the detective has broken through another barrier, the one that's opened up young girls' hearts to him - they're a considerable portion of his admirers; an unforeseeable departure from the beaten track - heretofore always the preserve of males - of horror…"
          
THE DETECTIVE OF NIGHTMARES, by Renato Gaita. An article appearing in Il Messaggero, 1 August 1990: "Horror in strips; after literature and cinema, the 'noir' is now conquering comic books. the case of "Dylan Dog", which prints two hundred thousand copies per issues. The protagonist? He resembles Rupert Everett and he deals with the paranormal…"
       
HORROR IN STRIPS by Thomas Martinelli. An article appearing in Il Manifesto 26 June 1990: "’An absolutely mind-boggling circulation']; this is trumpeted triumphantly in the latest issue of Dylan Dog. For Sergio Bonelli's monthly publication has now reached two hundred thousand, confirming the increasing popularity of the investigator of nightmares…"
         
ITALIAN HORROR, A REAL BOOM, by Mario Serenellini. An article appearing in La Repubblica, 11 May 1990: "No more than two steps away from the Nazionale, that very evening Dylan Dog Fest 2 burst onto the scene, and the aficionados of horror continued to crowd into the hall (1300 seats) over the following days as well, applauding and throwing roses to their favorite "creatures"…"
        
THE REBELLIOUS NIGHTMARE, interview with Sergio Bonelli, edited by Angelo Calvisi, which appeared in il Mattino,
1 September 1996: "Dylan Dog, the paper hero who has become a cult idol among the young generations, has reached the age of ten. His success? He manages to transmit dynamic tension to his readers, he tunes in to the sense of malaise of recent years…"
          
BITTER ORANGE FLOWERS FOR DYLAN DOG, by Renato Gaita. Article appearing in Il Messaggero, 27 July 1996: "At the end of September, the investigator of nightmares marries Lillie, a winsome IRA militant, but things go wrong at the wedding"