Dylan Dog is an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
horrorHorror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience...
comicsComics is a graphic medium in which images are utilized in order to convey a sequential narrative; the term, derived from massive early use to convey comic themes, came to be applied to all uses of this medium including those which are far from comic...
series featuring an eponymous character, created by
Tiziano SclaviTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...
for the publishing house
Sergio Bonelli EditoreSergio Bonelli Editore is a publishing house of Italian comics. It takes its name from its president and comic book author, Sergio Bonelli....
.
Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book publisher.Mike Richardson, the owner of several comic book shops in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, began to publish in 1986 with an anthology series called Dark Horse Presents, investing profits from his stores into Dark...
has published the
EnglishEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
version of
Dylan Dog.
It is also published in
CroatiaCroatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a country in southeast Europe, at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Zagreb...
under Ludens, Serbia under Veseli Četvrtak, Denmark under Shadow Zone Media and in Spain under Aleta Ediciones.
Dylan Dog was created by
Tiziano SclaviTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...
, an Italian comics and novel writer, while the graphic representation of the character was elaborated mainly by
Claudio VillaClaudio Villa is an Italian comics artist who has primarily worked with Sergio Bonelli Editore, and is currently involved in illustrating several books in the Tex Willer comic series. He has mostly drawn covers since number 400th, but sometimes also draws stories Claudio Villa (born October 31...
, who was its first cover artist too, taking the inspiration from the
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actor
Rupert EverettRupert James Hector Everett is an English actor and singer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly homosexual student at an English public school, set in the 1930s...
, as he saw in the movie
Another CountryAnother Country may refer to:* Another Country , by James Baldwin* Another Country , by Julian Mitchell* Another Country , an adaptation of the play* Another Country...
.
Dylan Dog is a penniless nightmare investigator who defies the whole preceding
horrorHorror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience...
tradition with a vein of
surrealismSurrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
and an anti-bourgeois rhetoric.
The series is mainly set in
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
, where the protagonist lives, though he occasionally travels elsewhere.
Dylan Dog is an
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
horrorHorror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience...
comicsComics is a graphic medium in which images are utilized in order to convey a sequential narrative; the term, derived from massive early use to convey comic themes, came to be applied to all uses of this medium including those which are far from comic...
series featuring an eponymous character, created by
Tiziano SclaviTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...
for the publishing house
Sergio Bonelli EditoreSergio Bonelli Editore is a publishing house of Italian comics. It takes its name from its president and comic book author, Sergio Bonelli....
.
Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book publisher.Mike Richardson, the owner of several comic book shops in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, began to publish in 1986 with an anthology series called Dark Horse Presents, investing profits from his stores into Dark...
has published the
EnglishEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
version of
Dylan Dog.
It is also published in
CroatiaCroatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a country in southeast Europe, at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea. Its capital is Zagreb...
under Ludens, Serbia under Veseli Četvrtak, Denmark under Shadow Zone Media and in Spain under Aleta Ediciones.
The character
Dylan Dog was created by
Tiziano SclaviTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...
, an Italian comics and novel writer, while the graphic representation of the character was elaborated mainly by
Claudio VillaClaudio Villa is an Italian comics artist who has primarily worked with Sergio Bonelli Editore, and is currently involved in illustrating several books in the Tex Willer comic series. He has mostly drawn covers since number 400th, but sometimes also draws stories Claudio Villa (born October 31...
, who was its first cover artist too, taking the inspiration from the
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actor
Rupert EverettRupert James Hector Everett is an English actor and singer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly homosexual student at an English public school, set in the 1930s...
, as he saw in the movie
Another CountryAnother Country may refer to:* Another Country , by James Baldwin* Another Country , by Julian Mitchell* Another Country , an adaptation of the play* Another Country...
.
Dylan Dog is a penniless nightmare investigator who defies the whole preceding
horrorHorror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience...
tradition with a vein of
surrealismSurrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
and an anti-bourgeois rhetoric.
The series is mainly set in
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
, where the protagonist lives, though he occasionally travels elsewhere. His clothes are one of his defining characteristics: he always dresses the same way, in a red shirt, black jacket, and blue jeans; he bought twelve identical outfits after the death of his lover Lillie Connolly. One of the principal supporting characters in the series is his assistant (or rather, comic relief), Groucho, a punning double of
Groucho MarxJulius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit.He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of which he was the third-born...
. Another supporting character is Inspector Bloch, who was his superior when he worked at
Scotland YardNew Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City district, which is covered by the City of London Police....
and remains his father figure (in fact he calls Dylan "Old boy") even after Dylan struck out on his own to become a private investigator specializing in the supernatural.
Dylan lives with Groucho at 7 Craven Road in a cluttered apartment with a doorbell that screams. His hobbies include playing the
clarinetThe clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet...
and constructing a model ship which apparently never manages to finish; he has many phobias, including claustrophobia,
batsFear of bats, sometimes called chiroptophobia, may refer both to a specific phobia associated with bats and to common negative stereotypes and fear of bats stemming from prejudices and misinformation.-Roots and misconceptions:...
and
heightsAcrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of heights. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort that share both similar etiology and options for treatment.Acrophobia can be dangerous, as sufferers can experience a panic attack in a high place and become too...
. Dylan is also particularly susceptible to
motion sicknessMotion sickness or kinetosis, also known as Travel Sickness, is a condition in which a disagreement exists between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement...
, which is one of the reasons why he rarely travels, and anyway never by plane. Once an alcoholic, he now never drinks. He is a vegetarian. He's also a hopeless romantic who loves and loses a new woman in nearly every issue.
Dylan Dog seems to have an
Oedipus complexThe Oedipus complex, in psychoanalytic theory, is a group of largely unconscious ideas and feelings which centre around the desire to possess the parent of the opposite sex and eliminate the parent of the same sex....
: many of the numerous women he pursues resemble his mother Morgana, and he dramatically collides with the shadow of his father --
Xabaras -- (Slight transformation of
AbraxasThe word Abraxas was engraved on certain antique stones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms. The name is found in the Greek Magical Papyri, and the word may be related to the word abracadabra, although other explanations exist...
) cut into two halves, which seems to allude to the ambivalence of this father figure and of Dylan's feelings for him.
Sclavi's progressive disinvolvement has left other authors the task of carrying forward character continuity. After being absent for several years, Xabaras returned in 2004.
Supporting characters
Inspector Bloch, Dylan's superior when he worked at
Scotland YardNew Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City district, which is covered by the City of London Police....
, remained his friend and father figure even after our hero quit the force. Bloch and Dylan often help out in each other's cases. Bloch is more rational and grounded than Dylan and often disregards
supernaturalThe term supernatural or supranatural pertains to an order of existence beyond the scientifically visible universe. Religious miracles are typically supernatural claims, as are spells and curses, divination, the belief that there is an afterlife for the dead, and innumerable others...
explanations. He is an old but competent officer who dreams of retirement. Though Dylan causes enough trouble on his own, Bloch is also plagued by his hapless underling, Jenkins, whom he constantly threatens to sentence to a life of directing traffic. His graphic representation was inspired by English actor
Robert MorleyRobert Morley CBE was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment...
.
Groucho was a
Groucho MarxJulius Henry "Groucho" Marx was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit.He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of which he was the third-born...
impersonator whose character became his permanent personality (hinted to be because of memory loss in 'Oltre quella porta' issue 228). Now he lives and works with Dylan Dog as his professional
sidekickA sidekick is a stock character, a close companion who assists a partner in a superior position. Don Quixote's Sancho Panza, Sherlock Holmes' Doctor Watson, Batman's companion Robin, and Xena's partner, Gabrielle are some well-known sidekicks in fiction....
. He enjoys puns and women, though he does not share his employer's luck with the ladies. Groucho's goofy, off-beat personality helps temper Dylan's moodiness. He also reminds his boss when their finances are in dire straits (almost always), shows up with a pistol in the nick of time and throws it in Dylan's hand right on time, and makes
teaTea is the agricultural product of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods...
. At some point in every issue Groucho makes one or two jokes that annoy Dylan and the person listening to the joke (often a client of Dylan's). An example: "...once, I had a dog which could utter its own name. It was named Woof."
New issues
Dylan Dog series debuted in October 1986 with a comic book entitled "L'alba dei morti viventi" ("Dawn of the Living Dead"), plotted and scripted by
Tiziano SclaviTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...
and illustrated by
Angelo StanoAngelo Stano is an Italian comic book artist. He is mainly famous for his drawings for Dylan Dog, for which he drew the very first story. He is the current cover artist of the series.-Biography:...
; it proved to be a huge publishing success in the years to come. May
2003-November:* November 12: John Tartaglione dies at age 81.* November 30: Kin Platt dies at age 92.-First issues by title:Opus...
saw the publication of Issue 200, entitled "Il numero duecento" ("Number Two-Hundred"), plotted and scripted by Paola Barbato and drawn by
Bruno BrindisiBruno Brindisi is an Italian comics artist.Brindisi was born in Salerno. Initially he collaborated with his fellow Salernitan Roberto De Angelis and Luigi Siniscalchi, debuting on the fanzine Trumoon; later he worked for erotic series published by Blue Press and Ediperiodici...
.
Reprints
The first reprint series came out in July
1990, the second in June
1991-April:* X-Force debuts in New Mutants vol. 1, #100 - Marvel Comics* April 4: Graham Ingels dies at age 75....
, and the third in June
1996- January :* January 19: Bernard Bailey dies at age 79.* January 28: Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel dies at age 81.-January:*the Avengers #394 - Marvel Comics*Captain America #447 - Marvel Comics...
, this time called
Collezione Book (
Collection Book); in October
2006-January:*January 1 2006: Newsweek offer a look back at 2005 through editorial cartoons. *January 2 2006: Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman starts a blog to detail his creative process...
the bi-monthly reprint
Grande ristampa was released.
February
1997-January:*Avengers #3 - Marvel Comics*Captain America #3 - Marvel Comics*Fantastic Four #3 - Marvel Comics*Iron Man #3 - Marvel Comics-February:...
saw the release of the
Super Book, a tri-monthly release that reprinted the special annual issues that had come out ten years before.
Annuals
In August 1987 a special annual release was added to the monthly series, called
Numero Speciale (
Special Issue), with one story longer than usual and, in addition, small extra books on various
horrorHorror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience...
-related subjects.
Another annual release was added in March
1991-April:* X-Force debuts in New Mutants vol. 1, #100 - Marvel Comics* April 4: Graham Ingels dies at age 75....
,
L'almanacco della paura ("The Fear Almanac"): together with Dylan Dog stories, it includes articles and curiosities about
filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
,
literatureLiterature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" , and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters...
, and other topics, all related to the horror theme.
January
1993-April:* Adventures of Superman #500 is released and the Reign of the Supermen begins with four Supermen.-June:* Malibu Comics launches the Ultraverse line of comics in which it states that writers are the true enhancements in comics...
saw the appearance of a new annual book, the
Dylan Dog Gigante ("Giant-Size Dylan Dog"), so called because it was much larger than the monthly book and because it contained more stories.
Dylan Dog maxi (
Maximum Dylan Dog) came out in July
1998- April :* April 7: Golden Age artist Alex Schomburg dies at age 92.- November :* November 3: Batman creator Bob Kane dies at age 83.* November 17: Torchy creator Bill Ward dies at age 79....
. This was another annual release that collected together three previously unpublished stories.
Specials
In October 1990 an irregularly numbered issue came out:
Dylan Dog e Martin Mystère - Ultima Fermata: l'incubo! (
Dylan Dog and Martin Mystère - Last Stop: Nightmare!). It presented an unpublished story in which the nightmare investigator teamed up with another famous
Bonelli-People:* Camillo Bonelli, Captain Regent of San Marino* Carlo Bonelli , Italian cardinal* Federico Bonelli, Italian ballet dancer* Franco Andrea Bonelli , Italian zoologist* Gian Luigi Bonelli , Italian comics writer...
character,
Martin MystèreMartin Mystère is an Italian comic book. Created by writer Alfredo Castelli and drawn by Giancarlo Alessandrini, it was first published in Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore in 1982....
.
Alfredo CastelliAlfredo Castelli is an Italian comic book author and writer.-Biography:Born in Milan, Castelli began his comic book career at an early age, creating the strip Scheletrino, a humor series for Italian comic book Diabolik, when he was only 16 years old.In 1966, with Paolo Sala, he created Comics Club...
and
Tiziano SclaviTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...
wrote and plotted this story, and Giovanni Freghieri did the drawings. The story had a sequel in 1992.
Covers
Claudio VillaClaudio Villa is an Italian comics artist who has primarily worked with Sergio Bonelli Editore, and is currently involved in illustrating several books in the Tex Willer comic series. He has mostly drawn covers since number 400th, but sometimes also draws stories Claudio Villa (born October 31...
created the covers until
Dylan Dog #41 (1990), after which he was replaced by
Angelo StanoAngelo Stano is an Italian comic book artist. He is mainly famous for his drawings for Dylan Dog, for which he drew the very first story. He is the current cover artist of the series.-Biography:...
. While Stano has also illustrated several stories, Villa has illustrated only a short one, in the seventh
Dylan Dog Gigante.
Dark Horse
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
publisher
Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book publisher.Mike Richardson, the owner of several comic book shops in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, began to publish in 1986 with an anthology series called Dark Horse Presents, investing profits from his stores into Dark...
has released seven
EnglishEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
volumes of Dylan Dog, six in
1999-August:*100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso debuts under the Vertigo imprint .-First issues by title:*100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, cover dated August. Published under the Vertigo imprint by DC Comics.*Strange Adventures cover dated November...
, and one more in
2002-January:* January 4: Kurt Schaffenberger dies at age 81.* January 10: John Buscema dies at age 74.-May:* May 3: Tom Sutton dies at age 65.* May 7: Robert Kanigher dies at age 86.-First issues by title:Strange Killings...
. In this version, Groucho became a cleanshaven fellow called Felix because of legal dispute with Groucho Marx's estate.
Mike MignolaMike Joseph Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer, famous for creating the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has also worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On...
drew new covers for the 1999 releases.
A 680 page volume,
Dylan Dog Casefiles, was released in 2009 (ISBN 1595822062), to tie in with the upcoming movie
Dead of Night.
Dellamorte Dellamore
In
1994The year 1994 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :*This was the Highest Grossing film of 1994 Worldwidesource: - Awards :Academy Awards:* Andre...
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
directorA film director, or filmmaker is a person who directs the making or production of a film. Some also consider a film producer to be a filmmaker....
Michele SoaviMichele Soavi, sometimes known as Michael Soavi is an Italian filmmaker.-Career:Born in Milan, as a teenager Soavi enrolled in creative arts classes and developed into a talented actor. He took acting lessons at Milan's Fersen Studios following, but his greatest talent was working behind the camera...
directed the
filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
Dellamorte Dellamore (known abroad as
Cemetery ManCemetery Man is a 1994 Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi. The screenplay by Gianni Romoli was based on the 1991 novel by Tiziano Sclavi. Sclavi is also the author of the comic Dylan Dog, which covers similar themes and whose protagonist is self-admittedly a Rupert Everett lookalike...
or
Of Death and Love), with a
screenplayA screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A play for television is known as a teleplay.- Format and style :...
written by Giovanni Romoli and based on
Tiziano SclaviTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...
's similarly titled
novelA novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
.
Francesco Dellamorte (his mother's surname was Dellamore) - a sort of
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
alter egoAn alter ego is a second self, a second personality or persona within a person. It was coined in the early nineteenth century when schizophrenia was first described by early psychologists...
for Dylan Dog - appears for the first time in the third special issue of Dylan Dog,
Orrore nero (
Black Horror), released July
1989-November:* November 22: Captain Marvel creator C.C. Beck dies at age 79.-First issues by title:*Catwoman mini-series*The Green Hornet*Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.*Nth Man*Quasar...
, in which he met the Nightmares Detective, but the Sclavi's novel was written before the special issue.
Francesco Dellamorte also appears in a short sequel of Orrore nero, entitled
Stelle cadenti (
Falling stars), where Dylan, Groucho, Francesco and Gnaghi are walking together during saint Lawrence's night, watching shooting stars and talking about life and death. But they are not alone, that night...
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actor
Rupert EverettRupert James Hector Everett is an English actor and singer. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly homosexual student at an English public school, set in the 1930s...
played the protagonist, Francesco Dellamorte, while
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
model and actress
Anna FalchiAnna Falchi is a Finnish-born Italian model and film actress.-Career:Anna Falchi started her career as a model. She first appeared on television in a commercial for an Italian bank in 1992. The ad starred Paolo Villaggio, and was directed by the famous Federico Fellini...
played the female lead. Although Everett, playing Dellamorte, wore Dylan Dog's trademark costume, the Dylan Dog character did not appear in the movie.
Dead of Night
Kevin MunroeKevin Munroe is the director of 2007 CG film TMNT and Sim Brother.Munroe has done extensive animation work during the last decade including video games, television series, and original comic books...
is directing
Dead of Night, an adaptation that will star
Brandon RouthBrandon James Routh is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and subsequently appeared on several television series throughout the early 2000s...
. It is currently set for a
2009The year 2009 has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top-grossing films:...
release.
Awards
- 2008
-January:*January 9: Teen Titans: The Lost Annual, delayed since 2003, is published.*January 23: Hellblazer #240, marking the 20th anniversary of the series, is released.-February:...
Nominated for the "Favourite European Comics" Eagle Award
- 2000 Nominated for the "Favourite comic" Eagle Award
Trivia
- Italian
Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
author Umberto EcoUmberto Eco is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...
said: "I can read the BibleThe Bible contains the central religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. Modern Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, as it is written almost entirely in the Hebrew language, with some small portions in Aramaic...
, HomerHomer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey...
, or Dylan Dog for several days without being bored."
- Dylan Dog was named for poet Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer[, Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved 11 January 2008.] who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...
.
- Dylan's address is Craven Road n°7, London, in reference to director Wes Craven
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven is an American film director and writer, perhaps best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street series featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character and the Scream films.-Early life:Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son...
.
- Dylan's license plate number is DYD 666.
- Dylan Dog is the most widely sold comic book
A comic book is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog and often including brief descriptive prose...
in ItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
: including both reprints and new stories, it sells over a million copies each month.
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