Diabolics
Diabolik is an Italian cartoon character invented by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962 . The monthly, black and white drawn comic books are published by Astorina Verlag . From October 2001 to February 2002, six volumes were published by Ehapa in Germany.
The name of the title character is derived from the Greek name Διάβολος Diábolos of the devil (whose Italian name Diavolo comes from the Latinized form Diabolus ).
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The gentleman gangster Diabolik lives off large-scale jewelery thefts that he plans and carries out with his companion Eva Kant. In contrast to his Italian antipode Dylan Dog, he proves himself to be a representative of evil and the criminal underworld, but he does keep a certain code of honor. As the inventor of skin-tight face masks, he can change his identity at will and thus escape his opponent from the world of law, Inspector Ginko, time and again. Diabolik also has other fantastic equipment (such as his projectile-like anesthetic syringes) and a jaguar as an escape vehicle. Diabolik and Eva basically only rob rich, often even criminal people of high society, so that their merciless, cool demeanor towards their victims gives the impression of compensatory justice. In contrast to other modern Robin Hood figures, however, the stolen property is not redistributed to the needy. The unscrupulous gangster in the black jersey is much more like the French villain Fantômas .
Importance and distribution in Italy
Diabolik has had a firm place in Italian popular culture since the 1960s; in terms of popularity, the figure can measure up to Mickey Mouse or Lucky Luke . The Diabolik booklets are also currently represented in large numbers. Since its appearance in 1962, the charming thief has embodied a kind of counter-myth to the common, American-influenced comic hero morality. With Diabolik, not only does evil triumph; The clean world of the supermen is also smiled at as weak, prone to failure and less intelligent. The series is at the beginning of the Italian fumetti-neri tradition, which was to spawn other popular anti-heroes such as crime and satanic .
filming
In 1968 the Italian director Mario Bava filmed the comic under the title Diabolik (also: Hazard: Diabolik! ); Ennio Morricone composed the film music. John Phillip Law plays the main character Diabolik, while his accomplice Eva Kant is played by Marisa Mell . Michel Piccoli appears in the role of the forever inferior Inspector Ginko.
In the music video for the song Body Movin by the Beastie Boys , the film is parodied and scenes are used directly.
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] Brief introduction to the historical context at Comicguide.de
- ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics. From mass paper to multimedia adventure. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1996. pp. 227f.
- ↑ splashcomics.de on Diabolik as a pioneer of "fumetto nero"
literature
- Roberto Festi, Maurizio Scudiero (ed.): "Effetto Noir". Catalog for the exhibition “Effetto Noir”. Little Nemo, Torino 2000.
- Davide Barzi: Le regine del terrore. Angela e Luciana Giussani: le ragazze della Milano bene che inventarono Diabolik. Storie di Segni 2nd Edizioni BD 2000.