Dylan Dog
Dylan Dog is the comic character of the comic series of the same name , which was invented by Tiziano Sclavi in 1986 for the Italian comic publisher Sergio Bonelli Editore (international: Bonelli Comics ).
series
The stories, which appear on 98 pages in black and white, usually follow the same pattern: At first there is a murder or an unnatural death. The bereaved, mostly a young attractive woman, cannot come to terms with the police's explanation and assigns Dylan Dog to solve the case. In the course of the story, an intimate relationship with the client develops. Dylan Dog doubts psychic theories, but they almost always turn out to be true in the end.
figure
Dylan Dog is a dry alcoholic and former Scotland Yards cop who is now making more than enough money as a private investigator. His clothes are always the same: blue jeans , a red shirt and a black jacket. In order to think in peace, he plays the clarinet and always tinkers with the same model galleon . He drives an old VW Beetle with the registration number DYD 666. The name Dylan pays homage to the English poet Dylan Thomas, Rupert Everett served as a template for the main character's appearance.
Minor characters
Groucho
Groucho is his assistant, who often saves his skin at the last second. Groucho was a Groucho Marx imitator and looks very similar to him, which is why Dylan simply calls him Groucho. Groucho is notorious for his jokes. In the American version of the Dylan Dog comics, the typical Groucho Marx beard was retouched due to legal disputes and Groucho's name is Felix here.
Inspector Bloch
is the link to Dylan Dog's past at Scotland Yard and a good friend when it comes to gathering information. The English actor Robert Morley served as a graphic model for Inspector Bloch .
Craven Road No. 7th
The residential address is also full of allusions, here the horror film director Wes Craven , best known for his Nightmare on Elmstreet films, served as namesake. Craven Road actually exists in London, at the address given there is a restaurant that sells Dylan Dog sandwiches, among other things.
If you press Dylan's doorbell, you hear a scream - this is also a quote from a film, a screaming doorbell also greeted the guests in A Corpse for Dessert by Robert Moore .
Publication in Germany
In 2001, Carlsen Verlag brought the comic onto the market in Germany and edited each issue. The series was discontinued after Volume 20 in November 2002. Since then, Edition Schwarzer Klecks has continued the series at irregular intervals with around six volumes per year, two of which appear at the same time for the most part. 62 volumes were published, the last volume in July 2009. At the end of 2011 it was unofficially announced that, due to weak sales, no more volumes would be published by Edition Schwarzer Klecks. The German volumes were not published in the original order. Since the end of 2014, the Libellus Verlag in Munich has been publishing the Dylan Dog Comics in German again. This time the volumes will be colored in the original order and appear as hard covers. Each volume will contain three Dylan Dog stories. However, the last volume, Volume 6, appeared in May 2017.
Publication in other countries
Outside Italy, Dylan Dog has also appeared in the USA ( Dark Horse Comics ), Croatia (Ludens), Serbia (Veseli Četvrtak and Expik Publications), Denmark (Shadow Zone Media), the Netherlands (New Year's Eve), Poland (Egmond Polska) and Spain (Aleta) Ediciones). Volumes have also appeared in Turkey (Rodeo and Hoz Comics) and France (Glénat).
Cinema adaptations
The film Cemetery Man , a story by Tiziano Sclavi with Rupert Everett in the title role, is a tribute to Dylan Dog. The name of the main character Francesco Dellamorte is based on a story by Sclavi and his style of clothing corresponds to Dylan's.
A film adaptation with Brandon Routh in the role of Dylan was released in German cinemas in 2011 under the film title Dylan Dog . Sam Huntington plays his partner Marcus.
Quote
literature
- Antonella Nardi: Report from the afterlife or Dylan Dog's multimedia horror . In: Zibaldone No. 17: Fumetti - Comics in Italy. Munich (Piper) 1994, pp. 67-84. ISBN 3-492-16017-4
Web links
- “My name is Dog ... Dylan Dog!” Portrait
- Website set up by Libellus Verlag for the series
- Dylan Dog on the homepage of the parent company (Italian and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tiziano Sclavi at lambiek.net
- ↑ Discontinuation of the Dylan Dog series at Schwarzer Klecks Comment in a forum by an employee of the publishing house on the future of Dylan Dog
- ↑ Homepage of the Serbian publishing house
- ↑ a b Kino auf arte: Dellamorte Dellamore ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : “The story of the cemetery attendant Francesco Dellamorte is based on a 1991 novella by Tiziano Sclavi. The Italian writer and comic book writer is best known for the Italian comic series "Dylan Dog". The picture stories about a private detective on the trail of the mysterious, a cult figure who has become indispensable in Italian culture, were filmed in 2010 with Brandon Routh and Sam Huntington under the title "Dylan Dog: Dead of Night". [...] Director Michele Soavi was also inspired by Tiziano Sclavi for the characters in "Dellamorte Dellamore" . A few parallels between Soavi's cemetery attendant and the eponymous hero of the comic series quickly become apparent to those familiar with "Dylan Dog". These similarities are no coincidence. Because the British-born actor Rupert Everett, who embodies the lovesick cemetery attendant for Soavi, also modeled the title character of the comic series in the mid-1980s. "
- ↑ Dylan Dog on g-wie-gorilla ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cemetery Man on thefleshfarm.com (English)
