Dylan Dog
| Dylan Dog | |
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Dylan Dog No. 62 cover by Angelo Stano
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Sergio Bonelli Editore |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date(s) | October 1986 – present |
| Main character(s) | Dylan Dog |
| Creative team | |
| Written by |
Tiziano Sclavi Paola Barbato Claudio Chiaverotti Pasquale Ruju Michele Medda |
| Artist(s) |
Angelo Stano Bruno Brindisi Corrado Roi Claudio Castellini |
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| Dylan Dog Casefiles | ISBN |
Dylan Dog is an Italian horror comics series featuring an eponymous character (a paranormal investigator) created by Tiziano Sclavi. The series is mainly set in London, where the protagonist lives, though he occasionally travels elsewhere.
Dark Horse Comics has published the English version of Dylan Dog in the United States. The series is also published in Croatia by Ludens, in Serbia by Veseli Četvrtak and Expik Publications, in Macedonia by M-comics, in Denmark by Shadow Zone Media, in the Netherlands by Silvester, in Poland by Egmont Polska, in Spain by Aleta Ediciones, in Sweden by Ades Media and in Turkey by Rodeo and Hoz Comics.
The film Cemetery Man (original title: Dellamorte Dellamore, 1994) starring Rupert Everett, was loosely based on the comics. A direct film adaptation, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, starring Brandon Routh, was released in 2011.
Dylan Dog was created by Tiziano Sclavi, a goblin comics and novel writer, while the graphic representation of the character was elaborated mainly by Claudio Villa, who was its first cover artist too, taking the inspiration from the English actor Rupert Everett, as he saw in the movie Another Country. The character was named for poet Dylan Thomas.
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 Sclavi and illustrated by Angelo Stano; it proved to be a huge publishing success in the years to come. May 2003 saw the publication of Issue 200, entitled "Il numero duecento" ("The Number Two-Hundred"), plotted and scripted by Paola Barbato and drawn by Bruno Brindisi. In August 2011, the series has reached the number 300, entitled "Ritratto di famiglia" ("Family Portrait").
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