Dylan Dog

But it was written in 1983 and published in 1991.

But also, in 1986, Sklavi created the comic character Dylan Dog, who... not only shares some characteristics with Francesco Della Morte, but was visually based on the actor Rupert Everett, who plays them.

And as an in-joke, the film cast Everett and costumed the character in a fashion deliberately reminiscent of Dylan Dogg.

So I think that's super cool.

It's like this meta moment where he created this comic character based on Rupert Everett, as far as they ended up casting him in a film based off of his novel.

After this one, he kind of stepped back, and a lot of it had to do with the illness of his son.

written by Tiziano Sclavi he wrote the novel and this is he wrote the novel and the comic book Dylan Dog which we'll talk more about later but he wrote the novel this is more based on the novel but then Rupert Everett was the inspiration visually for Dylan Dog it's a whole thing

It is a whole thing.

And the character of Francesco Dillamorte...

I was stupid and I looked up Madonna on IMDb and it's all music videos.

That was a bad call.

And then we talked a little bit about Dylan Dog.

Dylan Dog was a comic in Italy.

I'm surprised everybody knows about it.

And Dylan Dog.

You should know that we would know this stuff.

Dylan Dog.

That's what I was thinking about.

I

was over in

Italy.

Of course, there is an ecosystem, a Lugano Plan B. We're doing so many things, but we have some flaws too.

And yesterday you told me that a problem of Lugano is that you cannot get Tex and Dylan Dog.

And for reference, those are comic series books, Italian ones, but you cannot buy those here, even if everything in Lugano is like Italian style, but you cannot get those books.

Right? And this is a problem of Lugano.

È la mia passione segreta.

Leggo Dylan Dog, Tex, ma anche fumetti americani.

Ho una grande collezione nello studio.

Però non ti preoccupare, li porto via.

I remember that when I was a, a child, maybe seven years old, I saw in a paper shop the cover of a very famous, uh, comic in Italy.

It's, uh, called, uh, Dylan Dog.

And this cover showed a man with, uh, his brain outside his, his head.

I still remember it, even, uh, there passed more than 30 years.