Just Some Dawg...

I've been a little Dylan Dog mad this week. The character is a sales revelation in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, selling around 120,000 a month. (Only 'Tex' sells better on a monthly basis).. For those that haven't seen them they come out monthly in a slightly larger than digest size format. Usually Black and White interiors from the Sergio Boneli Editore publishers. 

Dylan Dog himself was inspired by Rupert Everett and is nearly always dressed in jeans, a black jacket and a bright red shirt. The series started in 1986 and has spawned two films and a variety of cross-overs and spin-off titles. He is an unorthodox investigator of the supernatural and the deadly who is based in London and drives a white Volkswagen Beetle. His adventures scream both post punk and the hallucinatory. He's prone to shout the melodrama of the moment at people and he has an assistant who looks like Groucho Marx in the Italian issues (and has no moustache in the English language volumes and is called 'Felix' - I think it's a rights issue...)

'Are you joking! Pay money to hear the world's horrors!'

or

'Dancing Judas!' (Dylan shouts this a lot).

A few years ago Dark Horse Comics grabbed the property and produced a mini series that they collected. It's actually quite pricy to find online and reprints a number of the earlier stories in a translated version.

 It's a real shame that so little has been recently translated but looks like Epicenter Comics are fixing that. Here's the link to their 'Dawg' catalogue https://www.ebay.com/itm/162149652669

They currently have four volumes of Dylan Dog reprints available. They are gorgeous and well worth a look - I bought mine at Orbital Comics.

Here are a couple that I read today. Just sublime. 

Just for shits and giggles I thought I'd include some of the other Dylan Dog stuff I have acquired recently. 

No big 'Blah, Blah, Blah' today just some images I have been digging.

The above are cards that came with an issue of Dylan Dog that I bought at Rome airport last month. (In a comic that cost me three Euros and fifty Cents!)

Just look at THIS nine-panel grid. That's how you do it!

If you really want some beauty in your life then grab a hold of The Dylan Dog Diary - published in Italy by Sergio Boneli Editore. (This was a gift from the Mighty Mauro and just breath taking!)