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DYLAN DOG TURNS 35 And today the apocalypse of the detective of nightmares and other horrors
The great Tiziano took on other jobs, but kept returning to his Dylan, who hasn't learned to play the clarinet even after three decades. Groucho's puns haven't got any funnier either. Thanks for that…
G rowing up in the old Yugoslavia had its advantages, which today‘s kids see as an anomaly. We didn‘t remember the days ac- cording to their official names, but accord- ing to the names of the comics released. The week began with “Mickey‘s Entertainer”, continued with “Comic Book 81”, “Ex Almanac” and “Stripoteka”, progressed via “Alan Ford” and “The Golden Series”, un- til Friday and “Lunov Magnus Strip” and “Politika‘s En- tertainer”. And then came the weekend, which we used to see who Zagor‘s latest rival was, what James Bond and Rip Kirby were up to, and who Modesty Blaise was
beating up. Ever more new characters appeared, and the shelves proved too small for our collections. And then the scent of roto paper disappeared with the disappearance of the Socialist Yugoslavia. The ma- jor publishing houses gave up, while the small ones on- ly endured for a few issues, arranged in order and sold initially on a weekly basis, then every 14 days, month- ly... Never again. As addicts, we wandered from kiosk to kiosk and bought them all in order, but we needed new heroes as we emerged from adolescence. Or, more precisely, we were seeking anti-heroes who were sim- ilar to us, the last generation of the great Yugoslavia.
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