In the early Sixties sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani shocked readers in Italy by writing and publishing the succesful comics series Diabolik, for which they would even be taken to trial, just like Gustave Flaubert in the previous century, after writing Madame Bovary.
But soon the series about a criminal couple, Diabolik & Eva Kant, and the cop who tries in vain to catch them, inspector Ginko, gives birth to novels and a movie, followed in time by cartoons, more novels and films. Today Diabolik is still a household name and one of the best-selling comics in Italy.
Italian writer Andrea Carlo Cappi, author of Diabolik original tie-in novels and film noveizations, and of the official non-fiction book Fenomenologia di Diabolik, leads you behind the scenes (and the real life mysteries) of the Diabolik phenomenon.
The Diabolik Phenomenon 5 - Sympathy for the devil
More to come...
Andrea Carlo Cappi, born in Milan in 1964 and living between Italy and Spain since 1973, is an Italian writer, translator and editor. Author of over sixty titles - most of which set in his noir/spy story universe "Kverse" - and member of IAMTW, he also writes tie-in novels for "Diabolik" and "Martin Mystère". In 2018 he won the Premio Italia for best Italian fantasy novel.
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