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- 1 2 Castaldi, Simone. Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s; University Press of Mississippi; 2012; ISBN 978-1617033254
- ↑ Sex And Horror - The Art of Alessandro Biffignandi, Korero Press, 2016, ISBN 9780993337406
- 1 2 Sex and Horror - The Art of Emanuele Taglietti, Korero Press, 2015, ISBN 9780957664944