Il Male

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Il Male
CategoriesSatirical magazine
FrequencyWeekly
First issueFebruary 1978
Final issue1982
Country Italy
Based inRome
Language Italian

Il Male (Italian for "Evil") was a satirical magazine published in Rome, Italy, between 1978 and 1982.

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History and profile

Il Male was first published in February 1978 as a biweekly tabloid format political satire magazine. [1] [2] [3] The magazine originated from Italian cartoonist Pino Zac's idea. [2] Tommaso Chiaretti was the first editor-in-chief. [2]

The magazine became later weekly. [2] It started with a circulation of 20.000 copies and reached peaks of 48,000 copies. [3] Its fake covers of prominent newspaper were sensational media pranks; [1] the authors even distributed a fake Pravda in Russia during communist rule. The magazine also published a fake Corriere dello Sport in 1978. [1]

Il Male ceased publication in 1982. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Salvatore Attardo (2014). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Publications. p. 475. ISBN   978-1-4833-4617-5.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Gino Moliterno (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 492. ISBN   978-1-134-75877-7.
  3. 1 2 Simone Castaldi (2010). Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 59. ISBN   978-1-60473-777-6.
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