Il Male

*Il Male*
Categories	Satirical magazine
Frequency	Weekly
First issue	February 1978
Final issue	1982
Country	Italy
Based in	Rome
Language	Italian

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

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Salvatore Attardo (2014). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Publications. p. 475. ISBN 978-1-4833-4617-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gino Moliterno (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 492. ISBN 978-1-134-75877-7.
^ ^a ^b 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.

External links

All covers 1978-1979-1980-1981, n. 45 - Anno II, n. 48 - Anno II

[Attardo2014-1] Salvatore Attardo (2014). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Publications. p. 475. ISBN 978-1-4833-4617-5.

[Moliterno2002-2] Gino Moliterno (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 492. ISBN 978-1-134-75877-7.

[sim-3] 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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Il Male

History and profile

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