Il Male

A defunct Italian weekly satirical magazine (1978–1982)

Il MaleCategories| Satirical magazine

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Frequency| Weekly
First issue| February 1978
Final issue| 1982
Country| Italy
Based in| Rome
Language| Italian

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

## History and profile

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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

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* List of magazines in Italy

## References

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1. ^ a b c d Salvatore Attardo (2014). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Publications. p. 475\. ISBN 978-1-4833-4617-5.
2. ^ a b c d Gino Moliterno (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 492\. ISBN 978-1-134-75877-7.
3. ^ 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

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

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