A "classic" Dylan Dog page from one of the very best issues ("Caccia alle Streghe", Witch-hunt) of the series.
Written by Dylan Dog creator Tiziano Sclavi and illustrated by the amazing Piero Dall'Agnol, is about comics that corrupt childhood, as evil seducers of innocence, cause of any moral decline. And the new inquisitors of the 20th century, right-thinking, scream to the comic book artist Justin Moss to "make them disappear". Things are quickly going bad for Justin...
The text roughly translates as:
panel 1
- horror and death
- ?!
- horror and death
panel 2
- It was a fake dagger... like the cinema ones, with the blade that retracts and then sprays fake blood...
panel 3-4
- Then they beat and raped me...
- What a cruelty! But I know a worst story: it's Christmas, it's snowing, it's cold, and a poor blind little girl, dressed in rags, plays a small harmonica, sitting on the ground outside of a theater with sparkling lights...
- That harmonica is the only thing she has, but the girl smiles, because life has given her so much...
panel 5
- ... at midnight the rich lords come out from the theater, and one of them sees the girl, who continues to play and smile, because after all life has given her so much... the lord approaches and using his walking stick throws the harmonica of the little one away...
Panel 6
... the girl, who always smiles because life has given her so much, using her little hands numb with cold, searches for it in the snow, but the rich gentleman, always using his stick, pushes it further away...
Please also check
the second page from the sequence, with the conclusion of Groucho's story.
Huge thanks to Enrico!
Paper size: 33.5 x 50 cm
