Farewell to one of Dylan Dog’s “graphic fathers”. The cartoonist Luigi Piccattopillar since the beginning of the creative team of the Nightmare Investigator, the character created by Tiziano Sclavi, died in the night between 13 and 14 March at the age of 68 in Asti where he had lived for some time. The news of his disappearance was announced by Sergio Bonelli Editore, who hired Piccatto in 1986 in the team of designers of the newborn Dylan Dog. The cartoonist has become one of Dylan Dog’s most prolific artists, with 35 albums of the monthly series, signing cult episodes such as “Golconda”, “Pink rabbits kill”, “Grand Guignol”. He is the author of the entire “Dylan Presents Groucho” series (nine issues), as well as various short stories, specials and giant issues.
Born in Turin on 13 July 1954, after abandoning his medical studies, Piccatto made his professional debut in the world of comics in 1977 on the pages of “Corrier Boy”, drawing Chris Lean, to then work with the magazines “Skorpio” and “LancioStory”. In 1985 he drew the stories “The Rebel” for Edifumetto’s “Jeans Adventures”. And even after joining the Bonelli publishing house he had continued to collaborate with the “Corriere dei Piccoli”: between 1986 and 1988 he designed Roy Rod and Abular.
His collaboration with Sergio Bonelli Editore developed above all on the “Dylan Dog” books, to occasionally expand to titles such as “Magico Vento” and “Nathan Never”. His are also the drawings of the first number of “Demian” (2006) and from one of his subjects the character of Kent Darwin was born, of which he drew every adventure, starting from the “Novel in Comics” up to the most recent miniseries “Bold”. Last autumn, on number 15 of “Dylan Dog Oldboy”, his latest story came out and others are still in the drawers of the publishing house to be published.