Goodbye, Giuseppe Montanari. Dylan Dog’s historic Emilian designer died on August 5 at the age of 86. The news is announced on his website by the publisher Sergio Bonelli, who bids farewell to the cartoonist one last time: “The entire editorial team of Via Buonarroti remembers Giuseppe with affection and admiration, and embraces friends and family.” Montanari was born on November 26, 1936 in San Giovanni born in Persiceto in the province of Bologna.
His final entry into the Bonelli stable came in the late 1970s with work on Il Piccolo Ranger, based on texts by Decio Canzio and Giorgio Pezzin. He creates some stories for the “Full” container and then finally joins the team of Dylan Dog, of which he becomes one of the most famous and well-known designers together with Ernesto Grassani, starting with the pages of “The Nights of the”. Vollmond”. Third register of the successful series by Tiziano Slavei, published in 1986.
After years of nonstop militancy on the team of cartoonists serving The Nightmare Investigator, he became the cover artist of the bimonthly Dylan Dog Oldboy magazine in December 2021, forming an unprecedented couple with Paolo Bacilieri.
