Cattivik
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Comic book
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character created by Bonvi (Franco Bonvicini).
The character first appeared in the magazine
Magazine
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Tiramolla on 19 July 1970. Later, the development of the character was given to one of his assistants, Silver (creator of Lupo Alberto
Lupo Alberto
Lupo Alberto is an Italian comic book series created by Guido Silvestri in 1974. It details the adventures of Lupo Alberto, a blue wolf. The main protagonist of the comic book, Lupo Alberto takes the shape of the common man who has a goal in life and a certain amount of bad luck...
, another successful comic strip in Italy
Italy
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), because Bonvi was too busy with his other works (among them, the famous Sturmtruppen
Sturmtruppen
Sturmtruppen was a successful Italian series of anti-war comic books, written and drawn by Bonvi, the artistic pseudonym of Franco Bonvicini starting as four-frame comic strips back in 1968 and evolving into fully sized collector books up to the 1990s and first decade of the third millennium.The...
). The character is a more or less declared parody of another successful series in Italy
Italy
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, Diabolik
Diabolik
Diabolik is a fictional character, an anti-hero featured in Italian comics. He was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962. His stories appear in monthly black and white digest-sized booklets. The character was inspired by several previous characters from Italian and French pulp...
, created by the Giussani Sisters. The character quickly became popular in Italy
Italy
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, his anti-heroic nature is overblown to grotesque proportions (he is a burglar and general criminal
Crime
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, lives in sewers
Sanitary sewer
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, takes shower
Shower
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s with toxic waste
Toxic waste
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and hates everything "good natured") and politically incorrect
Political correctness
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humour
Humour
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(fart
Fart
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and burp jokes, italian politicians caricatures and social commentary
Social commentary
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).
The two main characteristics of Cattivik are the pear-shaped form (which is an evolution of the original form designed by Bonvi, which was shaped more like a giant pepperoni) and an accent
Accent (linguistics)
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(he omits the final vowels of most words) that could be both Northern-Italian or Apulian.
A magazine
Magazine
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called Cattivik was published in Italy
Italy
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from 1989. It ceased to be published in December 2005.
In other media
- Cattivik a video game based on the character was released by Idea Software in 1992.
- The character has also been adapted in a TV series in 2008.
- The character has also a collectible figure.
External links
- Cattivik at ComicVine.com