Dylan Dog’s 2024 promises to be more riveting and exciting than ever, with “first-class” comebacks and new, surprising nightmarish visions.

We will start with the commemorative album dedicated to the late Carlo Ambrosini, written and with art by the master artist from Brescia. Here, Dylan will investigate the kidnapping of a child endowed with exceptional abilities. Then, the Barbara Baraldi-Nicola Mari duo will show us Dylan tackling the case of a man who lost his memory but can perfectly recall his time of dying. Dario Sicchio and Riccardo Torti will take us to explore an area sealed by resentment. In contrast, Gigi Simeoni and Bruno Brindisi will peek into Groucho’s family tree with a bloodily brilliant horror comedy.

Alessandro Bilotta’s return to the regular series will see him partnering up with Corrado Roi’s art in an as dark as an introspective story about monsters, friendship, and... closets. However, a black cat has been spotted near Craven Road: its name is Cagliostro, and thanks to Marco Nucci’s pen and Paolo Martinello’s drawings, it will show the Nightmare Investigator the real meaning of “having nine lives”.

On the pages of our summer BIS, we will lift the curtain on the imaginary universes of “What If...?” with an “arctic” story by Bruno Enna, with art by Silvia Califano. Then, we will (literally) plunge with Dylan into the Hells, in the Golconda Salt Mines, in a diptych written by Claudio Lanzoni for the art of Giancarlo Alessandrini and Sergio Gerasi. The year will end with original takes on some famous “creatures from darkness”. We’ll have Giancarlo Marzano, Gianmarco Fumasoli, Armitano, and Francesco Dossena among the authors.

As for our Oldboy, we’ll start with a sci-fi-flavored album, also featuring none other than Lady Diana, in a story by Cavaletto/Marinetti, where we’ll find again the brush of one of Dylan’s most beloved artists, Luigi Piccatto. Another recently departed artist, Carlo Ambrosini, will be at the helm of Oldboy 24, in the last episode entirely written by him and with his art (conceived after Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”), coupled with a sorrowful tale by Russo/Fattori.

Also, again about first-rate returns, we’ll have another great artist who left us last year, Giuseppe Montanari, with the trusted Ernesto Grassani. Then, for the first time this summer, the Oldboy album will contain only one story centered on the eeriest bewitchments from the world of cinema, created by the De Nardo/Siniscalchi duo.

Another dynamic duo, Vanzella/Genovese, will catch our readers off guard, as usual, with their surprising plots. Vanzella will also be at work for Paolo Bacilieri on the new, uber-dramatic Halloween episode, while the Christmas issue will be entrusted to the Ostini/Dall’Agnol/Riccio triplet. Finally, we can’t avoid mentioning the new chapter of the ominous “Cora saga,” as usual told by the Porretto/Mericone/Piccioni/Di Vincenzo team.

As for our Speciale, Alessandro Bilotta and Giorgio Pontrelli will take us to the not-so-comfortable worlds of the comic artist Crandall Reed, adding a piece to the saga started with “Il progetto Hicks.”

The Color Fest will offer a claustrophobic story set on an island inhabited by shades, written by Porretto/Mericone, with art by Francesco Ripoli. Then, in the following issue, we’ll see the hallucinating reinterpretation of the Jack The Ripper story by Giovanni di Gregorio and Emiliano Tanzillo. In the second part of the year, the anthological albums will take the lion’s share with a series of short and dazzling stories: we’ll have well-known faces and exceptional guest stars as both writers and artists.

In the summer Magazine, the “Enciclopedia della Paura” formula returns with dossiers, in-depth files, and three original stories. Claudio Chiaverotti, Piero Dall’Agnol, and Davide Furnò are some of the authors already confirmed.

By Barbara Baraldi and Franco Busatta