DIXIE KENNEDY - Il Tempo della Ricerca - I Segni del Destino

Ardinos - Franco Tralli

ISBN ebook edition: B07X5WX6X9
ISBN paperback edition: 9781093240214
Digital Index Publisher, Modena 2019

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A few (nostalgic...) memories

Ok, let's be honest. When, thanks to (or merit of?) Franco, I found myself in front of Dixie, rejected by the fog of time, my first reaction was one of dismay and even a little shame. I thought: how many f...king swear words had I put in this s...ing story?

Then an image came to mind, the only decent one in the Wall Street sequel, the one in which Gekko is released from prison and they return his personal effects, including a cell phone that looks like a spaceship. And that image made me suddenly go from despair to a laughing nostalgia. Dixie is a child of the Eighties, or rather a sequel ago.

There were Reagan and Thatcher, Bruce sang Born in the USA, the Berlin Wall fell, aliens had the poetry of ET, there was the Walkman, Super Mario Bros., VHS, fanzines. And the three of us (that is, Franco, Dixie and I) had all the naivety of our twenties. In Dixie there are clear traces of how we were at that time: Kennedy 2 (that Ted that John) was a blatant copy of Ted that John.

Ardinos

 

I think it was autumn, autumn of 1981 I would say, when Ardinos and I saw John Carpenter's "1997: Escape from New York" at a night preview at the Raffaello cinema in Modena.

I must admit that, if some of us seemed more like a naive work, then we liked it very much; at the end of the screening we found ourselves talking, drinking a beer, with a friend who collaborated for an alternative, transgressive, very innovative magazine from a graphic point of view, in tabloid format strictly in black and white, who asked to work on a project to submit to him, and there, in the space of a couple of middle schools, chares for me and safe for Ardinos, Dixie Kennedy was born.

The dialogues are decidedly unconventional, a rigorous "dirty" black and white, but a story that left us to guess unpredictable and intriguing developments (and here I really want to see how he'll get by), Ardinos worthy of the most current scenography, this was the Dixie that we left in the 80s and that we decided to take up again to finally give an end to the story.

Frank Tralli