# Il Male

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{{Short description|Italian satirical magazine, 1978–1982}}
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'''''Il Male''''' (Italian for "Evil") was a [satirical magazine](/source/satirical_magazine) published in Rome, Italy, between 1978 and 1982.

==History and profile==
''Il Male'' was first published in February 1978 as a biweekly [tabloid format](/source/Tabloid_(newspaper_format)) political satire magazine.<ref name="Attardo2014">{{cite book|author=Salvatore Attardo|title=Encyclopedia of Humor Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjRzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA472|year=2014|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4833-4617-5|page=475}}</ref><ref name=Moliterno2002/><ref name=sim>{{cite book|author=Simone Castaldi|title=Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qE9jl8PlHYEC&pg=PR5|year=2010|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-777-6|page=59}}</ref> The magazine originated from [Italian](/source/Italian_people) [cartoonist](/source/cartoonist) [Pino Zac](/source/Pino_Zac)'s idea.<ref name="Moliterno2002">{{cite book|author=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wOGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA492|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75877-7|page=492}}</ref> Tommaso Chiaretti was the first [editor-in-chief](/source/editor-in-chief).<ref name=Moliterno2002/>

The magazine became later weekly.<ref name=Moliterno2002/> It started with a circulation of 20.000 copies and reached peaks of 48,000 copies.<ref name=sim/> Its fake covers of prominent newspaper were sensational [media prank](/source/media_prank)s;<ref name="Attardo2014"/> the authors even distributed a fake ''[Pravda](/source/Pravda)'' in Russia during communist rule. The magazine also published a fake ''[Corriere dello Sport](/source/Corriere_dello_Sport)'' in 1978.<ref name="Attardo2014"/>

''Il Male'' ceased publication in 1982.<ref name=Attardo2014/>

==See also==
* [List of magazines in Italy](/source/List_of_magazines_in_Italy)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.frigolandia.eu/catalogo_IL_MALE_1978.htm All covers 1978-1979-1980-1981], [https://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2310/ilmale28111979.png n. 45 - Anno II], [https://web.archive.org/web/20111119102003/http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4851/ilmale19121979.png n. 48 - Anno II]

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Category:Defunct political magazines published in Italy
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Category:Italian political satire
Category:Magazines established in 1978
Category:Magazines disestablished in 1982
Category:Magazines published in Rome
Category:Satirical magazines published in Italy
Category:Weekly magazines published in Italy

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