“Putin’s terrible crimes in Ukraine should be prosecuted, but he’s still not the worst war criminal alive today.” —Khalil Bendib, “Cartoon: Dante’s Inferno, War Crimes Edition,” Otherwords, April 5, 2023 (retrieved March 6, 2024)
Lucifer Vol. 4: The Divine Comedy (Vertigo Comics, DC)
“As Lucifer works to perfect his own garden of Eden within his newly-created universe, evil forces begin to work against him and the Archangel Michael finds himself torn between his service to God and to his brother Lucifer.” —Mike Carey, <em>Lucifer Vol. 4: The Divine Comedy</em>, Amazon, April 2003 (retrieved February 21, 2024)
“Al Dente’s Inferno“
Social media comic illustrator Maritsa Patrinos (@maritsapatrinos) parodies Dante’s nine circles from Inferno as various types of pasta. —Maritsa Patrinos, SixChix ©2024 King Features Syndicate, inc., February 2, 2024 (retrieved February 7, 2024)
Contributed by Casey Kozan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ’25
Godzilla in Hell (2016)
“IDW Publishing’s Godzilla in Hell miniseries has Godzilla finding himself in Hell after accidentally destroying the planet in a battle with SpaceGodzilla and rampaging his way through the levels of Hell to find a way out, destroying the ‘Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here’ sign with his atomic breath, battling demons and manifestations of familiar monsters representing various sins, and turning a version of the Mount of Purgatory made up of monster parts into a battlefield between the forces of Heaven and Hell that want to recruit Godzilla into their ranks.” —James Stokoe, “Divine Comedy in popular culture,” Wikipedia (retrieved January 24, 2024)
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Lucca Comics and Games Festival: “A Riveder le Stelle” (2021)
“‘Lucca Comics & Games is a unique cross-media event dedicated to pop culture, cosplay, and comics held in a medieval Tuscan town,’ said Emanuele Vietina, Director of Lucca Comics & Games.
“This year Italy is honouring poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri by celebrating the 700th anniversary of his death and Dante’s Divine Comedy sets the tone for the returning festival with this year’s theme being ‘rebehold the stars: light’.
“‘The theme of Light will visually accompany the Festival experience with contemporary Italian illustrator Paolo Barbieri creating the image of Lucca Comics & Games poster (above). In the year of Dante’s celebrations, he creates a link between Lucca Comics & Games to Dante’s journey with Virgil through the darkness of Hell.” [. . .] —SciFiNow, September 24, 2021 (retrieved March 8, 2022)
The festival took place, in-person, from October 29 – November 1, 2021.
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