Don Zauker is a fictional comic book character. It was created in 2003 by Emiliano Pagani who writes the text and Daniele Caluri [1] who does the drawings[2]. It was first published and still is published by Il Vernacoliere[3], a satyrical monthly magazine printed in Livorno, Italy. Il Vernacoliere is an old Italian satirical monthly magazine rooted in Livorno, Tuscany. "Leghorn" redirects here For the breed of chicken see Leghorn chicken. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest
Character
Don Zauker is an old criminal lunatic catholic exorcist that uses his status to obtain what he wants, which most of the time is sexual intercourse with young ladies and legal impunity. He often complains that donations are not sufficient to buy him enough Viagra. Sildenafil citrate, sold as Viagra, Revatio and under various other trade names is a drug used to treat Erectile dysfunction (male impotence As a younger man he also had sex with fellow prisoners of some prison. He can be fatally violent and has a shady past, which to date is unknown, even if the reader can guess he toured the world in his former criminal career, being a convict in many prisons and being sought after by yakuza (even if this could just be some idea his paranoid mind made up). He can be very arrogant with the weak, but turns into a prudent cowardice when faced with influent opponents. The name of the character comes from the Japanese cartoon tv series Daitarn 3, where the main villain's name is Don Zauker, in the Italian version. is an Anime series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate, and produced by Sunrise. According to the authors, such a name was chosen to make obvious the ironical idea behind this comic.
Relevance
Much of the relevance of the satyrical character comes from the implied scathing cristism of the Roman Catholic Church, and it doesn't go beyond the Italian borders. Don Zauker is portrayed as sex-obsessed, violent, racist, greedy, occasionally assassin and he takes advantage of the gullibility of catholic believers. To a part of the Italian population, these are also the most obnoxoius defects of the Roman Catholic Church. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest These opinions can be considered a form of anti-clericalism. Anti-clericalism is a historical movement that opposes Religious (generally Catholic institutional power and influence real or alleged in all aspects of public and political
References
- ^ Daniele Caluri's web site http://www.danielecaluri.com/
- ^ Joint Emiliano Pagani-Daniele Caluri web site http://www.donzauker.it/, formerly http://paguri.blogspot.com/
- ^ Il Vernacoliere web site http://www.vernacoliere.com/