Fabrizio Dori

His works include the comic books Gauguin: The Other World (2016), which is about the artist Paul Gauguin, and Il dio vagabondo (2018) and Il figlio di Pan (2023), which are about a satyr in the modern world.

He has named Marcel Duchamp as an influence and made what he calls "colourful, but rather cold" paintings of impossible architecture and machines.

Dori intended it as a single volume, but his fascination with Greek mythology prompted him to make a second comic book about the same character, Il figlio di Pan (lit.

[5] A recurring theme in Dori's works is an unbalance in the modern age and human struggles to fill the voids left with the disappearance of pre-Christian religions.

Dori is critical of what he views of unsuccessful attempts to fill these voids with things that are not sacred, such as political cults of personality, profit or consumption.

He says it is important to interpret and use symbols; among his influences for this, he names Friedrich Hölderlin, "The Gods in Exile [de]" by Heinrich Heine, The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, and theories by Carl Jung and James Hillman.