Where Monsters Are Born (WMAB) would not have been possible without the support of the following individuals and organizations. Firstly, thanks to Dr. Brian J Grifith’s wife, Stephanie, who generously supported her husband’s outlandish (and slightly dangerous) project of collecting Italian neo-fascist propaganda from the streets and alleyways of Rome under the cover of nightfall between September 2018 and July of the following year.

Thank you to the workers of United Parcel Service (UPS), who carefully shepherded the oversized box of posters and other materials between Rome and Santa Barbara in July 2019.

A warm grazie to Dr. Luciano Cheles and Dr. Diana Garvin, who provided co-editors Dr. Griffith and Dr. Amy King with valuable feedback and suggestions.

Thanks to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles, which accepted the posters, stickers, handbills, and other materials featured in this digital collection into their permanent collections. (And thank you to Dr. Marla Stone for suggesting that Dr. Griffith get in touch with the CSPG.)

Grazie to Dr. Garvin and Dr. Erika Rappaport for sponsoring invited lectures at University of Oregon and University of California, Santa Barbara during the Spring 2024 quarter, which provided Dr. Griffith and Dr. King with the opportunity to workshop WMAB’s materials with other scholars of modern Europe and their students.

Thanks to Heather Parish and Steve Ruppel of the Fresno State Library for their partnership on the WMAB physical exhibition (January-March 2025).

Thank you to Dr. Timothy Snyder for his generous donation of 30 copies of his monograph On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Tim Duggan Books, 2017) for the Fresno State Library exhibition opening ceremony.

And lastly, a sincere grazie to Antonio Gramsci for his bravery under Fascism, for his insightful Prison Notebooks, and for writing the following words, which inspired the name of this digital archive: "The old world is dying" and the "new one is slow to appear," Gramsci explains, and "in this interregnum [chiaroscuro], monsters are born."