Gawsh... (*LONG*)

[gadducci@di.unipi.it]

... the number of messages you receive in 10 days is almost incredible!!
Lot more than those received from CATEGORIES or CONCURRENCY mailing lists!!
Mmmmmh, maybe there is a deep meaning on this...

Ok, let's go!!

A long time ago, Per wrote (to Harry)


>
>So you never got Becattini's Dell Index?  When I ordered the daily
>strip index from the same source nothing happened for a long time.  I
>wrote a letter about once every three months asking about it, and then
>out of the blue when I'd almost lost my hope I suddenly got it.  Maybe
>you should write them and remind them?  (Not that I know if that
>helped, though.)
>
>Well, I know nothing about Jim Fletcher except what is said in that
>book so I can't say anything about his drawing style, but he did many
>of the Mim & Magica stories, so he might be the one you're looking
>for.  Becattini writes:
>
[stuff deleted]
>
>I think we mentioned his name here before when this very text was our
>source for Molly's English name.  The easiest thing to look up of
>those things seems to be DD 85, but I don't have it.  It's not in the
>Dell Index, as that's the first non-Dell Donald Duck, and the DD#85
>entry in Kjell Crone's index is incomplete, so I don't know where it's
>published here in Sweden either, and there is nothing with code DD 85
>in your Dutch index.  Oh, well... Fabio seems to know more about him,
>right?

Well... I had in mind exactly the Dell Index by Becattini, since it is one
of the few books that is not in a box (I'm still moving), but I'm almost
sure that you can get more information on the Comic-Book encyclopedia by
Ron Goulart (a Fact on File publication, I think to remember...).

And talking about books on Disney comics: I actually live near Florence
(you were right, Harry), and the owner of 	Al Fumetto Club is a friend of
mine. So, if you are interested in any of his books (the publishing house
is Glamour, same owner of the store), tell me!! (Btw, I could get them with
a little discount... ;-).

Besides, should the books list include only English-language stuff? Or, as
Harry suggested, even references in other languages? Obviously, I have in
mind MANY Italian books...


Now about my favourite stories... Well, I do not think I can list only TEN
stories... Maybe my Barks' favourite one is the full version of "Back to
the Klondike" (if I HAD to decide), and that is probably my favourite duck
story, too, even if there are at least a couple of Italian (which are
linked to my childhood) by Romano Scarpa (Zio Paperone e le lenticchie di
Babilonia) and Pezzin-Cavazzano (Paperino e l'isola vulcano) which are
close enough...
(ok, go on: flame me :-)

And for Gottfredson... well, surely Island in the Sky from the Thirties,
but his best stuff is maybe from the Forties (even if I do not remember the
English titles...). More on this next time... :-)

About the DYSNEYANA querelle: well, my point of view is quite different
from all thre others, since in Italy the Disney cartoons are not well know,
and a duck fan is usually a comics fan... Besides, the Disney fan is
usually older and wiser (:-) than the other kinds of comic books fan:
actually, the target of Disney comics here in Italy is very differentiated,
while the large part of teenagers (the *ignorant* crowd) are superheroes
(or manga, maybe) zombies... Anyway, Don is perfectly right: he describes
very well the average comics fan...

Scottish accent? I was absolutely sure he talked in a plain Italian... :-)

Finally, who I am... My complete name is Fabio Gadducci, and I am a 27
years-old Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. I
read, collected, worship... ehm, read AND collected comic books (not only
Disney's) for all my sentient life: there should be almost ten thousand in
my collection...
(Only Yummi Fur? What about Fantagraphics, Per?)
When I do not read comics (and sci-fi books - tons of those, too) or study
I WRITE on these topics (and now you obviously understand that you are
talking with a lunatic) since I am a regular contributor to some newszines
and fanzines here in Italy...
I recently joined this mailing list, and I started feeling envious of all
of you who can read Life of $crooge (Grrrrrrr....)
Well, we are starting to be too much *too long* here, and I'll cut down:
more on Italian political correctness next time... :-)

Fabio
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