SV: Italian stories keeping close to American 'originals'

Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. sigvald at duckburg.dk
Sat Aug 16 17:19:39 CEST 2003


M.J. Prior <M.J.Prior at student.rug.nl> wrote:

> Considering your statement above, I think the
> Italian stories keep in fact very close to the
> American originals. Did you know that Italian
> Duck-and-Mouse stories, contrary to the way
> the stories are represented in other European
> countries, are set in an American context?

Thanks for your very interesting information about Italian Disney comics.
However what I was thinking about is these typical traits of the Italian
Duck-stories:

a) The Italians have completely redrawn the Money Bin, they either don't
like or they don't respect the original look Barks once gave it.

b) The Italians have completely redrawn Miss (Emily) Quackfaster, they
either don't like or they don't respect the original look Barks once gave
her. Or perhaps $crooge's secretary in the Italian stories is a new
character?

c) The Italians have introduced their own characters:
James, Brigitta, etc.


> Maybe I could illustrate this with an issue of
> "Zio Paperone".

I have three of them myself - width Rosa stories in them! Great comics!


> Maybe you should try and look for similarity,
> instead of differences.

I do that also - sometimes! Or at least I like to look for connections here
and there.


> P.S.: Did you know that in Italy Pete's still
> called Pegleg Pete, even though he has two
> normal legs?

I didn't know that!

However this topic is very interesting when it comes to a "Life of Pete"
tale. IMO it's a Gottfredson-fact that Pete once went around with a
wooden-leg. It's also a Gottfredson-fact that that situation somehow was
changed. In a "LoP" there should be one chapter explaining how he lost his
original leg, and later another chapter how he get rid of the wooden-leg.

Perhaps he was once a nice and honest man that became criminal because he
lost his leg and thus perhaps also his job? Perhaps a vague analogy to Darth
Vader?

In Gottfredson's stories we meet many advanced professors, perhaps a such
gave pete a new, perfect protease - so that he could do perfect without the
old wooden leg.

Sigvald


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