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According to my files, there should be a publication titled
'Romano Scarpa - Sognando la Calidornia', published in April 2001.

It should contain a reproduction of a 1975 letter(?) from Barks to
Scarpa, which contains a "siren idea" for Scarpa's Brigitta.
See: http://www.seriesam.com/barks/df_75scarpa.jpg
According to my files, this material is a reprint of 'I Maestri
Disney' #14, March 1999.

Is the above information correct?

Can you tell me more about 'Sognando la Calidornia'? Is it a
compilation of comic book stories, a biography, or both?
What kind of cover does it have?

The book is mentioned at
http://www.dimensionedelta.net/scarpa/calidornia/
In part, the text on that page reads: "Presentato a Torino Comics il
28 Aprile 2001, ? ora disponibile nelle migliori fumetterie e librerie
specializzate pubblicato dalla Vittorio Pavesio Productions. Il volume
? di ben 244 pagine (di cui 16 a colori) e di formato medio-grande
(21,5 x 27,8 cm) a lire 58.000."

But I can't understand Italian. (The link to an English text doesn't
work.) And I can't find the book at INDUCKS. Neither the "siren idea"
drawing for Scarpa. Does this mean that they haven't been indexed at
INDUCKS?

Are Alberto Becattini, Luca Boschi, Leonardo Gori, and Andrea Sani the
authors of the book?

Any help will be appreciated, as always.

--- Dani?l

"Stop! You don't know what you're doing to yourself"
(Which Barks story?) :-)

Daniel van Eijmeren wrote:

> According to my files, there should be a publication titled
> 'Romano Scarpa - Sognando la Calidornia', published in April 2001.

There indeed is!

> It should contain a reproduction of a 1975 letter(?) from Barks to
> Scarpa, which contains a "siren idea" for Scarpa's Brigitta.
> See: http://www.seriesam.com/barks/df_75scarpa.jpg
> According to my files, this material is a reprint of 'I Maestri
> Disney' #14, March 1999.
>
> Is the above information correct?

I'm at work now, I can't check... I'll check later, but... yes, I think it's
there.

> Can you tell me more about 'Sognando la Calidornia'? Is it a
> compilation of comic book stories, a biography, or both?

It's an extended edition of the 1988 Romano Scarpa "Blue" Book. A critical
analysis of his works, with some biography too... a lot a sketches and
panels, but no stories at all.

> What kind of cover does it have?

This kind of cover :-)
http://www.dimensionedelta.net/scarpa/calidornia/calidornia.jpg

> The book is mentioned at
> http://www.dimensionedelta.net/scarpa/calidornia/
> In part, the text on that page reads: "Presentato a Torino Comics il
> 28 Aprile 2001, ? ora disponibile nelle migliori fumetterie e librerie
> specializzate pubblicato dalla Vittorio Pavesio Productions. Il volume
> ? di ben 244 pagine (di cui 16 a colori) e di formato medio-grande
> (21,5 x 27,8 cm) a lire 58.000."
>
> But I can't understand Italian. (The link to an English text doesn't
> work.) And I can't find the book at INDUCKS. Neither the "siren idea"
> drawing for Scarpa. Does this mean that they haven't been indexed at
> INDUCKS?

The book hasn't been indexed yet... Eta Beta and I have been trying to do it
for... two years now, but we never really finished!

> Are Alberto Becattini, Luca Boschi, Leonardo Gori, and Andrea Sani the
> authors of the book?

Yes!

--
Sprea
http://www.dimensionedelta.net

William Price wrote:

> at least in the cannon, scrooge always obeys the law.

We had an exhausting discussion earlier on the DCML about what is and
what isn't canon -- and the only result was that a lot of people got
very very annoyed. Please... Let's not go there again. Let's just say
that "in Barks' stories, Scrooge always obeys the law", OK?

Lars

Hi,

Donald had an exciting romantic adventure with Miss Swansdown-Swoonsudden in
"Jet Rescue" (WDC 67). He's also quite partial to other girls in Italian
Disney comics, I believe, most of all to Reginella, who appeared in a series
of Cavazzano drawn stories:

http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/disney/cavazzano/avventura-sottomarina.jpg

Frank

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L. Schulte wrote:
>...Americans admire the Bill Gates/Andrew Carnegie/-types ...
>Class warfare based on envy tends to be a European phenomenon
>think France 1789), although you can see it in America too of
>course, especially in election years! So I wonder if Uncle
>Scrooge is in fact such an American archetype that he could
>not have come from the pen and brush of a European.

And yet Carnegie was very much driven by the European model you mention.
Biographies of him show that once he became wealthy, he took his old
mother back to Scotland, and drove her up and down High Street of the
town they had left in a big fancy carriage, waving for all their old
neighbors to see, and then he bought the local castle, and a flower
garden he and his family were never allowed to set foot in when he was a
child. Whether it was Andrew Carnegie or his mother driving these
actions, they were acknowledged to be blatantly intended to generate
envy from their former European neighbors.

While we're on this general subject, does anyone know who was the
inspiration for Scrooge? We know the name came from the miserly Mr.
Ebenezer Scrooge character in Dickens' "Christmas Carol", but that
particular Mr Scrooge never travelled the world, or had big adventures
seeking lost treasures, or settled in America. Andrew Carnegie seems
like a good source of inspiration for some of those aspects. Carnegie
was certainly a tightwad (at least til he got old and became a famous
philanthropist). Could there be other sources of inspiration
contributing to Scrooge?

Sonia

> From: "Matthew Williams" <kingofduckburg at apptechnc.net>
> Thank you so much, Arthur! I'm fascinated by the covers,
> particularly
> Daisy's trendy clothing. I'm intrigued by the glimpses I've
> gotten of
> Brazilian Disney comics over the years. Unfortunately, I've
> never had the
> opportunity to actually read any translated comics. I'm hope
> to see a
> greater international scope represented in the US one day!

I wholeheartedly second the thanks for the link, and the wish
that more stories like these will be published/translated in
America! I'm always interested to see how the few regular
female duck characters are represented.
I won't bother to babble on about my feelings about Daisy, since
anyone who's read my essay already knows. ;)
http://www.sullivanet.com/duckburg/library/capstone.htm

Katie Sullivan
http://www.sullivanet.com/

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I just happened to have re-read Carl Barks's classic story about Daisy
giving Donald Gladstone's love letters (from WDC&S 111) again last night,
and I came across something odd. In the third panel of the ninth page,
Gladstone goes to Daisy's house and finds an older female duck at Daisy's.
Could this be Daisy's mother? "Miss Daisy Duck" is the only name on the
mailbox, by the way. What do all of you make of this?

Matt

I am familiar with the Professor Zero (with the pet pteradactyl Yuri) that appears
occassionally in Giovani Marmotte (Junior Woodchucks) stories in Italy, but I am
also aware of one that appeared originally in W WDC 339-05.

Am I correct in assuming these are not intended to be the same character?

If they are the same character, would W WDC 339-05 be considered his "First
Appearance"?

Thanks,

Rich Bellacera
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