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Thats a very nice website on Gatto. I hadn't known that both he and Carpi worked on Fix & Foxi. I always thought that Kauka drew the final art, as well. I had no idea the artists were Italian. I wonder why he didn't find a German artist? Can someone post links to websites or sample artwork of Bottaro, Carpi, Asteriti and others (the best of the Italian Disney artists)?

Quote from user: Dia-DiaBottaro: http://www.lucianobottaro.it/ , and the Disney work specifically: http://www.lucianobottaro.it/disney/index.htm
Thanks to that link, I now realize who Bottaro is. I read several of his reprinted (and translated into Greek) stories during the late 60s in the Greek publication titled MIKY MOUSE. One story in particular comes to mind, "Paperino e il razzo interplanetario." Wonderful story, one of my childhood favorites in fact. The title of the story was translated to: PRISONER ON A DISTANT PLANET. Botarro's artwork is equally wonderful. His work in general, does indeed impress. I'm sure I have read many of his stories without realizing it, as Greek comics back then did not give credit to the artists.

Here is the cover of PRISONER ON A DISTANT PLANET from 1968 (not Bottaro's cover).

That debate looks interesting. Ma, io non leggo correntemente l'italiano.

Quote from user: Robb_KThats a very nice website on Gatto. I hadn't known that both he and Carpi worked on Fix & Foxi. I always thought that Kauka drew the final art, as well. I had no idea the artists were Italian. I wonder why he didn't find a German artist? Can someone post links to websites or sample artwork of Bottaro, Carpi, Asteriti and others (the best of the Italian Disney artists)?
Rolf Kauka strictly was a publisher and businessman. He was the creator of Fix & Foxi, but hasn't drawn one single comic in his lifetime. He employed artists from Spain, Italy and former Yugoslavia, but some Germans as well. The very first FF artist had been a Dutchman, btw, Dorul van der Heide! :D Here is the long (and possibly still incomplete) list I have compiled of people who worked on both Disney and Kauka comics:
http://www.duckipedia.de/index.php5?title=Fix_und_Foxi

Sorry for the off-topic.

Wow! I had no idea all those Egmont and Oberon artists worked on Fix & Foxi (Scarpa, Scala, Santanach, Carpi, Gatto, Cavazzano, Esteban, Perego, Bernadó, Bottaro, Fecchi, Joaquín and Perez), and Oberon's Patty Klein even did some of the writing (I never knew that!). She worked for Martin Toonder Studios, but through them, for Dutch Disney on Little Hiawatha and a few other secondary Disney characters' stories.

Quote from user: Robb_KWow! I had no idea all those Egmont and Oberon artists worked on Fix & Foxi (Scarpa, Scala, Santanach, Carpi, Gatto, Cavazzano, Esteban, Perego, Bernadó, Bottaro, Fecchi, Joaquín and Perez), and Oberon's Patty Klein even did some of the writing (I never knew that!).
Massimo Fecchi was, in the time when he worked for Kauka, from the late 70s until the mid-90s, the "good artist" of Fix und Foxi. I did not know the fine artist's name, but the stories drawn by him were the main reason that I bought the Fix und Foxi magazine in the late 80s and early 90s. In his skilfully dynamic style, he was for me a bit the "Cavazzano of Fix und Foxi (okay, I did not know Cavazzano's name also until the early 1990 or 1991), his style reminds even more, however, of Massimo De Vita.

In Fix und Foxi, Fecchi was style-defining for the other artists; one even spoke of a "Fecchisation" of the magazine. Ironically, when he later worked for Egomnt and I got to read stories of him, I did not recognise him first as my beloved good artist of Fix und Foxi times--even if background scenes, secondary characters and so on, even if that all looks in his Disney works quite much the same like in the Fix und Foxi works.

Now I remember who Bottaro is! He wrote great stories like this one, where Uncle Scrooge is stuck on a deserted island while Donald sells 10.000 books to his answering machine. Or this one where Donald, Scrooge and the kids go back in time and meet a pirate ancestor of Scrooge, leading the Beagle Pirates and Daisy. Inducks says I own 5.2% of all his stories, which amounts to about 8 stories. The 2 I mentioned above, and 6 more. This one, an homage to Carl Barks and his ten-pager Rip van Donald. This one, which is yet another pirate story from Bottaro (he loved those, didn't he?). In this story Uncle Scrooge builds an atomic shelter (y'know, cause it's 1962). This one, where Donald and Scrooge get an inheritance and Scrooge fakes his death because the inheritance might be bills. He didn't take into account, however, that when Scrooge dies, Donald also gets HIS inheritance which is about 16 umptillion dollar more. And these stories which I don't know much about.