I think the Radice/Turconi Treasure Island and the Pippo Reporter series should well be on my list
Everything done by Radice/Turconi is pretty high level, if you like their hyper-romantic - sometimes almost spleeny - approach. In this perspective, I more or less appreciated this duck story of them, where Scrooge and Fethry find themselves stuck on a little Greek island and Scrooge must confront with the different rhythm of life of the locals, questioning his own way of life. (I guess that the story exaggerates with stereotypes for the purpose of creating a romantic setting, but that is something that only Greek readers can tell for sure...)
Well, this thread is about fave stories. Don't blame me for being older than you and having different tastes. Maybe Gatto is "average" and De Vita senior surely is an acquired taste. But in contrast to Casty, who may be more easy on younger readers' eyes, they at least had a style all of their own. That's something I appreciate.
I'd just like to second sirredknee's point here. Favorite stories, not best stories. If I had been naming the "best" Italian stories I've read, it would have been a very different list. It would have had (a) Mouse stories (Casty etc.) and (b) literature parody stories (Artibani/Mottura's Moby Dick, Carpi's candelabri). I often enjoy and appreciate such stories, but they don't get on my favorites list because I don't care about them the way I care about the Duckburg Ducks. That's not an argument, it's a statement of personal taste.
I think the Radice/Turconi Treasure Island and the Pippo Reporter series should well be on my list
Everything done by Radice/Turconi is pretty high level, if you like their hyper-romantic - sometimes almost spleeny - approach. In this perspective, I more or less appreciated this duck story of them, where Scrooge and Fethry find themselves stuck on a little Greek island and Scrooge must confront with the different rhythm of life of the locals, questioning his own way of life. (I guess that the story exaggerates with stereotypes for the purpose of creating a romantic setting, but that is something that only Greek readers can tell for sure...)
Ooh, they've done a Duck story? I will have to try to get a copy of SPG 196. (I observe with a wry smile that you can't just put "Super Piscou Geant 196" in the eBay.fr search box, because you get all the issues of SPG where the seller included in the description that it has 196 pages!)
Everything done by Radice/Turconi is pretty high level, if you like their hyper-romantic - sometimes almost spleeny - approach. In this perspective, I more or less appreciated this duck story of them, where Scrooge and Fethry find themselves stuck on a little Greek island and Scrooge must confront with the different rhythm of life of the locals, questioning his own way of life. (I guess that the story exaggerates with stereotypes for the purpose of creating a romantic setting, but that is something that only Greek readers can tell for sure...)
Ooh, they've done a Duck story? I will have to try to get a copy of SPG 196. (I observe with a wry smile that you can't just put "Super Piscou Geant 196" in the eBay.fr search box, because you get all the issues of SPG where the seller included in the description that it has 196 pages!)
Yeah, but the first result that it gives me is the right one:
(Since it is a recent issue, you can still buy it new from the editor for the cover price + 1 euro...that's what they do with the remaining copies that they take back from the newspaper shops at the end of the two months. But maybe that only works on France, I guess.)
Radice and Turconi do duck stories from time to time.
Ooh, they've done a Duck story? I will have to try to get a copy of SPG 196. (I observe with a wry smile that you can't just put "Super Piscou Geant 196" in the eBay.fr search box, because you get all the issues of SPG where the seller included in the description that it has 196 pages!)
Yeah, but the first result that it gives me is the right one:
(Since it is a recent issue, you can still buy it new from the editor for the cover price + 1 euro...that's what they do with the remaining copies that they take back from the newspaper shops at the end of the two months. But maybe that only works on France, I guess.)
Radice and Turconi do duck stories from time to time.
Sadly, that seller doesn't ship to the USA. I will keep an eye out for that issue, though--and now that I know, for other Duck stories by Radice & Turconi.
Everything done by Radice/Turconi is pretty high level, if you like their hyper-romantic - sometimes almost spleeny - approach. In this perspective, I more or less appreciated this duck story of them, where Scrooge and Fethry find themselves stuck on a little Greek island and Scrooge must confront with the different rhythm of life of the locals, questioning his own way of life. (I guess that the story exaggerates with stereotypes for the purpose of creating a romantic setting, but that is something that only Greek readers can tell for sure...)
When Zio Paperone e l'isola senza prezzo was first published in Greece in 2013, there were a few negative online comments by a minority of readers who were offended because they felt that the story was full of unrealistic and over-exaggerated stereotypes. But most readers, as I recall, loved it. The story itself is really really good and I personally find the portrayal of the islanders (and their way of life) only slightly exaggerated, but in a funny and not in a negative way, always within the spirit of a duck comic and certainly not offensive at all.
Here's my long Top 30 list. There's so much more that I love but I had to exclude, otherwise the list would be insanely long: Faccini, a lot of Great Parodies (especially Carpi's), the early Duck Avenger classics by Martina, the Le Tops stories, the best of Fantomius, DoubleDuck and PK, so much more Scarpa, Casty, and classic 70's Cavazzano, so many great scripts by Tito Faracci, Teresa Radice etc... There's no particular order and of course I do not claim that these are the best Italian stories of all time. There are mostly just old favorites of mine that I grew up with, together with a few more recent ones that I absolutely love.
Rota's Zio Paperone e il deposito oceanico is my favorite Italian duck story of all time and Casty's Topolino e la marea dei secoli is my favorite mouse story.
Good lord, "Il grande splash" is 185 pages! And that's not even the longest of the stories written by Silvia Ziche, I see from Inducks--there's one 200-pager. Nice to see the "vecchia ciabatta" on your list...I'm hoping we'll get that in the USA one of these months, maybe in Walt Disney Showcase.
Also, I must note that I am particularly fond of the Dutch title of "ZP e il tesoro commestibile": "De zo-blijf-ik-jong-maaltijd"!
And that's one of her best efforts (probably my favorite, even because I read it as a kid the summer it was published). May the power of the catalytic baguette be with you!
And that's one of her best efforts (probably my favorite, even because I read it as a kid the summer it was published). May the power of the catalytic baguette be with you!
And how to forget her previous super-long work: Il Papero del Mistero, better known as "Papernovela".
Paperino e il premio di bontà (Being Good for Goodness' Sake)--Chendi/Scarpa Paperino e la perfetta letizia (Perfect Calm)--Cimino/Scarpa Paperino e il mistero delle 2 civiltà--Cimino/Lavoradori Zio Paperone e il vascello fantasma--Martina/Cavazzano Zio Paperone e la meravigliosa vecchia ciabatta--Gentina/Ziche Amelia e le due numero 1--Pandini/Martusciello
A new favorite to add to my list! I just read "ZP, Paperetta e l'ultimo scrigno" inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3099-2 by Stabile/Soffritti & Di Meo.
In my childhood in the 1960's, I really longed for a story where a female character could go adventuring with/like the Ducks. The closest I ever found to such a story was the Mim story "Secret of the Sphinx" where she went to Egypt with the Beagle Boys. In adulthood I have now read three stories which are exactly the sort of story I was looking for. In "Bananas" (Halas & Angus/Branca) Grandma Duck goes on an adventure with the male Ducks to find a long-lost (female) cousin. In "Himalayan Hideout" (Hansegård/Rodrigues) Daisy travels with Scrooge and shows her stuff (thank you, IDW, for bringing that story to these shores!). And in "l'ultimo scrigno" Dickie Duck gets to go on a treasure hunt with Scrooge, where her personal qualities are essential to finding the treasure. All three of these stories make me Very Happy.
I also much enjoy Casty's Eurasia Toft and Estrella Marina stories...but as y'all know, it's the Ducks and their world that matter most to me. Another story with non-central Ducks which would have partially met my childhood wish: "Destinzatione Baytown" in "Le storie della Baia" series. inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2382-6 I would have loved the admiral's niece (Geraldine, in French), her transformation from lady-in-training into a sailor and her piloting of the ship when the others are accidentally chamomile-drugged.
And while we're on the subject of Italian stories starring girls: I also enjoyed "Amelia e il diario d’Incagliostro" (Sisti/Sciarrone), which features Minima along with Magica and Granny. Just six pages, but the basic conceit is clever. Can anyone tell me what "promozione Ideario" means? It's on the Inducks page inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2070-3 , where there's normally a plot summary.
Can anyone tell me what "promozione Ideario" means? It's on the Inducks page inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2070-3 , where there's normally a plot summary.
The story was written to promote the selling of a school agenda, called Ideario (contraction of the words "idea" and "diario", the latter meaning "agenda"). It was an agenda with a very soft cover and the face of Donald on it. I think it was a composable agenda, probably with the different parts coming as gadgets on different issues of Topolino. I remember the bombing of publicity on Disney's magazines and on tv commercials, but honestly I don't remember if I owned this agenda (I was 9). You can read something about it here:
(I cannot find the commercial spot on youtube, but I am quite sure there was one. The oldest Topolino spot that I can find is this one from 1998 with one of the most famous soccer players of those days: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hg6J9do6UY )
I have the papernovela/topokolossal book, also Che aria tira a volume 1( volume 2 just got out) and if you like her you should also check out this book: inducks.org/issue.php?c=it/SPD++72#e The story where they are all in manhattan is great
Can anyone tell me what "promozione Ideario" means? It's on the Inducks page inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2070-3 , where there's normally a plot summary.
The story was written to promote the selling of a school agenda, called Ideario (contraction of the words "idea" and "diario", the latter meaning "agenda"). It was an agenda with a very soft cover and the face of Donald on it. I think it was a composable agenda, probably with the different parts coming as gadgets on different issues of Topolino. I remember the bombing of publicity on Disney's magazines and on tv commercials, but honestly I don't remember if I owned this agenda (I was 9). You can read something about it here:
(I cannot find the commercial spot on youtube, but I am quite sure there was one. The oldest Topolino spot that I can find is this one from 1998 with one of the most famous soccer players of those days: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hg6J9do6UY )
Thanks, that's good to know! The story works without knowing the connection, though I interpreted the "diario" in question more as a basic middle-school textbook of sorcery, since a student's "agenda" book (I think that's what we'd call a "planner"?) wouldn't generally have factual content, as the Ideario did.
While I enjoy the all-female story, I can't help but be surprised by the gender politics of the Ideario publicity: globe-trotting adventure, technology and sports are represented by male characters, while the female character introduces the "feminine universe"! Yikes! I don't think a product for children would have been cast that way in the USA in the late 1990's...maybe 15 or 20 years earlier. Ah well, progress on the gender front is incremental everywhere. In Disney comics, I'm just glad for writers like Casty, Stabile and Lars Jensen (and editors like David Gerstein) who give us female characters we'd like to be.