Carlo Chendi memorial thread

[sim]

I just learned from facebook that Italian author Carlo Chendi passed away.

This news really saddens me because I had been in touch with him since 2010, and we've had an exchange of emails this year too! Carlo was an amazing person (I guess you all know him as a GREAT writer), he was super nice and friendly. He could talk for hours about comics, telling interesting anecdotes and stories. He was amongst the first people to know Carl Barks (the two had been pen-pals ever since 1966!) and he also managed to get him in Italy in 1994. Carlo was really curious about anything regarding his job and he wanted to know anything he could; not only was he on excellent terms with Mr. Barks but he also managed to get in touch with Mr. Gottfredson himself!

I've been to Carlo's home twice (in 2014 and in 2017) and he was super cordial and hospitable, he also gave me a few - out of commerce - comic books he printed himself for friends and he gave me copies of his whole correspondence with Mr. Barks (1966 - 199?), that's not something anybody would do! Surely he was a great person, always ready to spread knowledge and culture.

I attach a picture of our first meeting in 2011.

[Fethryfan]

Sept 12, 2021 18:46:24 GMT sim said:

I just learned from facebook that Italian author Carlo Chendi passed away.

This news really saddens me because I had been in touch with him since 2010, and we've had an exchange of emails this year too! Carlo was an amazing person (I guess you all know him as a GREAT writer), he was super nice and friendly. He could talk for hours about comics, telling interesting anecdotes and stories. He was amongst the first people to know Carl Barks (the two had been pen-pals ever since 1966!) and he also managed to get him in Italy in 1994. Carlo was really curious about anything regarding his job and he wanted to know anything he could; not only was he on excellent terms with Mr. Barks but he also managed to get in touch with Mr. Gottfredson himself!

I've been to Carlo's home twice (in 2014 and in 2017) and he was super cordial and hospitable, he also gave me a few - out of commerce - comic books he printed himself for friends and he gave me copies of his whole correspondence with Mr. Barks (1966 - 199?), that's not something anybody would do! Surely he was a great person, always ready to spread knowledge and culture.

I attach a picture of our first meeting in 2011.

Oh my, those are some very sad news...i actually checked his inducks page yesterday at night...

I'm afraid i'm not much familiar with his work but this is a tragic loss for his family, friends and fans

[Matilda]

Sad news, but also an occasion to celebrate Chendi's many enduring gifts to Disney comics! Nice to know he was such a gracious and kind man, sim--you are fortunate indeed to have had such extensive contact with him and to be the recipient of copies of all his correspondence with Barks.

Chendi authored one of my personal top ten favorite Duck Christmas stories: Being Good for Goodness' Sake. It combines cynical humor about the Ducks' attempts to display charity for their own gain with genuine, straight-up sentiment about the people who demonstrate the true spirit of Christmas. It's on my annual re-read list, so for sure I'll remember Chendi with gratitude every December! I'm also fond of stories with lake monsters, and he wrote one of the earliest and best: The Lake Mess Monster. And those are just the first two I think of....

[corrado]

Carlo Chendi was an extraordinary Disney Comic writer, one of the best who ever lived. His Disney parodies, especially those he wrote with Bottaro (like Il dottor Paperus), were exceptional. Added to this was his sense of bizarre humour and his gift for writing even short comics between 15 and 20 pages. Many of them have the quality of Barks and Van Horn stories.

[sim]

Since this may not be familiar to the majority of people here, Chendi was the first author ever to use the character of Cornelius Coot after Barks. He mentioned him in the splash panel of Archimede Pitagorico e l'uomo medio (1961) and in some later stories as well.



If this wasn't some kind of approach to a continuity or at least dedication to the philology of the Duck universe!