Former Girlfriends of Donald's and Mickey's?

[sirtao]

MMMM is full-on noir\pulp.
Topolinia 20802 is more "Journalistic Adventures in the big city"
They both share the idea of moving Mickey in a place where he's not a big shot.


Also, I don't know how many Italian authors even know, nonetheless CARE, about Mickey's supposed rural origins.
If anything, he's portrayed as a "suburbs\towns-around-the-city" boy.

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Jul 8, 2017 12:16:33 GMT whatevs said:

Jul 8, 2017 11:49:09 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

What the heck is MMMM?

Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine. I think.

(MMMM was published recently in France, precisely on Mickey Parade Géant, with the name Les experts, if I remember correctly...)


Faraci assumed Mickey's college past not only in MMMM, but also in a regular story from 1997 (the year when Faraci exploded with an unmatched series of impressive stories), namely Mickey Mouse and the Incredible Vladimir, drawn by De Vita. In this story a flashback reveals that Mickey met Minnie in college, and there apparently Goofy and Horace were his roommates. 

Of course Faraci becomes more coherent with Gottfredson's work as soon as he wants or need it, as shown by his famous sequel to Gottfredson's The Crazy Crimewave, i.e. the story Mickey Mouse in: the Last Case, as usual drawn by Cavazzano (Now I wonder if Artibani's title Last Adventure is a tribute to his friend's story.)

Faraci recently published a book on his personal relation with Mickey Mouse, Uomini e topo (Men and Mouse), someone of you may be interested in it. 
Anyway his positions are known even without reading this book. According to Faraci, Gottfredson's teaching lies in the fact of being persistently inspired by his own time, and by the mainstream forms of storytelling of his time. As Gottfredson took inspiration from the strip comics of his time, from the movies and the global political situation of the world in that age, so he decided to get inspiration from modern comics (Miller, Moore and Pratt were some of his main influences, I think) and from movies, tv series and novels (in particular hard boiled stories), and from the non-sense comedy of his time. (Actually, from the comic perspective he was kind of a precursor).
In the aforementioned book he compares this approach with the alternative one of Casty, who on the opposite tends to re-set Mickey in Walsh-Scarpa universe.

[Hector]

I was about to open another thread about what kind of studies each character has done, but since this one got
derailed, i'll post my views here...
-Donald: I'm pretty sure he has no college degree. Even if he did go to college, he dropped out soon.
-Daisy: Since she's often into charity stuff, maybe she has a degree in anthropology or social sciences.
-Gladstone: In the past, i believed he has no degree, since, thanks to his luck, he needs no education.
But, then, i read an italian story, most of which was a flashback from his past. There, we see that, in
his youth, he won a college scholarship and has a degree. I opt to go with that, because, if you think
about it, Gladstone is supposed to always surpass Donald at everything, so he must also have a higher
education than his cousin.
-Scrooge: I neither care about non canon stories nor about that Barkses story where Scrooge stated he
played football in college. In my headcanon, Scrooge never even went to grade school.

[drakeborough]

Jul 8, 2017 19:31:25 GMT Hector said:

Gladstone is supposed to always surpass Donald at everything, so he must also have a higher
education than his cousin.

And yet, in his second story he is as ignorant as Donald:

Of course, Donald himself is ignorant only when the plot requires it.

[Hector]

In his first two stories, Gladstone was not lucky yet, he was essentially a different person.

[jopduck1]

I think Donald spent 1 year in high school and then went to a children's university. It does not really exist, but my fan fiction tells us that Donald was born in 1920 and started working in 1934.