I talked about it before, but in this case, I would like to mention again Paperino e la cotta di Paperoga, a cute story where Fethry falls in love with Donald's robot maid, Margherita. He is totally oblivious to her robotic nature and their "relationship" is actually quite funny and endearing. Fethry: "I want to ask you on a date! Tell me you accept with pleasure!" Margherita: "I accept with pleasure!"
That looks VERY funny, and is a brilliant idea, with many possibilities for a wonderful story. And the artwork looks very nice, as well.
I talked about it before, but in this case, I would like to mention again Paperino e la cotta di Paperoga, a cute story where Fethry falls in love with Donald's robot maid, Margherita. He is totally oblivious to her robotic nature and their "relationship" is actually quite funny and endearing. Fethry: "I want to ask you on a date! Tell me you accept with pleasure!" Margherita: "I accept with pleasure!"
That looks VERY funny, and is a brilliant idea, with many possibilities for a wonderful story. And the artwork looks very nice, as well.
It's a very funny story and quite touching at the same time, highly recommended! Here's the proper inducks link. And yes, Anna Marabelli's art is very good indeed, much influenced by Giovan Battista Carpi. Unfortunately she hasn't drawn anything since 2001 it seems. I remember looking for any kind of information about her online, but I couldn't find anything. Does anybody know what happened to her?
I remember reading, years ago, a story where Fethry falls in love with a salesgirl, but is too shy to approach the object of his affection, so he has Donald disguise himself as Fethry. Donald ends up in an altercation with the girl's boyfriend (a literal gorilla, a good example of an atypical anthropomorphism), only to find out that he had mistaken whom Fethry was really in love with. The salesgirl looks a lot like the robot maid in the post above, which is what spurred my memory. Does anyone know which story this is?
Well, I remember the salesgirl as a basic blonde birdbeak woman, not seeing her looking too much like Margherita.
Funny how this title translates as "A girlfriend for Fethry"... while the robot maid story, "Paperino e la cotta di Paperoga", which translates as "Donald and Fethry's crush", was translated in French as "La fiancée de Popop"... which means "Fethry's fiancée"!
Of course, in French and Italian, fidanzata/fiancée is often used as a term for "girlfriend" in this context.
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hat he had mistaken whom Fethry was really in love with. The salesgirl looks a lot like the robot maid in the post above, which is what spurred my memory. Does anyone know which story this is?
Well, I remember the salesgirl as a basic blonde birdbeak woman, not seeing her looking too much like Margherita.
Yes, that's the one! Thanks!
Is "Fethry falls easily in love" a character trait that was developed in the Italian stories to any great degree? We haven't seen a lot of those stories in English.
I talked about it before, but in this case, I would like to mention again Paperino e la cotta di Paperoga, a cute story where Fethry falls in love with Donald's robot maid, Margherita. He is totally oblivious to her robotic nature and their "relationship" is actually quite funny and endearing. Fethry: "I want to ask you on a date! Tell me you accept with pleasure!" Margherita: "I accept with pleasure!"
That looks VERY funny, and is a brilliant idea, with many possibilities for a wonderful story. And the artwork looks very nice, as well.
I wasn't too sure what to think about the artwork, but I realize now it is very nice indeed, with its own identity.
It's a very funny story and quite touching at the same time, highly recommended! Here's the proper inducks link. And yes, Anna Marabelli's art is very good indeed, much influenced by Giovan Battista Carpi. Unfortunately she hasn't drawn anything since 2001 it seems. I remember looking for any kind of information about her online, but I couldn't find anything. Does anybody know what happened to her?
Oops, I used a wrong link! Fixing that.
And yes, the story is both funny and touching, one of the best I read in a while.
Fethry is shown as having never had a successful date, so it ignores Brazilian comics canon, where his regular girlfriend is Gloria.
But I'd be interested to get some recommendations of outstanding Fethry stories by others. Any particular stories by Faccini I should start with? Can you name a couple of the mute stories, Monkey_F?
The best ones were already cited by igor and Zantalf. In particular Tutti al mare is my personal favorite.
In my opinion Faccini is good because:
he is technically skilled in making humor with instant-to-instant transitions with no camera moving (something that you rarely see in Disney stuff, except for Rosa);
his Fethry is a mix of the Italian naive one and the original hyperactive one.
From the Pezzin/Cavazano stories mentioned by Monkey_Feyerabend I would most certainly recommend the classic "Paperoga e il peso della gloria".
The best one indeed, together with Paperino e l'eroico smemorato (Donald Duck and the hero without memory). But I must admit that I have not yet read the first one, Paperino e la visita distruttiva (Donald and the destructive visit), who is highly praised by fans.
On the other side, I find Siege of Nothing Atoll a bit overrated. Too cartoonish for my taste, and too cliché with the mad scientist and stuff. Nevertheless a readable story. I am talking of the Italian version, not the IDW version, to which a just gave a look in a bookstore...and damn, how amazing becomes Cavazzano's art from the 70's with modern coloring! As a matter of facts, one thing that I hate about the Italian publishing procedure is that, despite the crazy amount of republished material (nowadays there are around fifteen monthly, bimonthly or trimonthly magazines!), they rarely recolor old stories. We only get the Scrooge stories by Scarpa recolored because at a certain point they republished them in Zio Paperone, a long-gone magazine who apparently had some larger budget than usual. But not even Mickey's stories by Scarpa got that treatment! Ok, now I am OT as usual, sorry!
Fethry is shown as having never had a successful date, so it ignores Brazilian comics canon, where his regular girlfriend is Gloria.
Yes. Even the "space" story by Gagnor and Sciarrone that I mentioned in my first post follows more or less this pattern. [RELATIVE SPOILER] In this case the love is reciprocate, but ends more or less tragically. The story starts as a weird and funny space adventure with Donald and Scrooge, but then suddenly becomes very emotional, in a way that reminds almost some passages of PK. And the ending is a touching ode to lonely and marginalized people. [END RELATIVE SPOILER]
Fethry is shown as having never had a successful date, so it ignores Brazilian comics canon, where his regular girlfriend is Gloria.
Yes. Even the "space" story by Gagnor that I mentioned in my first post follows more or less this pattern. [RELATIVE SPOILER] In this case the love is reciprocate, but ends more or less tragically. The story starts as a weird and funny space adventure with Donald and Scrooge, but then suddenly becomes very emotional, in a way that reminds almost some passages of PK. And the ending is a touching ode to lonely and marginalized people. [END RELATIVE SPOILER]
What is PK? Something to do with Paperink?
To ME, it is the special Penalty-Killing unit of an ice hockey team.
Yes. Even the "space" story by Gagnor that I mentioned in my first post follows more or less this pattern. [RELATIVE SPOILER] In this case the love is reciprocate, but ends more or less tragically. The story starts as a weird and funny space adventure with Donald and Scrooge, but then suddenly becomes very emotional, in a way that reminds almost some passages of PK. And the ending is a touching ode to lonely and marginalized people. [END RELATIVE SPOILER]
What is PK? Something to do with Paperink?
To ME, it is the special Penalty-Killing unit of an ice hockey team.
PKNA (Paperinik New Adventures), started in 1996, is one of the most important series in the history of Italian comics. It is a cyberpunk/hightech superhero version of Paperinik, in which the younger generation of disney writers and artists were given for the first time the freedom to use a Marvel-like lay-out of page and get visual inspiration from modern anime and sci-fi comics like Moebius. Actually, they went even beyond that. The saga is kinda emotionally charged. Basically it is like "Paperinik done by Frank Miller", to get an idea. They started to publish it in the rest of word only recently (in the Netherlands only in 2016, as I can see from the inducks).
More importantly: you have a notion of Penalty-Killing in hockey?!? I have heard that it is a violent sport...but damn!
Yes. Even the "space" story by Gagnor that I mentioned in my first post follows more or less this pattern. [RELATIVE SPOILER] In this case the love is reciprocate, but ends more or less tragically. The story starts as a weird and funny space adventure with Donald and Scrooge, but then suddenly becomes very emotional, in a way that reminds almost some passages of PK. And the ending is a touching ode to lonely and marginalized people. [END RELATIVE SPOILER]
What is PK? Something to do with Paperink?
To ME, it is the special Penalty-Killing unit of an ice hockey team.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Aug 3, 2017 15:54:18 GMT
Speaking of PKNA and Fethry, we should mention the brief super-funny parody of Evronians with the Red Bat (Fethry's Brazilian superhero alter ego), called Nervoniani. It was written by Faraci, when the man was given the possibility to edit a whole Disney magazine based on his absurd humor. It was named Ridi Topolino (Laugh, Mickey!), and run for 13 issues from 1997 to 1999. It was shut down despite the success of selling, apparently because someone from above realized that such absurd humor was "not Disney enough". (Yeah, once Disney comics sold so well in Italy that they could close well-selling magazines for silly reasons with no great economical lost!) But now they changed their mind, since in 2017 they recreated the magazine in a modern dressing, calling it Ridi Paperoga (Laugh, Fethry!), always under Faraci's direction, and mainly republishing Faccini's stories so far.
To ME, it is the special Penalty-Killing unit of an ice hockey team.
PKNA (Paperinik New Adventures), started in 1996, is one of the most important series in the history of Italian comics. It is a cyberpunk/hightech superhero version of Paperinik, in which the younger generation of disney writers and artists were given for the first time the freedom to use a Marvel-like lay-out of page and get visual inspiration from modern anime and sci-fi comics like Moebius. Actually, they went even beyond that. The saga is kinda emotionally charged. Basically it is like "Paperinik done by Frank Miller", to get an idea. They started to publish it in the rest of word only recently (in the Netherlands only in 2016, as I can see from the inducks).
More importantly: you have a notion of Penalty-Killing in hockey?!? I have heard that it is a violent sport...but damn!
I assume you are making a joke here,.....yes? Couldn't it be said that preventing a goal on a penalty kick situation in football (soccer) could be termed: "killing off a penalty"?
Couldn't it be said that preventing a goal on a penalty kick situation in football (soccer) could be termed: "killing off a penalty"?