I'm glad to say that NOW we have a Van Horn Masters book in production (presently scheduled as Vol 18), with Casty to follow. We've also proposed our first Rota volume, likely for next year.
Really nice to hear there will be a Casty volume! Will the selected stories be all new to the US, I wonder (since most of the already-published Casty stories have been collected in either hardcover or TPB format)?
I wouldn't be surprised to see his Atomo (Atomino) epics... given that the character already featured prominently in the Scarpa mouse volume. Not to mention that "The Frozen Empire" (Casty's own title for "L'impero sottozero") might just be his best story ever.
I like the idea of showcasing the art of some of the Italian artists who have so far been overlooked in the US. Massimo De Vita could fill several more volumes, his run in the 80s and 90s was amazing. If I were editor, I'd come up with ideas for Giulio Chierchini, Francesco Guerrini, Lucio Leoni or Giuseppe Dalla Santa
Really nice to hear there will be a Casty volume! Will the selected stories be all new to the US, I wonder (since most of the already-published Casty stories have been collected in either hardcover or TPB format)?
I wouldn't be surprised to see his Atomo (Atomino) epics... given that the character already featured prominently in the Scarpa mouse volume. Not to mention that "The Frozen Empire" (Casty's own title for "L'impero sottozero") might just be his best story ever.
Hmmm, interesting... a 104-page story, and one that hasn't been published in any language that I can (easily) read, either. I wouldn't mind seeing that one in a Disney Masters volume, especially if it's as good as you say.
I wouldn't be surprised to see his Atomo (Atomino) epics... given that the character already featured prominently in the Scarpa mouse volume. Not to mention that "The Frozen Empire" (Casty's own title for "L'impero sottozero") might just be his best story ever.
Hmmm, interesting... a 104-page story, and one that hasn't been published in any language that I can (easily) read, either. I wouldn't mind seeing that one in a Disney Masters volume, especially if it's as good as you say.
Oh! They republish it in hardcover when I was not paying attention! I am not a superfan of Casty, but I try to own his stuff, and this one story has been escaping me. They say that it is, among other things, some kind of sequel to Scarpa's The Sacred Spring of Seasons Past.
On the other hand, 15€ for one story by Casty is quite a lot for me...
So Van Horn is going to be volume 18, do we know what will be in volume 15-17?
I appreciate having some mickey volumes but honestly I rather the Maters line Just be a Duck focus line.
I will respectfully disagree. We get so much Duck material and not nearly as much Mickey Mouse stuff. Scarpa, DeVita, Casty and even Murry deserve their spots in these books (although I know not everyone likes Murry’s work).
So Van Horn is going to be volume 18, do we know what will be in volume 15-17?
I appreciate having some mickey volumes but honestly I rather the Maters line Just be a Duck focus line.
I will respectfully disagree. We get so much Duck material and not nearly as much Mickey Mouse stuff. Scarpa, DeVita, Casty and even Murry deserve their spots in these books (although I know not everyone likes Murry’s work).
Completely agree with deb. Having the Disney Masters line be ducks only would have been a terrible idea.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Apr 24, 2020 22:05:51 GMT
I am a bit confused, can someone please recap the forthcoming volumes?
Besides the nine volumes listed in the induck page of the series (updated to August 2019) what else do we have or will we have?
Mickey Mouse: The Delta Dimension (Scarpa)
Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket (Bottaro, with Chendi helping on some scripts)
Mickey Mouse: The Case of the Vanishing Bandit (Fallberg & Murry)
Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test (Jippes and Milton)
Mickey Mouse: The Phantom Blot's Double Mystery (Scarpa, with Martina writing the most overrated story in Disney comics history)
Uncle Scrooge: King of the Golden River (Carpi, with Martina and Cimino as writers)
Mickey Mouse: The Pirates of Tabasco Bay (Fallberg & Murry)
8Donald Duck: Duck Avenger Strikes Again (Scarpa, with Martina and...Barks!?)
Mickey Mouse: The Ice Sword Saga - Book 1 (De Vita)
From the first eight volumes you can see a fair depiction of pre-80's Disney comics other than Barks and the newspapers strips. It is inevitably dominated by the Italians and Murry, as they started in the early 50's. Besides Jippes and Milton there is not much to publish from the Northern European (D and H coded) production before the 80's, am I wrong? The inclusion of de Vita in Volume 9 is the first step towards more modern times. If anything, there is certain lack of Italians. Most importantly Cavazzano, who not only has the more evolved and variating styles over the decades, but is also the one that has been constantly used to draw the stories from the best storytellers, that are more or less, in chronological order: Cimino, Pezzin, Sisti ,Marconi, Faraci, Casty before he was allowed to draw, Gagnor. (I don't count Artibani and Radice, they tend to be drawn by other artists, and Ziche, who writes her own stuff when she feels like it...and of course I am forgetting others...) These are not even all favourite writers of mine, some of them I actually do not like. So I am not pushing some personal preference agenda here, just trying to be fair of the average of people tastes, based on what I know about I-coded stories (not much). So, a significative amount of well-chosen Cavazzano DM volumes will maybe finally fill the gap of knowledge than many readers, especially in North America, have on the Italian production. In particular as concerns our favourite rat: as I have stated so many times, because of the sudden discovery by Boom (and then IDW) of Casty, if one looks at the regular American Mickey Mouse comic book one may be induced to believe that nothing happened in between Scarpa and Casty. Whereas the opposite, if anything, is true: for good and for bad, everything happened in that lapse of time, before Casty took the clock back when starting his (successful) Scarpa fan fiction.
As for D-coded stuff before the 80s, there's always Vicar and Branca, though compilations of their work would inevitably also include stories from the 80s and 90s.
But who's to say it only has to be pre-80s? We already know that Van Horn and Casty volumes are on the way, so the Disney Masters line is open to modern-day artists as well. When it comes to Egmont's stuff, César Ferioli is most definitely worthy of at least one Disney Masters Volume (it's absurd that he didn't even get a Hall of Fame book in Norway). Same with Paco Rodrigues.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Apr 24, 2020 22:41:01 GMT
I was just noticing that the first eight volumes are all on the pre-80's era.
The series should definitely focus on later years.
Let's make a game. Here are some Mickey Mouse volumes that I would do if I were the editor. Not volumes that I would buy, since I already own these stories! I do not count Cavazzano and Casty, with whom you can compose fifteen volumes as good as the following.
Mickey Mouse: On the wrong side by Paolo Mottura. containing: Dalla Parte sbagliata (Faraci, 1996) Metopolis (Friz Lang parody by Artibani, 2017) L'ombra del drago (Faraci, 1999) or instead of one of the last two: On the road (Jack Kerouac parody by Vitaliano, 2015)
Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck: the strange case of doctor Ratkill and mister Hyde by Fabio Celoni containing: Lo strano caso di dottor Ratkill e mister Hyde (Stevenson parody by Bruno Enna featuring both Mickey and Donald, 2014) Agente Gambadilegno il caso è tuo (Faraci, 1999, solo Pete story) Paperoga e la renna in panne (Savini, 2000, solo Fethry story) or instead of the last one a random Donald Duck story drawn by Celoni, there are plenty. [The title story has never been published outside of Italy, at this point I guess because Disney thinks it has too much of a dark tone. Honestly it is as good as the other recent parodies that have been published everywhere, even in hardcover in the US most recently.]
Mickey Mouse: back to the past by Massimo de Vita Topolino e il ritorno al passato (Marconi, 1987) Topolino e lo strappo cronospaziale (Sisti, 1993) Plus one of the many archeological stories he drew in the 80's written by Pezzin (that I have not read) [This would be a 'time travel book', as in the first story Mickey goes into the past and in the second one it goes into the future. The second story could actually be more appealing as title of the volume, as Mickey Mouse: the chrono-space rip.]
On the Donald Duck side, I would like to see appear the following stuff - and in this case I would probably even buy it, since I do not hold many duck stories other than Barks and Rosa:
one or two volumes on Kari Korhonen,
two or three volumes on Cavazzano,
one or two volumes on Marco Rota (old stories please, written by him, no Paul Halas or recent Danish stuff please please pity on us!),
one or two volumes on Van Horn senior (mostly showcasing the collaboration with John Lusting),
one volume on Stefano Turconi (best duck stories written by his wife Teresa Radice),
one volume on Celoni maybe,
one volume on Ziche if her Mickey Mouse volume above sells decently,
one volume on Arild Midthun (of this guy I know basically nothing),
one on the Heymans bros, which is already on his way actually,
one volume on the complete work of Volker Reiche ,a German Donaldist who did some ten short Donald stories à la Barks of the 40's, but I guess that's not enough to have one volume.
Far be it from me to make suggestions, but if the Casty volume could include the untranslated Darkenblot stories, I would be thrilled. Regardless, the selection will be excellent but that is my wishlist. But every volume has been crackerjack. The Ice Sword saga was especially riveting.
Post by mickeyanddonaldfan on Dec 23, 2020 8:40:24 GMT
Asking a question about the upcoming William Van Horn volume: Will there be any stories featuring Rumpus McFowl or Woimly Filcher? Also, I'd love a Casty volume.
(By the way, a question to the site administrators: I tried finding the post I link to above by searching this thread for 'Casty', but it simply doesn't turn up. Instead, I had to find it manually. What's up with the search engine?)
(By the way, a question to the site administrators: I tried finding the post I link to above by searching this thread for 'Casty', but it simply doesn't turn up. Instead, I had to find it manually. What's up with the search engine?)
My best guess was going to be it wasn't finding it since the only writing of Casty in the post was "Casty-featuring" and thus it wasn't catching it, but later on the post does have "Casty" by itself. No idea- this is free forum software, issues like that will be caused by Proboards and not really on our side, sorry.
(By the way, a question to the site administrators: I tried finding the post I link to above by searching this thread for 'Casty', but it simply doesn't turn up. Instead, I had to find it manually. What's up with the search engine?)
My best guess was going to be it wasn't finding it since the only writing of Casty in the post was "Casty-featuring" and thus it wasn't catching it, but later on the post does have "Casty" by itself. No idea- this is free forum software, issues like that will be caused by Proboards and not really on our side, sorry.
Dang. Irritating that you can't know if something has been written on the forums by literally searching for it.
OT about searching: Over at support.proboards.com tons of people have the same problem and are requesting a reindex of their forum. I'm not sure if this can be requested in any admin options (doesn't sound that way) or if you need to do a public forum post over there to get it fixed..
A little workaround is to ex. use the following search on google: "site:featherysociety.proboards.com casty"