Your favorite christmas stories

[marco996]

Hey guys! Christmas is soon so I'd love to know your favorite christmas stories. I want you to choose 3 stories:
-A Carl Barks christmas story
-An italian christmas story
-A christmas story that is from an author other than Barks and a country other than Italy.


Here are mine:
-A Christmas For Shacktown for Carl Barks, I think it' his best christmas story. Poor people were never depicted in such a realistic way in  a Disney story before. And Barks show that despite being poor they enjoy what they have (the kid with the sparkles in his eyes is priceless, I shed a tear). And it shows what christmas is about: giving to others.

-Paperoga e il ritorno della renna by Alberto Savini and Marco Gervasio, I love the friendship between fethry and the deer, plus I love its chubby design.


-The Abysmal Snowman by Carol and Pat McGreal, and José Maria Manrique. It's a funny story about DD trying to scare kids with his snowman costume, but gets stuck in it.


By the way, did you guys see the trailer for "Santa & Cie"? An upcomming french movie, I saw it in an article in the new "Picsou Magazine". I don't know if it will be translated to english, but the effects are very nice and the music is good:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=spz7uShkS_Q

[drleevezan]

Barks-A Christmas on Bear Mountain
Italy-Paperino e la vacanza geniale
Other-'Tis no season (using it's english name) from Netherlands

[Zantaf]

Carl Barks: You Can't Guess
Italian: Topolino e la spada di ghiaccio (Massimo De Vita)
Other: The Richest Duck in the World (Don Rosa)

[RobbK1]

Carl Barks:
Letter To Santa
You Can't Guess
A Christmas For Shacktown
Christmas on Bear Mountain
Christmas In Duckburg
The Golden Christmas Tree
Silent Night
Best Christmas
Christmas Cheers
The Thrifty Spendthrift
Three Good Little Ducks
Three Dirty Little Ducks
Christmas Under The Ocean (Finding The Cuspidoria)
New Toys
Toyland

Scarpa:
Memoirs of an Invisible Santa

Wright:
Postman's Puzzle

Strobl:
The Big Switcheroo
Dinner At Grandma's
Reindeer Roundup

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Barks? Gonna go with The Thrifty Spendthrift, its premise is bonkers enough to be extremely appealing in a weird way.

Italian? I bleedin' love Silvia Ziche's 2012 Christmas four-parter Uncle Scrooge and the Christmas Generosity^TM. From the art to the writing and the plot, I just really, really like that story.

Other than Barks ot Italian? I suppose I'll have to be unoriginal, but, yeah, The Richest Duck in the World too. 

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To the people who answered Christmas on Bear Mountain, what appeals to you so much about this story? While some of the Scrooge stuff is nice enough, I always found it a rather by-the-book story that wouldn't be at all remarkable were it not Scrooge's debut. But I'm interested in hearing other opinions!

[RobbK1]

Nov 23, 2017 21:27:34 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Barks? Gonna go with The Thrifty Spendthrift, its premise is bonkers enough to be extremely appealing in a weird way.

Italian? I bleedin' love Silvia Ziche's 2012 Christmas four-parter Uncle Scrooge and the Christmas Generosity^TM. From the art to the writing and the plot, I just really, really like that story.

Other than Barks ot Italian? I suppose I'll have to be unoriginal, but, yeah, The Richest Duck in the World too. 

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To the people who answered Christmas on Bear Mountain, what appeals to you so much about this story? While some of the Scrooge stuff is nice enough, I always found it a rather by-the-book story that wouldn't be at all remarkable were it not Scrooge's debut. But I'm interested in hearing other opinions!

I like "Christmas on Bear Mountain" a lot because it shows Scrooge's deviousness, and his values, wanting to leave his fortune to a "worthy" individual.  His idea of being worthy in this story (and ONLY this one) as being brave, as opposed to prudent and thrifty, as in all the others, is the main reason.  Also, Barks' depiction of fear (the scared look in Donald's eyes) is extremely funny, and priceless (thus classic drawings).

[Matilda]

Barks:  Search for the Cuspidoria

Italian:  Being Good for Goodness' Sake, Chendi/Scarpa & Cimino

Other:  Christmas Clubbing, Kirsten de Graaff & Mau Heymans

Are you going to list your own favorites, marco996?

[Minotaur]

Barks: A Christmas For Shacktown
Italian: (I TL 2717-1) Another Christmas on Bear Mountain
Other: (H 21150) Christmas Clubbing

[jumbojr]

Barks: A Christmas For Shacktown
Italy: Topolino e l’albero di Holly
other: The Richest Duck in the World

[marco996]

Nov 24, 2017 1:24:50 GMT Matilda said:

Are you going to list your own favorites, marco996?Yes thanks for reminding me, I added them on the original post with the reason of why I love them.

Yes thanks for reminding me. I added them in my original post with reasons why I love them.

[Matilda]

Nov 24, 2017 3:34:46 GMT Minotaur said:

Barks: A Christmas For Shacktown
Italian: (I TL 2717-1) Another Christmas on Bear Mountain
Other: (H 21150) Christmas Clubbing

"Shacktown" is one of my top-two Barks Christmases, and "Another Christmas" is one of my top-two Italian Christmas stories, so on another day I could have ended up with the same list as you!

[sirredknee]

Barks:
A Christmas for Shacktown
Letter to Santa
Santa's Stormy Visit
Three Good Little Ducks

Italian:
Canto di Natale
Paperino e il premio di bontà

Other:
The Big Christmas Tree Mystery (Murry)
The Big Switcheroo (Strobl)
Special Delivery (Bill Wright)
anything Vicar up to and including 1980

[Minotaur]

Nov 24, 2017 12:12:15 GMT Matilda said:

Nov 24, 2017 3:34:46 GMT Minotaur said:

Barks: A Christmas For Shacktown
Italian: (I TL 2717-1) Another Christmas on Bear Mountain
Other: (H 21150) Christmas Clubbing

"Shacktown" is one of my top-two Barks Christmases, and "Another Christmas" is one of my top-two Italian Christmas stories, so on another day I could have ended up with the same list as you!

Glad to know we share the same opinion  !

[iggy]

Everything Barks did on the subject especially the steam shovels story and I liked this story a lot; inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3187-1