Papersera Library - The Pressed Dollars

[drleevezan]

Just thought I would share this here in case anyone hadn't seen it.

www.associazionepapersera.net/2018/03/26/la-biblioteca-presenta-un-albo-inedito-di-uncle-scrooge/

The Papersera Library is publishing an unofficial book containing the last story Carl Barks worked on, The Pressed Dollars (he suggested gags and story ideas for it).

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Can't read Italian enough to figure this out: is this going to be a printed book? If so, how will they release it? I doubt they could get it out on the market and not have Disney lawyers on their back…

[deb]

It looks interesting. As it's going to be in English, I'd like to read it if I could get a copy.

[drleevezan]

Apr 19, 2018 16:48:56 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Can't read Italian enough to figure this out: is this going to be a printed book? If so, how will they release it? I doubt they could get it out on the market and not have Disney lawyers on their back…

Honestly, it's not entirely clear to me either. It's definitely going to be printed, but as for how it will be released, I'm not quite sure. It doesn't really say on the page. All I can gather about it's release is that it will be printed in only 200 copies.

[sirtao]

If I understand correct: it's printed only for the members of the Associzione Papersera(which means they can do basically whatever).
They also have quite the good relationship with the Italian branch of Disney and Panini, so it's unlikely they'd have any issues.

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Yes, the biblioteca del Papersera is some kind of "book-fanzine" of the greatest Italian fan club of Disney comics, named "Papersera" (after the name of Scrooge's journal where Donald and Fethry work in Kinney's stories). Every year they write a volume, containing essays and fan-art, to celebrate one specific Disney author. They have an annual meeting which ends with a social dinner to which the designed author is invited to receive the honors (the "papersera prize") and the book. Everyone can buy the book, you just need to contact the president of the association. Occasionally they do some more pranky stuff. For instance once they created a spooky version of a non-existing issue of Topolino magazine, available only to members of the association. (The story in a nutshell: once there was a strike and the issue of Topolino of that week was not print, becoming some kind of mythological "lost number in the series"). This "spooky" Uncle Scrooge issue goes in the same direction. The link says that the author of the story received many suggestions from Barks for his plot (so Barks is a co-author to some extent), but he was never able to get the story accepted by the "official channels". It seems to me as a very funny idea. Recently another Italian comics association did the same thing realizing a lost script of Rodolfo Cimino. These kind of "publications" are not a problem for Disney, because they are not for profit.