digests 808 - 829 (that's a LONG msg!)

[Knut Hunstad]

Hi, all!

>TOMMY-810-811-etc:
>
>I liked your paper.

Me, too! I did a paper about comics to, in 10th grade. Wasn't treated very
seriously by my teacher, though, got a rather bad grade, even if the paper
of course was brilliant literature ;-)

>DANIEL-818:
>
>>Of course there are some very interesting post-Barks Magica-stories,
>>I think that Don's "On a Silver Platter" is a good example, and also a
>>long (Rota?) story which was called "The Money Sea" in it's Dutch
>>publication (KJUO43/I-A-215).

Does anyone know when this might have been published in Norway?

>pirate who breaks gold coins in two with his sword; or the one with the 
>"trombe di Eustachio" (Eustachian tubes, but also trumpets).

Do you mean the one where U$'s money gets "sick" and he takes them out for a
"walk" in those huge baskets? I never quite liked that one, mainly because
the whole idea of U$ beeing able to transport all his money in 3 baskets
after a locomotive is redicilous...

But come to think of it, I think there are some more italian stories with
ear-stuff in one form or the other. Which one do you mean?

>>  Modern Italian Disney is often:
>>        a) socio-realistic (somewhat italocentric)
>>        b) space-opera (*VERY* unscientific)
>What are those? Do you think this is a complete genre? Can you give me a 
>few examples?

There are lots of those. One line has MM and Goofy rescuing some people on a
far away planet, Goofy falling in love with the princess (and vice versa!).

>>        c) time-travel (MM and prof. Einmug)
>>        d) ethnographical (Wild West, Backwardistan)
>>        e) parodic (world litterature classics)
>This is a "house specialty", but I don't like them too much. Pier Lorenzo 

I think those are some of the best italian stories, at least as seen in
DD&Co. pocketbooks in Norway. Would be nice to see some of those based on
norwegian literature some day!

>I think that, without attempting to be exhaustive, there are a few other 
>"streams" worth mentioning:
>
>	* treasure-quest adventures by U$ with nephews using strange machines
>		(classical Cimino stuff, some of my preferred stories here)

There are some good ones, but I think that line is a little exhausted.

>	* detective stories with Mickey, Goofy and O'Hara
>	* Beagle Boys attacks to the Money Bin
>	* Fantasy
>		This was started by a wonderful trilogy (Trilogia della spada di 
>		ghiaccio) by Massimo De Vita in the 80s
>            and later became inflation-ridden with inferior stories by 
>others like Ubezio.

Do you mean that Tolkien-like trilogy with this plate and spoon as means of
transport? That is IMHO one of the _really_ good stories that have been in
DD&CO. pocket books (together with the one Barks story, of course!)!

Let me attempt to add some more genres:
        * Fantonald-stories (or Super-Donald or what he is called in english)
        * Plain commercial or educational stories (worst of them beeing U$s
spaghetti nightmare, closely followed by lots of mini-volley, mini-basket
and similar stories). Seems like those where published only a short while,
luckily. Can't remember any for some time know.
        * U$ vs. Rockerduck (or is this put into the socio-realistic line?)

Let me also try to make a suggestion as to why it might be interesting to
sort this out properly. If one by means of genre can find out who wrote/drew
specific stories, it would very much help in educating someone like myself
about who did what italian story.

And I might need that when I some day come around to make an index over
norwegian DD&Co. pocket books!

P.S.: When and where is Don going to be in Norway?

Knut Hunstad