What will the future bring

[Francesco Spreafico]

From: "Botto Armando" <Armando.Botto at elsag.it>

> Hmmm... I agree about the "great art". Apart from the "old masters"
(Scarpa,
> Cavazzano, Massimo De Vita, Rota), there are a few "youngsters" I like a
lot
> (Mastantuono, to name one, but also Silvia Ziche's very personal style is
> worth mentioning). And, in general, the average quality of the art is
indeed
> very good (sorry to disagree with Sprea, but I even like Celoni's art
;-)).

I don't think you really disagree about average quality.. you might like
Celoni, as much as I like, for example, Claudio Sciarrone (that maybe you
hate ;-), but still how many Celoni's stories (or Sciarrone's) have you
seen lately? Very, very very few, let me tell you, I index Topolino every
week ;-) The average quality is made by... want some names? I'll call you
names.. ehm.. no, that's not what I mean, I'll list some names! ;-)
Chiavini, Mazzon, Freccero, Forcelloni, Lucania, Frate, Pavone, Maccarini,
Vetro, Guerrini (oh how much I don't like Guerrini's art! :-), Barbaro,
Gula, Palazzi...

... now, I've just listed their names, I have no idea what most of their
arts look like, they all seem to look more or less the same, and that's the
average!
(I left out my favourites of course, that is, besides Ziche and Sciarrone,
Perina, Faccini, Camboni and Molinari)

> But I couldn't agree less when it comes to *story telling*. IMHO, most of
> the I-coded scripts are simply routine. And - again IMHO - a routine
script
> cannot be redeemed, not even by a great artist.

Yes, and the same for the opposite I think. Still when I see a story which
art I don't like, I probably won't even bother reading it (never finding
out that maybe the script is great), while I get to read all Cavazzano's
stories to evntually find out that the script is weak.

> There are a few notable exceptions, of course: Tito Faraci above all (but
> rumour has it that he's not going to write Disney stories any longer),
and a
> bunch of "complete" artists, who sometimes both write and draw their
> stories: Silvia Ziche, Enrico Faccini, the Leoni-Negrin "team", DCML
member
> Blasco Pisapia... and, recently, Mastantuono himself.

Yes, there's generally something "more" in stories made by complete
artists, I don't know why (and I remember someone else saying this lately
somewher... maybe Don on the Italian newsgroup? I'm not sure)

> Good question. Maybe we're just a bit lazy, that's another of our
national
> characteristics ;-)

We're like the Gringos in Vulcanovia ;-)

> > But still... you've posted a couple of times on
> > the Italian comics newsgroup, and you have seen that there's no one
> > there talking about Disney comics; that is, no one but me, but
certainly
> > I can't speak alone.
>
> Why not? You get answered, sometimes... and I enjoy lurking there, as you
> know well ;-)

Generally I answer to questions when someone comes up saying soething like
"I remember an old story in which Donald and Fethry look for a boat... can
anybody help me find th title?" (always the same story they look for, I
don't know why :-)

[about finding Giuseppe Perego]

> Please do! I'm sure he would have plenty of interesting things to say...
I
> hope he's still alive, he must be well over 80...

After Turin I'll see what I can do. I've seen 5 "Giuseppe Perego" in the
Arcore's phone book (stil nobody tells us he's still liveing there, he
might have moved to Bermudas :-)

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Sprea
http://digilander.iol.it/sgrizzo (Scarpa)