A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Description: Translation of the title: "Carl Barks, the Duck Man". Dedicated to Carl Barks (for his 100th birthday). Contains articles by Luca Boschi (LBs), Alberto Becattini (AB), and Zio Paperone editor Lidia Cannatella; stories by Barks (both in Italian and English); many sketches, pencils, covers, oils; and some new stories, or reprints, by other artists.

Contents:

Editorial by Lidia Cannatella
A little biography by Luca Boschi
An article about Barks' old non-disney panels by Luca Boschi
An article about Barls s animator, by Alberto Becattini
A complete Barks' filmography, by Alberto Becattini
An article about "Northwest Mounted", a never released toon, by Luca Boschi
"Northwest Mounted" storyboard (more than 20 pages of this)
An article about Barks and comics by Luca Boschi
An article about Barks' "Old California" by Lidia Cannatella
"Donald Duck in Old California" (OS 328-02, in Italian and in English)
An article about Barks' sources
An article about "Not-so-ancient Mariner" by Alberto Becattini
W WDC 312-01 The Not-so-ancient Mariner (in Italian and in English)
A 1998 interview wih Barks by Lidia Cannatella
An article about Barks' characters by Alberto Becattini
An article about the non-Barks following stories, by Lidia Cannatella
An article about the following Bottaro story, by Lidia Cannatella
"Paperino e la vera storia della cimice Tuff-Tuff". New story by Luciano Bottaro inspired by Barks' "tuff-tuff" (W WDC 112-02)
An article about the following De Vita story, by Lidia Cannatella
"Topolino e l'imperatore d'America". New story by Massimo De Vita inspired by Barks' "Viking Helmet"
An article about the following Cavazzano's story, by Lidia Cannatella
"Zio Paperone e l'uomo dei paperi", classical Cavazzano's sotry starring Barks I TL 1919-C
An article about the following Carpi's story, by Luca Boschi
"Sta' in guardia dal lago di Garda". Carpi's version of Barks' original script for "Be Leery of Lake Eerie" (JW 17-01)
An article about the following Vicar's story, by Alberto Becattini
"Andiamoci piano con il deltaplano!", by Vicar (D 6886, originally written by Barks)
Article about Don Rosa by Luca Boschi
"Archimede Pitagorico in "il pifferaio di Paperopoli"" ("The Pied Piper of Duckburg") by Rosa and Barks (H 87173)
Article by Luca Boschi about the Rosa/Barks meeting
An article about the following Jippes' story, by Alberto Becattini
"Le Giovani Marmotte e le balene in pericolo" ("Wailing Whalers"), by Jippes (H 98239, written by Barks)
An article by Luca Boschi about Barks' 1994 trip in Italy
A quiz/test about Barks' stories by Luca Boschi

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions; unknown]

- Dedicato a Carl Barks

Inducks: ...
Author: Carlo Chendi
Publisher: "Deluxe"?
Publication date: 1994
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Cover type: Trade-paperback
Type: book
Width: 9 inch inch
Height: 9 inch inch
Pages: 48

Description: Italian catalog of a convention exhibition where Carl Barks was a guest during his 1994 European tour. He was lionized with dinners, awards, shows... and this book. The book has slick white paper and contains much full-color, like photos of Barks on tour (at his exhibition, in the Italian countryside, etc); a color pencil of Scrooge about pasta technology; and 40 drawings and paintings by Italian cartoonists in homage to Carl. The book also contains a part of the Carl Barks story (a biography?).

New material:

... italy pasta technology

Sources | image: © [unknown]

- Carl Barks Guide

Inducks: ...
Author: Franco Fossati
Publisher: I libri di WOW /Libreria dell'Immagine, coedited by Comic Art
Publication date: 1992, October
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Cover type: Paperback
Type: book
Width: 17 cm
Height: 24 cm
Pages: 192

Description: A very accurate index, with a summary for each story, notes on US and ITA reprints, cross-indices to look up a story based on title, subject, characters etc. This book is a great help when searching for a certain story. The book itself is 178 pages, the preface (using Roman numbers) is 14 pages.

The book was completely reprinted, in updated version, as serialized instalments in the magazine "Zio Paperone" between 1995 and 1998.

Sources | image: © [Walt Disney Productions]

- Il Grande Floyd Gottfredson

Inducks: ...
Author: Leonardo Gori, Frank Stajano
Publisher: Comic Art
Publication date: 1998
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Type: book

Description: Translation of title: The Great Floyd Gottfredson

Contents:

[Carl Barks on Floyd Gottfredson]: Contains (portions of?) an August 1998 interview and an September 1998 interview with Barks.

Sources

- Introduzione a Paperino: La Fenomenologia Sociale nei Fumetti di Carl Barks

Inducks: ...
Author: Piero Marovelli, Elvio Paolini, Giulio Saccomano
Publisher: G.C. Sansoni
Publication date: 1974
Country: Italy, Firenze (Florence)
Language: Italian
Cover type: softcover
Type: book
Width: 15 cm
Height: 20 cm
Pages: 332

Additional credits: Ideated, edited and technically realized by Fulco Douglas Scotti together with Marovelli, Paolini, Saccomano, but for "political" reasons (Scotti was a manager of GC Sansoni Publishing) his name does not appear in the cover.

Description: illustrated (monochrome)
BNI 751569

According to the title, this book is about the social phenomenology in Barks' comics.

Contains a history of the Ducks from Taliaferro to Barks, with analysis. 1: History of the Ducks, 2: The Donaldistic universe, 3: The message of Carl Barks, 4: Barksism, the philosophy, 5: American and Italian index.

This includes a parallel drawn from BB and the mafia; a list of all Donald Duck's jobs in Barks' stories; and an essay about the population invented by Barks. The American and Italian index covers about a third of the book.

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