A quick list of what I saw in Naples!
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1. Images from the very first comics appeared in USA newspaper, there are: Blondie, Joe Carioca, a double Disney page with 5 different series, and the last one is an original Segar Popeye sunday page.. something I'd like to have framed in my house... :-) | |
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2. A board game featuring Mickey | |
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3. In the first picture you can see the Induckser Nicola Raimondi's back while he's checking some "Albi della Rosa" issues, there weren't many interesting comics for sale.. at least there weren't at reasonable prieces! | |
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4. An exhibition devoted to Batman - the dark knight... *very* dark as you can see from the pictures! ;-) | |
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5. Don Rosa appears at the convention and starts signing autographs... | |
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6. Don Rosa just had an introduction to Sergio Bonelli (the one with dark green coat), one of the most important people in Italian world of comics | |
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7. The meeting
with the fan for Don was very interesting, he also told us something
about HDL's parents, but I won't spoil you the surprise! In the pictures you can also spot Lidia Cannatella, Luca Boschi, Alberto Becattini and Harry Fluks (the one who's shooting a picture!). As you can see there was a lot of people! | |
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8. A weird expression by our Don... | |
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9. Sergio Bonelli looking at some of the books reprinting stories with his characters (Tex, Martin Mystere, Dylan Dog, etc....) | |
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10. There are
some covers made by Don to parody the most famous super-heroes
comics, some of them were already knew on the internet, but there
were many others: all very funny! Too bad the pictures aren't as
good as the covers deserve!! The one parodying Superman (Donald throwing his 313 on a rock) is one of my preferred. Only someone who **really** loves both Disney Ducks and all the other comics could produce something like that! Really well done, Don! It would be interesting to see all the covers published somewhere in a good format! | |
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11. The exhibition "Magica - The art of Don Rosa": very interesting, but very hard to photograph: the glasses covering the original art were reflecting too much the flash lights! BTW, there was also a copy of the old dime!! | |
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12. Harry Fluks, Don Rosa and Fabio Gadducci talking... and eating! | |
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41. Incredibly old comics, original drawings from Phantom, Prince Valiant, Peanuts, Krazy Kat and also Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse! | |
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13. Me & Don | |
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14. Don doing my fan drawing! Thanks again, Don! :-) | |
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15. Me, Nicola and Harry with a good old friend: Magica! | |
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16. The world's oldest original art for a comic: Outcault's "Yellow Kid"! Something really worth the visit to the convention!!! The other images is supposed to be a Windsor McKay "Little Nemo", but the photo is terrible, sorry! | |
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17. Interesting stuff for sale! | |
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18. There was also the premiere of the movie "Daredevil", one of the few (*very* few) super hero comics I ever read... | |
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19. As you can see, someone "not-too-well-informed" used a Cent instead of a dime for Uncle Scrooge first coin.... an old inconsistent Italian mix-up | |
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20. Some images of Castel Sant'Elmo, where the exhibition was organized | |
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