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SUMMARY:Luciano Gatto - Over 60 years of Italian humor comics
DESCRIPTION:From the 11th to the 24th of September\, the Chaniartoon Intern
 ational Comics Festival in Chania tells in an exhibition the career of one
  of the most important creators of Italian humorous comics\, specifically 
 with Disney characters: Luciano Gatto. In the exhibition\, you will see or
 iginal pages and illustrations from different periods of his long career.

 
 
 The official presentation of the exhibition will take place on Friday
 \, September 22 at 18:00\, in the presence of the great Italian artist\, L
 uciano Gatto\, as well as his student and Disney comic book designer\, Val
 erio Held.
 
 Luciano Gatto was born in Venice on May 21\, 1934. In 1955
  a neighbor\, who knew his passion for drawing and Disney characters\, inf
 ormed him that another Venetian\, a certain Romano Scarpa\, had started dr
 awing stories for the \" Topolino\"\, the weekly magazine corresponding to
  the Greek \"Mickey Mouse\". The news excites Gatto\, who begins copying t
 he Disney characters\, later showing Romano Scarpa the results of his work
 \, then receiving helpful advice\, some of which related to the sensitive 
 stage of melanoma\, for which Scarpa he needed partners.
 
 He began to 
 practise\, so that he soon assumed the role of chief assistant to the grea
 t designer\, inking his famous stories such as \"The Claw of Kali\" and \"
 The Legend of the Flying Scotsman\". Gatto continued to practice self-taug
 ht until 1956\, when he managed to sell to Il Ponte Publications\, under t
 he direction of Renato Bianconi\, three short stories with characters of h
 is own invention. After a few months Gatto received a script to illustrate
  a 12-page story featuring the small mountaineer Raviolo Kid.
 
 For fou
 r years Gatto also draws stories with Geppo and Nonna Abelards and invents
  the little man of the Pietrino caves\, drawing a total of fifty stories. 
 But Gatto wants to draw Disney heroes. Finally\, in March 1958\, he was ca
 lled to the editorial room of director Mario Gentilini\, who assigned him 
 the first Disney story \"Paperino e il ciliego rabdomante\" (unpublished i
 n Greece)\, starting a collaboration that has continued to this day.
 
 
 In the first years of the 60s he collaborated with the magazine \"Il Monel
 lo\" designing seven episodes of Sempronio\, Felicino and Arcibaldo\, repl
 acing Gino Gavioli and with the editor Fasani\, while in the 70s and 80s h
 e created more of one hundred stories for the German market with the two f
 ox twins Fix and Foxi. In the 90s\, on the contrary\, he designed many sto
 ries of Topo Gigio and Prezzemolo.
 
 The exhibition \"Luciano Gatto - O
 ver 60 years of Italian humor comics\" traces an admirable career during w
 hich the great Italian comic drew hundreds of stories. The exhibition rout
 e\, curated directly by the creator\, starts from the beginnings of his ca
 reer\, with the help of a short biography and a chronology with references
  to his collaborations outside of Disney\, but also to the period of his a
 pprenticeship at the side of the great conductor of comic\, Romano Scarpa\
 , copying three pages from the story \"The Night of Kali\"
 
 (1958)\, a
  masterpiece by Scarpa\, with whom Gatto had collaborated as an inker.Wish
 ing\, when transferring the exhibition to Greece\, to focus on the world o
 f Disney\, given that in our country he became known mainly from the stori
 es published in magazines such as \"Mickey Mouse\"\, \"Big Mickey\"\, \"Al
 manac\"\, \" Donald'\, 'Classics' and more\, dominated by his ink and temp
 era illustrations\, mostly inspired by the most beloved stories featuring 
 Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
 
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 Transfer editor: Yiannis I
 atrou
 
LOCATION:Karnagio\, 8\, Πλατεία Γεωργίου Κατεχάκη\, 
 Kastelli\, Chania\, Municipality of Chania\, Chania Regional Unit\, Region
  of Crete\, 731 32\, Greece
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DTEND:20230924T200000Z
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