There is a revolution taking place in the world of Disney comics in Italy and I was late to the party. As a kid, I grew up reading Disney comics.

As a young adult, after reading the seminal book by Luca Boshi, Leonardo Gori and Andrea Sani, I Disney Italiani (Granata, 1990), I learned about the work of some of the greatest Italian Disney artists from the 1940s to the 1980s:  Romano Scarpa, Giovan Battista Carpi, Massimo De Vita, Luciano Bottaro and Giorgio Cavazzano. I also learned about the tradition of Disney's Italian "great parodies."

What I have realized over past few months is that a new generation of Italian Disney artists, led by Paolo Mottura, Casty Andrea Castellan, Corrado Mastantuono, Fabio Celoni, Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, Alessandro Pastrovicchio and Andrea Freccero is taking this art to new heights. 

Some of their work has been translated in English but a lot is still missing. I hope Fantagraphics will soon fill that gap. Fingers crossed.