Vic Lockman and the Carl Barks Universe of Disney Ducks

Abstract

The universe of Comics has become a place for multiple gatherings, like that of literature. The imagination of the reader - more and more often common to both – can move in many directions, and the profile of the heroes drawn on paper has become in many cases archetypal as it happened to many heroes written on paper.
The two forms - literature and comics - have sometimes met in forums, rewrites, parodies, forms of mutual illustration and, lately, in the graphic novel medium; the readers’ interest in this latest undertaking demonstrates the metamorphic ability of the comics universe.
We might as well open the way to a kind of semiotic of the comics and – this said with irony - to its archeology. As in the novelistic narratives, comics show great potential for describing the everyday needs of each country, and, by examining the structure that forms the social imaginary of modern times, after adjusting in the transmigration process, for highlighting the sophistication that exists behind the work of authors and writers, often top class artists.
With these pages we start a simple journey through the Disney universe between the US and Italy, origin and destination, with possible reversals of direction and demographic contributions that Italy has given to the people of the great metropolis Of Mice and Ducks.