Gianfranco Goria
Gianfranco Goria by Gianfranco Goria with his comic art library
Gianfranco Goria is an Italian cartoonist, script-writer, Disney creator and journalist. He founded the Italian cartoonists society Anonima Fumetti, the daily news service afNews, the Foundation and Museum of Comic Art Franco Fossati, and the National Union of Comic Artists SILF/SLC/CGIL. He is the editor of the Italian editions of important essays about comic art by Scott McCloud, Will Eisner and Benoit Peeters. Goria is also a teacher of Graphic Literature and lecturer, specialized in the works of Hergé (The Adventures of Tintin etc.) and Edgar Pierre Jacobs (Blake and Mortimer). Among his Disney stories, the special homage to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.