PKERS went to both the important comics conventions hold in November, Lucca Comics (near Florence) and Expocartoon (in Rome), so this month you get a double-sized reportage!
Lucca Comics 2002
This year the exhibition was even larger than the previous editions, and useless to say - overcrowded as never. Thus, presenting a complete report of all events and protagonists is utterly impossibile - we'll limitate to our concern: the Disney stand!
Made up
again in the middle of Palasport, just like last year, Disney's stand showed no
substantial differences. There was the selling space, the same real-size figures of Witch
and PK (with some new presences, as Elyon and maybe One), and possibly the same faces as
well.
This year gathered the biggest pkers group ever seen: among the community
"celebrities" there were Silverware, Rita e Laura Micozzi,
Nicoḷ Assirelli, Morpheu5, Kappa, Wago, Tyxy, Fabiopk, Stefano "Essekappa",
Pikey, Lk, Cheyenne and so many others! Fighting with teeth and claws against
hordes of elementar's smart children and most of all little girls ready-to-everything to
get a single Witch sticker, we did put under siege the stand and the poor penciler
fellows, offered by Disney as sacrifices to satisfy the readers' thirst for sketches.
While Wago (Eclypse Neo's
webmaster) and company hammered heavy on a poor girl in the selling area to get tons of
stickers and prints, others were in queue to have a drawing made by Sciarrone,
Turconi and Rigano (we found out
that's to be said Ŕgano, with the stress on
"i"). The unlucky pencilers were forced to produce one sketch about PK each ten
about Witch, and in fact every time they were asked of a character bearing a beck you
could see the color spreading back on their faces... most of them Sciarrone, who after a
while began to draw Elyons all looking alike!
The exhibition was undoubtfully cool, but we were disappointed because of the different amount of space devoted to Witch and PK - useless to said who had the most. In fact there was a plenty of Witch stuff all around: calendars, italian and foreign covers, nonetheless the usual gadgets attached to the magazine and giant figures everywhere, while only beyond the X-Mickey place you could spot a small couple of Playstations with the PK logo and game on, crowded with children calling our hero "goose" and such.
This year was sticked on the wall a big paper block, in which the lovely little girls fans of Witch could pay a tangible scrawl of their affection to their heroines: actually as soon as we arrived we started filling the sheets with PK-drawings! Rita left a nice sketch of Lyla, Morpheu5's sister (Sheeva) put herself on drawing Skydoll, while some unknown old pker fellow wrote down some unreportable sentences about the elementar's smart children... in fact that sheet vanished very soon... ^^
We catched too a couple of original drawings, that you can find below with some other stuff and photos.
The best (and worst) moments
- The drawing desks where pencilers are working to distribute sketches are crowded with pkers. Here comes Silver and fellowship toghether with a new face, a thin boy bearing glasses. Silver shouts in loud voice:
"HEY, GUYS! HERE'S NICOLO' ASSIRELLI!!!"
All pkers turn their heads back and stare at us. A moment of total silence follows, then blows the "Pope effect": VROOOAAAMMMM!!! The Disney stand suddenly empties, while Assirelli traces crosses into thin air with one hand and has the other one kissed...- Rita is drawing Lyla on the big paper sheets on the stand's wall. She puts there a ballon with written inside: "Sniff! At least someone still remembers us..."
A sweet, little witcher girl passes by, and stares innocently at the drawing with her big tender eyes.
"Who is she...? A new Witch?", she asks.
¬___¬ ....
"Darling, will you come one moment behind there with us please?" ^__^
...
PAM! SOCK! STHUMP! CRASH! SPLAT! SPEZZ! BLOOD!- Passing by a Playstation with PK-game running, unbusy. Below it there's a PK-poster who cries: "PK IS ALSO A COMIC-BOOK! Search for it in newsstands on the 20th of every month!"
We look at it a bit disgusted, after six years of fidelity. What are the young readers going to think? Shall they be enthusiastic of reading their heroe's adventures passed from a tv screen to paper?
Comes an elementar's smart kid that takes a fast look at the poster.
"PK is also in newsstands? UGLYYY! But what's that, a GOOSE...?"
(Us) O__o;;;;
Silver has a heart attack as is brought away on a stretcher...
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Expocartoon Mediagateshow 2002 (Rome)
Those who followed the troubled adventure
that brought the authors of this site to show their own plates to Expocartoon knows well
how many problems we were given: disillusions, discarded promises, poisoned phone calls,
last minute runs. You can find the back story here
and in the news of November 2002. But in the end all went out well, and we can rightfully
say that THE EXHIBITION WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!
Indeed yes, those six plates (do you remind: four in preview from The Taste of the
Night, then PK Battlecry
and Trauma
SE4) raised a good interest and even sensation. Many people stopped and watched them,
probably attracted from the novelty they represented. Confused and amazed voices asking
what those drawings were: was it a very original Disney stand? Tempestively Silver and Rita ambushed visitor after
visitor, distributing flysheets and explaining everyone what we are and what we do. We
definitely gained many new users and many more people now knows about the existence of
pk-community and our way of seeing Disney comics. We received a lot of congratulations,
some photographed the plates one by one and a pair of persons even rumored something about
a hentai story of PK! ^^;
But almost everyone told us the same: "Disney Company should publish things like
this, not that shit of PK's third series or X-Mickey!!!". Well, we just hope them to
understand it someday...
Visitors apart, we collected
some attention from high environments too! In fact the TG2 (national tv news)
honoured us of a place in its reportage about Expocartoon, transmitted at 00.50 AM of
Friday early morning, in which could be seen a pair of our plates (one from TTOTN
and PK Battlecry), reportage that you can download below in Media Player format. We
really thank the reporter Roberto Valentini for the interest
shown!
Also afNews in its photo reportage underlined our presence, and even allowed us of the main titles, among all the authors more important than us that could choose! For a while you'll still find the article on www.fumetti.org/afnews, but if it's been already moved you can reach it following this link.
So, a triumph from our point of view! But we were given of the greatest satisfaction
from the most unlikely public... a group of 1st medium school boys and girls that
passing there saw the plates and stared at them in amaze. Talking with them we found out
that these boys are REALLY smart, in fact they did nothing but repeat "PK sucks as it's now, it's stuff for snotty kids, we read only
mangas full of people shooting and naked women like City Hunter and I''s,
we'd want so bad to read Disney comics as YOU do them... we don't get shocked, only adults
think that, but we want comics for adults!!!"
We had them worshipped, embraced, kissed and flysheeted all over, waiting for them to send
us some of their drawings. Thanks boys, thanks for proving we were right! With your
words you made Disney do a very poor figure, they've been showed up by the same readers
they claim with their grotesque ideas about target, because you proved yourselves much
more intelligent and smart of those who take these decisions... THESE are the real SMART
KIDS, THESE ARE THE REAL PKERS, of any age... we pay homage to your sincerity, you
proved that there is still hope!
In the next photos:
Download here the TV reportage
where we appeared
(2,7 MB)
In order to view this movie you need Windows Media Player with DivX.
By:
Silverware
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