Gianfranco Goria

Gianfranco Goria, is an Italian cartoonist, script-writer, Disney comics creator, blogger and journalist. Moved with his parents to Rome and then to Turin. He carried out his university studies at the University of Turin, under the guidance of the orientalist Oscar Botto.
He founded the Italian cartoonists society, the daily news service, the, and the National Union of Comic Artists Sindacato italiano lavoratori fumetto. 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 and Edgar Pierre Jacobs. Among his Disney stories, the to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
Since January 2023 he is the first Honorary Consul of Syldavia in Italy.