Gianfranco Goria, born on August 3, 1954, in Bruneck (South Tyrol, Italy), is an Italian cartoonist, script-writer, Disney comics creator,^[1] 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 Anonima Fumetti, the daily news service afNews, the Foundation and Museum of Comic Art Franco Fossati, 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 (he was also in charge of the philological supervision of the new Italian edition of The Adventures of Tintin for Rizzoli Lizard) and Edgar Pierre Jacobs (Blake and Mortimer). Among his Disney stories, the special homage to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Since January 2023 he is the first Honorary Consul of Syldavia in Italy.^[2]

• Gianfranco Goria on Lambiek Comiclopedia
• Full biography.
• afNews, daily news and journalistic non profit blog on comics art - ISSN 1971-1824
• association Anonima Fumetti - association of Italian Comics Artists
• SILF-SLC Sezione Fumetto - Comics Artists Union
• Gianfranco Goria interview about Union SILF
• Fondazione e Museo del Fumetto e della Comunicazione Franco Fossati
• View Conference speaker Gianfranco Goria
• Tintin, un giovanotto di novant'anni - the first Italian essay on Tintin written by an Italian tintinologist, for an Italian publisher, in Italian for the Italian public
• Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Syldavia in Taurinia
• Tintin: the meeting of the Consuls of Syldavia - Diplomats, very serious and a little crazy, of the imaginary country created by Hergé, the "Consuls of Syldavia" will hold their Consular Meetings this Wednesday 25 September in Narbonne…