I can't rate people for writing and art in a single list. So, here are my current top fives. These are based on counting up how many stories of theirs are among my favorites.
Writing: 1. Barks 2. Rosa 3. Casty 4. Korhonen 5. Laura & Mark Shaw
I just read a couple more of the Shaws' stories this month, and they just edged out Cimino in number of stories on my favorites list.
Would I like Rosa's art on its own? Not so much. But paired with his writing, his art also gives me great pleasure. Vicar did so much that some of it is mediocre, but when he was on top of his game.... Vicar would be followed by a tie between early Branca (before the distortion) and Ferioli. I also like Ziche's art, but not many of the stories she's drawn make it on my favorites list, for one reason or another.
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jul 21, 2016 12:07:19 GMT
Doing a list would be very hard, but in no particular order and off the top of my head:
Don Rosa, Luciano Bottaro, The Bill Walsh/Floyd Gottfredson tandem, Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, Al Hubbard, Silvia Ziche, Stefano Turconi, The team responsible for the "Goofy as historical characters" series (Greg Crosby, Hector Adolfo de Urtiága, Rubén Torreiro), GIovan Battista Carpi, Marco Rota Ben Verhagen Giuseppe Dalla Santa Carl Barks Casty
I don't like doing "best list", but let's see what I can say.
Writers: 1. Casty 2. Bruno Enna 3. Giorgio Pezzin 4. Floyd Gottfredson 5. Tito Faraci I know it's odd not putting Carl Barks or Don Rosa, but - I've to say it - I don't like them so much.
Artists: 1. Vitale Mangiatordi 2. Giorgio Cavazzano 3. James Silvani 4. Casty 5. Luca Usai You can see I prefer modern art to Barksian art. I don't know quite anything about James Silvani's work, but I see his American covers and they're so great.
I want to specify that, in the OP, i rated them as writers (i don't really care about art). Then i realized Jaime Diaz didn't write the scripts. Oh, well...
I don't like doing "best list", but let's see what I can say.
I know it's odd not putting Carl Barks or Don Rosa, but - I've to say it - I don't like them so much.
I'm not thinking of these as "best lists" but as "personal favorites" lists--"my top five" as "whatever" labeled it. If I were to do a "best" list, it would be quite different. So, not odd at all to leave Barks and Rosa off your list! And yes, Silvani's art is terrific.
I don't like doing "best list", but let's see what I can say.
I know it's odd not putting Carl Barks or Don Rosa, but - I've to say it - I don't like them so much.
I'm not thinking of these as "best lists" but as "personal favorites" lists--"my top five" as "whatever" labeled it. If I were to do a "best" list, it would be quite different. So, not odd at all to leave Barks and Rosa off your list! And yes, Silvani's art is terrific.
I think it's not odd, at all, to leave Don Rosa off a best artist list, in any case. His drawing looks to me like a hacker Hanna-Barbera "artist", inking over Robert Crumb pencils, making them angular and stiff as possible.
I don't like doing "best list", but let's see what I can say.
Writers: 1. Casty 2. Bruno Enna 3. Giorgio Pezzin 4. Floyd Gottfredson 5. Tito Faraci I know it's odd not putting Carl Barks or Don Rosa, but - I've to say it - I don't like them so much.
Artists: 1. Vitale Mangiatordi 2. Giorgio Cavazzano 3. James Silvani 4. Casty 5. Luca Usai You can see I prefer modern art to Barksian art. I don't know quite anything about James Silvani's work, but I see his American covers and they're so great.
I don't like doing "best list", but let's see what I can say.
Writers: 1. Casty 2. Bruno Enna 3. Giorgio Pezzin 4. Floyd Gottfredson 5. Tito Faraci I know it's odd not putting Carl Barks or Don Rosa, but - I've to say it - I don't like them so much.
Artists: 1. Vitale Mangiatordi 2. Giorgio Cavazzano 3. James Silvani 4. Casty 5. Luca Usai You can see I prefer modern art to Barksian art. I don't know quite anything about James Silvani's work, but I see his American covers and they're so great.
what about Claudio Sciarrone art?
I like his art too, but his mice are a bit weird. And before him, there are at least Enrico Faccini, Silvia Ziche, Stefano Turconi and probably others.
I'm not thinking of these as "best lists" but as "personal favorites" lists--"my top five" as "whatever" labeled it. If I were to do a "best" list, it would be quite different. So, not odd at all to leave Barks and Rosa off your list! And yes, Silvani's art is terrific.
I think it's not odd, at all, to leave Don Rosa off a best artist list, in any case. His drawing looks to me like a hacker Hanna-Barbera "artist", inking over Robert Crumb pencils, making them angular and stiff as possible.
An opinion, amusingly, that I believe Rosa shares; maybe not with the specific mentions (don't see Hanna-Barbera on his work at all, and depending on the era, implying HB artists weren't artists because their output was crap is a bit dishonest- it's known they knew they were making crap, but Hanna and Barbera were basically just using those crap cheap cartoons in order to avoid having roves of golden age animators go unemployed), or the severity, but he repeatedly disavows his own work. Which I think is fair- I like it, but I can see all the problems he and you and often me have with it
I'll give a list of my own once I've given this thought.