Just want to say that I *love* that cover of DD 2023-26 by Maarten Gerritsen, with Daisy rolling her eyes at Donald and Gladstone fighting, as reflected in her sunglasses! Gerritsen has done a bunch of covers I really like, including the Mondriaan cover, this Dinkie cover, and this distinctive Daisy cover.
WOW!!! 2 out of your top3 written and drawn by my 35 year work partner, Jan Gulbransson! I feel honoured. I discussed those plots with him.
But, how could you not include the best stories by Daan Jippes, Freddie Milton, Mau Heymans, Bas Heymans, or Ben Verhagen??? And, of course stories by great writers like Frank Jonker. They all drew and wrote so many great stories. And, I'm proud to have worked with 5 of those 6. And now, there are great young artists to carry on our great tradition, Henrieke Goorhuis, and Tim Artz.
I couldn't limit my favourites to only 3. I would need at least 10, and even then, it would be tough.
Just want to say that I *love* that cover of DD 2023-26 by Maarten Gerritsen, with Daisy rolling her eyes at Donald and Gladstone fighting, as reflected in her sunglasses! Gerritsen has done a bunch of covers I really like, including the Mondriaan cover, this Dinkie cover, and this distinctive Daisy cover.
Gerritsen's Katrien covers of the last year have been especially outstanding. 2022-09, 2022-11, 2023-01, 2023-07, 2023-09, and 2023-11 are some of my favorites. With special credits to Dorith Graef for her excellent coloring!
Last Edit: Nov 25, 2023 20:08:04 GMT by That Duckfan
RobbK1 The last of those 3 is by Verhagen! As for Jippes, Milton, and the Heymans brothers, I like their comics, too, it's just that they didn't make my top 3 H-coded comics. Also, I prefer Jippes' Egmont comics to the ones he made for Oberon/Sanoma.
Just want to say that I *love* that cover of DD 2023-26 by Maarten Gerritsen, with Daisy rolling her eyes at Donald and Gladstone fighting, as reflected in her sunglasses! Gerritsen has done a bunch of covers I really like, including the Mondriaan cover, this Dinkie cover, and this distinctive Daisy cover.
Gerritsen's Katrien covers of the last year have been especially outstanding. 2022-09, 2022-11, 2023-01, 2023-07, 2023-09, and 2023-11 are some of my favorites. With special credits to Dorith Graef for her excellent coloring!
As a certified autumn color mystic, I particularly like the covers for 2022-11 (on your list) and 2023-10. Even if you Europeans don't have the best fall color (I speak as a New Englander), because you don't have sugar maples! A colleague of mine in the 90's was Dutch, and his mother who still lived in the Netherlands lived near a park where someone had transplanted a sugar maple. He said that when that tree changed color, people would drive from miles around to see "the American tree"! Mostly the fall-color covers on European comics don't show the brilliance of maple-heavy autumns. More muted yellows and ambers, not the bright orange and red and yellow I'm used to. My favorite fall-color Disney comic is Dave Rawson's Vacation Brake, which is actually about thieves stealing the fall colors, and pretty clearly takes place in Vermont.
My top ten favorite H-coded comics stories, more or less in order of preference:
1. The Last Voyage of Ringtail van Dukke--Geradts/Verhagen. This was, as I have said elsewhere, the very first story by someone other than Barks or Rosa which I decided I needed to keep for re-reading. Mostly I passed my comics on after reading them. Now, decades later, there are a few hundred stories by other authors I have kept copies of, but Ringtail was the first and still is a favorite.
2. Christmas Clubbing--Kirsten de Graaff & Mau Heymans/Mau Heymans. Yes, it's been published in the USA, but I first found it in French, and I requested that it be published here! Such a satisfying and funny Christmas story, and it gives the children of Shacktown an active role, so they're not simply the recipients of charity. It's their generosity that triggers Scrooge's holiday conversion.
3. Kikkersprongen en apenkooien--Pascal Oost & Wilma van den Bosch/Comicup. One of my top three favorite AMJ stories (the other two are Egmont). Excellent structure, from the very first appearance of a frog on, and the way the girls finally defeat Magica is quite clever.
5. Healers of the Andes--Barten, Hoogma, Jonker, Polman/Mau Heymans. Anyone know anything about Anja Barten? This is the sole Disney comics story she contributed to.
6. Donalds eerste... series--Geradts/Carmen Perez. I'm going to treat this series as one 52-page story. Very happy to see Della and Donald in childhood, living with their parents! (their mother alone mentioned in two, I believe both parents mentioned in "first vacation")
7. Spreekbeurt--Herman Roozen/Jose Ramon Bernado. Only three pages long, but it's one of my top three favorite Mim stories (the other two are American and northern European). I would have *loved* this story as a child.
8. Shiver Me Timbers!--Kruse/Bas Heymans. I'm fond of nautical ghosts; see #1 above. One of my favorite ghost ship stories, along with Rota's Nightmare Ship, Geradts' Piratenzang, and Halas's Ghost of the Glen.
9. Coat of Harms--Jippes & Milton/Jippes & Milton. I don't usually like Jippes' writing, but this is a fine Daisy story. This was reprinted in the Target 100 years of Disney comics book--I guess that hasn't been indexed yet?
10. The Peril of Pandora's Box--Arno Buitink/Bas Heymans. Printed in the USA, but I first encountered it in the German Big Black Books 2: Ich, Gundel Gaukeley!
That's two written by Geradts and two by Kruse, and on the art side, two by Verhagen, two by Mau Heymans, and two by Bas Heymans! I wasn't going for that, but it worked out nicely.
My selection is naturally influenced by which stories have been published in English, though I have found several favorites in Dutch, French or German publications. I've not had a chance to read the two Jan Gulbransson stories caballero mentions, for instance.
Long-time Donald Duck weekblad writer and artist Wilma van den Bosch is going to get this year's Stripschapprijs, the most important Dutch comic award for her oeuvre. She worked as an employee at the Dutch weekly for about 30 years. Unfortunately very few of her stories have been published here in Germany. I think I never read anything by her. But I saw a nice original drawing for a cover in the Dutch Disney exhibition in Noordwijk in 2022.
Long-time Donald Duck weekblad writer and artist Wilma van den Bosch is going to get this year's Stripschapprijs, the most important Dutch comic award for her oeuvre. She worked as an employee at the Dutch weekly for about 30 years. Unfortunately very few of her stories have been published here in Germany. I think I never read anything by her. But I saw a nice original drawing for a cover in the Dutch Disney exhibition in Noordwijk in 2022.
Oh, that's great news! You can see above that #3 on my personal "top ten favorite H-coded comics stories" list was co-written by Wilma van den Bosch: Kikkersprongen en apenkooien, one of my top three favorite AMJ stories. There are two other stories on my re-read list written by that team of Wilma van den Bosch and Pascal Oost: Inca's en aardappels, in which Daisy and AMJ get to go on an adventure abroad, and Dinkie's Dag, a fun romp showing off the personalities of the main Duck cast. Wilma van den Bosch created the character of Dinkie, Daisy's cat, and I'm grateful to her for that because I've always wanted Daisy to have a cat!
But, sadly, they don't let us use Ludwig von Drake (who I don't agree is interchangeable with Gyro Gearloose), and they don't use Fethry Duck (who we DID use a lot in the 1960s).
This reminds me of an old saying: "In theory, theory and practice are the same thing, but in practice they aren't". Ludwig is theory and Gyro is practice.
Long-time Donald Duck weekblad writer and artist Wilma van den Bosch is going to get this year's Stripschapprijs, the most important Dutch comic award for her oeuvre. She worked as an employee at the Dutch weekly for about 30 years. Unfortunately very few of her stories have been published here in Germany. I think I never read anything by her. But I saw a nice original drawing for a cover in the Dutch Disney exhibition in Noordwijk in 2022.
Looking at Inducks, most of her international exposure has been in the form of single page gags, comic strips or covers, with very few of her longer stories being published outside the Netherlands.
However, she was the writer of "Sinterklaaslijstje", which is fairly notable for being the only Sinterklaas story to be translated into many other languages, and definitely a story you'd remember for that reason if you read it.
Long-time Donald Duck weekblad writer and artist Wilma van den Bosch is going to get this year's Stripschapprijs, the most important Dutch comic award for her oeuvre. She worked as an employee at the Dutch weekly for about 30 years. Unfortunately very few of her stories have been published here in Germany. I think I never read anything by her. But I saw a nice original drawing for a cover in the Dutch Disney exhibition in Noordwijk in 2022.
Oh, that's great news! You can see above that #3 on my personal "top ten favorite H-coded comics stories" list was co-written by Wilma van den Bosch: Kikkersprongen en apenkooien, one of my top three favorite AMJ stories. There are two other stories on my re-read list written by that team of Wilma van den Bosch and Pascal Oost: Inca's en aardappels, in which Daisy and AMJ get to go on an adventure abroad,
Ah, thanx, I read this one but it didn't show on Inducks when I was looking for works of her who have been published in Germany. Okay, then I have to rephrase: I think I never read anything drawn by her. (I read a few Dutch magazines as well but probably only from the time when she had already left the team.)
It's a little strange with German appearances of Dutch comics: Daan Jippes and the Heyman brothers are quite popular here, you find Sander Gulien or Dutch comics by Carmen Perez regularly in our "DD Sonderheft" or "MM Comics", but almost never anything by van den Bosch or e.g. Michel Nadorp.
Oh, that's great news! You can see above that #3 on my personal "top ten favorite H-coded comics stories" list was co-written by Wilma van den Bosch: Kikkersprongen en apenkooien, one of my top three favorite AMJ stories. There are two other stories on my re-read list written by that team of Wilma van den Bosch and Pascal Oost: Inca's en aardappels, in which Daisy and AMJ get to go on an adventure abroad,
Ah, thanx, I read this one but it didn't show on Inducks when I was looking for works of her who have been published in Germany. Okay, then I have to rephrase: I think I never read anything drawn by her. (I read a few Dutch magazines as well but probably only from the time when she had already left the team.)
It's a little strange with German appearances of Dutch comics: Daan Jippes and the Heyman brothers are quite popular here, you find Sander Gulien or Dutch comics by Carmen Perez regularly in our "DD Sonderheft" or "MM Comics", but almost never anything by van den Bosch or e.g. Michel Nadorp.
You'll find very few comics drawn by Nadorp or van den Bosch, or by Jan-Roman Pikula. The reason for this is that they were/are employed as staff artists, filling the editorial pages, covers, and posters. Comics work is outsourced to freelance artists. There are a few editorial items in comic format, like Goofy geeft les ("How To ...") by Nadorp and Mickey lost 't op (Riddles) by Pikula, but that's it.
That said, there are a few cases where I'm not so sure INDUCKS is correct. Inca's en aardappels, Oeps! Blunders!, Het zwaard van Abdallah, and Oud papier all have that signature Wilma van den Bosch style.