My ability to recognize authors is down to 0. I would have bet my grandmother that this was a cover by W. Kelly.
You would NOT have lost your grandmother. The credit has a question mark after it. I have no doubts that the artist WAS Walt Kelly. He was drawing all The Walt Disney's Comics and Stories covers at that time, and that drawing has all Walt's style characteristics. It MAY be possible that Dan Noonan did a little editing on it, and that is why the confusion exists. The latter's style is not so different from Donald in the drawing. But, the drawing has all the signs of having been drawn by Kelly.
My ability to recognize authors is down to 0. I would have bet my grandmother that this was a cover by W. Kelly.
You would NOT have lost your grandmother. The credit has a question mark after it. I have no doubts that the artist WAS Walt Kelly. He was drawing all The Walt Disney's Comics and Stories covers at that time, and that drawing has all Walt's style characteristics. It MAY be possible that Dan Noonan did a little editing on it, and that is why the confusion exists. The latter's style is not so different from Donald in the drawing. But, the drawing has all the signs of having been drawn by Kelly.
Well, that's reassuring, thanks, Rob! Because I also would have assumed that that was a Kelly cover. Those cheeky nephews...
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Apr 23, 2018 7:52:32 GMT
Thanks Rob, it is reassuring indeed
Me too, I was considering the nephews as the the main evidence for Kelly's style! Noticing the (dubious) credits on inducks I have simply assumed that someone asked Dan Noonan to draw a Kelly-style cover (as a temporary replacement?).
Ok, my grandma' is safe. (By the way, she will be 90 yo one week from now! The one that I was betting, at least)
Kelly didn't always ink his own art for Dell in the 1940s. Sometimes Noonan inked him, and I'm quite willing to believe this is an example of that: everything about Donald's and the kids' proportions screams Kelly to me, but the actual inking of many details (esp. the nephews' eyes) says Noonan.
Kelly didn't always ink his own art for Dell in the 1940s. Sometimes Noonan inked him, and I'm quite willing to believe this is an example of that: everything about Donald's and the kids' proportions screams Kelly to me, but the actual inking of many details (esp. the nephews' eyes) says Noonan.
That is very reasonable. Kelly's pencils inked by Noonan. The beaks seam a little more stiff and squarish as opposed to Kelly's normal.
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Oct 14, 2018 19:58:30 GMT
Another bizarre cover, recently reprinted by IDW:
How on earth is Donald "embedded" like this? This cover reminds me of the scene in Jumanji (a movie I absolutely love, BTW) where Robin Williams' character sinks through the floor (though he wasn't as happy about it as Donald seems to be).
Donald’s expression is almost creepy, like he’s accepted the fact that he’s being absorbed into the mattress and perhaps looking forward to a comfy oblivion.
That's a general problem with current Italian cover pictures Cavazzano style. No matter what situation they're in, the Ducks always look like brainless, permanently grinning creatures from the merchandising table.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Oct 16, 2018 22:38:09 GMT
Yes, I read so many fans on the Italian forum complaining about the fact that nowadays ducks seem allowed only to smile on covers. But to be clear, it has nothing to do with 'Cavazzano's style' (an expression whose use to indicate generic Italian style I do non approve, but that's another subject). It must be an editorial choice.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Oct 16, 2018 22:48:01 GMT
Anyway, beside the creepy and stupid expression of Donald, what I do not get is the narrative content of the image. What happened? The only way he can be in that situation is if he finds himself inside the mattress while they are making the mattress. If the context of the image was something like a mattress factory it would make sense. But what the duck is going on here. Am I missing something?
I'm afraid I can't help, fellas. I was so completely baffled—yet amused—by this peculiar cover that I published it... er, without entirely understanding how it could be happening! I can imagine Donald sinking down deep into a supersoft mattress, but I have no idea how it can fuse above him like liquid.
Donald's smile, in this case, worked fine. He's effectively saying "I know how I'm doing this, and you don't!"
Yes, I read so many fans on the Italian forum complaining about the fact that nowadays ducks seem allowed only to smile on covers. But to be clear, it has nothing to do with 'Cavazzano's style' (an expression whose use to indicate generic Italian style I do non approve, but that's another subject). It must be an editorial choice.
Are PKNE issues (like this) an exception or is it a bit of an overstatement? I see it happening with the Disney covers produced for Germany, though. Andrea Freccero seems to use a stencil for that same open Donald beak every time...