Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Jan 12, 2019 19:11:47 GMT
Okay, I wasn't sure if this belonged here or on the "When Good Artists Draw Bad Things" thread, but since we don't even know the artist here, and I doubt he could be described as "good" ...
This is the cover to the issue that originally printed the story starring Scrooge's twin brother that's been discussed on other threads. I presume it illustrates a scene from the story itself.
Gosh, but it's bad. Donald is off-model (not terribly so, but noticeably enough), the perspective is totally wrong (the lightning bolts from his eye seems to take a straight path to the other character despite the fact that they are not on the same plane, with Donald being clearly behind him, given how Donald's right foot is hidden by the other character's hat) and Scrooge's supposed twin looks nothing like Scrooge does (although perhaps it's supposed to be a younger version given his absence of glasses).
Okay, I wasn't sure if this belonged here or on the "When Good Artists Draw Bad Things" thread, but since we don't even know the artist here, and I doubt he could be described as "good" ...
This is the cover to the issue that originally printed the story starring Scrooge's twin brother that's been discussed on other threads. I presume it illustrates a scene from the story itself.
Gosh, but it's bad. Donald is off-model (not terribly so, but noticeably enough), the perspective is totally wrong (the lightning bolts from his eye seems to take a straight path to the other character despite the fact that they are not on the same plane, with Donald being clearly behind him, given how Donald's right foot is hidden by the other character's hat) and Scrooge's supposed twin looks nothing like Scrooge does (although perhaps it's supposed to be a younger version given his absence of glasses).
Oh, this is just AWESOME. I would pay good money if a Norwegian Disney comics publication came out today with this cover on it.
Oh, this is just AWESOME. I would pay good money if a Norwegian Disney comics publication came out today with this cover on it.
To be fair, browsing INDUCKS, I found a lot of the covers from the Italian comics of the time to be pretty bad; I guess I've been spoiled by the beautiful Barks/Jippes/Van Horn/Branca covers on American titles over the years.
Oh, this is just AWESOME. I would pay good money if a Norwegian Disney comics publication came out today with this cover on it.
To be fair, browsing INDUCKS, I found a lot of the covers from the Italian comics of the time to be pretty bad; I guess I've been spoiled by the beautiful Barks/Jippes/Van Horn/Branca covers on American titles over the years.
So have most of us. I love this because it's so bad it's fantastic.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jan 15, 2019 10:56:55 GMT
It is actually still a mystery to me why for many years at the beginning of the history of Topolino Mr Gentilini - the editor-in-chief from 1949 till 1980 - did not often use his best artists, like Carpi and Bottaro, for the original covers. (Of course, sometimes they used those by Barks or Taliaferro, but mostly not.) Covers of Topolino, Classici Disney, I Grandi Classici and all the other Italian Disney comics magazines started to look fine when they decided to heavily exploit the talents of Rota, Carpi and Cavazzano (even if I find Rota's a bit overrated for cover illustrations), and then became super duper cool in the 90's with Giglione's art. In the last twenty years they have alternated artists, so they can be good or bad depending on your taste.
In general however, I do prefer the Danish and above all Dutch approach of having a gang in the cover. In other words, I like when there is some writing, or at least some comic flavor, behind the illustration. That has never been much the case - and it is less and less the case now - in Italy and France.
Yeah, Giuseppe Perego was Topolino's main cover artist for many years, right? It's indeed a mystery why he got paid to draw in first place, much less covers.
Yeah, Giuseppe Perego was Topolino's main cover artist for many years, right? It's indeed a mystery why he got paid to draw in first place, much less covers.
The truth is that Perego wasn't a bad artist. When he draws realistic animals, or backgrounds, or objects, he's fine, dare I even say good. He's just peculiarly unable to divine how to draw ducks. Which is a bit of a problem for duck comics — but it explains how he could have gotten hired off a completley okay-looking portfolio without any editor being the wiser.
For example, this wonderful and moody opening splash panel is in fact by Perego:
Okay, I wasn't sure if this belonged here or on the "When Good Artists Draw Bad Things" thread, but since we don't even know the artist here, and I doubt he could be described as "good" ...
This is the cover to the issue that originally printed the story starring Scrooge's twin brother that's been discussed on other threads. I presume it illustrates a scene from the story itself.
Gosh, but it's bad. Donald is off-model (not terribly so, but noticeably enough), the perspective is totally wrong (the lightning bolts from his eye seems to take a straight path to the other character despite the fact that they are not on the same plane, with Donald being clearly behind him, given how Donald's right foot is hidden by the other character's hat) and Scrooge's supposed twin looks nothing like Scrooge does (although perhaps it's supposed to be a younger version given his absence of glasses).
The cover it's very different from the style of the story, the author is probably Ambrogio Vergani that draw the most of the cover of "Albi d'oro" in the 1955.