Post by RobbK1 on May 28, 2018 17:14:22 GMT
Very true. BUT, I think Deb was referring to when the main and prevailing Dutch "style" of Disney artwork and story writing started (which I agree, started in the early 1970s-specifically when Dutch fans (Cees de Groot, Thom Roep, Dan Jippes, Harry Balm, enz.) took over the editorial duties for Oberon. Before that, Lukács, Carol Voges, and the few other Dutch artists had their own, individual styles, which were not unlike the gamut of USA's Western publishing's weaker non-Barks artists. Once Daan Jippes, Ben Verhagen, Dick Matena, Eddy van Schuylenburg, Danny Wanner, Harry Balm, Robert van Der Kroft, Wilbert Plijnaar, started for Oberon in the early to mid 1970s, a new solely Dutch style started to develop, and matured adding even a couple foreign artists, like Freddy Milton, Jan Gulbransson and Volker Reiche. It matured through the years when Mark de Jonge, Jules Coenan, Michel Nadorp, Mau and Bas Heymans, and others came along. Same is true for story writers. A Dutch style was developing throughout the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, that still exists today. I can say this, because I started reading the Dutch Disney books from their start, in 1952, and participated in the story writing end from 1984 till now.
You name here other Dutch people belonging to the same generation of the 70's, that I do not know, probably because their work did not much crossed the borders I guess (not in Italy and France in any case). But you get the point.