Hey, great to hear! Yeah, Moby Dick, On the Road, & Metopolis are excellent starter point Mottura stories, though I suppose it's a little early to recommend the latter to international audiences, as it only came out in January?
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Apr 30, 2017 10:02:33 GMT
I just reread Turconi's Treasure Island, and this makes me emphasize that Stefano Turconi is probably somewhere in my Top Ten. Not sure where, but somewhere.
Also a huge yes, I have been rereading pippo reporter this week and next week I m gonna get Treasure Island by him and Metopolis issue of topolino. Between these guys and the classic american guys I can not force myself to make a top five, there is too much great talent not even mentioned.
Post by shoelesspashley on Jun 29, 2017 4:24:16 GMT
If we are just talking Scrooge and Donald writer/artists my list is:
1. Barks 2. Rosa 3. Pat & Shelly Block 4. Scarpa 5. Van Horn
For other favorite Disney comics writers or artists I have to include: Bobbi J.G. Weiss (Tale Spin), Amy Mebberson (Disney Princess), and the team of Brill & Silvani on Boom's Darkwing Duck.
If we are just talking Scrooge and Donald writer/artists my list is:
1. Barks 2. Rosa 3. Pat & Shelly Block 4. Scarpa 5. Van Horn
For other favorite Disney comics writers or artists I have to include: Bobbi J.G. Weiss (Tale Spin), Amy Mebberson (Disney Princess), and the team of Brill & Silvani on Boom's Darkwing Duck.
Does the reasons for Mebberson's inclusion include Pocket Princesses?
Just scribbled a list of my current top dozen artists while stuck waiting in line, and I was amused to see after the fact that the twelve fell into six alphabetical pairs: Barks and (early) Branca, Rota and Rosa, Cavazzano and Carpi, Vicar and Verhagen, Ferioli and Freccero, Mottura and Midthun!
Here are mine: 1. Carl Barks 2. Romano Scarpa 3. Daan Jippes/Freddy Milton 4. Giorigo Cavazzano 5. Al Hubbard
Honorable mentions: Vicar, Floyd Gottfredson, Marco Rota, Luciano Bottaro, Carlo Chendi, Merrill De Maris, William van Horn, Ben Verhagen, Volker Reiche, Paul Murry, Dick Moores, Jaime Diaz Studios
Writers: 1. Carl Barks 2. Don Rosa 3. Casty 4. Floyd Gottfredson 5. Bob Gregory 6. Lars Jensen 7. Knut Nærum and Tormod Løkling 8. Maya Åstrup 9. William Van Horn 10. Alessandro Sisti and Ezio Sisto 11. Evert Geradts
Artists: 1. Carl Barks 2. Don Rosa 3. Casty 4. Floyd Gottfredson 5. Tony Strobl 6. Arild Midthun 7. Daan Jippes 8. Freddy Milton 9. William Van Horn 10. Alberto Lavoradori 11. Flemming Andersen
I'm curious, drleevezan-- Are the stories you like by Maya Åstrup Duck stories, Mouse stories, or both? I've only been able to read about three of her Duck stories: Twice Upon a Time, So Dear to His Heart, and I think one of the Siff stories. For some reason I've found it really hard to find copies of comics for sale with her stories in a language I can read.
Maybe you cite Lavoradori for his PK work (with Sisti & Sisto)? The Lavoradori story that makes my favorites list, I just saw, is his highest rated one on Inducks: Paperino e il mistero delle 2 civiltà by Cimino. One of my top five favorite Italian stories.
I'm curious, drleevezan-- Are the stories you like by Maya Åstrup Duck stories, Mouse stories, or both? I've only been able to read about three of her Duck stories: Twice Upon a Time, So Dear to His Heart, and I think one of the Siff stories. For some reason I've found it really hard to find copies of comics for sale with her stories in a language I can read.
Maybe you cite Lavoradori for his PK work (with Sisti & Sisto)? The Lavoradori story that makes my favorites list, I just saw, is his highest rated one on Inducks: Paperino e il mistero delle 2 civiltà by Cimino. One of my top five favorite Italian stories.
1. Mouse stories, mainly 2. Yes, I do cite Lavoradori, Sisti, and Sisto for their PK work
The off-topic discussion on the José Colomer Fonts thread made me think more about why there aren't more Italian creators among my faves, and I decided to post about it here rather than continue the off-topic discussion!
First, a few personal stats. I keep track of my favorite stories by writer, not artist. My favorite writers: Barks, Rosa, Korhonen. Then there are seven additional writers who have contributed five or more stories each to my list of favorite stories. The only I-coded Italian (so, not counting Rota) among those seven is Casty, for the female characters in his Mouse stories. Next, 17 writers or pairs of writers who have contributed 2-to-4 stories. These are Dutch, Egmont, Italian, and American/Canadian-published-first-in-the-USA. (If you add the Brazilian writer Anonymous, there would be 18. ) Five of these 17 are Italian. Then there are 33 authors or pairs of authors who have contributed one story each to my favorites list: 9 of those are Italian.
So, I'm obviously not anti-Italian across the board. But why are they still in the minority? Only a quarter of favorite writers overall (15 out of 60), with no I-coded Italian Duck writer in my top ten.
(1) exposure: American comics before IDW didn't print that much Italian stuff, so I saw lots more American, Dutch and Egmont stories. Plus, I can't read Italian as easily as French, Dutch or German, so I don't get as many Italian stories as I do other sorts, even in the comics I buy from Europe.
(2) art: While there are I-coded Italian artists I like a lot (Cavazzano, Carpi, Freccero, Mottura, Perina), a lot of what I see in recent Italian comics is unattractive to me. The word I generally use is "florid": over-elaborate in a fluid, curvy way. I like a cleaner style generally, with some unfilled space in the panel. The artists I've been most drawn to for the art itself are quite different from the dominant Italian style: Rota, Verhagen, early Branca, Gattino, Mau Heymans, Midthun. Even Mottura, great as he is, I find easier to appreciate because I've seen him in literary parodies, not Duckburg stories. It's OK to have his elaborate style in a fantasy world, not in the "real" Duckworld.
(3) narrative style: OK, Scarpa is the worst culprit here, with his Duck stories often seeming to have been made up as he went along. Maybe he had one plot point in mind when he started writing, but the journey there had a lot of pointless detours. But in general, many Italian stories have a looser narrative style than I am used to. This may be largely because of the length of many of the stories, which developed in part because of having a weekly publication where long stories could be serialized effectively. This more rambling style makes me impatient.
(4) Brigitta. Lots of Italian Duck stories include or refer to Brigitta, and I just can't stand her. Even when she's presented as a competent businesswoman, I can't shake my distaste for her original depiction as hopelessly lovelorn stalker. It's Brigitta who keeps me, for instance, from having more than one Ziche-drawn story on my faves list. Other characters originated by Italian writers have mostly left me cold, though there are none that irritate me as much as Brigitta. The only Scarpa character in my headcanon is Paperetta, and that's thanks to Stabile. Plus, the Italian Quackfaster is just a different person, which takes me out of the story whenever I see her.
(5) Also, I have zero interest in the various forms of Donald-as-superhero and Donald-as-spy.
(6) While there are a small number of literary parody stories I love (Moby Dick! That Missing Candelabra! Paperin Hood!), I basically prefer to read stories where the Ducks are Themselves. This counts out a huge percentage of the highest-Inducks-rated Italian stories.
So, I'm obviously not anti-Italian across the board. But why are they still in the minority? Only a quarter of favorite writers overall (15 out of 60), with no I-coded Italian Duck writer in my top ten.
I wonder what do you think of Artibani? His writing style is generally good, I think; and he seldom uses Brigitta. He wrote a lot of parodies and AU stories (PKNA, double Duck etc.), which might count for the last two reasons, though.