What are some of your favourite non-Disney comics by Disney comic writers & artists?
Have the following Disney comic creators ever contributed to any non-Disney comic: Floyd Gottfredson, Al Taliaferro, Marco Rota, Romano Scarpa?
Al Taliaferro was a moonlighter at Ben Sangor's comic book Los Angeles Studio during the mid 1940s, drawing 2 goose character (Pop Korn) stories in 1945 and 1946.
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Who would believe this is NOT from a Disney publication???
What are some of your favourite non-Disney comics by Disney comic writers & artists?
Have the following Disney comic creators ever contributed to any non-Disney comic: Floyd Gottfredson, Al Taliaferro, Marco Rota, Romano Scarpa?
Al Taliaferro was a moonlighter at Ben Sangor's comic book Los Angeles Studio during the mid 1940s, drawing 2 goose character (Pop Korn) stories in 1945 and 1946.
It's kinf of amazing to me Taliaferro was apparently not afraid of getting caught, considering his extremely recognizable style. I mean, who else draws even remotely like this?
Probably W.I.T.C.H. and Monster Allergy. More the TV adaptation than the comics, but I remember having both in my tv cartoon program.
W.I.T.C.H. is actually a Disney comic; it was created and published by Disney Italia and has always been owned by The Walt Disney Company. I have to say, judging from what little I've seen of the animated series, I find the original comic book version vastly better. (Though I've heard that the second season, which was supervised by Gargoyles creator Greg Weisman and hewed closer to the world and storylines of the comics, is much better than the first.)
Ken Hultgren, Lynn Karp, Preston Blair, Phil de Lara, Daan Jippes, Freddy Milton, Jan Gulbransson, Vicar, and and many, many (probably MOST) other Disney Comics artists also drew non-Disney characters during their comic book drawing careers. And surely that list would include Marco Rota and Romano Scarpa. I've seen non-Disney animation drawings and films by Scarpa. I'm sure I've seen earlier comic strip work by Scarpa, and non-Disney comic book work by Rota before he joined Mondadori.
I think the list of Disney comic book artists who never worked on comics for another company would be extremely short.
My favourite non-Disney comic book strip written by a Disney writer, and drawn by a Disney artist (Ken Hultgren), is "The Duke and The Dope", which ran in Ben Sangor's Giggle Comics from 1943-1954, and in Giggle's swan song successor series "Spencer Spook"in 1955:
Some pages from what this web site describes as Romano Scarpa's only Yogi Bear story, Yoghi e la "sequoia di lancio" (titled Yoghi e il "sequoia di lancio" in Scarpa's original artwork). Bizarrely enough, this one even has an Inducks listing. I don't think I knew before that Inducks had a category for non-Disney comics.
Something I also find interesting is that the story is included in Volume 51 of the Italian Romano Scarpa Disney library, which I assume focuses on assorted odds and ends.
It's kinf of amazing to me Taliaferro was apparently not afraid of getting caught, considering his extremely recognizable style. I mean, who else draws even remotely like this?
Comic book publishers and comic syndicates were in general not very good at art spotting. Artists sneakingly doing work for competing publishers was common up until at least the 60s, with their bosses not catching on because they simply couldn't recognize the style of their own artists.
It's kinf of amazing to me Taliaferro was apparently not afraid of getting caught, considering his extremely recognizable style. I mean, who else draws even remotely like this?
Comic book publishers and comic syndicates were in general not very good at art spotting. Artists sneakingly doing work for competing publishers was common up until at least the 60s, with their bosses not catching on because they simply couldn't recognize the style of their own artists.
Taliaferro's artwork style is and was VERY recognisable. I have no doubt that editors and some management personnel at Disney or Western Publishing would certainly have recognized this as Taliaferro's work. My guess is just that because it was only two very short stories, only one per year, in 2 consecutive years, in an obscure comic magazine, headquartered in New York that had poor distribution in The West (including California), just didn't notice it (didn't see it). The fact that Taliaferro only drew 2 stories for Sangor, whereas other Disney artists, who were NOT working for Disney at the time, like Ken Hultgren, Al Hubbard, and Gil Turner drew scores of stories for Sangor, indicates that Taliaferro changed his mind about moonlighting - probably because his colleagues warned him against it, or management told him to stop.