Your top comics NOT made by your favourite creators?

[caballero]

What are your favourite Disney comics that weren't made by one of your favourite Disney comic creators?

My favourite creators are Rosa, Van Horn and Barks and my single favourite Disney comic not made by one of them is Gottfredson's The Seven Ghosts. (Which by the way also happens to be my single favourite Mickey comic, and my favourite comic in which Mickey and Donald appear together.) To be fair, Gottfredson is also probably one of my top 5 Disney comic artsist, but a very distant 4th or 5th after my 3 favourites.

Runner-ups:
2. The Money Ocean by Rota
3. Editor-in-Grief by Gottfredson
4. Wonderwool by Rota
5. What About 65? by Korhonen/Branca

What are your picks? And it's entirely up to you how many creators you categorize as your favourites and therefore exclude.

[Matilda]

OK, this is an idiosyncratic challenge! But I am unable to resist a question that asks me to look at my lists and identify favorites.

I will identify four favorite creators and four favorite stories by others.

Favorite creators: Barks, Rosa, Korhonen, Rota. Rota is in a bit of a different category, because it's as an artist that I most value him; but putting him on this favorites list eliminates both stories he wrote-and-drew (Nightmare Ship!) and stories he only drew (Little Helper Lost!) from the next list. (I also love Wonderwool!)

Top stories by other creators:

Last Voyage of Ringtail Van Dukke, Geradts/Verhagen

No Room for Human Error, Lustig/W Van Horn

The Wonderful Wishing Crown, Stabile/Perina

Christmas Clubbing, K de Graaff & M Heymans/M Heymans

I can't really rank those four; which I'd put first would depend on the day you asked.

I realized this Christmas how representative my top ten Christmas Duck stories are of my overall favorites, in terms of creators: three by Barks, one each by Rosa, Korhonen, and (as artist) Rota, one Dutch (Christmas Clubbing), one Italian (Being Good for Goodness' Sake), one by the Norwegians Nærum & Løkling/Midthun (I think of them as somewhat separate from Egmont because I believe they get to write so many fine, long Christmas stories due to the Norwegian Christmas specials), one other Egmont by Hedman/Vicar.

Also, The Seven Ghosts is definitely my favorite story featuring both Donald and Mickey.

[mousemaestro]

Walsh isn't among my favorites but "Mickey's Dangerous Double" is a stone cold classic.

[tashlinfan44]

I’ve always found Don Rosa’s art to be subpar - but his writing, at times, is fantastic. Escape from Forbidden Valley is a great piece of work.

[mcquack]

Jan 6, 2022 14:10:06 GMT tashlinfan44 said:

I’ve always found Don Rosa’s art to be subpar - but his writing, at times, is fantastic. Escape from Forbidden Valley is a great piece of work.

I agree. Not a knock but its not the traditional Disney style, its got a bit of that indie/fan art feel. Thats understandable since he was a fan/indie artist.

My favorite Rosa story might be Hearts of the Yukon. I was shipping the two so hard in that one, great romance. Another classic is the one with the time freezing ray. Reads like a great DuckTales episode.

[tashlinfan44]

Jan 10, 2022 16:59:56 GMT mcquack said:

Jan 6, 2022 14:10:06 GMT tashlinfan44 said:

I’ve always found Don Rosa’s art to be subpar - but his writing, at times, is fantastic. Escape from Forbidden Valley is a great piece of work.

I agree. Not a knock but its not the traditional Disney style, its got a bit of that indie/fan art feel. Thats understandable since he was a fan/indie artist.

My favorite Rosa story might be Hearts of the Yukon. I was shipping the two so hard in that one, great romance. Another classic is the one with the time freezing ray. Reads like a great DuckTales episode.

Most of his works that don’t try super hard to connect back to the larger Barks/Rosa canon are the best just because they’re fun. Most of my favorite Rosa stories follow that pattern.

I haven’t read Hearts of the Yukon yet. Is it a part of the Life and Times saga? I’d like to read that series someday even if it doesn’t really look like my thing.

[caballero]

My updated list (still excluding Rosa, Barks and William Van Horn):

1. The Seven Ghosts by Gottfredson
2. YD 41-12-25 by Taliaferro
3. The Money Ocean by Rota
4. Editor-in-Grief by Gottfredson
5. Little Helper Lost by Rota
6. Wonderwool by Rota

[Dr Ivo G Bombastus]

My favorite creators are Barks, Rosa, Gottfredson, Scarpa, Byron Erickson, and (for the sake of this topic) Casty.

My top comics from other creators:

The Sword of Shambor saga by Carol and Pat McGreal
The Big Fall and A Phantom Blot Bedtime Story by Lee Nordling
Anderville by Tito Faraci
The Phantom Blot's Double Mystery, drawn by Scarpa but written by Guido Martina



A Gal For Gladstone also by Carol and Pat McGreal
Whatever Happened To $crooge McDuck? by Lars Jensen
The Glomgold Heritage also by Lars Jensen
When Magica Won by Olaf Solstrand