Post by Matilda on Sept 10, 2016 14:22:13 GMT
From my browsing on Inducks through the years, I've found some European covers I love which haven't seen print in the USA yet. Here are the ones I'd most like to see on an IDW comic:
1) The Funniest (Mau Heymans):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=HC+DD1991-49&search=
Love that alien! And I'm impressed at how this cover deals with the line-of-sight factor that's often a difficult issue in these one-page illustrations. See, for example, a cover by Branca whose basic gag I find very funny: coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D++6913 The reader has to see the real 313 to get the joke, but in this cover it seems unlikely Donald wouldn't see it himself. (The original idea came from a Geradts/Heymans one-pager coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=H+97236 where HDL had obscured Donald's view of 313; a remake of Branca's cover by Michel Nadorp coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=HC+DDWB+1988 handles this line-of-sight issue better.) Or again, see the cover of Australia's Character Issue 16 coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=au/CI++16 , based on the story from WDC 126 where Grandma stops the train. How can the engineer not see the collapsed bridge? Heymans' alien cover shows the reader what you need to see (the rocket, HDL), while making it believable that none of that is in Donald's line of sight.
2) The Coziest (Arild Midthun & Francisco Rodriguez Peinado):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+24029&search=
What Disney-comics-loving child would not want to be in HDL's place in that picture? It would be nice to have a printing of this cover that's not all cluttered up. Though since all the printings of it have been on comics that put a band across the bottom of the cover, I don't know whether the original art includes the foot of the bed!
3) The Most Buoyantly Happy (Cavazzano):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=FC+JM+2331
Inducks tells us that the original was included in a Cavazzano art exhibition. My fellow Americans: I know, I know. Why can't *we* live in a country where art museums put on Cavazzano exhibitions?
4) Can't not include a Magica cover (Maximino Tortajada Aguilar):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+25706&search=
5) And, though I am a Duck Woman, here's one from the Mouse Universe (Jippes):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=HC+DD1979-37
This is a far superior remake of a Tello cover coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D++2852 . I love how satisfied and proud Goofy looks. (I do realize that if you're making a ship-in-a-bottle the legit way, not cheating by gluing the base of the bottle on, it would actually be *harder* to get a raft in there!) The Jippes cover ties with the final panel of the Paul Halas/Noel Van Horn story "A Worthless Trinket" as my favorite depiction of Goofy ever.
Finally, a Christmas bonus (Tello-Team):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+13140
1) The Funniest (Mau Heymans):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=HC+DD1991-49&search=
Love that alien! And I'm impressed at how this cover deals with the line-of-sight factor that's often a difficult issue in these one-page illustrations. See, for example, a cover by Branca whose basic gag I find very funny: coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D++6913 The reader has to see the real 313 to get the joke, but in this cover it seems unlikely Donald wouldn't see it himself. (The original idea came from a Geradts/Heymans one-pager coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=H+97236 where HDL had obscured Donald's view of 313; a remake of Branca's cover by Michel Nadorp coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=HC+DDWB+1988 handles this line-of-sight issue better.) Or again, see the cover of Australia's Character Issue 16 coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=au/CI++16 , based on the story from WDC 126 where Grandma stops the train. How can the engineer not see the collapsed bridge? Heymans' alien cover shows the reader what you need to see (the rocket, HDL), while making it believable that none of that is in Donald's line of sight.
2) The Coziest (Arild Midthun & Francisco Rodriguez Peinado):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+24029&search=
What Disney-comics-loving child would not want to be in HDL's place in that picture? It would be nice to have a printing of this cover that's not all cluttered up. Though since all the printings of it have been on comics that put a band across the bottom of the cover, I don't know whether the original art includes the foot of the bed!
3) The Most Buoyantly Happy (Cavazzano):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=FC+JM+2331
Inducks tells us that the original was included in a Cavazzano art exhibition. My fellow Americans: I know, I know. Why can't *we* live in a country where art museums put on Cavazzano exhibitions?
4) Can't not include a Magica cover (Maximino Tortajada Aguilar):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+25706&search=
5) And, though I am a Duck Woman, here's one from the Mouse Universe (Jippes):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=HC+DD1979-37
This is a far superior remake of a Tello cover coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D++2852 . I love how satisfied and proud Goofy looks. (I do realize that if you're making a ship-in-a-bottle the legit way, not cheating by gluing the base of the bottle on, it would actually be *harder* to get a raft in there!) The Jippes cover ties with the final panel of the Paul Halas/Noel Van Horn story "A Worthless Trinket" as my favorite depiction of Goofy ever.
Finally, a Christmas bonus (Tello-Team):
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+13140