Mickey Mouse and The "Sword of Ice" saga
Jun 16, 2020 7:40:39 GMT
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Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jun 16, 2020 7:40:39 GMT
After a 'forced' retirement, De Vita gives an interview to a fan-made website and is a bit outspoken.
You know how to use google translate. Otherwise, you lazy sons (and daughters) of a gun, here the highlights of the interview selected by your truly:
You know how to use google translate. Otherwise, you lazy sons (and daughters) of a gun, here the highlights of the interview selected by your truly:
- De Vita left drawing comics in December 2018 because the editors liked less and less his art work in latest stories, and because at this point he has enough money not to die poor.
- The last drop for him was the treatment of his last story Indiana Pipps e il falso pianeta, plotted by him. The editorial staff censored his idea of making a reference to the Big Brother. (The dystopian idea from a famous novel, kids, not the reality show.)
- Every five years the freelancers renew their contract with the licensed publisher. In the last contract with Panini that he signed it was specified that he was leaving all rights to Disney "for all over the Universe, not just the world".
- The Sword of Ice is not influenced by Lord of the Rings, which he had not read back then. The one fantasy novel that he read before writing the story is The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brook. All in all, his intention was to make irony about the big success that fantasy novels were having in the early 80's, rather than paying homage to the genre.
- The bad guy from the over mentioned story is (obviously) a parody of Darth Vader, in case you did notice.
- Elisa Penna was quite the liar and an unpleasant person for De Vita tastes. According to him, she tended to exploit her position as an editor to claim ideas that were not hers. The idea that she inspired the plot of his story "The marriage of Scrooge McDuck" is a complete lie, as he tried not to even talk to her, left alone work with her. According to De Vita even the idea that she co-conceived Paperinik should be taken with a grain of salt, basically suggesting that most probably it was completely an idea by Martina.
- He explains why at a certain point he stopped working on Donald and Scrooge, and I am happy to discover that he shares more or less my opinion on the Italian approach to the ducks: from 1995 on Donald's personality had been too banalised, all around his laziness and scoundrel attitude, loosing a lot of the well-rounded attitude he could have in Barks's stories. (According to me that goes way back than 1995, but this is the topic for other threads.)