Is this "ghost pig" design a reference to something?

[Orora]

I've read a story, Donald & Donald, where Donald is forced to spend some time with a clone of himself. Because he is unbearable, he has a nightmare, and a ghost pig wearing a "nightmare" name tag is taking him to see his clone causing trouble.



Nightmare ghost pig: "Follow me... don't be scared! Heh! Heh!"
Donald: "No! I don't want to!"

The "nightmare"'s design came out as kinda weird to me... why did they even need to have this guy show up?

And then I discovered another Italian story, that was published the year before this: Uncle Scrooge and the golden key of the Inca Onka.



In this story, an Inca civilization decides to gather all the greed of their people inside a bottle, before leaving for space. Uncle Scrooge, looking for the Inca's treasure, accidentally breaks the bottle and it unleashes the greed... that takes the shape of a ghostly pig, VERY similar to the "nightmare pig" !

I am wondering why those two designs just happen to be so similar...
Is it just a coincidence?
Are they based on an older pre-existing Disney character?
Was Julian Jordan simply inspired by what Alberto Lavoradori drew?

And in both cases 

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{Spoiler}
it's in a dream.

[sirredknee]

Aug 16, 2017 19:08:29 GMT Orora said:

Was Julian Jordan simply inspired by what Alberto Lavoradori drew?

I wouldn't necessarily call it inspiration, more likely perhaps a lack of time to come up with something by himself. Those Spanish artists are infamous for being copycats. Think of Ibanez who borrowed a lot from Franquin. In Germany we had the comic series Fix & Foxi, all the Spanish artists of which copied a certain Massimo Fecchi. Like that man they've all been doing Disney comics later on: González, Fernández, Miguel, Joaquín, Grangel, Pérez...... and: Julian Jordan!

[marco996]

Aug 19, 2017 21:45:54 GMT sirredknee said:

Aug 16, 2017 19:08:29 GMT Orora said:

Was Julian Jordan simply inspired by what Alberto Lavoradori drew?

I wouldn't necessarily call it inspiration, more likely perhaps a lack of time to come up with something by himself. Those Spanish artists are infamous for being copycats. Think of Ibanez who borrowed a lot from Franquin. In Germany we had the comic series Fix & Foxi, all the Spanish artists of which copied a certain Massimo Fecchi. Like that man they've all been doing Disney comics later on: González, Fernández, Miguel, Joaquín, Grangel, Pérez...... and: Julian Jordan!

Yeah I noticed some copying, but there are some excellent spannish artists with recognizable style, like Jose Antonio Gonzalez, Jordi Alfonso, Maximino, Santiago Barreira (sometimes he copies his own panels).

[Orora]

So I asked this on Papersera.

Someone told me it was likely to be a reference to the pig soldiers of Maleficent in "Sleeping Beauty". I guess this is likely.