This question is going to be somewhat off-topic but I didn’t want to open a new thread for it: I am wondering, what book series have there been published dedicated to one artist (other than Barks and Rosa) around the world? I am aware of the followings but were there any others?
- Al Taliaferro hardcovers in US (ongoing?) - Floyd Gottfredson hardcovers in US (longer stories complete, not included are the gag strips) & Italian series (complete) - Romano Scarpa series in Italy (complete) - Daan Jippes series in Germany (cancelled) - William Van Horn series in Germany (cancelled)
This question is going to be somewhat off-topic but I didn’t want to open a new thread for it: I am wondering, what book series have there been published dedicated for one artist (other than Barks and Rosa) around the world? I am aware of the followings but were there any others?
- Al Taliaferro hardcovers in US (ongoing?) - Floyd Gottfredson hardcovers in US (longer stories complete, not included are the gag strips) & Italian series (complete) - Romano Scarpa series in Italy (complete) - Daan Jippes series in Germany (cancelled) - William Van Horn series in Germany (cancelled)
As has been mentioned elsewhere on this forum, IDW has cancelled the Taliaferro Donald books (and all other Disney newspaper strips series).
This question is going to be somewhat off-topic but I didn’t want to open a new thread for it: I am wondering, what book series have there been published dedicated for one artist (other than Barks and Rosa) around the world? I am aware of the followings but were there any others?
- Al Taliaferro hardcovers in US (ongoing?) - Floyd Gottfredson hardcovers in US (longer stories complete, not included are the gag strips) & Italian series (complete) - Romano Scarpa series in Italy (complete) - Daan Jippes series in Germany (cancelled) - William Van Horn series in Germany (cancelled)
It depends... like, can we consider the Italian "I Mercoledi di Pippo" and Fantomius collections, since all the stories were written by one writer (Rudy Salvagnini in the former case, Marco Gervasio in the latter)? Or are those thematic collections that just happen to be by one artist?
By the way, Germany is finally getting the Gottfredson collection - looks like a more or less copy of the Fantagraphics version. Sadly, the price will be prohibitive for some folks, but that's part of the game with Egmont's hardcover releases.
By the way, Germany is finally getting the Gottfredson collection - looks like a more or less copy of the Fantagraphics version. Sadly, the price will be prohibitive for some folks, but that's part of the game with Egmont's hardcover releases.
Link to more info about the German Gottfredson books? Can't see anything on amazon.de.
By the way, here in Norway, Egmont chose to do a six-volume Gottfredson book series with selected stories, which started in late 2018 and was just finished. It would have been great if it could have been the first 12 years or so complete, but this is at least much better treatment than Gottfredson has been given in this country before.
So Van Horn is going to be volume 18, do we know what will be in volume 15-17?
I appreciate having some mickey volumes but honestly I rather the Maters line Just be a Duck focus line.
I will respectfully disagree. We get so much Duck material and not nearly as much Mickey Mouse stuff. Scarpa, DeVita, Casty and even Murry deserve their spots in these books (although I know not everyone likes Murry’s work).
So Van Horn is going to be volume 18, do we know what will be in volume 15-17?
I appreciate having some mickey volumes but honestly I rather the Maters line Just be a Duck focus line.
I will respectfully disagree. We get so much Duck material and not nearly as much Mickey Mouse stuff. Scarpa, DeVita, Casty and even Murry deserve their spots in these books (although I know not everyone likes Murry’s work).
Completely agree with deb. Having the Disney Masters line be ducks only would have been a terrible idea.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Apr 24, 2020 22:05:51 GMT
I am a bit confused, can someone please recap the forthcoming volumes?
Besides the nine volumes listed in the induck page of the series (updated to August 2019) what else do we have or will we have?
Mickey Mouse: The Delta Dimension (Scarpa)
Donald Duck: Uncle Scrooge's Money Rocket (Bottaro, with Chendi helping on some scripts)
Mickey Mouse: The Case of the Vanishing Bandit (Fallberg & Murry)
Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test (Jippes and Milton)
Mickey Mouse: The Phantom Blot's Double Mystery (Scarpa, with Martina writing the most overrated story in Disney comics history)
Uncle Scrooge: King of the Golden River (Carpi, with Martina and Cimino as writers)
Mickey Mouse: The Pirates of Tabasco Bay (Fallberg & Murry)
8Donald Duck: Duck Avenger Strikes Again (Scarpa, with Martina and...Barks!?)
Mickey Mouse: The Ice Sword Saga - Book 1 (De Vita)
From the first eight volumes you can see a fair depiction of pre-80's Disney comics other than Barks and the newspapers strips. It is inevitably dominated by the Italians and Murry, as they started in the early 50's. Besides Jippes and Milton there is not much to publish from the Northern European (D and H coded) production before the 80's, am I wrong? The inclusion of de Vita in Volume 9 is the first step towards more modern times. If anything, there is certain lack of Italians. Most importantly Cavazzano, who not only has the more evolved and variating styles over the decades, but is also the one that has been constantly used to draw the stories from the best storytellers, that are more or less, in chronological order: Cimino, Pezzin, Sisti ,Marconi, Faraci, Casty before he was allowed to draw, Gagnor. (I don't count Artibani and Radice, they tend to be drawn by other artists, and Ziche, who writes her own stuff when she feels like it...and of course I am forgetting others...) These are not even all favourite writers of mine, some of them I actually do not like. So I am not pushing some personal preference agenda here, just trying to be fair of the average of people tastes, based on what I know about I-coded stories (not much). So, a significative amount of well-chosen Cavazzano DM volumes will maybe finally fill the gap of knowledge than many readers, especially in North America, have on the Italian production. In particular as concerns our favourite rat: as I have stated so many times, because of the sudden discovery by Boom (and then IDW) of Casty, if one looks at the regular American Mickey Mouse comic book one may be induced to believe that nothing happened in between Scarpa and Casty. Whereas the opposite, if anything, is true: for good and for bad, everything happened in that lapse of time, before Casty took the clock back when starting his (successful) Scarpa fan fiction.
As for D-coded stuff before the 80s, there's always Vicar and Branca, though compilations of their work would inevitably also include stories from the 80s and 90s.
But who's to say it only has to be pre-80s? We already know that Van Horn and Casty volumes are on the way, so the Disney Masters line is open to modern-day artists as well. When it comes to Egmont's stuff, César Ferioli is most definitely worthy of at least one Disney Masters Volume (it's absurd that he didn't even get a Hall of Fame book in Norway). Same with Paco Rodrigues.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Apr 24, 2020 22:41:01 GMT
I was just noticing that the first eight volumes are all on the pre-80's era.
The series should definitely focus on later years.
Let's make a game. Here are some Mickey Mouse volumes that I would do if I were the editor. Not volumes that I would buy, since I already own these stories! I do not count Cavazzano and Casty, with whom you can compose fifteen volumes as good as the following.
Mickey Mouse: On the wrong side by Paolo Mottura. containing: Dalla Parte sbagliata (Faraci, 1996) Metopolis (Friz Lang parody by Artibani, 2017) L'ombra del drago (Faraci, 1999) or instead of one of the last two: On the road (Jack Kerouac parody by Vitaliano, 2015)
Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck: the strange case of doctor Ratkill and mister Hyde by Fabio Celoni containing: Lo strano caso di dottor Ratkill e mister Hyde (Stevenson parody by Bruno Enna featuring both Mickey and Donald, 2014) Agente Gambadilegno il caso è tuo (Faraci, 1999, solo Pete story) Paperoga e la renna in panne (Savini, 2000, solo Fethry story) or instead of the last one a random Donald Duck story drawn by Celoni, there are plenty. [The title story has never been published outside of Italy, at this point I guess because Disney thinks it has too much of a dark tone. Honestly it is as good as the other recent parodies that have been published everywhere, even in hardcover in the US most recently.]
Mickey Mouse: back to the past by Massimo de Vita Topolino e il ritorno al passato (Marconi, 1987) Topolino e lo strappo cronospaziale (Sisti, 1993) Plus one of the many archeological stories he drew in the 80's written by Pezzin (that I have not read) [This would be a 'time travel book', as in the first story Mickey goes into the past and in the second one it goes into the future. The second story could actually be more appealing as title of the volume, as Mickey Mouse: the chrono-space rip.]
On the Donald Duck side, I would like to see appear the following stuff - and in this case I would probably even buy it, since I do not hold many duck stories other than Barks and Rosa:
one or two volumes on Kari Korhonen,
two or three volumes on Cavazzano,
one or two volumes on Marco Rota (old stories please, written by him, no Paul Halas or recent Danish stuff please please pity on us!),
one or two volumes on Van Horn senior (mostly showcasing the collaboration with John Lusting),
one volume on Stefano Turconi (best duck stories written by his wife Teresa Radice),
one volume on Celoni maybe,
one volume on Ziche if her Mickey Mouse volume above sells decently,
one volume on Arild Midthun (of this guy I know basically nothing),
one on the Heymans bros, which is already on his way actually,
one volume on the complete work of Volker Reiche ,a German Donaldist who did some ten short Donald stories à la Barks of the 40's, but I guess that's not enough to have one volume.
By the way, personally I don't think a line like Disney Masters need to be limited only to artists. Writers can be just as important. I'd love a Disney Masters book focusing on Francesco Artibani's stories, for instance; and Danish Egmont author Maya Åstrup could also warrant a volume.
While it would be a controversial idea, I would like to see (but fully understand if it wouldn’t be feasible) Tony Strobl, Patrick Block, Vicar or Daan Jippes and Freddy Milton solo volumes. Jippes’ redrawn Barks Junior Woodchucks stories would make a nice book. Bill Wright and Dick Moores for Mickey Mouse books would be nice, too.