Your favorite José Colomer Fonts stories

[tork]

I for one really like José Colomer Fonts style of drawing, what are the forum opinions of him? Are there any stories of Colomer that you are extra fond of or would like to recommend? 

Here are some of my favorite stories of him:

Bad Timing Donald gets a invention which allows him to travel back in time to change his financial situation, but some things will never change . Great plot twist!
Fool Proof - Self driving cars? - Donald had one already in 1997! 
The Two-Bit Tyrant Donald has a new job at the post office, which he takes very serious.
A Place Called Perfect Donald and the nephews moves to another city in order to escape Donald's bad habits. 
The Nap Expert Donald's ever lasting efforts to catch up on sleep leads to a new hijinks.
The Lemonade War Donald and the nephews are taking a walk in the park a hot summer day, feeling the need of a cool refreshment they want to buy lemonade from a vendor in the park. Donald considers the vendor's way of doing business outrageous, and sets out to beat him at selling lemonade! 

[RobbK1]

I can't stand Colomer's drawing style. I hated that he drew so many stories for Oberon, back in the 1980s and 1990s. His figures are too distorted for my taste. But, then, I didn't like the artwork of The Comic-Up Studio artists, or any of the Spanish artists we used. There were a couple Spanish artists who worked for Egmont, whose art work I liked (Branca, and some of his copiers, Vicar at his best, and Santiago Scalabroni).

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Jun 21, 2018 10:30:35 GMT RobbK1 said:

I can't stand Colomer's drawing style. I hated that he drew so many stories for Oberon, back in the 1980s and 1990s. His figures are too distorted for my taste. But, then, I didn't like the artwork of The Comic-Up Studio artists, or any of the Spanish artists we used. There were a couple Spanish artists who worked for Egmont, whose art work I liked (Branca, and some of his copiers, Vicar at his best, and Santiago Scalabroni).

So you liked the three of them who were not Spanish.  

[RobbK1]

Jun 21, 2018 10:35:32 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

Jun 21, 2018 10:30:35 GMT RobbK1 said:

I can't stand Colomer's drawing style. I hated that he drew so many stories for Oberon, back in the 1980s and 1990s. His figures are too distorted for my taste. But, then, I didn't like the artwork of The Comic-Up Studio artists, or any of the Spanish artists we used. There were a couple Spanish artists who worked for Egmont, whose art work I liked (Branca, and some of his copiers, Vicar at his best, and Santiago Scalabroni).

So you liked the three of them who were not Spanish.  

I also like Mota, who is a Brazilian (I think), and Korhonen(a Norwegian), and Jippes(a Dutchman), and Milton(a Dane), and Gulbransson (a German), who have all also worked for Gutenberghus/Egmont, and several Dutch artists, who worked only for Dutch Disney.  So, does this indicate that I am prejudiced against Spanish artists? 

[Matilda]

My favorite JCF story is Gorm Transgaard's In Slumberland --and it's mostly for the art, because I really love the soporific squirrels' top-hat-shaped nests. The Inducks raters do not agree with me that this is a great story, but that's because the Inducks raters have an insufficient appreciation of cute little critters who live in top-hat-shaped nests.

Also, in my opinion JCF is good at drawing Magica, as in Squeaky Clean! --and it's generally recognized that Magica is a bear to draw.

[Matilda]

By the way, tork, would you be willing to post a complete summary of "A Place Called Perfect" here? I have the first half of it only, in the German Micky Maus, and I want to know how it comes out!

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jun 21, 2018 9:57:29 GMT tork said:

Bad Timing Donald gets a invention which allows him to travel back in time to change his financial situation, but some things will never change . Great plot twist!

Ah, true, that's a good one. And it fits rather nicely with Rosa-lore, if you mentally age Scrooge up a bit.

[tork]

Jun 21, 2018 13:59:38 GMT Matilda said:

By the way, tork, would you be willing to post a complete summary of "A Place Called Perfect" here? I have the first half of it only, in the German Micky Maus, and I want to know how it comes out!

I do not actually remember how it ended. It has been several years since I read it, when I did this little JCF favorite list of mine I only browsed his stories via inducks and came across the outducks thumbnails and was struck with nostalgia and joy. Now my issue with the story is boxed in some unknown location. If I find it in the future I may be able to provide you with the plot holes of yours(and mine as well).

Maybe someone else here have read it recently?

[Spectrus]

I liked "Duck Avenger and the Black Mask" ( inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+1319-BP ), but more for the story than the art...

[RobbK1]

Jun 21, 2018 13:41:24 GMT Matilda said:

My favorite JCF story is Gorm Transgaard's In Slumberland --and it's mostly for the art, because I really love the soporific squirrels' top-hat-shaped nests. The Inducks raters do not agree with me that this is a great story, but that's because the Inducks raters have an insufficient appreciation of cute little critters who live in top-hat-shaped nests.

Also, in my opinion JCF is good at drawing Magica, as in Squeaky Clean! --and it's generally recognized that Magica is a bear to draw.

Gorm is one of the most imaginative writers in Duckdom, which also makes him among the very best Duck writers.  He has come up with hundreds of great stories, each with a new idea.  After Barks, he is my favourite Donald Duck writer.

[Spectrus]

Jul 21, 2018 9:42:35 GMT RobbK1 said:

Jun 21, 2018 13:41:24 GMT Matilda said:

My favorite JCF story is Gorm Transgaard's In Slumberland --and it's mostly for the art, because I really love the soporific squirrels' top-hat-shaped nests. The Inducks raters do not agree with me that this is a great story, but that's because the Inducks raters have an insufficient appreciation of cute little critters who live in top-hat-shaped nests.

Also, in my opinion JCF is good at drawing Magica, as in Squeaky Clean! --and it's generally recognized that Magica is a bear to draw.

Gorm is one of the most imaginative writers in Duckdom, which also makes him among the very best Duck writers.  He has come up with hundreds of great stories, each with a new idea.  After Barks, he is my favourite Donald Duck writer.

Woah, that's a bit much, I think. I do like him (I'd rank him second among the "normal" Egmont writers, after Byron Erickson), but would I place him above Artibani, Enna, Faraci, Stabile, Pezzin, Sarda... or indeed Rosa and Korhonen...? Probably not.

And there were three recent stories of his that all varied the same motif: Donald crashing into something with a large object. In Chilling Challenge it's Donald on an icicle crashing into the boys' igloo, in Grill Kings it's a part of the grill that sinks the car, and in A Stretch at the Winter Games it's a motor sled that rams into the TV studio. All published within a year! 

[RobbK1]

Jul 24, 2018 20:55:17 GMT Spectrus said:

Jul 21, 2018 9:42:35 GMT RobbK1 said:

Gorm is one of the most imaginative writers in Duckdom, which also makes him among the very best Duck writers.  He has come up with hundreds of great stories, each with a new idea.  After Barks, he is my favourite Donald Duck writer.

Woah, that's a bit much, I think. I do like him (I'd rank him second among the "normal" Egmont writers, after Byron Erickson), but would I place him above Artibani, Enna, Faraci, Stabile, Pezzin, Sarda... or indeed Rosa and Korhonen...? Probably not.

And there were three recent stories of his that all varied the same motif: Donald crashing into something with a large object. In Chilling Challenge it's Donald on an icicle crashing into the boys' igloo, in Grill Kings it's a part of the grill that sinks the car, and in A Stretch at the Winter Games it's a motor sled that rams into the TV studio. All published within a year! 

Well, everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion.  I like Gorm's writing more than Byron's, on average, but I like Byron's stories as well.  I used to brainstorm with Gorm about stories when we both lived in Denmark.  I saw all of his early stories from 1989-about 2000.  I haven't been seeing most of his stories in recent years, because I stopped getting all the Danish books around 2005.  I'm not very familiar with The Italian story writers, as I've never really read our Dutch pocket books.  In my younger days, the only Italian stories I saw were stray Topolinos I got in Italy, and the Italian stories printed in the Dutch Stripgoed comics.  And now, I have some IDW Italian stories, and the Marco Rota and Romano Scarpa stories printed by Gladstone, Disney and Gemstone.  I really haven't been exposed to Artibani, Enna, Faraci, Stabile, Pezzin, or Sarda to compare.  But, because I don't like most of the art styles among The Italians, I don't read their modern stories.  So, my comments are mostly about Egmont's 4-tier writers, and the older US and Dutch writers.

[Spectrus]

Yes, I have to admit I'm not so much up to date when it comes to Egmont's 4-tier stories, as most of what I'm reading from Egmont these days is in the LTB (3-tiered format). And as for the art styles, there's many Italians I love and many I don't like, but I do admit it can be disheartening when something that could be a nice story gets drawn by people like Lavoradori or Intini....