Artists with few BUT good drawn stories

[tork]

Are there any artist you consider of great talent - yet has only drawn a few Disney comics stories? An artist you wish would have continued to produce more stories? 

One that comes to my mind is Volker Reiche, an artist from Germany which only drew six stories according to inducks. His style would I describe as good with high potential, in a Barks inspired manner, somewhat close to Daan Jippes. It would really have been interesting to follow his career if he would have gotten a longer one then the nine stories.

Here is a sample of his work which in this case he also wrote:

• The Soul of Science - A story once again about Donald's talents as a chemist, much in the spirit of stories like Barks' Donald Duck's Atom Bomb and The Mad Chemist.
  

[drleevezan]

Jun 23, 2018 21:55:02 GMT tork said:

Are there any artist you consider of great talent - yet has only drawn a few Disney comics stories? An artist you wish would have continued to produce more stories? 

One that comes to my mind is Volker Reiche, an artist from the Netherlands which only drew nine stories according to inducks. His style would I describe as good with high potential, in a Barks inspired manner, somewhat close to Daan Jippes. It would really have been interesting to follow his career if he would have gotten a longer one then the nine stories.

Here is a sample of his work which in this case he also wrote:

• The Soul of Science - A story once again about Donald's talents as a chemist, much in the spirit of stories like Barks' Donald Duck's Atom Bomb and The Mad Chemist.
  

Ah, yes, I've always enjoyed that story. It's really a shame he didn't have a longer career as a Disney Comics artist.

[deb]

Volker Reiche is one of my absolute favorite Donald Duck artists! With only nine stories, it probably isn’t enough for a Disney Masters book, unfortunately.

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Me too as soon as I have seen the title of the topic I thought of Volker Reiche. I only own one of his nine stories, so I would be happy to find his few stories in the first place...

But he is German, not Dutch, right? 


Graphically he was more linked to Barks's style from the 40's than Jippes/Milton. His Donald Duck was the most..."ducky" then I have seen on comics. A long beak and a less human posture. 
I have read only one story, so I should not comment his writing style...anyhow, on that perspective his Donald looked pretty exuberant, which seems to go back to the first Donald from animation. 

[tork]

Jun 24, 2018 9:02:55 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

Me too as soon as I have seen I thought of Volker Reiche. I only own one of his nine stories, so I would be happy to find his few stories in the first place...

But he is German, not Dutch, right? 

he is indeed from Germany, I have now corrected that.

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

I check on the inducks: nine stories written, but only six drawn! The other three were drawn by Gulbransson, Nadorp and Milton.  

[tork]

Jun 24, 2018 9:16:46 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

I check on the inducks: nine stories written, but only six drawn! The other three were drawn by Gulbransson, Nadorp and Milton.  

correct

[RobbK1]

Jun 24, 2018 9:11:47 GMT tork said:

Jun 24, 2018 9:02:55 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

Me too as soon as I have seen I thought of Volker Reiche. I only own one of his nine stories, so I would be happy to find his few stories in the first place...

But he is German, not Dutch, right? 

he is indeed from Germany, I have now corrected that.

Yes, from the Frankfürt area.  He was an underground artist, drawing partially inspired by Robert Crumb (as anyone can see in his "Meckie" and "Willy Wiedehopf" strips).  Glad he dropped all that heavy shading in his Donald Duck stories.  He did some work, together with Jan Gulbransson. He also did a lot of Donald Duck drawings and a few 1-page gags for "Der Hamburger Donaldist"/Der Donaldist" over the years.

[RobbK1]

Ken Hultgren was one great artist who I would have liked to do more drawing of Disney Comics. He had been an animator with Disney before the studio strike in 1941. He drew the first new Mickey Mouse stories (2 of 3 stories) for the new "Mickey Mouse" comic book, after Gottfredson's original Phantom Blot's reprint in the new line's first issue. He also drew a Clara Cluck story which appeared in an early "Walt Disney's Comics & Stories issue. He moved on to Warner Brothers animation, and also had his own character strips in some funny animal comic books for publishers in New York, who served only regional markets, and whose characters were not taken from animation. The best of these was "Duke and The Dope", which appeared for over 10 years, in "Giggle Comics". The main characters (a wolf and Rabbit) were superbly drawn, as were the backgrounds. It compared with some of the best Disney art. Other ex-Disney animation artists and storyboarders who worked for his publishers included: Jack Bradbury, Al Hubbard, Lynn and Hubie Karp, Gil Turner, and several more, working for these small New York publishers from 1942-1952, or so, before moving to Western Publishing, to work on Disney and other Dell Comic book stories. I would have liked ALL of them to have been working on Disney Comics heavily through that period, rather than those books, which didn't get to Canada, and I didn't even see after I moved to Chicago.

[RobbK1]

Here are a few opening pages of "Duke and The Dope", drawn by Ken Hultgren:

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Another:

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Yet another:

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And this:

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