Subject: How good are the artists?

Simo Malinen malines at iobox.fi
Sat Jan 20 11:28:40 CET 2001


Hi!
In the mailing list on Monday, 15 January 2001 Halvor Sandven 
presented a list of the most-used artists in the danish and dutch 
weeklies.

The idea of grading artists is good, (however, where to use it?)
but what if the artists were also classified by their art styles and 
their stories? This could help to recognize all the strange names 
of artists, I think.
 - 

In following list I have categorized some artists via their 
context. There are some mentions about the publishers of their 
stories, (D - Denmark, H - Holland, I - Italy) and I have also ranked 
artists among my personal opinions, best ones on the top in each 
case: (sorry for that)
___________________________________________
  * ICONS
    (everybody knows them and their styles, these ARE NOT in order)
       - Carl Barks
       - Floyd Gottfredson
       - Al Taliaferro
       - Manuel Gonzales
       - Vicar
       - Daan Jippes
       - William Van Horn
       - Marco Rota
       - Don Rosa

  * ITALIAN OLDTIMERS
       - Romano Scarpa
       - Giorgio Cavazzano
       - Massimo De Vita
       - Luciano Gatto
       - Giorgio Bordini
       - Giovan Battista Carpi
       - Sergio Asteriti
       - Luciano Capitanio
       - Giuseppe Perego
       - Giulio Chierchini
       - Guido Scala
       - Giancarlo Gatti
       - Pier Lorenzo De Vita
       - Franco Lostaffa
       - Luciano Bottaro

EUROPEAN WEEKLY -STORIES
===========================================
   DONALD DUCK -STORIES
===========================================
  * STUDIO ARTISTS
    (great artists but left in shadows)
       - Vicar                D  early 70s -
       - Bancells             D  pockets, late 90s -
       - Santanach            D  mid 80s -
       - Marsal               D,I  mid 80s -
       - Manrique             D  mid 90s -
       - Colomer              D,H,I  mid 80s -
       - Alferez              D  mid 90s -
       - Nunez                D  mid 80s -
       - Gil-Bao              D  early 70s - early 90s
       - Miguel               D  pockets, late 90s -
       - Millet               D  mid 80s -
       - Xavi                 D  weeklies, pockets, mid 80s -
       - Esteban              D  mid 80s -
       - Cardona              D  weeklies, pockets, early 90s
       - Fecchi               D  pockets, mid 90s -
       - Miquel Pujol         D  early 90s
       - Carrion              D  weeklies, pockets, mid 90s -
       - Pasquale             D  pockets, mid 90s -
       - Comicup Studio       H,D,I  late 80s -
       - Mascaró              D  late 70s
       - Santiago Barreira    H  mid 90s -
       - Sabaté               D  early 90s
       - Marga Querol Manzano H  mid 80s -

  * BRANCA -style artists
       - Daniel Branca        D  early 80s -
       - Scalabroni           D  early 80s -
       - Torres               D  mid 80s -
       - Anibal               D  mid 90s -
       - Oscar Fernandez      D  early 80s
       - Cerdan               D  early 80s
       - Massaroli            D  mid 90s -
       - Beatriz Bolster      D  late 70s - mid 80s

  * BARKS LATE-1940s IMITATORS
    (trying to use the style Barks used in the late 1940s, 
     I think their artwork is usually overrated)
       - Comicup Studio       H,D,I late 80s -
       - Ben Verhagen         H  early 70s -
       - Hans van Oudenaarden H  late 80s -
       - Robert van der Kroft H  early 70s -
       - Jan Gulbransson      H  mid 80s -
       - Jaap Stavenuiter     H  late 80s -
       - Freddy Milton        H  early 70s -
       - Mau Heymans          H  late 80s -
       - Bas Heymans          H  mid 90s -
       - Mark de Jonge        H  mid 70s -
       - Prodima              H  early 90s -
       - Volker Reiche        H  late 70s

  * ODDS, EARLY DANISH, etc, Does not fit to categories above.
       - Flemming Andersen    D  weeklies, pockets, early 90s -
       - Peter Härdfeldt      D  early 90s -
       - Kari Korhonen        D  mid 90s -
       - Erik Nielsen         D  mid 70s
       - Adrian Sørensen      D  late 60s - late 70s
       - Niels Rydahl...      D  early 60s - mid 70s

===========================================
   MICKEY MOUSE -STORIES
===========================================
  * THE NEW MICKEY (TOTALLY MINNIE/ZOOM TRANSPORT)
       - Ferioli              D,F,I  mid 80s -
       - Miguel               D  weeklies, pockets, late 80s -
       - Joaquin              D  weeklies, pockets, late 80s -
       - Rodriguez            D  early 90s -
       - Esteban              D  mid 80s -
       - Tello-Team           D  late 80s
       - Xavi                 D  mid 90s -
       - Carla                D  early 90s -
       - David                D  mid 80s -
       - Noel Van Horn        D  early 90s -
       - Mario                D  weeklies, pockets, early 90s
       - Munoz                D  early 90s
       - José Ramon Bernado   D,H weeklies, pockets, early 90s -
       - Escandell            D  early 90s

  * PAUL MURRY -style artists
       - Paul Murry           W
       - Tello                D  early 70s - late 80s
       - Bancells             D  weeklies, pockets, late 70s -
       - Santanach            D  mid 80s -
       - Anders Sørensen      D  mid 70s
       - F. Gallardo Pons     D  early 80s
       - Jan                  D  late 80s
       - Fernando Güell       D  mid 80s
       - José Ferrer          D  late 70s - mid 80s
       - Mascaró              D  late 70s
       - Bernardo Serrat      D  late 80s
===========================================
   OTHER STORIES
===========================================
  * FOREST -STORIES
       - Ramos                D  mid 70s - early 90s
       - Jan van Haasteren    H  mid 60s
       - Gil-Bao              D  early 70s - early 90s
       - David                D  mid 80s -
       - Gin                  D  early 70s
       - Ed van Schuijlenburg H  early 70s -
       - Jan Steeman          H  late 60s
       - Adrian Sørensen      D  late 60s - late 70s
       - Vlado Magdic         D  mid 80s
       - Valentino            D,H  mid 80s -
       - Sanchis              D  mid 80s
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By the way, the 11th artist on Halvor Sandven's list, Toi, is an old abbreviation of Antonio Bancells Pujadas (a.k.a Bancells) (ABc), nowadays familiar from Egmonts 3-layout Duck-stories in pocket books (Jumbobog(dk), Kalle Ankas pocket(se),...)

Sorry my poor english.

 - Simo Malinen
   malines at iobox.fi



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