Daan Jippes

Daan Jippes ( born October 14, 1945 in Amsterdam, actually Daniel January Jippes ) is a Dutch comic artist. He is known especially for his Donald Duck comics.

Life

Daan Jippes was born on 14 October 1945 in Amsterdam and came up with five years of the comic when he began, the Dutch Mickey Magazine, comparable to the German Micky mouse to read. The favorite of his considerable comic collection remained Robbedoes, the Dutch version of Spirou. After he analyzed as a teenager drawing styles of famous artists, he preferred Franquin before Carl Barks. Jippes ' first comic strip was hipper ( 1967), which was published in the magazine Nieuwe Revu, at which he worked as a layout artist. In the magazine Pep 1972, his first full-length comic story Twee voor Thee, the result of a collaboration with Martin Lodewijk, reprinted. It is still considered a classic and is about the Dutch tea trade of the 19th century. The work on the album 44seitigen withdrew due Jippes ' great care over three years to 1972 then.

Contact with Disney comics began in the same year, as Jippes started working for the Dutch Donald Duck magazine. It was published by Oberon -Verlag, which also published Pep. At this time, the artist imitated more and more Barks, so his drawings that at times resembled confusingly. In 1975 he was a freelance art director at the Dutch publisher. In 1979 he went to the Disney Studios in Burbank, California due to a creative crisis. There he works alongside comics in the area of ​​merchandising and cartoons. He became art director of character Studios Jan Kruis 1999. He still draws sporadically Donald Duck stories, but his own series Duck Stories by Daan Jippes was canceled after five issues due to low sales.

Style and influences

Jippes style is unique and unmistakable among all Disney signatories. He is greatly exaggerated and easily influenced symbolist, his stories are often clearly exaggerated to humorous effect. Jippes preferred Donald Duck in front of all other figures.

According maikeldas.com Jippes is considered "the best of European Donald Duck artist " and has already influenced many, mainly Dutch artist. He himself is clearly marked by Carl Barks and Paul Murry in landscape depictions a resemblance to Marco Rota is recognizable.

Trivia

• Jippes was allowed, probably because of its imitation talent, 24 troop - Woodchucks stories, as well as the legacy of Genghis Khan, trials and tribulations with a werewolf, The auxiliary constable and a day like thunder, all new sink by Carl Barks.