Romano Scarpa
Romano Scarpa ( born September 27, 1927 in Venice, † April 23, 2005 in Málaga ) was one of the most famous Italian artist of Disney comics. In his youth in Venice, he developed a special love for American cartoons and Disney comics, which appeared at the time in large format Topolino Giornale, which reprinted the classic tales by Floyd Gottfredson at the time. In the forties Scarpa opened an animation studio in Venice, where he produced some of his best work: a few commercials, a short film called "E poi venne il diluvio ". Another high-class short film called " La piccola fiammiferaia " (1953, based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Girl with the Schwefelhölzchen ) was in Italy with Robert Aldrich's Attack ( 1956) listed.
Shortly after, he stopped for a while to make cartoons and dealt solely with drawing Disney comics. As the Italian editors 1956, the Gottfredson stories went out of the reprints, Scarpa was commissioned to continue his Mickey Mouse stories. In the late fifties and early sixties he was also influenced by Carl Barks and wrote some of the most famous comic masterpieces of all time: stories such as Mickey Mouse and the Iroquois chain ( Topolino e la collana Chirikawa, 1960) or The Flying Scotsman ( Paperino e la leggenda dello " scozzese volante ", 1957), which were later translated into many different languages and published around the world. Many of these stories were inspired by movies. For example, based plea for help from Shangrila ( Topolino nel regno di favoloso Shan GRILLA, 1961) Frank Capra's on in of Shangri -La (Lost Horizon ( 1937) ); not to mention the stories of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which of course are based on the Disney movie of the same name from 1937. Sometimes the exact opposite happened: " i nostri eroi Riusciranno a ritrovare l' amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa" The Italian film (1968 ) is based on Scarpa Story A distant relative ( Topolino e il Pippotarzan (1957 ) ).
By 1963 around Scarpa took a break and stopped for six to seven years practical to write stories. However, he was still written by other authors stories, but mostly not achieved as its own the same quality. An exception is the long saga glamor and those from Duck ( Storia e della Gloria Dinastía dei Paperi ), was written by Guido Martina and drawn by Scarpa and Giovan Battista Carpi. In the seventies he also returned to writing, which he did until his death. However, he moved to the end of his life to Spain and worked there for another publisher. Among his last works in Italy ( in the late eighties, early nineties ) the so-called Paperolimpiadi belonged ( a long story about the Olympic Games in Seoul) and some excellent short stories; the same kind of stories he had loved as a child. One of these stories, Topolino e l' enigma di Brigaboom (1989 ) was based in part on the musical film Brigadoon (1954).
Incidentally Scarpa had also pursued some animated projects. These include Aihnoo degli Icebergs (1972 ), The Fourth King ( 1977) and the television series The Hunt for the Kju Wang ( Sopra i tetti di Venezia, 2001).
Mainly Scarpa worked on Disney comics, but in his early days he has also implemented some non- Disney projects. He each prepared a Lupo and a Yogi Bear history. He also drew some stories to Angelino, an Italian comic book character.
From 1988, some of his stories were published by Gladstone Publishing in the U.S.; that he was the first Italian Disney author ever, so the way the managed return to America. When Disney Comics took the place of Gladstone, stories of Scarpa have also been published here, and the same thing happened in 2003 Gemstone Publishing, which until 2006 published his stories in America. Also, the publisher BOOM! Studios took from 2009 to 2011 stories of Scarpa in his program.
Scarpa has helped many young artists on the way ( Giorgio Cavazzano was in the sixties his technical pen ) and many have tried to imitate his style.
Own figures
Throughout his career, Scarpa created many Disney characters that are now well accepted as part of the Disney universe. The most famous of these creations are probably Gitta goose, hangover Karlos girlfriend Trudi and Atömchen, he was also author and illustrator of the cover story of the first onlookers pocket book The Columbus moths and has contributed over the years many stories.