#Romano Scarpa

[yeyeducks]

Is that me spending too much time on a lowkey obscure character from a niche media? 🤯

GIDEON MCDUCK Y’ALL

[iloverumpusmcfowl]

Reason number 38572 why Scarpa is the best duck artist

[patemi-pk]

Scarpa's PJ, before PJ

[redkimmie]

A Kildare Coot for you all. A little thing now that I'm drawing again 😊

[disneyweirdness]

This is one daffy duck

[ducklooney]

Happy birthday, Carl Barks!

On March 27, 1901, near Merrill, Oregon, Carl Barks was born, the famous writer and artist of Donald Duck comics who would turn Donald Duck and his family into something spectacular, starting with Duckburg and the Duckverse universe. He had a difficult childhood and was constantly looking for work until he started working for Disney from 1935. He worked on writing scripts for many classic Donald Duck shorts, and from 1942 he started writing and publishing the comic book "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" and since then he has been writing famous comics that will be read all over the world and that Donald Duck will be even more famous. Although Al Taliaferro invented Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Gus Goose, Grandma Duck and Bolivar the dog, while Walt Disney Donald and Daisy Duck, Barks remains famous for perfecting these characters and inventing one of the most famous characters without that the Duckverse wouldn't even exist. They are certainly Scrooge McDuck (created in 1947), Gladstone Gander (created in 1948), Beagle Boys (created in 1951), Junior Woodchucks (created in 1951), April, May and June Duck (created in 1952), Gyro Gearloose (created in 1952), Cornelius Coot (created in 1952), Goldie O'Gilt (created in 1953), Flintheart Glomgold (created in 1956), Magica De Spell and Miss Quackfaster (created in 1961), John D. Rockerduck (created in 1961), Abner Whitewater Duck (created in 1962), as well as Neighbor Jones, Soapy Slick, Pig mayor, Matilda and Hortense McDuck and other characters.

He stopped working with comics in 1967, but continued to draw special artwork and developed a duck style that influenced other artists and writers to follow him. Although he established his own rules for the Duckverse and the duck family, he never established it as true canon and let other authors make up their own. He strove for excellent humor (sometimes dark humor), and his comics are proof of that, even though conclusions about adventure comics were drawn from it. Those comics will later greatly influence other media, not only for Disney, but for the creation of the Indiana Jones movies. Influenced a lot on Osama Tezuka, the founder of manga. It also influenced the creation of Ducktales in 1987. He traveled around European countries and met other Donald Duck comic artists and writers. He especially influenced Don Rosa, Romano Scarpa, William Van Horn, Guido Martina, Carpi, Vicar and other authors. He married three times and left two daughters. He died on August 25, 2000 in Grants Pass, Oregon.

And now the best pictures of him in memory of the great Donald Duck artist who won The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1987. He was also called The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. If you love this comic artist and writer, feel free to like and reblog this and tell me what your favorite Carl Barks comics are. Happy Birthday Carl Barks!

[frc-ambaradan]

LMAO! Who's Damiano Scarpa?? 🤣🤣

Romano Scarpa's weird cousin? X'DDD

From the interview to Roberto Santillo, DPW's creative director (La Repubblica, Robinson #389, 2024).

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa @the-blue-fairie @faintingheroine @angelixgutz @thealmightyemprex @softlytowardthesun @grimoireoffolkloreandfairytales @gstone97 @adarkrainbow

Sandra Zenardi, fiancee of italian comic artis Romano Scarpa, poses for her future's husbands drawings of Snow White, for the italian Disney comics.

(1950)

[atobibas]

Who appears the most in Paperolimpiadi?

Here we have it! My magnum opus! This story has 27 characters and 250 pages! I spent multiple days on it, so you've got to read the full post, else you can't call yourself a real Atobibster (yes, I'm gatekeeping myself)!

As always I'll feel the need to mention that I only counted panels, and the page number is just calculated from the percentage!

Also, you might notice percentage numbers are a bit lower than usual. And that's of course because this is a very long ensenble story. I'll get more in to that later.

Oh, and there are probably spoilers for Paperolimpiadi! It's very good, so I'll reccomend reading it. It's very long, but if I calculate who appears most in it, you can read it!

Casey - 1 (panel) / 0.19 (pages) / 0.08% (of the story)

Zillia - 5 / 0.99 / 0.4%

O'Hara - 6 / 1.18 / 0.48%

Gallien - 8 / 1.58 / 0.63%

Owl Judge - 11 / 2.17 / 0.87%

Quibble - 17 / 3.36 / 1.35%

Fethry - 27 / 5.34 / 2.14%

Kildare - 30 / 5.94 / 2.38%

Beagle Boys - 31 / 6.14 / 2.46%

Brigitta - 33 / 6.53 / 2.61%

Sock and Gonz - 44 / 8.71 / 3.49%

Portis - 52 / 10.3 / 4.12%

Pete - 56 / 11.09 / 4.44%

Chen - 58 / 11.48 / 4.6%

Ducklien - 60 / 11.88 / 4.75%

Mae Wang - 64 / 12.67 / 5.07%

Trudy - 68 / 13.47 / 5.39%

Gyro - 76 / 15.05 / 6.02%

Jubal - 86 / 17.03 / 6.81%

Rockerduck - 105 / 20.8 / 8.32%

Mickey - 151 / 29.91 / 11.97%

Donald - 154 / 30.5 / 12.2%

Ellroy - 156 / 30.9 / 12.36%

Kim - 240 / 47.54 / 19.02%

HDL - 275 / 54.47 / 21.79%

Scrooge - 382 / 75.67 / 30.27%

(My thoughts and additional stats below!)

As Spectrus mentioned in his Inducks review Donald and Mickey never interact in this story. In fact despite how this story features both Mouseverse and Duckverse characters there aren't that many panels where we see both.

There are 53 panels where we see both Duckverse and Mouseverse characters. Which is about 4.2% of the story. It actually might not be low, it just feels low...

Anyways, let's look at the entry and exit stats. I decided to not count the first couple of pages of explanation and introduction, since that didn't feel like it was part of the story.

Owl judge - 8 (0.63%) / 23 (1.82%)

Gyro - 11 (0.87%) / 571 (45.25%)

Rockerduck - 16 (1.27%) / 315 (24.96%)

Scrooge - 28 (2.22%) / 1262 (100%)

HDL - 38 (3.01%) / 1262 (100%)

Donald - 40 (3.17%) / 1262 (100%)

Kildare - 41 (3.25%) / 163 (12.92%)

Fethry - 44 (3.49%) / 163 (12.92%)

Brigitta - 85 (6.74%) / 315 (24.96%)

Jubal - 85 (6.74%) / 315 (24.96%)

Quibble - 287 (22.74%) / 315 (24.96%)

Kim - 321 (25.44%) / 1262 (100%)

Chen - 374 (29.64%) / 1262 (100%)

Mae Wang - 401 (31.77%) / 1122 (88.91%)

Trudy - 480 (38.03%) / 819 (64.9%)

Portis - 588 (46.59%) / 763 (60.46%)

Pete - 588 (46.59%) / 819 (64.9%)

O'Hara - 592 (46.91%) / 660 (52.3%)

Beagle Boys - 608 (48.18%) / 655 (51.9%)

Ellroy - 664 (52.61%) / 920 (72.9%)

Mickey - 665 (52.69%) / 920 (72.9%)

Sock and Gonz - 959 (75.99%) / 1130 (89.54%)

Ducklien - 959 (75.99%) / 1134 (89.86%)

Gallien - 972 (77.92%) / 1134 (89.86%)

Zillia - 974 (77.18%) / 1134 (89.86%)

I didn't include Casey for this one because he only appeared in one panel in this one. That panel was panel number 594 at around 47.07%.

I also counted the first time we see some things. The first time we see the magical powder is at panel 342 or 27.1% of the story. The first time we see the camera is at 505 or 40.02%, and the last time we see it is at 1216 or 96.35%. The first time the games become relevant to the main plot (when Scrooge first gets the idea of using the camera for the games) is at 569 or 45.09%. The first time we go to Seoul (outside of flashbacks) is at 869 or 68.86%.

In Denmark this one was listed as an Uncle Scrooge story, and I think that's a reasonable choice. Although I don't think this story really has a main character. And whilst Scrooge does appear in all but one story his percentage in all those stories is usually pretty low. In fact, let's look at the top character's average percentage!

Donald - 16.83%

HDL - 24.6%

Rockerduck - 34.4%

Scrooge - 34.8%

Kim - 38.14%

Mickey - 50.19%

Ellroy - 51.62%

Alright, so this is obviously not what we should use to dertemine the main character... However it is an interesting thing to see.

Anyways, I think I'll leave it as this being a story with multiple characters. I think you could argue that each part has a main character, but I don't think the whole thing has one main character. But I do agree that Scrooge would be the one you should choose if you were to choose one!

[princess-ibri]

I wonder what are your thoughts on Mammona's two witch flunkies from the Romano Scarpa tales: Raven the Witch-Woman of the Rocks and Scabra the Witch of the Moody Muddy Bogs; and how would you redesign them for the Disneyverse?

I'd probably keep the looking the same tbh. They have good witch designs. They'd be part of Mammona's coven still (her Empress Witch whatever title is a self given one in the DisneyVerse and witches outside her coven wouldn't recognize her as any higher then any other powerful witch).

Scabra Raven

The only thing I'd really change is probably adjusting Raven's name to Ravinne to make it stand out more from other Raven characters (and make a bit of a pun on "ravines" and her being the Witch of the Rocks.

Grimhilde would have been known as the Witch of the Mirror while she was in the coven.

Oh! On that note I'd add the comics villain Honeysweet into the coven as well. She disguised herself as a fairy but was actually the Witch of Potions.

She'd be continually trying to keep up her young beautiful form through wilder and wilder methods. This is all in like, a hypothetical Snow White tv show ala Tangled

[balu8]

Romano Scarpa

[yeyeducks]

My top 5 fav Duck artists (nobody asked for)

1. Don Rosa

Literally none of his stories have failed to make me laugh ever. I love how its historically accurate. And he’s just as a lore nerd as me.

2. Mau Heymans

His style reminds me of the typical Dutch gag comics for some reason. Anyway, this guy literally made my childhood. Also it’s the neck.

3. Carl Barks

Of course this man cannot be ignored. The style is very nostalgic, but the humor is timeless. What more can I say.

4. Romano Scarpa

His style is adorable and bubbly. Also really nostalgic even though I only recently started reading more stories of him.

5. Silvia Ziche

Her style is just so silly 😭

[iloverumpusmcfowl]

This image goes hard af what the hell

[yojimbot13]

[redkimmie]

A Kildare Coot appears !

[disneyweirdness]