Tuesday Comic Strip Day.
In the eighties Dutch comic artist Daan Jippes was working at Disney. He was asked to take over the Donald Duck strip by Tony Strobl. The pwers that be were not happy with the work Strobl was doing, but frankly the gags were no help either. Jippes worked on the strip for three months, taking over the Sunday as well. In fact, he was part of a team, but most of the strips are his. In the bunch I am showing now,according to Alan Holtz (using information provided by Alberto Becattini provided by the Disney Archives) the Dec 1 and Dec 8 dalies were pencilled by Jorgen Klubien. Dec 1 to 20 were inked by Jules Coenen. Jippes worked in a Al Taliaferro derived style, which he has shown he could mimic perfectly in his later Disney comic book covers. Later on Jippes starts pencilling over Tony Strobl roughs, but in a private interview I did about three years ago he rememers not using much of them.
In going back to Alan Holtz, I found that Daan's involvement in Donland Duck started earlier this year - when the Disney office started scrambling to get a replacement for Al Taliaferro. I will get into all that in a later post.
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Love Disney! and the Ducks! I have never seen these before Ger, thanks for sharing! Have these ever been given the proper reprinting they deserve?
No, even the really remarkable run of Al Taliferro has never been reprinted. But these I had never seen either. From what I have seen I am really sorry I can't share the Sundays as well - there's just no source for them. In 1981 Daan also did Mickey Mouse Sundays in a terrific run, some of the best Disney work he ever did - and at least those I have in Dutch from when they reprinted there.
By the way, I am going back tow earlier that year, when Daan did a week here and there and you'll be amazed!
Hi Ger.
Actually, some of the strips you show were reprinted on the back cover of the Gladstone comic books in the late eighties. Not the Sundays, though, of which I'm lucky to have photocopies Daan Jippes sent me in 1988 when he was still on staff at the Disney Comic Strip department. Besides him and Jorgen, others like Jim Franzen, Jules Coenen and Ulrich Schroeder did a great job with their share of strips during 1986-87 after Frank Smith passed away.
The 1950s Taliaferro strips, dailies and Sundays have been reoffered for about a year on the Creators Syndicate website. But of course we are waiting for a paper reprint of those classics!
Best,
Alberto
Well I'm thoroughly into Gottfredson's Mouse right now, lovely these new hardcovers!!
Alberto, I'd love see those Jippes Sundays. Have you got the 1981 Mickeys as well? Can we swap? There must be something you haven't got!
Ger:
I'm afraid the photocopies I have (from the originals) are too big to be scanned, but I'll give it a try. It will take me a while, though. And... Where shall I send them?
I only have a couple of the 1981 Jippes Sundays, and I'd like to have scans if you can kindly provide them.
Thanks and best,
Alberto
Alberto, as you know Daan himlf saves veroy little. Almost nothing. I have a set of Dutch Donald Duck weeklies with the Mickey Mouse Sundays in color in tabloid format. I'd have to dig them out and you wouldn't be able to read them, but they are better than the almost totally black microfiche scans I could find on NewspaperArchive. I do have a lot of other Jippes stuff, though. Do you kow his satirical one pagers for Pep? He did an illustration for me in Mad for Things You Can And Things You Can't Compare To Hitler. He also did a run of a Dutch family strip for which I wrote one episode he drew. My email adress is geapelde at euronet dot nl.
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