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partapotso · 7 years

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So who's the best/worst artist?

(This is gonna be a long post, so I’m posting most under the read more option. But hey, you asked for it! And probably regret it now. This isn’t as serious as it probably should have been considering the length of this post, though.)

There are plenty of great artists that have done decent or even amazing work drawing John, and I’m mainly going to concentrate on them because every Rockerduck is beautiful deep within.

So, let’s begin: some of the official artists who have successfully drawn him - a.k.a the only relevant ones - are…

Francesco Guerrini

Excellent fluffy sideburns and he either looks very handsome or utterly adorable. Guerrini has a very beautiful style overall, I mean, even the brush strokes make me sigh in adoration.

Salvatore Deiana

I really like the way Deiana draws John’s hair and glasses. They’re much closer to his eyes and on top of how good it looks it’s probably more convenient too - I’d imagine they sit better closer to the face. His shoes look so small though. I wonder how his feet fit in there? Nevertheless Deiana’s John is one of my favourites. His inking is also lively and clean, which I appreciate a lot.

Alessandro Perina

Starting this with something completely unrelated, but one of the many reasons why I liked Scrooge’s Last Adventure was the way Perina drew the backgrounds, more specifically the buildings and how they were decorated. Obviously that’s not the reason why he’s on this list, even if I also adore the way he draws expressions and how dynamic the characters can look… cough, anyway, he draws a very adorable Johnny and that’s what matters the most to me.

Giorgio Cavazzano

… except that what I just said was a big lie, because this mean man on the left is what makes Cavazzano one of my biggest favourites on this list. His style has changed a lot during his career and, in all honesty, I liked his old style a lot more. (Both of the first pictures are from the 70’s, the third one is from 2002). The 70’s Johnny’s hair was actually quite perfect and he generally looked great just like all Cavazzano’s ducks did, if you ask me. He still remains one of my favourites despite the changes in his style. (I even have his autograph and a sketch of John by him! Sometimes life sucks but then I remember that drawing and everything’s suddenly better.)

Romano Scarpa

Sometimes his ducks look oddly rubbery and bouncy, but that doesn’t make his John any worse. Excellent hair, I wonder why he only gets so few of them in the comics today? ((Let this man have more than six hairs on his head now that Scarpa isn’t here anymore to do it himself, goddangit)) One big difference between Scarpa’s and most artists’ style was that his John had hair growing not only on the cheeks but in the back as well. I wish I could draw John’s hair as nicely as he did.

Massimo De Vita

I always associate Massimo’s Rockerduck to his, well, a bit more criminal tendencies, especially because Massimo was perfect at making his ducks look so cunning (which, ironically, isn’t pictured here). A 5/5 Rockerduck with the Good kind of hair™, also drawn by one of the greatest duck artists there are. (That is obviously just my humble opinion. I guess old Italian ducks just mean a lot to me.)

Giovan Battista Carpi

Just like Cavazzano, Carpi drew ducks for decades and that means his style varied a lot during that time as well. I only included here my favourite looks, because even if the hairdo with a bald patch on top was pretty much the same as which Scarpa drew, it, uh, didn’t have the same appeal as the ones shown above. For once he’s been given more than small tufts of hair and he looks absolutely great. Okay, that hair was a bit out of control and all over the place sometimes but it’s still one of my favourite hairdos for him, it’s a pity it always looks bad when I try drawing it.

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Other great examples of quality Rockerducks, pictured below, are by Lara Molinari, Carl Barks, Guido Scala, Flemming Andersen, an artist remaining a mystery from the comic studio Staff di IF (even inducks couldn’t help me identify the artist) and no other than Silvia Ziche.

… and let’s not forget these two boys that I love despite their strange or silly looks. The one on the left by Pier Lorenzo De Vita deserves to be mentioned just for his excellent dandy looks - he even wears a bowtie and gloves, he kinda looks more like a cartoon penguin, if you ask me. On the other side we have Jan Gulbransson’s, erm, more original version of the character, which definitely deserves to be on this list simply because he has a special place in my heart, even if it’s true that he doesn’t look much like himself, hah.

Those two unfortunately aren’t really good compared to many above them, but they have my special permission to be counted in the good ones instead of the bad and the ugly. Actually I have a hard time calling any Rockerduck either one of those. Sure there are some I don’t find as interesting or nice-looking as others, but even when I look Giuseppe Perego’s Johnny in the eye I can’t tell it that it’s ugly.

Like, Perego is far from the best, but there isn’t really much wrong with the way he draws John..? He looks much older than he usually does, though, that I have to say. He looks like he’s actually losing hair.(Btw, check this panel out, he is SO SMALL)

I’m struggling to come up with any particular artist that makes him look really BAD to me, there hardly is any and I definitely can’t remember any even if I try my hardest, but I have to say that one thing that really makes a difference to me is his hair. The way most artists nowadays draw it looks a bit funny compared to the ones I praised earlier (but as you can see, some of my favourites gave him only like ten separate hairs anyway, so it isn’t that black-and-white either). Some artists that didn’t impress me with their Johnny first were, among the few that I haven’t bothered learning the names of, Stefano Intini, and more recently Donald Soffritti, whose way of drawing ducks never really appealed to me, but the more I look at his ducks, the more I tolerate them. I mean, look at Soffritti’s John (on the right), he’s absolutely adorable even if I’m not a huge fan of his style in most cases.

Conclusion: every Rockerduck is beautiful to me and I am a bad critic. I can’t say a bad word about any of these artists after this all. There’s always something positive about them that I see after looking at their works for a while. I’m planning on practicing drawing his hair some day (hopefully) soon and I’m going to try different styles, so that will probably result in some stronger opinions about his hair because, seriously, otherwise there’s hardly anything in him that could look weird or wrong to me. Thanks for asking and I’m sorry for my messy answer!!

#seriously uuugh i really wanted to talk about my love for those artists #but i think i also should make actual appreciation posts for them someday...#i have plans #but if they're for posts like this then they're much less relevant than my art ideas #so i'll most probably try to concentrate on drawing #ducks #obviously #and especially this sucker #btw there's now over 500 pictures in my folder for (not even all of) my pics of him #and more in other folders #rip #i am an embarrassment

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