Romano scarpa

Romano Scarpa 27 September — 23 April was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.

Romano Scarpa (–) trained as a fine artist and an architect.

Growing up in Venice he developed a particular love for American cartoons and Disney comics, that, at the time, were published in the big format of the Topolino giornale which was then printing now classic Floyd Gottfredson 's stories. In the s he opened an Animation Studio in Venice in which he produced his first works: some commercials, a short titled E poi venne il diluvio and another one titled La piccola fiammiferaia , based on Hans Christian Andersen 's The Little Match Girl , distributed in Italy together with Robert Aldrich 's Attack!

Right after that he stopped working in animation for a while and dedicated wholly to creating Disney comics. When in Italian editors had no more new Floyd Gottfredson's stories to reprint, he was given the responsibility to continue Gottfredson's stories about Mickey Mouse. Also influenced by Carl Barks in the late s and up to about he wrote and penciled stories like Topolino e la collana Chirikawa or The Flying Scot that have, later, been translated in many different languages throughout the world.

Sometimes the exact opposite happened; the Italian movie Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? Around , Scarpa stopped writing for 6 or 7 years. In the s, he moved to Spain and started working for a different publisher.

Romano Scarpa (27 September – 23 April ) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.

Among the last things he made while he was still in Italy, at the end of the s and at beginning of the s, there are the so-called Paperolimpiadi a long story about the Seoul Olympic games and some strip stories, the same kind of stories that he loved when he was a child. One of these, Topolino e l'enigma di Brigaboom was partially based on Brigadoon Scarpa mainly worked on Disney comics, but he was also able to work on non-Disney material once in a while, so he did one Rolf Kauka 's Lupo story and one Hannah and Barbera 's Yogi Bear story.

In the s he also drew some Angelino stories, and Italian character. Since some of his comic stories have been published in the US by Gladstone Publishing ; it was the first time that this happened to an Italian Disney author. Later, when Disney Comics took Gladstone's place; they published some more of his stories, and in , the same happened with Gemstone Publishing , that is publishing his stories in the US at the moment.

He has influenced many younger creators Giorgio Cavazzano was his inker during the Sixties and many have attempted to imitate his style. In his career Scarpa created many Disney characters that are now accepted by some as part of the Disney Universe.