RIP Romano Scarpa
Yet another great comic artist goes beyond the veil of ink. Romano Scarpa, whose long career (spanning fifty years almost to a day) in creating Duck/Mouse stories leaves most of the others standing.
He was not the most technical of artists, nor did all the stories make much sense (though the writer’s usually to blame in this case). But prolific, oh yes.
And the best stories, from the turn of sixties/seventies (published and republished in Finland during the next decade) had a kind of Lynchian sense of wonder to them. Everyday tales, under whose surface
lies hidden menace. Needless to say, these were kinda standout stories at ripe age of less than ten years when most of the magazine was already getting stale. So, it’s now back to re-reading the
Iroquois Necklace and Swedish Matches amongst others, stories from a time when the monthly pocket issues were done with care instead of just by the numbers.
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