Giovan Battista Carpi

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Giovan Battista Carpi (Italian: [dʒoˈvam batˈtista ˈkarpi]; November 16, 1927 – March 8, 1999) was a prolific Italian comics artist, illustrator, and teacher from Genoa.

Carpi worked mainly for

Carpi drew a very popular series of "Disney Parodies [it]" for the Italian Disney comics magazine Topolino. As the German-language Duckipedia notes, "His love for historical fashions and costumes predisposed Carpi for Disney parodies of world literature, such as Paperino principe di Dunimarca, a parody of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, or Il mistero dei candelabri, a parody of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables."^[2]

Other popular parodies by Carpi include Guerra e Pace (1986, based upon

Carpi died in Genoa on March 8, 1999.[1]

Awards

• Premio Yellow Kid [it], 1994 Salone Internazionale dei Comics [it], Rome
• Honorary laurea in science education, 1997, University of Bologna

Selected works

• Zio Paperone e le guerre planetarie  [it], Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1978
• Paperinik e il ritorno a Villa Rosa
• Zio Paperone e la corona di luce
• Paperino e il pianeta Esalion
• Zio Paperone e la fattoria orbitale
• Paperino e il mistero di Lucca, 1992

Reprints

In 2019, a volume in the

) was dedicated to Battista Carpi.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Giovan Battista Carpi". Lambiek. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
2. ^ "Seine Vorliebe für alte Moden und Kostüme prädestinierte Carpi geradezu für Persiflagen und Parodien, von 'Donald, Prinz von Duckenmark' bis 'Das Geheimnis der Silberleuchter', in denen Shakespeares Hamlet und Victor Hugos 'Die Elenden' humorvoll aufbereitet wurden." Duckipedia entry on Giovan Battista Carpi

External links

• Giovan Battista Carpi at Inducks
• Giovan Battista Carpi at the Lambiek Comiclopedia

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