Giovan Battista Carpi


Giovan Battista Carpi was an Italian comics artist from Genoa.
Carpi worked mainly for Disney comics, mostly on books featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, although he occasionally drew Mickey Mouse as well. He created Paperinik with Guido Martina. He also created other well-known comic characters for Edizioni Bianconi, as Geppo, Nonna Abelarda and Soldino.

Disney parody artist

Carpi drew a popular series of "Disney Parodies" stories 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."
Other popular parodies by Carpi include Guerra e Pace, Paperino e il vento del Sud, Paperino e il giro del mondo in otto giorni, Paperin Caramba y Carmen Olè, Paolino Pocatesta e la bella Franceschina, Topolino corriere dello Zar, La metamorfosi di un papero.

Reprints

In 2019 Battista Carpi was dedicated a volume in the Disney Masters book series from Fantagraphics Books, in the volume titled, Uncle Scrooge: King of the Golden River ISBN.