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Here’s a comic where Scrooge and Donald timetravel to meet king Minos (who looks exactly like Scrooge). And I love how Scrooge winks at Donald like he has a plan, well I guess he does have a plan, it just consists of getting to take a money bath in Minos’s treasure.

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Story: Carol McGreal, Pat McGreal Art: Cèsar Ferioli Pelaez

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New Year's Nightmare - 1999

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Story: Carol McGreal, Pat McGreal Art: Cèsar Ferioli Pelaez

New Year's Nightmare - 1999

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A Beautiful Likeness (2011)

Writer: Kari Korhonen Art: Arild Midthun, Bas Heymans, Cèsar Ferioli Pelaez, Daan Jippes, Francisco Rodriguez Peinado, Freddy Milton, Giorgio Cavazzano, Marco Rota, Mau Heymans, Michel Nadorp, Wanda Gattino, Wilma van den Bosch

It’s a story where the boys decide to hire an artist to paint Donald’s portrait for his birthday. So all these people show up to try and each page is drawn by a different artist.

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Your fic with all the different versions of Flintheart Glomgold got me curious, so: how would you rank them? which Flinty (Flintys?) do you like best, personality and/or design-wise?

Every time he shows up in the comics I get unreasonably happy.

Well, I like to say I base my characterization of him mostly on Carl Barks, Don Rosa and Lars Jensen but also I think the way he’s written in the 80′s comics has influenced my writing quite a bit and possibly more than I’ve realized. I do pick tidbits of info and characterization from random comics too.

Carl Barks is of course… Carl Barks. The Second-Richest Duck is one of my favourite stories and not just for Flinty. The pacing and just everything in that is just so good. And Flinty isn’t any more evil in it than Scrooge is… He has become a kinda dark reflection of Scrooge in a ‘This is what Scrooge could be’ kinda way but in the original story he just is what Scrooge is. When Scrooge hates him for being greedy, stingy and rude those are the qualities he himself has. Later on of course Flinty becomes more evil and what Scrooge could be without his family (or in Don Rosa’s case, what Scrooge would be if he didn’t even try to make his money fair and square)

But when I reread his first appearance I don’t really think what he became later…

Which of course is an out-right villain, although how much of a villain depends (I got a long post on this in the works I should get to!)

I like Don Rosa’s Flinty but let’s face it he’s not the most multifaceted he has ever been under Rosa… (Again a whole post on this just sitting in my drafts)

But still, Don Rosa did a nasty villain Flinty well even if his work has (IMO) missed opportunities. I mean we don’t get much insight on why he does anything he does. Lars Jensen and Kari Korhonen have done much more when it comes to that. (And I especially like Jensen’s writing for him)

I also have a weird love-hate relationship with the Dutch comics that are… lot of wasted opportunities…

Artist-wise-

Obviously Barks (apart from the last story for the large part where it feels like he is actively remembering what Flinty looks like as he is drawing the story)

Don Rosa’s style can look kinda stiff but I especially enjoy his flinty in front or almost front view.

Maximino Tortajada Aguilar draws Finty so fluffy it’s illegal. wrong. why are you making me want to pet his dumb head- Also his beard looks soft

other soft-looking Flintys:

Carlos Mota:

Daniel Branca (who does lose points for drawing him with shoes instead of spats):

But I do like how Ferioli draws him too with a very sharp look:

I have written about my important opinions concerning his beard length before but also I like it when it is difficult to tell where his beard ends and other fluff begins when he’s viewed from different directions.

I really like Alessandro Perina’s way of drawing him too that mixed fluffy and that sharp look nicely.

A good way to adapt the character to Italian style.

Also good Flintys:

Flemming Andersen:

And Vicar, especially in the 80′s who had the tiniest Flinty:

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Cèsar Ferioli Pelaez - Dismal Downs Debacle (2016)