Mottura/Disney. Moose drawing illustrating Scroodge... Lot 371

Mottura/Disney. Moose drawing illustrating Scroodge at the helm, in the wind and rain. Entirely done in pastel circa 2019. Rare. TBE+. 35 X 50 cm Paolo Mottura (1968) is an Italian comic book writer, illustrator, inker and colorist. He was offered the chance to join Disney in 1989, when he met Giovan Battista Carpi, head of the Disney Academy at the time. Carpi put him through his paces and asked him to create a gag featuring Donald Duck; his first work for Disney was published in December 1989 in Topolino (libretto). He went on to produce his first full-length story for the studio, scripted by Giorgio Pezzin to a synopsis by Manuela Marinato, and published in May 1990 in Topolino (libretto) no. 1798. This marked the definitive launch of his career. At the same time, he produced various licensing illustrations for companies such as Ricordi Arti Grafiche, Ferrero, Clementoni and Disney Livres. In 1998, he received the Golden Mickey Award for the best Disney story of 1997. He then turned to painting, creating mixed-media works on surfaces made of several materials. Here too, his work has won several awards. Paolo Mottura was one of a generation of artists who helped revolutionize Disney comics in the mid-1990s. He contributed several stories to the new Paperinik New Adventures series, as well as the mini-series Il grande Burton La Valle and Io sono Xadhoom. Since 2003, Mottura has had the opportunity to make Franco-Belgian comics his great passion. After meeting the publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés at a trade fair, he was contacted by the latter, who suggested he collaborate with scriptwriter Christophe Bec on a new series. Bec has written three books conceived by Mottura: Carême, DEUS and Redemption, the first of which won him the Albert Uderzo prize at the 2005 Nimes Comics Fair. At the same time, he continued his work for Disney, for whom he produced a number of stories, including the saga La storia vista da Topolino with Giorgio Pezzin and Marco Palazzi. In 2010, in collaboration with Fabio Celoni, he collaborated on the comic strip adapted from the Epic Mickey video game, scripted by the American Peter David. He also directed the story Un amour oublié..., from the Fantomiald saga, scripted by Giorgio Salati.