Daniel Jan "Daan" Jippes (born 14 October 1945) is a Dutch

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who's known for his work on

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. In the 1980s and 1990s he drew many covers for

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's Disney magazines. In the 1990s he redrew for Egmont old Junior Woodchucks stories from the 1970s, originally written by Carl Barks and drawn by John Carey, Kay Wright and Tony Strobl.

Biography

Daan Jippes started his comics career in the

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, where his work was published in the comics magazine ''Pep'' in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He rose to national recognition with his comics album ''Bernard Voorzichtig: Twee Voor Thee''. In the mid seventies he started working for the Dutch ''

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'' magazine, where his interpretation of the ducks and

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drew the attention of the Disney Studios in

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. Subsequently he was hired and worked for the Disney company; initially for the comic strip and merchandising department, later for the animation department as a designer and storyboarder, contributing to such films as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Aside from his work at Disney, he also worked as a storyboard supervisor on Amblimation's ''

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'' and provided covers in Disney style for the comic books of

. Back in the Netherlands, in 2006 Jippes started a new album series, based on the detective stories by Havank, drawn in a

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style similar to Franquin. Two albums have been published. In 2013 Jippes stated in an interview: "that project's dead in the water. Though I've finished writing a third story I lack the time and funding to start drawing and coloring those 44-plus pages."Interview with Daan Jippes
by Simone Cavazzuti (May 13, 2013)

Reprints

In 2018 Daan Jippes was together with Freddy Milton dedicated a volume in the '' Disney Masters'' book series from

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, in the volume titled, ''Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test'' (2018)

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. Since 2021 the Carl Barks' scripted Jippes finished Junior Woodchuck stories stories are being reprinted in Fantagraphics' series '' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library''. These stories are featured in the following volumes: * ''The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library, Vol 25 - Donald Duck: Balloonatics''

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Comic House portfolio of Daan Jippes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jippes, Daan Dutch comics artists Dutch comics writers 1945 births Living people Writers from Amsterdam Disney comics writers Disney comics artists Walt Disney Animation Studios people Winners of the Stripschapsprijs

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