Massimo De Vita
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| Massimo De Vita | |
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| Born | May , 1941 Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Area(s) | Penciller Inker Writer |
Notable works | The Ice Sword Saga (Saga della spada di ghiaccio) |
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Massimo De Vita is an Italian cartoonist known for his Disney comics work in both drawing and writing.
Biography[edit]
Massimo De Vita was born as the son of the Disney comic artist it:Pier Lorenzo De Vita. M. De Vita himself started working for Disney Italia as a layout and art finisher before he later became a fulltime artist and writer there and has worked for Disney ever since.
Besides from making Disney comics De Vita enjoys travelling around the globe.[1]
Disney comics[edit]
De Vita strated drawing Disney comics in the early 1960s.[2]
The Ice Sword Saga
The comic story which recognized De Vita as a big name among Disney comic artists, was the The Ice Sword Saga trilogy (Saga della spada di ghiaccio), with the first installment Mickey and the Ice Sword (Topolino e la spada di ghiaccio) had its first publication around Christmas 1982. An adeventure/fantasy fiction story in which Mickey Mouse and Goofy get teleported to a magic medieval like realm where they will have to embark on a hero journey in order to save this world from extinction. One year later in 1983, once again in time for Christmas the second part, The Tournament of Agaar (Topalino e il torneo dell'Argaar), was published, this time the story continues with revisit to the magical realm where things have really changed since last time. The third and final part of the trilogy, Mickey and the Return of the Prince of Mists (Topolino e il ritorno del principe delle nebbie), first published in december 1984, in where Mickey and Goofy must end the evil forces in the magic realm once and for all and as a definitive end to the trilogy, the link between Mickey and Goofy's world and the magic realm is destroyed.
De Vita was after the trilogy's conclusion many times asked to continue the Ice Sword story with more episodes by both the Disney editors and from fans, which he refused to do. He felt that the fantasy genre was overworked at the moment and was neither inspired to produce another episode, he stated. In 1993, almost a decade after the third story's publication, he did give in and produced Mickey and the cosmic sleeping beauty (Topolino e la bella addormentata nel cosmo).[3]
In 2018, in time for Mickey Mouse's 90th anniversary one of the motifs of a collector's stamp series was artwork from The Ice Sword Saga.[4]
The Search for the Zodiac Stone
In the early 1990s De vita illustrated eight out of twelve chapters of the adventure epic The Search for the Zodiac Stone (Alla ricerca della pietra zodiacale). A story written by it:Bruno Sarda, and the other four chapters drawn by it:Franco Valussi. The plot revolves around the treasure hunt for the twelve zodiac stones in order to piece them together then be able to foresee the future.
Once upon a time... In America
In the 1990s De Vita drew the majority of the chapters of the 14-part story Once upon a time... In America (C'era una volta... in America), an historical adventure series about the history of the United States. From a departure from England on board the Mayflower towards Cape Cod in 1620 til the dawn of the Hollywood film industry in California in the early 1900s.
Reprints[edit]
- Mickey and Donald: The Search for the Zodiac Stone IDW Publishing (2016). ISBN 978-1-63140-706-2 Search this book on .
- Mickey Mouse: The Ice Sword Saga - Book 1 Fantagraphics Books (2019). ISBN 978-1-68396-198-7 Search this book on .
- Mickey Mouse: The Ice Sword Saga - Book 2 Fantagraphics Books (2020). ISBN 978-1-68396-250-2 Search this book on .
References[edit]
- ↑ https://theslingsandarrows.com/disney-masters-mickey-mouse-the-ice-sword-saga-book-1-by-massimo-de-vita/ Retrieved 2019-12-30
- ↑ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de-vita_massimo.htm Retrieved 2020-01-01
- ↑ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/disney/writings/disney-comics-from-italy.pdf Retrieved 2019-12-30
- ↑ https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/2017/november/italy-mickey-mouse-ninety-birthday-stamps-arrive.html Retrieved 2019-12-30
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