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daan jippes at the frankfurt book fair 2009 . amsterdam , netherlands dutch daan jippes 14 october 1945 artist , writer daan jippes in frankfurt 2009.jpg daan jippes
 daniel jan jippes
daan jippes

daan jippes -lrb- born daniel jan jippes on 14 october 1945 in amsterdam -rrb- is a cartoonist , who has worked with disney and other comics .
he is admired by his fans for his lively emulation of carl barks ' drawing style , and was therefore chosen by egmont to redraw some old junior woodchucks stories from the 1970s , originally written by carl barks and drawn by john carey , kay wright and tony strobl , for a new audience in the 1990s .
he also drew many covers for gladstone publishing 's disney magazines in the 1980s and 1990s in a great variety of styles .
daan jippes started his comics career in the netherlands , where his work was published in the comics magazine `` pep '' in the late sixties and early seventies .
he rose to national recognition with his comics album `` bernard voorzichtig : twee voor thee '' .
in the mid seventies he started working for the dutch `` donald duck '' magazine , where his interpretation of the ducks and mickey mouse also drew the attention of the disney studios in burbank , california .
he was subsequently hired and worked for the disney company : initially for the merchandizing department , later for the animation department as a designer and storyboarder , contributing to films as `` rescuers down under '' , `` the prince and the pauper '' , `` beauty and the beast '' and `` aladdin '' .
apart from his work at disney 's , he also worked as a storyboard supervisor on amblimation 's `` balto '' .
in 2006 , jippes started out on a new album series , based on the detective stories by havank .
the series is drawn in a marcinelle style similar to franquin .
as of 2010 , 2 albums have been published .
daan jippes is currently working as a comics artist in the netherlands .
