Need help with Barks biography

creator of Duckburg and Scrooge McDuck

Postby Rockerduck » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:02 am

Uhm, no, that painting was my own suggestion. Stephan suggested another , with the chicken from 'The wise little hen' and Clarabella Cow and Horace Horse (what ARE their English names?) in it.
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Postby Rockerduck » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:04 am

Egg wrote:Does your biography stop in the early 1950s or does it span Barks entire career?

I've already explained why I chose the things I did. I won't do it again. You just have to read better.
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Postby Egg » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:14 am

Rockerduck wrote:Uhm, no, that painting was my own suggestion. Stephan suggested another , with the chicken from 'The wise little hen' and Clarabella Cow and Horace Horse

Stephan... Rockerduck.. What's the difference? :P

Rockerduck wrote:(what ARE their English names?) in it.

Clarabelle Cow
http://coa.inducks.org/character.php/x/CL

Horace Horsecollar
http://coa.inducks.org/character.php/x/HH
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Postby Egg » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:39 am

Rockerduck wrote:
Egg wrote:Does your biography stop in the early 1950s or does it span Barks entire career?

I've already explained why I chose the things I did. I won't do it again. You just have to read better.

No, and I don't bother why you choose the things. It's a biography for McDuck, so others should be able to suggest illustrations, too. Especially Barks is worth it. Your choice is mostly a flat newby dummy-choice of Barks's comic book work, findable just about everywhere.
Isn't your article worth a little originality? Some daring, by making a stand for stories which are ignored and under-estimated?
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Postby Rockerduck » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:31 am

Egg wrote:It's a biography for McDuck, so others should be able to suggest illustrations, too. Especially Barks is worth it.

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That's why I opened this thread!

Egg wrote:Your choice is mostly a flat newby dummy-choice of Barks's comic book work, findable just about everywhere.

Yet again insulting others by pretending you're the only truly Barks-expert.

How are the Dutch translations I scanned to be found 'everywhere'? On the Internet? Do a few Google searches. See what hows up. Not my scenes.

Egg wrote:Isn't your article worth a little originality?

You already judge before having read it. Yet you didn't turn in ANY article for McDuck.nl

Egg wrote:Some daring, by making a stand for stories which are ignored and under-estimated?

Just because you have an unnatural obsession for Barks' past-1960 work doesn't mean everybody does. And don't be worried, everything will be covered.
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Postby Robb_K » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:59 am

I would add the page of similar, but emotion-shifting panels of Donald eating while thinking of what will happen to Gladstone in Greenland , and als Donalds slowly-rising anger while sitting in his easy chair, after his nephews had bought him a camel for Christmas. I would also add Uncle Scrooge's look of despair in "Christmas For Shacktown, after his money fell through his bin's floor. I'd also add Donald tangling the hairy hermit's beard (from 1943's "Salesman Donald", and Donald and Jones covered in putty, choking each other by the neck. I am not a fan of Rosa, and yet I'm choosing no stories later than the early '50s. That's not to say I don't like Barks' later work, but so many of his greatest inspired ideas and renderings of same happened early, that no later ones come to mind, at present.
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Postby Egg » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:32 pm

Robb_K wrote:I am not a fan of Rosa, and yet I'm choosing no stories later than the early '50s. That's not to say I don't like Barks' later work, but so many of his greatest inspired ideas and renderings of same happened early, that no later ones come to mind, at present.

Who cares about our taste? Barks structurally made comics from the 1940s to the 1970s. Do you want to skip 20 years of comics just because of your taste? I think that's a bad attitude for a biographer.
Rosa "biography" 'Life of $crooge' also only contains what the writer likes, skipping important parts of Scrooge's life.
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Postby Rockerduck » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:14 pm

Robb_K wrote:I would add the page of similar, but emotion-shifting panels of Donald eating while thinking of what will happen to Gladstone in Greenland , and als Donalds slowly-rising anger while sitting in his easy chair, after his nephews had bought him a camel for Christmas. I would also add Uncle Scrooge's look of despair in "Christmas For Shacktown, after his money fell through his bin's floor. I'd also add Donald tangling the hairy hermit's beard (from 1943's "Salesman Donald", and Donald and Jones covered in putty, choking each other by the neck. I am not a fan of Rosa, and yet I'm choosing no stories later than the early '50s. That's not to say I don't like Barks' later work, but so many of his greatest inspired ideas and renderings of same happened early, that no later ones come to mind, at present.

The problem is that whole pages -or two, like from Luck of the North- are too much to put into an article. That would leave little, if no, room for other panels.
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Postby Prank » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:24 pm

Why don't you use images as they come along the timeline of Barks. So use for his '42 to late 40's images of that period,40's to 50's till his later works at the end.(Lost beneath the seas) ;)
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Postby Egg » Wed May 03, 2006 12:53 am

Where's my good old enemy Rockerduck? What's an Egg without an opponent? Please Rockerduck don't do this to me. Do whatever you wish but please don't IGNORE me! I'm begging you! Please! Please! I need you! Don't leave me here with all those strange foreign people. Please! Come back!

@others:
Sorry for letting myself go. I didn't know what I got untill it was gone. I'm crying like Joni Mitchell.
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Postby Egg » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:28 am

2006-04-21, Rockerduck wrote:As you might know, I've written some biographies of Duck-artists for McDuck.nl. Now I also wrote an article about Carl Barks, and I need to pick out some illustrations that fit the biography.

Location of this 30 April 2006, Dutch Carl Barks biography:
http://bibliotheek.mcduck.nl/auteurs/carl-barks

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photo of Barks with painting 'Sailing the Spanish Main' http://coa.inducks.org/coa/c1/story.php/0/CB+OIL+124

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cartoon for 'The Calgary Eye-Opener'

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comic book example http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/W+WDC++95-02

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comic book example http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/W+WDC+158-01

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comic book example http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/W+US++++5-02

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painting 'Holiday in Duckburg' http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/CB+OIL+137

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self-caricature, as published on the cover of Mike Barrier's 'Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book'
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