Interviews with Barks

creator of Duckburg and Scrooge McDuck

Postby Daniel73 » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:48 pm

Private email sent to "A Guidebook"-site:

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From: [Erik Svane]
To: [dve]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: Updating Barks

If you want me to,
I can update all the material
concerning my Barks interview you have here:

http://www.seriesam.com/barks/qtsintall ... 0707_svane

Date: 1994, July 7
Answering: Carl Barks
Interviewer: Erik Svane
Location: [unknown] Auberge de Cendrillon (Cinderella's Inn), Fantasyland, Disneyland Paris, France
Recording: [unknown] Yes [if you mean, did I record it?]
Photographs: YES

Insofar as I had the first interview of the day with Uncle Carl,
if you want to be absolutely 100% precise, you should invert this entry
with that of Sébastien Durand and Didier Ghezm
which occurred later that day
(Watch out you don't harm the anchor links)

Erik Svane

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Postby Daniel73 » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:13 pm

From a private email sent to "A Guidebook"-site:

From: [Erik Svane]
To: [dve]
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: Quack!

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By the way,
here is the complete list of where the interview
and my accompanying articles appeared
(the first three I have no idea what they are!):

• LSA 2242 9-94 p 7 petit commerce
• 249817 (2) 249876
• Dukas SOZ (CH)
• "entrevista com Carl Barks" by Erik Svane, Quadrado # 4, 10-1997, two unnumbered pages
• "Entretien Carl Barks" by Erik Svane, SWOF # 27, Printemps 1999, p US6-10
• "Sur les traces de Carl Barks" by Erik Svane, SWOF # 27, Printemps 1999, p US12-13
• "Les canards les plus humains de la BD" by Erik Svane, SWOF # 27, Printemps 1999, p US14
• "Disney enfantin?" by Erik Svane, SWOF # 27, Printemps 1999, p US19
• "Carl Barks Auteur Capital" by Erik Svane, BoDoï # 34, octobre 2000, p 5-7
• "Traduction = Trahison" by Erik Svane, BoDoï # 34, octobre 2000, p 6
• "Grand Coin" by Erik Svane, BoDoï # 34, octobre 2000, p 7
• "Carl Barks" by Erik Svane, Stripschrift # 331, november 2000, cover & p 4-9 & 36
• "Korte biografie" by Erik Svane, Stripschrift # 331, november 2000, cover & p 6-9 & 36
• "Ethvert Givent Menneske" Rackham # 3, April 2001, cover & p 8-12
• "A Duck, A Man, Abroad" by Erik Svane, Hogan's Alley # 9, Summer 2001, p 98-101
• "The Interview" by Erik Svane, Hogan's Alley # 9, Summer 2001, p 101-104
• "The Most Human Ducks of All" by Erik Svane, Hogan's Alley # 9, Summer 2001, p 102-103

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Postby Daniel73 » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:22 pm

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From: "Alan Woollcombe"
To: [dve]
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: Carl Barks in the UK

Hi.

i've just discovered your website and am both impressed and
disappointed - impressed at its breadth of coverage, disappointed at
the fact that the UK is omitted from your list of countries with
publications about, or interviews with, the great duck man.

I do have a vested interest here, as I was one of the only two print
journalists to secure an interview with Barks on his one and only visit
to the UK in 1994. To fill in the background slightly, he was on the
last leg of his European signing tour (a tour to which London had been
a last minute addition) and I had twenty precious minutes with him.
The interview was published in (the long-defunct) Comic World #34,
cover dated December 1994.

I also wrote obituaries of him in Comics International 125 and The
Independent (a national British newspaper) dated 18 September 2000.

Otherwise, keep up the good work!

Alan Woollcombe

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Postby Daniel73 » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:35 pm

From a private email sent to "A Guidebook"-site:

Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 12:42 AM
Subject: Inquiry

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I'm interested in buying a copy of: The Duck Man an interview with Carl Barks.
Would you have any available?

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Duck Man an interview with Carl Barks (video)
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Postby Egg » Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:34 pm

Carl Barks 1970s interview at YouTube:

Carl Barks Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqa0zR5DSCM
07:08
Added October 26, 2006
From mikematei
My religious figurehead Carl Barks did a My religious figurehead Carl Barks did a low budget video interview in the mid 1970s. I am taking this rare footage and adding in pictures of his comics and paintings where I feel it is needed.

Carl Barks Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgRwHQAg_pQ
09:11
Added October 26, 2006
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Chapter two of the Barks interview. He talks about his early days as an inbetweener and the story department.
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Postby Egg » Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:43 pm

Carl Barks 1994 footage at YouTube, including a part of an interview:

Carl Barks meets his fans - talks about Donald Duck, Disney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPcaKTaPbjg
01:06
Added June 12, 2006
From inkog
Carl Barks talks about Donald Duck. A interview taped in Stockholm, Sweden 1994.
Watch more: http://www.duckbusiness.com
Also: http://www.birgerson.net

Carl Barks meets his fans - signing - exclusive footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqYPU8fbHj8
01:48
Added June 15, 2006
From inkog
Carl Barks meets his fans, - signing - exclusive footage, Stockholm, Sweden 1994
For more: http://www.duckbusiness.com
Also: http://www.birgerson.net

Carl Barks meets his fans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQSmtVkuXwg
02:01
Added August 08, 2006
From inkog
Carl Barks meets his fans, Stockholm, Sweden 1994.
Watch more: http://www.duckbusiness.com
Also: http://www.birgerson.net
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Postby Daniel73 » Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:47 am

Unidentified, undated questionnaire. Maybe from around the mid-1990s. The handwriting (name and answers) is a bit unsteady as in Barks's handwriting from that time.
Taken from a pink/orange compilation pamplet titled 'Carl Barks - Background Material and Current Events'. In September and/or October 1998 notes, Barks has identified some of the contents in the pamplet as being fake or at least dubious. According to a October 8, 1998 email by a Barks intermediary, who described these margin notes, Barks made no comments on the Marcel Proust questionaire and the hand written material seems to be true Carl Barks hand printing.
Where does this questionnaire originate from?

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[handwritten on top: "CARL BARKS"]
[answers are also handwritten, all in capitals]


QUESTIONNAIRE


The questionnaire the author Marcel Proust filled in twice in his life was a popular parlour game in the salons of the past.


1. What is for you the greatest disaster?
OVERPOPULATION. PEOPLE HAVE BECOME MAGGOTS CONSUMING THE CARCASS OF THE EARTH.

2. Where would you like to live?
HERE.

3. What is for you the complete earthly happiness?
A PLATE OF CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE.

4. Which faults do you excuse most likely?
WORKAHOLICISM.

5. Your favourite heroes of a novel?
THE ONES WHO SOLVED PROBLEMS WITHOUT SHOOTING EVERYBODY IN SIGHT.

6. Your favourite figure in the history?
EDISON.

7. Your favourite heroines in the reality?
NONE THAT LAST. THEIR NAMES ROTATEE RIDERS ON A FERRIS WHEEL.

8. Your favourite heroines in the literature?
SCARLETT O'HARA, NANCY DREW

9. Your favourite painter?
NORMAN ROCKWELL.

10. Your favourite composer?
STEPHEN FOSTER

11. What qualities you appreciate most in a man?
HONESTY

12. What qualities you appriciate most in a woman?
BEAUTY AND BRAINS.

13. Your favourite virtue?
FAIRNESS.

14. Your favourite occupation?
DRAWING

15. Who or what would you have liked to be?
A SUCCESSFUL INVENTOR.

16. Your main characteristic trait?
SHYNESS

17. What qualities you appriciate most in your friends?
SINCERITY.

18. Your greatest fault?
RECLUSIVENESS.

19. Your dream of happiness?
TO HAVE NO NEED TO WORK.

20. What would be the greatest disaster for you?
SICKNESS.

21. What do you want to be?
A RICH RETIREE

22. Your favourite colour?
TANNED LEATHER.


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23. Your favourite flour?
WHITE, AS IN HOT BISCUITS.

24. Your favourite bird?
HOUSE FINCH.

25. Your favourite author?
PERRY MASON

26. Your favourite lyric poet?
LONGFELLOW

27. Your heroes in the reality?
FOOTBALL QUARTERBACKS

28. Your heroines in the history?
THE POOR WRETCHES WHO WORE CHASTITY BELTS.

29. Your favourite names?
PORKMAN DE LARDO, BLEAKWHISTLE J. MORNINGFOG.

30. What do you detest the most?
OVER-TALKATIVE PEOPLE.

31. Which historical figure do you detest the most?
KARL MARX, AS IN # 30

32. Which military success do you admire the most?
THE DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON.

33. Which reform do you admire the most?
BIRTHCONTROL.

34. Which natural gift would you like to have?
MUSICAL TALENT

35. How do you like to die?
IN THE MIDDLE OF A PLEASANT DREAM

36. Your present mental state?
RESIGNATION TO THE FACT THAT THE WORLD IS NOT A PERFECT PLACE.

37. Your motto?
DO UNTO OTHERS...


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transcription: v20061221.01
On the xerox it's difficult to judge if the word "dream" (35) is followed by a partly damaged exclamation mark ("dream!") or not.
Barks's answers are written to the right of the questions, having little room between the questions.

I'm uncertain about the word "rotatee" (7), not getting the meaning of Barks's answer.
The word "appriciate" (in 12, 17, but not 16) is left uncorrected.
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