Egg wrote:Does your biography stop in the early 1950s or does it span Barks entire career?
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
Rockerduck wrote:(what ARE their English names?) in it.
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.
Egg wrote:It's a biography for McDuck, so others should be able to suggest illustrations, too. Especially Barks is worth it.
Egg wrote:Your choice is mostly a flat newby dummy-choice of Barks's comic book work, findable just about everywhere.
Egg wrote:Isn't your article worth a little originality?
Egg wrote:Some daring, by making a stand for stories which are ignored and under-estimated?
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.
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.
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.
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