Don Rosa
Mon Aug 16 14:44:28 CEST 1993
There was nothing in that last digest but my message, so I'll
talk to myself:
I checked out that WDC&S #164 and saw the use of "Miss Penny
Wise" who holds a note (i.e. a signed debt) from $crooge that would ruin
him if she called it in... he would owe her his "entire fortune".
This is just too off-the-wall to give any credence to! There's
times when I've read a Barks story that just seems too stupid to have
been written by Barks -- for a decade or two, while I KNEW that Barks
wrote everything he drew, I still thought "The Invisible Intruder" story
(about the big bed nonsense) was damned odd -- finally I was relieved to
learn that Barks did NOT write that story, nor did he write many others
that he drew, most notably all the dumb DAISY DUCK'S DIARY and GRANDMA
DUCK'S FARM FRIENDS stuff. This "Miss Penny Wise" story has that same
feel to it -- the whole plot of Donald being a bad salesman for McDuck
Flour, making a mess of things while merely selling to several
residences, and $crooge having some reason to get upset over such a
miniscule situation is rather lame -- but when the writer (Barks or not)
finally must have a wrap-up, suddenly Donald's last customer holds a
note that could ruin $crooge, therefore Donald's messing up her kitchen
is suddenly makes a difference, even to the reader. If Barks did write
that, I say he was having a bad day, and I still say it tastes like
spinach and I say to hell with it, or however that saying goes.
In other words, I refuse to believe that $crooge McDuck owes
every cent he ever earned to some unknown little old lady! This will be
one of the Barks "facts" that I will ignore, gladly, as I gladly ignore
the wrongheaded idea of the "Magic Hourglass". If any Barks fans wish
NOT to ignore Miss Penny Wise, they can feel free to imagine she gained
ownership of all that $crooge McDuck has sometime AFTER the events in my
"Life and Times" series.
Rosa was blijkbaar slecht op de hoogte van wat Barks deed in de WDC-verhalen. Zijn Dagobert-levensverhaal richt zich op de US-verhalen, waaruit iemand eens een lijst met Dagobert-momenten heeft samengesteld. (Jack L. Chalker - 'An Informal Biography of Scrooge McDuck', 1974.)
Ook wat betreft de hond Loebas, in WDC-verhalen, heeft Rosa zich laten verrassen. Want, zo schreef hij, zijn zus had de betreffende strips niet gekocht en dus kende hij Loebas niet. Wat een Barkskenner!
Don Rosa op DCML, 17 augustus 2005:
[Bolivar] I had not used him at first since in American comics (which were the
only ones I knew) he had not been seen since the 1940's. I had never grown
up with Barks stories featuring Bolivar -- he had disappeared from the
American stories before my sister started saving her comics. But a few
years later when I went to work for Europe, I saw that Bolivar was still
being used as the Nephews' dog in new stories made in other markets, so I
wanted to start featuring him in my own stories. *Every kid should have a
dog!* Three special kids should have a very special dog!
Okay, but how would I suddenly begin using a dog as a household pet which
clearly had never existed before, either in my stories or in the comics I
had grown up with (which exist from moment to moment in my mind to guide
me)? Since the dog's name was "Bolivar", my solution was that I would do a
story set in South America (as the dog is named after the foremost South
American hero), and Bolivar would appear and become the hero of the
adventure, saving the Ducks and becoming their special pal whom they would
take home to Duckburg. So I designed the story "Last Lord of Eldorado" for
that purpose.
But the editors objected to my use of Bolivar in that fashion. It's been too
many years so I don't recall the exact reason... but probably they didn't
like how I would be presenting Bolivar as a new addition to the Duck family
(even though, to my American mind, he *would* be). So I was directed to
delete all reference to Bolivar from that story and rewrite it without a dog
hero. And that was that. Since I could not start using Bolivar in such a way
that implied he had always been an existing and active member of the Duck
household, any more than I could let myself suddenly start using a fourth
Nephew as if he had always existed, I had no personal choice but to ignore
Bolivar and deprive myself of having a dog in my Duck stories.
bron:
http://nafsk.se/pipermail/dcml/2005-August/023477.htmlDon Rosa heeft de Carl Barks Library. Die heeft hij blijkbaar niet geraadpleegd toen hij dat Dagobert-levensverhaal maakte. Rosa heeft wat betreft zijn Barkskennis ontzettend zitten bluffen, dit maakt hij zelf duidelijk en nóg trapt men erin.
snowmansion schreef:Apart en tevens bizar op dat te lezen. Los van het feit of je het verhaal goed of niet vindt (je kunt misschien meegaan met zijn argument waarom het een slecht verhaal is in zijn ogen), maar de manier waarop hij dat zegt is wel erg denigrerend. Ongelofelijk dat hij zo over Barks durft te praten en die groffe bewoordingen ook.
Wil je meer voorbeelden? (snik) Rosa kon Barks een "evil genius" noemen op DCML, in 1993/1994, en zijn volgelingen praten het goed.
Michiel Q schreef:Volgens "The Magic Hourglass" (1950) heeft Dagobert zijn fortuin te danken aan een magische zandloper. Dat zou betekenen dat zijn eigen inspanningen geen doorslaggevende rol hebben gespeeld bij het vergaren van zoveel rijkdom. Volgens Don Rosa is dat in tegenspraak met (o.a.) "Only A Poor Old Man", waaruit blijkt dat Dagobert heeft geploeterd voor iedere cent.
Rosa toont hiermee aan, hoe weinig hij snapt van Barks's wereld. Zelfs nadat Barks hem in 1991 een plot stuurde waarin het geluksgehalte van het eerste dubbeltje wordt behandeld, bleef Rosa koppig zijn eigen zin doordrammen in zijn Barks-eerbetoon. Waar Barks subtiel de mogelijkheid oproept van de kracht van bijgeloof, zit Rosa te grommen over een "wrongheaded idea". Dit zou men eens over Rosa's werk moeten zeggen! (snotter)
Moet we het hier nu echt over Rosa gaan hebben? Er is een heel subforum over hem:
http://bb.mcdrake.nl/neddisney/viewforum.php?f=15
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