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SIGVALD:

>>Sigvald, what gives you the right to talk
>>about such a delicate issue on Don Rosa's
>>behalf?!
>
> That was *never* my intention ? no way! I was doing analysis, not speaking
> on other's behalf. Please remember that Don Rosa does not exist alone in the
> Disney system. He thus may or may not, have to consider the opinions of
> other Americans within the system, such as the people at Gemstone, Byron
> Erickson, etc. As you said yourself ? this is a delicate matter, especially
> for Americans.

In fact that was the core point of Gilles' message as I read it. Please,
Sigvald, do differ between analysis and speculation. As for delicate
matters this conflict has a significant impact to the whole world, and
do I dare say, especially to those people who will find their cities
flashing within a few days.

S?ren

"So it goes" [Vonnegut]

L. Shulte:

> I assume he [William Van Horn] is working like Don Rosa for Egmont:
> not too many posts here mention his stories. I thought he was in his
> 60's, so he might be retiring or has already retired (?).

You're right, Bill is working for Egmont, and has been for about as
long as Don Rosa. And while I believe he is in his 60s, he's definitely
not retired.

All:

As for Gemstone Disney's being available outside North America, my
understanding is they will be...at least wherever Diamond Comics
Distributors does business. There might be exceptions, but I'm not
aware of any myself.

Gary

Sigvald Gr?sfjeld jr. wrote:

>OK, this is it! This is definitive evidence that William Van Horn is *not*
>as true a successor to Barks as Don Rosa. By introducing this so-called
>half-brother of Scrooge in contradiction to Barks, Mr. Van Horn shows that
>he doesn't really accept Barks' universe to the last letter.
>
Ah, but this *does* show that he accepts Barks' universe! Barks himself
created lots of characters, so Van Horn simply does what Barks used to do.

Stefan

In a message dated 3/18/2003 7:01:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
JALustig at aol.com writes:

> However, from time to time, new things have to be tried. That's what
> creativity is all about.

Agreed!

While I appreciate and respect Barks' "set continuity," I think that other
artists are well-obligated to introduce their own ideas and concepts. Nothing
is set into stone, and--when it all comes down to it--the stories are all
about pure fun, anyway, are they not?

I'm not saying that new concepts should be introduced every story, or even on
a semi-regular basis, but only every once and a while. They shouldn't take
over the Duck "universe," but I think they have just as much right to be
there as the Barks concepts, which seem to have been "set in stone" over the
years.

I respect the Barks stories, of course, don't get me wrong--I just think that
he didn't mean for everything to be set into a particular pattern, trapping
future Duck artists into "following the leader," so to speak. The artists
should show their own style, rather than imitating Barks'--even though a
brilliant style it was.

Of course, I'm rambling now, and I've probably offended most of you with my
bizarre ideas as to how far the Duck stories should go outside of Barks'
original concept. I apologize in advance, but I'm hoping you won't take my
comments too seriously.

I guess this is the part where I hide under the nearest boulder and cry...
--
Thanks for reading this nonsense,

Dane Martin

Sigvald:
>>>I am indeed very sorry that you feel that way about my
>>>answer, that was *not* my intention at all.

Ok, no problem, sorry for the misunderstanding, Monsieur "Little" Sigvald :-)
Well, let's not speak about that anymore, and stay good friends, I know it's
somehow difficult to communicate feelings through a computer...

>>>OK, this is it! This is definitive evidence that William
>>>Van Horn is *not* as true a successor to Barks as Don
>>>Rosa. By introducing this so-called half-brother of
>>>Scrooge in contradiction to Barks, Mr. Van Horn shows that
>>>he doesn't really accept Barks' universe to the last
>>>letter.

I don't see why it makes him not a successor, if there'd exist a successor.
Where is the contradiction?
If it's because of the fact that Barks told that Scrooge was the last McDuck
alive, then where's the problem? Rumpus is an illegitimate son of Scrooge's dad
(and probably Downy O'Drake and her sister Vera's cousin), and carries the name McFowl,
not McDuck! He isn't and doesn't want to be a McDuck. Then, in his first stories,
he was told to be Scrooge's cousin, not half-brother, and I don't know if Van Horn
had planned this half brother story from the beginning, but Rumpus didn't know about
this until he discovered the letter. If it's only about the needing Van Horn had of
creating new characters to the family Barks used, then we could do the same reproach
to Don Rosa : remember that Casey Coot is his creation!!! It's not a character he just
created for the characters of his tree to fit better together, like Molly Mallard,
Lulubelle Loon, or Gretchen Grebe, Gus Goose could have very well been Grandma's
daughter's son, as he was in Barks' second sketches of his Duck Family Tree.
If there is a successor to Barks, I don't see why Don Rosa would be this successor
and not William Van Horn.
Many people consider that Don Rosa improves too much on Barks' universe... I don't
see a "too much" here, and I love Don Rosa's work, but to you, what is the biggest
changing in Barks' universe : giving scrooge an illeligitimate half brother, or making
Grandma the granddaughter of Cornelius Coot, for instance, or making mentionned, so Van
Horn acknowledged and respected Don Rosa's continuity. But well, you can still consider
all this as "universes", and there are as many universes as possible... the Barks universe,
the Barks/Rosa universe, the Bark/Van Horn universe, why not a Barks/Rosa/Van Horn universe,...
If you only focus on one universe, for instance the Barks/Rosa one, you'll be kind of
frustrated, I think, because once you have read all the stories and Whitewater being the
son of Eider Duck when Barks told Whitewater was a distant cousin, or renaming a bunch of
characters like Seafoam, Pothole, and Whitewater because he considered their names sounded
like nicknames,...?
A funny detail : in his story about Rumpus being in fact Scrooge's halfbrother, the name of
Fergus McDuck is made all the possible researches, you get a little "bored" (not to be
considered as an insult to Barks or Rosa), because Barks is dead (so, no new stories),
and Don Rosa is very slow to create new stories (not an insult either, rather a compliment,
I prefer cooking one excellent cake and take all day long to do it, than cooking ten cakes
which taste like crap and taking one hour...), but if you look at every available sources,
you always discover new stories, or old stories you didn't have, new characters, new
possibilities, and thousands of constradictions but it's so much fun to compare!

Gilles

Sigvald:

> This is only a
> friendly comment to those here who have from time to time stated that
> they
> see Van Horn as a successor to Barks as much as Don Rosa.

Objectively, Carl Barks has more successors than you can shake a stick
at. Everyone who has ever done Disney ducks for comic books follows in
his footsteps - he literally devised the creative milieu in which each
of them has toiled. To pinpoint one creator as his successor is to
drastically diminish the sheer grandeur of the inheritance he left, and
from which so many have taken their portion - and, in some cases,
produced triumphs of their own.

Gary

Sigh... Sigvald... I have an idea for you... you would have a website named Sigvald's apology, there you can say all that about later you sorry...

I hope you are enjoying the remake of the blitzkrieg on Polland by CNN...

sadly, Fabio

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