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Oh dear, I found scans online.
Dumbo... talks?! And Br'er Fox shows up??!

I haven't heard that story so I wouldn't say whether it was silly or not. Oh Well I still can't believe that Donald Duck is 75 years old. I think Don Rosa did some good work even if Carl Barks didn't even though Carl Barks was a good artist too.

Great classic '30s Donald, Henrieke!

Hello, everyone!
Here is my modest contribution to Donald Duck's 75th birthday.
Splendid drawing, Henrieke (as usual) !

http://bobcat74.free.fr/obemoticons/disney/ducks/don34001m.giflivier

Quote from user: Henriekehttp://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1333/donaldbirthdaykleinmd.png
Very nice picture, Henrieke!

Quote from user: KneonI think Rosa is an excellent storyteller. If Barks had reservations about his work, it read to me like he wasn't too fond of his art style -- which admittedly, isn't the Disney Studios' "house style."
I don't know if Barks ever made a comment on Rosa's drawing style. He criticized, however, Rosa's undertaking of writing a, "the", biography of Scrooge McDuck saying that it Scrooge's past should better stay something like a mystery ...

Generally, the critic of Rosa disenchanting Duckburg with his obession of revealing and explaning everything in his stories until no question is open anymore is something that cannot be dismissed. And not only does Rosa provide exhaustive explanations with his stories but he writes than comments of his own stories touching every little aspect, and comments of the comments and so one ... It really would be a refreshing change if they'd give the next high-price edition of Rosa stories here not with Rosa's own comments on his work but with analyses by others. But Rosa has not yet produced his own scientific community of Geoffrey Blums ...

Whatever, basically I have nothing against Rosa's biography of Scrooge McDuck, since it's just fiction anyway, even when dealing with a real historical person and some basical facts of this person's life. Sort of the same thing as if someone wrote a fantasy-rich novel on, say, George Washington or Napoleon. :D

In the appreciation of Rosa and his fictive biography of McDuck, the D.O.N.A.L.D. made this point clear:

http://www.donald.org/kuenstler/Don-Rosa/2006/Urkunde.jpg

I don't know about what Carl Barks would think about Flemming Anderson drawing Scrooge McDuck. Unfortunately Barks died before Anderson started working on Disney Duck comics.

Flemming Anderson was drawing Disney Duck Comics already in 1990. But, I doubt that Barks was introduced specifically to his drawing. So, I doubt that Barks had an opinion on it, one way or the other. I seem to remember asking Carl what he thought of The Italians' style of drawing Donald and "The Duck Universe". Typical of his a-political stance on "judging" others' work, he gave this diplomatic answer: "They certainly have created their own style, when it comes to drawing the Disney characters. But it's clear that many of them have a lot of talent". I'd guess that he wouldn't feel that The Italians "did WRONG" by changing so much from the classic American style (as Barks' "purist" fans might). He'd likely feel that the classic US style isn't sacred, and there is room in art for various styles. He did say (also), "They certainly have a lot going on in their panels!"