This might interest Carl Barks fans:
http://comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com/2009/08/dark-vision-of-carl-barks.html
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Lars Jensen
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2009-08-13 at 19:15:42
Roger North
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2009-08-13 at 19:41:07
That article seems to have quite a few negative references to Carl Barks.
Robb_K
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2009-08-13 at 20:54:10
That's LYING about Barks' work, and using a few quotes out of context from an interview not so long after his wife had died, and his so-called business partners (who had claimed to be trying to help him earn money-but were really just trying to make money for themselves by using him) had cheated him, and stabbed him in the back (metaphorically). No wonder he had a jaded look on life then.
The Carl Barks I knew was a realist, but never a negative person with a black vision of The World and humanity. Nothing like that ever came out in his work (as I view it). The World has a lot of crooks, murderers, thieves, swindlers, negative and selfish people. Why CAN'T we portray them? Hiding from that has gotten us into more trouble than trying to deal with it in a more practical way.
Barks had plenty of love in his stories. The writer of that article is way off base (a sensationalist).
I say "Bah! Humbug!" to that!
The Carl Barks I knew was a realist, but never a negative person with a black vision of The World and humanity. Nothing like that ever came out in his work (as I view it). The World has a lot of crooks, murderers, thieves, swindlers, negative and selfish people. Why CAN'T we portray them? Hiding from that has gotten us into more trouble than trying to deal with it in a more practical way.
Barks had plenty of love in his stories. The writer of that article is way off base (a sensationalist).
I say "Bah! Humbug!" to that!
Olivier
The Dark Vision of Carl Barks
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2009-08-13 at 21:56:24
May i suggest you copy your reply to the "article" on that blog page, Robb?
Kneon
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2009-08-14 at 03:48:40
Wow, those Barks quotes sounded a lot like my grandpa...
Robb_K
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2009-08-14 at 09:48:52
Quote from user: OlivierMay i suggest you copy your reply to the "article" on that blog page, Robb?
I didn't see a way on that website to make a comment. I guess one has to become a member. I didn't want to bother with all that. I have no time for even MORE Internet sites to look at and make comments. I'm already in danger of being thrown into the street (in 3 different countries!) for having no money (from earning none)!
I didn't see a way on that website to make a comment. I guess one has to become a member. I didn't want to bother with all that. I have no time for even MORE Internet sites to look at and make comments. I'm already in danger of being thrown into the street (in 3 different countries!) for having no money (from earning none)!
Arthur
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2009-08-14 at 23:04:34
Quote from user: Robb_KI didn't see a way on that website to make a comment. I guess one has to become a member.
You don't have to sign up. You can just click Post a Comment and then select Name/URL or Anonymous to leave a comment.
You don't have to sign up. You can just click Post a Comment and then select Name/URL or Anonymous to leave a comment.
Robb_K
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2009-08-16 at 03:42:18
Quote from user: arthurQuote from user: Robb_KI didn't see a way on that website to make a comment. I guess one has to become a member.
You don't have to sign up. You can just click Post a Comment and then select Name/URL or Anonymous to leave a comment.
I couldn't make the post take without using a Google ID and password. But I forgot my Google name. I just can't deal with all the user names and passwords I have anymore. There are too many. So many Fora and blogs where you can post have different rules for making up user names and passwords, so I CAN'T use the same user name and password. Then, I have to have a bunch pin numbers to remember . I CAN'T take it anymore! It's driving me mad! Life just isn't worth all this. It's just too hard to get anything done. There are too many errors.
You don't have to sign up. You can just click Post a Comment and then select Name/URL or Anonymous to leave a comment.
I couldn't make the post take without using a Google ID and password. But I forgot my Google name. I just can't deal with all the user names and passwords I have anymore. There are too many. So many Fora and blogs where you can post have different rules for making up user names and passwords, so I CAN'T use the same user name and password. Then, I have to have a bunch pin numbers to remember . I CAN'T take it anymore! It's driving me mad! Life just isn't worth all this. It's just too hard to get anything done. There are too many errors.
Arthur
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2009-08-16 at 03:51:24
Quote from user: Robb_KI couldn't make the post take without using a Google ID and password.
Just change the radio button from "Google Account" to "Name/URL" or "Anonymous" and you won't need an account to post comments on Blogger/Blogspot.
Just change the radio button from "Google Account" to "Name/URL" or "Anonymous" and you won't need an account to post comments on Blogger/Blogspot.
WB
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2009-08-17 at 06:47:28
I think its a rather interesting "devil's advocate" style article myself. Some of Barks' characters and situations were decidedly darker and more humanistic of many of his peers stories dealing with funny animals at the time and that - in and of itself - is what made so many of his works stick out. Personally though, if you want to talk about dark and foreboding settings and characters - I think the Bill Walsh period of Floyd Gottfredson's work definitely takes the cake.
Coolwater
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2009-09-08 at 20:09:25
Quote from user: WBPersonally though, if you want to talk about dark and foreboding settings and characters - I think the Bill Walsh period of Floyd Gottfredson's work definitely takes the cake.
Some of the earlier Italian Mickey and Donald material particularly of Scarpa has also a sort of frightening "noir" atmosphere, just think of the story "Kali's Nail".
The Italian stories also always had the tendency to be quite brutal, showing--even if in an often comically absurd way--violent scenes that Barks, enchained by Western Publishing, could have never dared to show.
Quote from user: The Dark VisionThe most harrowing comics-related reading I know is Donald Ault?s Carl Barks: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2003).
Quite an exaggeration. I guess there are many comics dealing with serious unlovely topics of our real world like war, crime, genocide ...
The so-called "pessimistic" world-view of Barks that comes through in his stories isn't really a new discovery. That is what makes his stories so good. If I just wanted to watch "funny animals" jumpin' around I'd read Bussi Bär.
Some of the earlier Italian Mickey and Donald material particularly of Scarpa has also a sort of frightening "noir" atmosphere, just think of the story "Kali's Nail".
The Italian stories also always had the tendency to be quite brutal, showing--even if in an often comically absurd way--violent scenes that Barks, enchained by Western Publishing, could have never dared to show.
Quote from user: The Dark VisionThe most harrowing comics-related reading I know is Donald Ault?s Carl Barks: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2003).
Quite an exaggeration. I guess there are many comics dealing with serious unlovely topics of our real world like war, crime, genocide ...
The so-called "pessimistic" world-view of Barks that comes through in his stories isn't really a new discovery. That is what makes his stories so good. If I just wanted to watch "funny animals" jumpin' around I'd read Bussi Bär.
Roger North
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2009-09-09 at 19:12:29
I have the first part of Kali's Nail in Mickey Mouse #254. I don't have the second part though.
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