Hi
A friend of me, mentioned that long time ago he read an article that Carl Barks... didn't liked Don Rosa's work, didn't care much for it and critisize him at few points... which sound so super odd is surreal!
I recall Barks did an oil painting "Return to plain awful" so I guess he must liked Rosa's work tiny bit...
Has any You have more info on this subject matter?
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Topic: Did Barks liked Rosa's work?
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Mr. M
Did Barks liked Rosa's work?
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2012-12-12 at 00:05:00
Robb_K
Did Barks liked Rosa's work?
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2012-12-12 at 01:33:48
Barks' oil painting of "Return To Plain Awful" was NOT a tribute to Don Rosa's story. Barks just drew that based on the idea that it would be interesting if Donald would take Uncle Scrooge with him to show him The Valley of the Square Eggs, and the city of the squarish people. If I'm not mistaken, he painted that painting BEFORE Rosa wrote his story.
Debbie
Did Barks liked Rosa's work?
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2012-12-12 at 06:52:18
Return to Plain Awful was the title of a Carl Barks lithograph, and Gladstone Publishing commissioned Don Rosa to create a comic book story on the painting:
http://www.brucehamilton.com/AR/Lithographs/LargeLithoPages/Awful%20page.htm
http://www.brucehamilton.com/AR/Lithographs/LargeLithoPages/Awful%20page.htm
Jano
Did Barks liked Rosa's work?
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2012-12-12 at 13:54:55
Quote from user: Robb_KBarks just drew that based on the idea that it would be interesting if Donald would take Uncle Scrooge with him to show him The Valley of the Square Eggs, and the city of the squarish people.
It was mostly a marketing decision, not a matter of "interesting" or not interesting. The paintings with Scrooge just sold better, so Barks put him in whenever he could, regardless of whether it made sense or not.
Says Blum in his Barks painting book,
Quote:Of the eighteen new oils that he would create for
Another Rainbow, Barks featured Scrooge, often prominently,
in all but one. McDuck??s presence in adventures where
he had not appeared before, like ??Pirate Gold" (DDFC 9)
and ??Lost in the Andes" (DDFC 223) was explained away as
a ??return," accompanying Donald and the nephews back to
the scene of old treasure hunts. Hamilton even commissioned
a new twenty-eight-page duck story from fan artist
Don Rosa to go with the Andean painting. ??My only reservations
right now," he wrote in 1986, ??are paintings without
Scrooge. He definitely seems to be a heavy influence on
what the oils bring."
As for the original question, it's not true that Barks did not like Rosa's stories. The only ones who propagated such rumors were Barks's fake managers that he fired later on.
Barks received advance copies of all pages of "The Life and Times..." for comments and corrections, and kindly provided feedback. Of course, he most likely didn't find it a "necessary" undertaking to tell the story of Scrooge's life in detail, but he didn't "disapprove" of the project or didn't like it or anything.
It was mostly a marketing decision, not a matter of "interesting" or not interesting. The paintings with Scrooge just sold better, so Barks put him in whenever he could, regardless of whether it made sense or not.
Says Blum in his Barks painting book,
Quote:Of the eighteen new oils that he would create for
Another Rainbow, Barks featured Scrooge, often prominently,
in all but one. McDuck??s presence in adventures where
he had not appeared before, like ??Pirate Gold" (DDFC 9)
and ??Lost in the Andes" (DDFC 223) was explained away as
a ??return," accompanying Donald and the nephews back to
the scene of old treasure hunts. Hamilton even commissioned
a new twenty-eight-page duck story from fan artist
Don Rosa to go with the Andean painting. ??My only reservations
right now," he wrote in 1986, ??are paintings without
Scrooge. He definitely seems to be a heavy influence on
what the oils bring."
As for the original question, it's not true that Barks did not like Rosa's stories. The only ones who propagated such rumors were Barks's fake managers that he fired later on.
Barks received advance copies of all pages of "The Life and Times..." for comments and corrections, and kindly provided feedback. Of course, he most likely didn't find it a "necessary" undertaking to tell the story of Scrooge's life in detail, but he didn't "disapprove" of the project or didn't like it or anything.
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