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For years, I've wished Daan Jippes had drawn over Barks' three pages of blueline sketches for "The Pied Piper of Duckburg", and drawn his own version of what he would thing Barks would have drawn for the remainder of the story, rather than see what Don Rosa had done with that story. In my opinion, Rosa put his own style on Barks' first three pages (as no one would argue). But Rosa's very different staging style in the last five pages (and very different writing style-I might add), make the story appear to have been written by and drawn by two different artists. That "break" after Page three, ruins reading the story for me.
I feel that Daan Jippes could have drawn those three pages in Barks' style (as proven in his using Barks' blueline sketches of his Junior Woodchuck stories to "re-create" them). In addition, Jippes own staging is a lot closer to Barks' than is Rosa's, and he also could have continued the same drawing style in the "new" five pages, that he would have used in the three Barks pages, resulting in a homogeneous rather than divided story.
I've always wondered what the story would look like if it had been drawn by someone who would stick to Barks' lines and intentions. So, I penciled those three pages and inked them, just to get a rough idea of what they would look like.
Here are the pages, which I drew in half-page segments (as I do all stories that I do final pencils and/or inking on - (none for Disney yet!):
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/PiedPiperA.jpg
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/PiedPiperBB.jpg
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/PiedPiperCC.jpg
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/PiedPiperD.jpg
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/PiedPiperE.jpg
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Robb_K/PiedPiperF.jpg
I think it would have been better for Barks fans if Tony Strobl had just stuck to Barks' lines on his Junior Woodchucks storyboards, as I did on these (photocopies of sketches) from Barks (and as Daan Jippes did years later). Then, we would have had a much better idea of what Barks intended.

Well I didn't really mind Don Rosa doing this story. He may have done it in his own style than Bark's style but atleast the first pages are (basically) the same. Plus he fixed the mistake in how Gyro addresses Scrooge (in the version Robb_K posted up Gyro calls him "Uncle Scrooge McDuck" which makes not sense since they aren't closely related.) So Don made Gyro call him "Mr.McDuck" which makes a lot more sense. But that's just my two cents nothing more. :)

This is the sort of discussion that vindicates the use of a forum, as I find it much easier to go back and forth between text & images, and include an image right within the text.
Thanks for those pages too, Rob! :)

Robb_K, by the way, do not hesitate to use the "upload tool" function on this website, then the image goes to the same server than the one hosting this forum. I am in control of it, so they can't really be lost like for other image upload sites (I don't know if there are good images uploading sites where you can be certain your images will last).

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to reveal this, but there *is* a new version of "The Pied Piper" by Daan Jippes. Today, I got the pdf file for translating it into German.
I don't know the exact date, but it will probably be published in the Egmont countries in about three or four months.

This version was most likely done for being used in the "Carl Barks Collection" (as was the case with the "lettuce" story)...

Great news! Daan is the best at following Barks' lines. It will be interesting to compare Jippes' lines to my version (sticking as much to Barks' style as I could. Jippes will add his own style with his own inks, as that's the only way to keep the lines fluid, and keep the dynamism. my "inking" would NOT have been acceptable to a Disney Comics art editor.
It will also be interesting to see what jippes does with the pages not drawn by Barks. Will he draw new ones based on Barks' comments, or will he redraw Rosa's additions to the story?
"Today, I got the pdf file for translating it into German."
Nu Ich bin Deutscher! Ich kan das lesen!

I also think Rosa was wrong in trying to graft his preoccupation with Duckburg geography onto the story--note that in the Barks original, the building that Scrooge takes Gyro into is his "Money Bin," while Rosa has altered it to an office building and changed "Money Bin" to "overflow bin" in the script. Barks put Scrooge's Bin in downtown Duckburg in several Gyro stories (including "Cave of the Winds") and Rosa, who insists that the Bin can ONLY be shown on Killmotor Hill, has frequently complained about that (dismissing the Gyro stories as apochryphal for this reason at least once). I don't think he should have tried to tinker with Barks for such a niggling reason.
Incidentally, Robb's pencils look very good! Now, if we only had a script that would tell us how Barks planned the subsequent five pages...

Quote from user: Gyro GearlooseI also think Rosa was wrong in trying to graft his preoccupation with Duckburg geography onto the story--note that in the Barks original, the building that Scrooge takes Gyro into is his "Money Bin," while Rosa has altered it to an office building and changed "Money Bin" to "overflow bin" in the script. Barks put Scrooge's Bin in downtown Duckburg in several Gyro stories (including "Cave of the Winds") and Rosa, who insists that the Bin can ONLY be shown on Killmotor Hill, has frequently complained about that (dismissing the Gyro stories as apochryphal for this reason at least once). I don't think he should have tried to tinker with Barks for such a niggling reason.
I still like Rosa's "tinkering" very much. In general, his adherence to structure and consistency is commendable. He makes the ducks more serious beings and thus more realistic seeming. And he ties loose ends together to make a more complete, multi-dimensional universe. This helps make the duck-world more believable. I simply think that's exciting because we would probably all like to pretend we could step through a mirror into that landscape in which Rosa makes seem more possible.