Disney-comics digest #160.
Mark Semich
mas at cs.bu.edu
Thu Nov 18 20:03:39 CET 1993
David Gerstein writes:
> Paraphrase: "I can't understand all the shouting about your
>'hot' artist, Carl Barks. He only has about four or five different
>duck expressions which he reuses again and again... I prefer Vicar."
>To this Bob responded, "Yeah, we ought to get rid of that Barks guy.
>He's been producing clunky stuff for years now. I don't think he has
>a future in comics."
Yeah, I remember reading that letter. Most amusing.
DDA 24:
> Gladstone filled up the issue with a story from Egmont about
>.... about a *talking mailbox*? Aaargh!
Well, the story is *called* "The Talking Mailbox", but it's not
actually *about* a talking mailbox. At one point, Donald ends up
inside a mailbox, and two kids think that it's talking. Still,
it's certainly not one of the greatest tales. (from my extremely
critical and biased point of view. :-) )
> Gladstone seems to be picking real lemons when it comes to
>Danish stories... I can't help but say so.
I whole-heartedly concur - perhaps they just can't recognize quality
when it's in front of them? Judging from their selection of Mickey
stories, I suspect this to be the case.
(Or maybe they order the stories sight-unseen? You'd probably
know more about any possible reasons than I would...)
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