Manga Ducks

Olivier mouse-ducks at wanadoo.fr
Sun Jul 22 19:24:54 CEST 2001


Hello!

Erro-Pekka:
>> I can't scan it [...] Sorry.
No problem.


Well, waddaya know?
What do I see in the next message?...


Petri Kanninen:
Thanks a lot for the scans!


The first page (finding the newspaper) is weird: first, IMO, there
are to many wordless panels; then, oddly enough, the dialogue
looks weird. I think it's a matter of  striking the exact balance,
just like the extreme facial expressions we discussed a while ago
regarding an Italian artist whose name I can't remember:
wordless panels & extreme poses should be used sparsely.
As regards the former, though, I think it works better when there
really is not dialogue at all, as in the first widenning panels
and several of  Taliaferro's strips.

I like the widening panels too, though there's too much blank
int he background; maybe they could put a heap of  fish or
something; it looks unfinished.
The clock panel is too large: there ought to be some background.
(As Uncle Scrooge might say: "Think of  all the costly space lost
and of  the even costlier red ink used!"  ; )

Finally, why this remake? Is it the first story of  that kind? Has he
done others, and are they remakes as well?
And in this case, cutting out the dialogue and turning the original
strip into an almost speechless one kind of  looks like dumbing it
down and stripping it off  of  the "useless", "difficult" dialogues
to appeal to children who can't read well, which is rather frightening.

Also sounds like appropriating another artist's work. Not that I think
that's what he maliciously intended (stealing Barks' work and getting
the credit for another one's good ideas); but what's the point of
re-drawing it? This kind of  experiment could have been made with
an original story.


Best things,

                                                                                Olivier
                                                                    warmer in Paris, now
                                                                           (27  they say)




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