Barks caricature in quiet neighborhood story? (WDC 178)

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Fri Sep 12 02:04:28 CEST 2003


Daniel van Eijmeren wrote:

In the quiet neighborhood story (WDC 178), Donald gets in a quarrel with an 
author living next door.Somewhere in Donald Ault's book "Carl Barks 
Conversations", Barks remembers that he based this story on real-life circumstances. He 
really had loud neighbours at the time. (Can someone check up this part?)
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On page 117 of "Carl Barks Conversations":

Klaus Strzyz: Do you have any favorite stories?

Carl Barks: There are lots of them! Of the 10-pagers, the story I like best 
is the one in which Donald has a chicken farm and stacks the eggs so high that 
when an earthquake shakes them loose they cover the town on the valley floor 
and have to be burned. And then there's the one where the ducks move into a 
quiet neighborhoof and Donald is naturally the loudest one of all. That's really 
good and even the secondary figures are well done, for example the 
cheese-taster who blows his alphenhorn [WDC178].

Gare Barks: At the time Carl was writing that story, we lived in an aprtment 
house with awfully loud neighbors. Only upstairs it was quiet.

Carl Barks: The woman that lived there was drunk all day, and the only noise 
that one heard from her was when another empty wine bottle fell to the floor. 
But next door-- frightful!

Derek Smith
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