Rob Klein's parrot gag

[Ole Reichstein Nielsen]

Rob Klein kindly sent me a scan of his own version of the currently discussed
"parrot gag" and the following comments:

>If you've been reading the recent DCML messages, you may be curious to see
>my redrawing (in an attempted Barks style) of a 1-page gag from USA DD 356,
>which MAY have been written (and possibly originally sketched) by Carl
>Barks (But I don't think so).  It was penciled and inked by Frank McSavage
>(whose art I think is very poor).  I redrew it to see if I think that Barks
>may have sketched the original, or just written a word description, or
>neither.

For the record we indexers call the original publication W OS  356, as an
abbreviation of Western Donald Duck One-Shot #356, in case you want to look
it up in our database. (There's a problem with the cover description btw,
Harry, due to the inconsistent way we code altered versions/reprints.)

Also for the record, I don't consider McSavage a "poor" artist at all.
I like his art for the early Grandma Duck stories and the Wheaties
give-aways on Wunderwurm's web site very much, and if he had been drawing
all of Barks' scripts instead of Barks himself, we'd probably agree that
it's exactly how they *should* look. :-)

Since the gag doesn't seem to have been widely published (so far we've
only got it tracked down in Denmark and Sweden) there's also a scan of
the McSavage from the Danish reprint. Don't blame Frank for the horrible
wallpaper though - that's the local editor's poor decision.

The URLs are:

http://hjem.get2net.dk/ole.roc/inedita/parrot_rkl.gif

http://hjem.get2net.dk/ole.roc/inedita/parrot_fms.jpg

Each scan is about 1/3 MB in size.


- Ole