Serious views on Blum/Barks

[Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr.]

Daniel J. Neyer <jerryblake2 at juno.com> wrote:

> ...try to update the Ducks to modern
> standards and you'll wind up with super-hero
> style slop. William Van Horn is a perfect
> example of how modern writers should work--
> he's not above mentioning modern technology,
> but the story always comes first, and his
> stories are always in traditional Barksian
> mode. Even better is Don Rosa's system of
> setting the tales in the fifties, but at any
> rate, both Rosa and Van Horn deliver stories
> for other people's enjoyment, while Blum seems
> to prefer delivering stories for his own
> personal satisfaction. Barks wrote to please
> himself, but he also kept an eye on his
> audiences and tried to entertain them, a vital
> ingredient to comic-book work that Blum seems
> to have overlooked.

I agree 100% with you Daniel. And I think that both you and Rodney have come
up with very serious and clever views about G. Blum and his use of Barks' to
promote himself. Keep up the good debate!

Sigvald