Duckburg and Mouseton (W. van Horn)

[Søren Krarup Olesen]

SIGVALD++ :

Sorry for interrupting in this otherwise interesting debate, but...

> David Gerstein <DGE at ECN.egmont.com> wrote:
> 
> Paul Murry was mainly an artist, Sigvald, and almost never wrote the
> stories he drew.
> 
> Are you sure? DD&Co seldom mentiones other persons names together
> with Paul Murry's name when they print his stories.

The reason is simple: It is not known who the story writer was.

> But, what you here tell us seems to explain why some of Tello's
> stories are so close to Murry's, they may be written by the same
> guys.

That is very unlikely. Tello mostly worked for Gutenberghus/Egmont, but
there might be an overlap somewhere.

> Anyway, if you are right, Paul Murry may no longer deserve to be
> counted together with the greatest artists like Gottfredson, Barks,
> Rosa, Van Horn, Rota, etc. who normally do all the work themselves.

"Deserve"? Erm...in fact I am amazed that you put Murry amongst a list
which includes a midrange Barks-wannabe like (William) van Horn, who for
(to me) unknown reasons holds a big star at Egmont's. William's only
feature is that he is American...nothing else. The others on your list
are light years ahead of this van Horn, both in terms of art and story
ideas.

Murry inspired many people with his art, not always succesfully though,
e.g. Toni Bancells...sorry!. William Van Horn on the other hand
frequently inspires me to unsubscribe from the weekly (rubbish of course
but still). Luckily Noel does a darn good job on the Mickey scene, so... :-)

Personally, I find much more pleasure in reading Strobl, Hubbard and
Bradbury or Jippes for that matter; stories which are perhaps only of 4
pages or so, in comparison to a William-story of 12 pages where nothing
really happens.

Søren