Coloring (was: Disney Writer/Artists teams)

[Gerd Syllwasschy]

Merlin wrote:

> As far as I know, Murry did not do any writing. I am
> convinced that he lettered and colored the majority of the Disney
> stories that he drew. (Which isn't that uncommon. Barks or his wife
> Gare did the lettering in his stories and Barks could have added
> color if he had wanted too. (It's mentioned that he tried it a couple
> of times and ended up with  "houses with pink roofs"  or some such.))

This is interesting. I'd thought coloring was always done at Western
Publishing's office (or at the printing factory). In fact Barks once
complained that he sometimes gave coloring hints but the colorists at
Western never followed his instructions.

Gerd