Rota vs Barks

[Olaf Solstrand]

> Yes, Marco Rota's "My life in an Egg Shell" is a nice story which
> represented, and my still represent Marco Rota's view on the
Duck-universe.
> However we can say for sure that it does not represnt Barks' view on the
> Duck universe as the two has a contradictory view on the relations between
> the central characters Grandma Duck and Uncle $crooge Mc Duck

Has -- or had?

Well, this siblinghood was the standard in Europe then - of course Rota
would be influenced from that. And, as I believe that none of Barks' stories
stated that they were NOT siblings, how could Rota know Barks was
contradictory to this?

>From Egg To Duck sure was NOT the first story saying they were siblings --
it was common knowledge. We grew up with great Italian stories telling us
about the past of Scrooge and Grandma. Everybody knew that they were
siblings, so why should they NOT be in the story of Donald's life?

Yes, my guess is that Rota had NO idea about what Barks thought of this. And
as the barksist Rota is, I feel sure that his POV changed when he found out
that Barks felt the opposite way. (does anyone here know Rota and is able to
find out?)

Before Don Rosa (and Byron Erickson) came along, Scrooge and Grandma WERE
siblings in Europe. And frankly, I see nothing wrong in that. Our great old
Barks stories took no harm from this, as none of them were saying the
opposite -- and most of these stories were GREAT stories, too.



Olaf the Blue