Barks and Clara photo

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

JOAKIM GUNNARSSON to ARE MYKLEBUST, 04-09-2003:

>> A photo of Carl Barks and his second wife Clara is for the moment 
>> offered on ebay:
>> I have no idea where it comes from.

> My guess is that it comes from his former managers. 

Why do you think so? Do you think this by default when you don't know 
the seller, or do you really have more information?

Anyway, the reason why I'm replying to this is that in the past, I have 
been wrongful accused of willing association and cooperation with these 
managers. That accusation is NONSENSE of the worst kind, so I should 
forget about it. Still, your email makes me nervous. There might be some 
poor souls around who'll imagine that my email about Barks's second wife 
is a proof of such a connection, just because someone else mentions a 
possible(?) connection between my subject and those Ebay-sellers... And 
really, I'm not kidding!

So, in short:
- I have NO idea who these sellers are.
- I have NO idea who Barks's managers are. 

The only "contact" I've had with the Carl Barks Studio, was a package of 
promotional material that has been sent to me, because I wanted to know 
what exactly Barks was creating at the time. (No strange motive for a 
Barks fan, I'd say.) And for that reason, my name and then-current address 
seems to have been put in their files, because I received some material 
afterwards. (About a Marc Davis Studio they tried to set up, and some odd 
other papers.) This was after Barks left, and I did not ask for it. I have 
NEVER made a secret of that, and I have always been an open book about the 
material I have recieved. EVERYONE could have had this "contact" that easily.
And some of their "extra" information has made me quite nervous, by the way.

Ironically, and to push the obvious even further, I was on holiday in Spain 
when Barks and his managers visited The Netherlands! But of course, that 
could be just too much of a coincidence, some might say. Others may see that 
I get half-crazy when thinking of those accusations which have deeply hurt 
me. I have NEVER been more than just a guy with an internet-connection and 
some Barks books. What can I do? I can't even hurt a fly!

--- Daniël the Paranoïd Monk