Favourite disney artist

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

JOSEF THORNBERG, 19-09-2003:

> I noticed that some people semed to get uppset by my letter 
> "whos best",i didnt want to say that anyone of those is bad, 
> i just wandered whos YOUR favorite disney artist,maybe i said 
> it in a wrong way,

My most favourite Disney artist is Carl Barks. What I like the most 
about him, is that he created a parody/model of real life by using 
archetypes and common sitautions. Wealth, luck, love, struggling, 
responsibility, guilt, unfairness, etc. etc. That makes his stories 
not only amusing, but also helpful in trying to comprehend real life 
and real people.

Here is one of my favourite Barks quotes. I think it perfectly 
describes my main reason for liking Barks's world and stories so 
much:

"The thing that is most important about my comics is this: I told it 
like it is. I told the kids that the bad guys have a little bit of 
good in them, and the good guys have a lot of bad in them, and that 
you just couldn't depend on anything much, that nothing was going to 
always turn out roses. In fact I laid it right on the line that 
there was no difference between my comic characters and the life 
these kids - the readers - were going to have to face. So when 
Donald had some adventures, and he got buffeted around, I tried to 
put it over in a way that the kids - the readers - could see, well, 
that could happen to them. It was the way life goes. I just didn't 
disguise anything or make things look rosy." 

Source: Donald Ault - Carl Barks Conversations, page 44 
(Interview with Barks by Donald Ault, 29 May 1973.)

I could go on for hours, explaining reasons why Barks is my most 
favourite Disney artist. This email is just a short version. I have 
to force myself to stop here. Otherwise, I'll end up writing the 
longest DCML-email ever. :-)

What is your favourite artist, Josef?

--- Daniël