Barks's rhythm
Donald D. Markstein
ddmarkstein at cox.net
Mon Jul 10 15:07:44 CEST 2006
> Barks used a lot of rhythm and poetry. His dialogue looks almost
> musical to me. In an interview, maybe in Donald Ault's book, Barks
> told he counted syllables to prevent to words and dialogue getting too
> difficult and long-winded. And there's of course his 'Ode to the
> Disney Ducks' from 1999.
I quite agree about his rhythmic, musical dialog, and am not a bit
surprised to hear he counted syllables. Barks has always had a very
strong influence on my own writing style, which surprises people who
don't know better, and think of him as just an artist. I've been a fan
of his for more than 50 years -- starting about when I learned to read,
as a matter of fact. By 1969, when I began writing professionally
(feature stories in the Sunday morning New Orleans Times-Picayune), I
was already seeing faint echoes of him in my own writing.
Quack, Don
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