BB's ears/ MM Secret Super Agent etc.

[timo ronkainen]

Hi!

Somehow my previous posting disappeared to somewhere in nowhere, due to some 
errors with hotmail.. %&¤#!
Can´t remember exactly  what I said, but I go breafly on those first..

Olivier:
Subject: Beagle Boys' ears
 >>BTW: sometimes Beagle Boys have floppy dog's ears and sometimes normal 
human
 >>ears.
 >and in all four they do have *flappy dog's ears*:
    - 1st appearance: WDC&S 134 (Nov 51, Album 19)

Yes, you got me there. Looks like Barks created Beagles with doggy ears.
Checking quickly couple of stories.. US 28 shows them with human ears.
But I was quite fascinated about US 7, where Barks seemed to be little bit 
confused, whether to draw them with  dog ears or just regular human ears.. 
Look for example page 13 panel 3 where one of them has floppy ears while 
others have more or less human ears.. strange.

Steven Rowe:
 >> I just wonder the logic of Disney/Western editors....
 >Just Western editors (my understanding is that Disney left them alone), 
but
 >you are talking about two different editors 20 years apart.

Admit. But there still hasn't been clear yes or no on that matter..

morgan:
 >i wish him well, and all of you who are going to the event. i
 >hope you're not too disappointed when you meet a pinched and crabby man 
who
 >thinks his fans are interested in him and his work soley to make a few
 >dollars by selling it to another fan.

I´ve never seen him like that, in Finland he has always been friendly and 
cooperative. He have sometimes done extra hours to get signed copies of his 
books to all people that have arrived to meet him. On each book he usually 
drew something.
I could never sell an original drawing or book signed by Don, or by anyone 
else if I happen to like the artist. That might be the difference between 
truefan and speculative collector.. I guess.


Arthur Faria Jr.
Mickey Mouse Super Secret Agent
TIMO:
<< Indeed interesting experiment. Spiegel's and Murry's styles don't fit
together,
 >I think those stories were created to be exactly the way they are,
 >inspired by many movies which put together human actors and
 >cartoon characters (Gene Kelly + Jerry Mouse, Roger Rabbit, and
 >so on...) If they fit well in those movies, so do Spiegel's and Murry's
 >styles... (IMHO)

If you say so (and those arguments are good) but my HO is just that it 
doesn´t work. Lets not argue about this though. I do admit that those films 
you mentioned worked well. Better than this MM comic. In a comic book 
everything is drawn by hand, therefore one could imagine that they should 
fit together better than drawn characters mixed with real people in a movie. 
Yet it was much more fun to see *real* Gene Kelly dancing with drawn mouse, 
than to see realistically *drawn* humans with Mickey.
Awh, I don't know if this made any sense.. :-/

Timo

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