No good stories - who's to blame?

[Simo Malinen]

Hey, 

It's not always only the artist to blame about 
unpleasant artwork.

Often stories are drawn by the base of scetch -scripts 
drawn originally BY THE WRITERS OF THE STORY 
themselves!

An article about Tony Strobl says that:  
"...scripts (Tony Strobl got)... could be very 
different both in style and detail; everything 
from typewritten texts to detailed picture synopses 
with sketches on an individual frame level."

Remember Carl Barks' JW -stories in the 70's - 
and Bob Foster's cover-idea-sketches in the USA 
in the 80-90's. Robert Klein has sketched his 
covers (drawn eventually by others), Kari Korhonen 
sketches not only stories he makes completely but 
also stories that are in the end drawn and inked 
by someone others. 

Of course artists are making some changes - but 
many times the finished artwork matches writers 
sketches quite well.

For example, Recent years all the various stories 
written by Andreas Pihl are free-based by their 
lay-out (like Paperinik New Adventures -stories 
in Italy) - despite the artist and the publication 
format(weeklies, pocket books). It's not hard to 
guess if the reason of this could be the writers 
original well detailed sketches...

 - Simo



BTW - that mentioned article about Tony Strobl can 
be found from:
http://www.art-bin.com/art/strobleng.html

and there are also very similar article about Paul Murry:
http://www.art-bin.com/art/murryeng.html