DCML digest #895

Arne Voigtmann ArneVoigtmann at gmx.de
Tue Apr 16 23:09:35 CEST 2002


Don Rosa wrote:

> Are you asking whether Barks ever had funny pictures hanging on background
> walls, or if I copied these *particular* pictures from an old Barks story?
It was the second thing I wanted to know, but since you have answered
both questions that doesn't matter any more :).

> I scribble these pictures as they pop into my head while I'm penciling...
> they are not planned in my scripts. I don't think too hard whether I am
> subconsciously reusing one that I saw once before, but at the time I'm
> thinking they are original, such itty-bitty gags that they are. Of course,
> working for Egmont (rather than when I was doing the stuff for Gladstone),
> it gets *very* difficult to think of a gag for a picture in $crooge's
> office -- there are a thousand little gags that would work if there was a
> "$" (or its equivalent) that could appear in the pic... but I can't put one
> in because someone would remove it and not bother to replace it with a "Kr"
> or a "Mk" or anything else. That explains why many of my older stories in
> Egmont editions show that $crooge seems to like to decorate his office with
> pictures of lumpy, unidentified bags of... peanuts? Rocks? Who knows? And I
> can't put "$"s hovering around what I intend to be a coin. So... you saw
> $crooge chasing a coin and praying before a coin? Some readers might wonder
> why he's so devoted to pingpong balls.
Fortunately we all know what Scrooge is most devoted to - although it
might be possible for him chasing after pingpong balls. Do you know how
expensive they are?!?




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