Talk:Carl Barks

message: Why is there reference (unsourced) to his former wife Clara swinging whiskey bottles at him?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.218.229.154 (talk) 23:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It adds color and is accurate; it is mentioned in Michael Barrier's book. Dgabbard (talk) 04:18, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Cruddy writing

message: Would it be of any relevance to mention that Don Rosa is widely regarded as Barks' spiritual successor? In fact, Rosa idolizes Barks' style to the point that his confessed goal is to make their styles indistinguishable - and he usually succeeds. - 200.195.88.155
:Could be, but Barks has had many successors. My own favourite is probably Daan Jippes. He maintains the same energy and movement in his comics as in the older Barks' stories. Personally, I think Rosa's style is quite stiff and lacking in emotion.
I met Rosa twice, and as he said, his style is very different from Barks, although he tried to follow Barks. There is a huge difference between the two, especially on personalities. And there are also many different successors, I agree that Jippes (with Fred Milton) is one of the closest. Herve661 19:14, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think every duckburgian artist can be praised as Bark's successor. Don Rosa itself can be regarded as successor since his story often referred to Carl Bark's stories. The same discussion also appear in Talk:Don Rosa. Kunderemp 23:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The successor 

message: Hopefully there are some editors who watch this page. I don't know where to put this info. It should be merged into this article per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Only A Poor Old Man. Thanks. --Fang Aili  說嗎? 04:46, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry, look on fr.wiki at Category:Carl Barks' Story. Sebjarod 10:12, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info from [[Only A Poor Old Man]] 

message: It was Will Eisner who called Barks the HC Andersen of comics - I read that in a book, but I can't find it on the internet. 96T 11:16, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: (in Norwegian, unfortunately). If you could find out what book, that's an adequate citation too. Sam Vimes | Address me 11:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is not a reliable source and it is not even available any more (). I added an alternative source for the claim that Barks has been compared to Andersen. Needless to say that the claim that Eisner made this claim first has not been verified yet. --Omnipaedista (talk) 02:31, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barks and Andersen 

message: There were some Bark Stories in 50s and 60s which have been censored and redrawn such as "The Darkest Africa". Eric Shanower warned the reader in his recommendation. If someone know which stories were being redrawn, I think it would be interesting to put in wikipedia. I only knew one, "Darkest Africa",  when the villain went to native village to hire some men. Kunderemp 23:41, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a rather complicated situation. In some cases, Barks' work was censored by his publisher before publication (such as the 5 page sequence cut from "Back to the Klondike"). He also sometimes dropped pages to tighten and improve a story. Kim Weston's article "My Secret Life By Scrooge McDuck - Or, The Unpublished Carl Barks", published in Funnyworld no. 16 (1975) and distilled into Michael Barrier's Carl Barks and the Art of the Comic Book is the authority on this topic. Disney has also in contemporary times mandated some changes, although the redrawing you cite when "Darkest Africa" was published in the Carl Barks Library was actually because there was no good source material and they had to use inked tracings (albeit rather poor ones). Dgabbard (talk) 01:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  On the web, you may have a look here and here. Herve661 (talk) 07:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  A correcion: "Darkest Africa" had both censorship and problems with source material.Dgabbard (talk) 04:20, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Censorship pre-80s 

message: I tweaked and improved the description of how Barks shifted from taking commissions to selling the paintings via auction. Even found a drawing dated Sept. 1974 where Barks confirms by then no more names were being taken. I also took out excess detail about the painting sold in Boston in 1975--we don't need to know who bought it, that it hasn't changed hands or its current value. Sounds like an ad not material that belongs in a biography of Barks.
Dgabbard (talk) 18:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have again removed excess detail about the 1975 sale, that the buyer became a friend and spoke at the funeral. Comes across as egregious egoboo that has no place in a biographical article.Dgabbard (talk) 04:24, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  the oil paintings 

message: Could someone please fill me in why there is absolutely NO mention of DuckTales in this article?  Like is it really that irrelevant?  Didn't he help create the show?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Infinitysend (talk • contribs) 03:44, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He created Duckburg from the 1940s up to the 60s, and the makers of Ducktails chose to ignore 99% of what he had done when they were doing the series around 1990. --79.193.62.12 (talk) 06:05, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The article on DuckTales mentions Barks. That seems adequate.Dgabbard (talk) 04:28, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  DuckTales 

message: I've inserted two sentences (and a print source) into the second bulleted point under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks#The_Good_Duck_Artist before the last sentence. My idea here is to reinforce the significance of the adventures to Barks' corpus of work; hope it's not overly pedantic for an encyclopedia entry. Alas, I've got no access to the original hardback print of vol. 6 of the (black and white) Carl Barks Library to see if the Blum quote is the same in the original as it appears in the subsequent edit I've got, but 'Vacation Time' is beautifully colored where I have this cite from. If the insertion passes muster, I might later do a page for 'Vacation Time' such as other Barks tales below have.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Onundtreefoot (talk • contribs) 18:35, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I made it a separate paragarph and tweaked the wording.Dgabbard (talk) 04:41, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Duck Artist 

message: There's a discussion on which comic-related articles should be listed as "Top Importance" on the importance scale, and I feel this article should not be included. If any user disagrees or wishes to contribute, please do so there. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:42, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top Importance? 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion 

message: I've removed a phrase that described Barks as "an atheist", as unsubstantiated.
Here's my blog on the subject
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.220.73.191 (talk) 02:00, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barks and Belief