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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Oct 15, 2017 15:00:16 GMT -5
Any other fans? I grew up reading the weekly Donald Duck magazine, which is pretty much an institution here (I've been told that the duck comics are actually less prevalent in the States, where they come from). It has all sorts of contributors, but I was mainly influenced by my dad's love of Carl Barks. I was always intensely fascinated by Don Rosa, too - I love his humour and his attention to detail, and I think The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a masterpiece of both storytelling and puzzlesolving. I regularly come back to the comics of those two artists, and I really think they're holding up, even when I reread them as an adult.
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Post by Hermes on Oct 15, 2017 16:57:02 GMT -5
In the Bergman film of The Magic Flute, there's a scene where we momentarily see the singers out of character, and one of the boys is reading Donald Duck. I always wondered why that was chosen.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Oct 15, 2017 17:54:11 GMT -5
I've read my fair share of Carl Barks comics from the library when I was a wee little lad and enjoyed them. Don Rosa, however, was my favourite comic artist then. Life and Times was the first graphic novel I bought, and I re-read it several times over the years. I definitely modeled my comic drawing style after his for a number of years (his cross-hatching style and the little background details he'd add in his panels), back when I used to do them (ages ca.7-12). Glad to see someone else here that had those comics as part of their childhood I haven't re-read any of these for quite a few years, though. Maybe I should one of these days...
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Oct 16, 2017 4:52:08 GMT -5
In the Bergman film of The Magic Flute, there's a scene where we momentarily see the singers out of character, and one of the boys is reading Donald Duck. I always wondered why that was chosen. The only particular reason I can see is that Donald Duck is just very popular in Scandinavia. I haven't seen the film, but I suppose they might just have wanted some form of mainstream media there for symbolic purposes. I've read my fair share of Carl Barks comics from the library when I was a wee little lad and enjoyed them. Don Rosa, however, was my favourite comic artist then. Life and Times was the first graphic novel I bought, and I re-read it several times over the years. I definitely modeled my comic drawing style after his for a number of years (his cross-hatching style and the little background details he'd add in his panels), back when I used to do them (ages ca.7-12). Glad to see someone else here that had those comics as part of their childhood I haven't re-read any of these for quite a few years, though. Maybe I should one of these days... I can certainly only recommend it! I'm glad to see someone who shared my experience, too. My personal experience is that there's a whole new dimension to L&T especially, now that I know who most of the historical figures he encounters are. I'm pretty sure Rosa, along with Helquist, was also one of my biggest idols when I drew as a child. When I first read L&T as a young child, it was in magazines that were just a part of a big bunch belonging to my school. I would leaf through them trying to find the stories in that series, but whenever I came across another one drawn in the same style, I'd put that one aside as well. They didn't have the whole series, just a few stray chapters, so I could only read the story partially and in my best approximation to chronological order. It was a fantastic experience for me when they reprinted the story in new magazines many years later.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Oct 16, 2017 5:46:45 GMT -5
My personal experience is that there's a whole new dimension to L&T especially, now that I know who most of the historical figures he encounters are. Now that I think of it, I remember being really excited when re-reading the beginning of L&T and having watched Citizen Kane since the last time I read it, and finally recognizing how Rosa portrayed Scrooge as a Foster Kane figure.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Jan 24, 2018 10:58:56 GMT -5
Having recently discovered the hardcover editions currently being released by Fantagraphics, I've now started reading/collecting the collected (Disney-owned part of the) works of Don Rosa. It's a fun experience reading them in English - there's a good deal more puns than in the translations I grew up with.
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Jan 19, 2022 10:56:50 GMT -5
I haven't read many Donald Duck comics but my friend and I found a box of old Donald Duck comics(as well as some other old comics)in her basement and we probably spent about half an hour down there reading them.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jan 19, 2022 14:36:39 GMT -5
I had several Uncle Scrooge Mc Duck magazines. Some of them with a very adult theme from my point of view at the time. I was reading it in the early 2000s. I remember a story where Uncle Scrooge Mc Duck was left very poor after a long monologue about ambition. He believed that ambition was key to getting rich. I found that speech a good contrast to what I was learning in my Bible studies, about the danger of ambition, and how harmful wanting to get rich is. It was as if those stories were examples of what not to be. But still, I loved the family's adventures in searching for lost treasures, or even making risky trades.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jan 19, 2022 14:54:31 GMT -5
Apparently the Scrooge McDuck adventure stories were a direct inspiration for the Indiana Jones movies. Makes so much sense when you realize the comics were already being published in the 50s.
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