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Wolfman
Senior Member
Croatia
1139 Posts
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 Posted - 09/08/2025 : 23:34:17
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AI transkript :D
Malo o Barksu:
Q: And when did your love of comic books come?
A: That came later when I read already a ton of books when I was maybe 12. And by coincidence it happened. I read the German Mickey Mouse magazine had as well, was not just Mickey Mouse, was the Duck family and I liked always the Duck family. Actually that was the only thing I liked, the rest I was not interested in. And I found out Disney never allowed the artists to neither copyright nor sign who made the drawings or the narration, the storytelling. But one was profoundly different from all the other ones. Later I found out his name was Karl Barks and he is kind of the creator of the Duck family with uncle Scrooge, Donald, the nephews and everything. Donald Duck and his offspring. Yes. He was not only an amazing storyteller, but as well as an artist. So I've never seen it anywhere else. And his stories, I loved them from the beginning on. And I can say that I probably learned everything, at least I thought, at that time about America, California, Southern California and capitalism. This is the cause of Karl Barks, Donald Duck. I think he started in the mid 40s and did it for 25 years or whatever. And that was how I fall in love with comic books or specifically with this guy. Later I found out that there were others in the world who did the same and he had already a much growing fan base, Karl Barks. But unfortunately, beside of this comic book fan club circle, where he was a big star already 40 years ago or so, 50 years ago. He never became a household name, but he was inspirational for generations of children. And I mean, he is as great a writer as Mark Twain is, I would say, you know, or any other household great name. And without Karl Barks, my life would have gone in a different direction. I'm pretty sure about that.
Dio gdje spominje Tarzana i onda općenito o stripovima. Zanimljivo nije spomenuo kompilaciju stripova od Barksa koja bi isto trebala izaći ove godine.
Q: Have you done comic book compilations?
A: Yes, I mean, we did a number of reprints now, in a large size. A new one is coming up now on Tarzan by two excellent artists, Hal Forster and Bern Hogarth, and we did Little Nemo and Crazy Cat, and we are doing Marvel and EC Comics, and yeah, we're getting a very substantial comic book program, so it's coming after 40 plus years back to the roots. Yeah. And what I like, I'm very excited about it, because we know by now how we can do it, that it looks as good as it would have looked if the technology and the money put into this at the time when it was published, yeah, it could have been done this way.
Q: So, it's even better than it was originally published?
A: I would say the artists, they would be proud and happy if they could have seen it in this way. Yeah. So, first of all, you know, and that's the reason why we have it in a bigger scale, the bigger size. The magazines, they downsized it to maybe half the size like it was. The original drawings were like in centimeters, let's say 50 centimeters each height for each page, and it was published in the size of 20, yeah, or whatever that means in inches. Yeah. They did not spend a lot of money to make the registers all fit and all of this, but in an ideal world, you could have done it, yeah. So, what we do, and the reason why I tell you this is we don't want to alter something. It's more like a restoration. It's a restoration process. That's how we describe it, yeah. And we put a lot of time and money into this to make that look as good as it gets, and I think that's what is regarded as well now. |
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