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Thread #30271   Message #388020
Posted By: Little Hawk
01-Feb-01 - 11:34 PM
Thread Name: Donald Duck & Uncle Scrooge Fans!
Subject: RE: Donald Duck & Uncle Scrooge Fans!
Lepus Rex - Whaddya mean Disney blows your cat? You must have a very strange cat! I'd get him checked out by a good pet psychiatrist at once!

Bugs Bunny is definitely cool, but the Warner Brothers stories have never shown the scope of sheer imagination in the Duck tales drawn by Barks and Rosa. Forget about Disney! He may have invented the ducks, but Barks and Rosa took them into realms Disney never dreamed of. Disney's Donald was just a squawking, argumentative, hysterical duck, but in the hands of Carl Barks he became a tragicomic everyman with as much character as Jimmy Stewart.

Gary T - As for Mickey Mouse, he became a dreadful bore in the fifties and sixties....a sort of suburban poor man's Dick Tracy with mouse ears....BUT...the earlier Mickey Mouse stuff in the 30's and 40's was wonderful! Great adventures and a really gritty feel to the stories and characters. For Mickey, you gotta go to the REALLY old stuff.

- LH