Sorry for the size. So much going on in that top panel! Barks was a true talent.
http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks ... ike/14.jpg if the image fails to load.

That is great stuff.

Not one of my favorite Barks stories. This half-page is still a great example of what he could do!

That page was cut from the original published story too. I'm glad Gemstone was able to restore it and others that were cut for various reasons back in the day.
I like the story very much because of what Rosa was able to springboard it into years later with "Life and Times of Scrooge", but I'm not the biggest fan of the premise in the middle where he kidnaps Goldie and takes her away to his cabin!

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Who said that? Me, sometime in the past? if so I was wrong, utterly misguided.

I got to meet Rosa at Mid Ohio Con in 2004. It was truly a pleasure.

To my knowledge, only I said that, tongue firmly in beak. I think Perez is overrated and Barks a treasure that would fill Scrooge McDuck's swimming pool..

There are very few comic artists or writers who I would list above/before Barks.
And, or most days, I wouldn't put ANYONE before him. Other those other days
when I might, I'm thinking about other very particular things, or other very particular
techniques. Those days rarely happen.

I have a very old mimeographed fanzine where Carl writes back to a letter from my Father.

Agreed on Barks, although I'm a Perez fan so wouldn't call him overrated. I thought you'd dug up an old post by me from before I became re-enlightened. There was certainly a time where I'd have dismissed Barks (wrongly) as "just" a kiddie funny animal artist. I've been reading Uncle Scrooge from issue 1, and they are terrific fun adventure stories. The dynamic of Donald, the nephews, and Scrooge just works.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike Perez, I'm just not sure he's worthy of the worship he seems to be afforded. I can think of at least 20 artists off the top of my head that I prefer over him.

If I had to pick a single comic book title as my all-time favorite, it would be Uncle Scrooge, primarily on the strength of Barks' work alone.

Here's 20. There are more:

Kirby
Byrne
J. Buscema
S. Buscema
Mignola
J. Kubert
A. Kubert
A. Kubert
Szudzuka
Parlov
Dillon
Guerra
Bagley
Immonen
Wieringo
Buckingham
Bright
Pelletier
Grummett
Frank

Grummett?!?

Me too. I read a few 1970s reprints of the Scrooge stories when I was a kid. As an adult I found myself attending grad school at a library where there was a set of "Carl Barks Library"--large-sized reprints of nearly all of his duck work. It was the first time I'd had a chance to see most of the stories. I discovered that they were just as engaging reading them for the first time as an adult. It's all-ages work in the truest sense of the word. And beautifully done! Barks was one of the all-time masters of the comics medium.

Twitchy has never been more right.

I have just about every Barks Duck original issue, but I am also close to completing
that oversized 30 volume (ten slipcase) Carl Barks Library. Sadly, because of the
sad shape of the comics industry during the 1990s, I dropped out almost completely.
That Barks Library was released during that time. I've had to try to assemble it after
the fact, which, especially for some volumes, has proven to be quite expensive. Well
worth it, but expensive none-the-less. Volume #5 is almost impossible to find going for
less that 5 times the original issue price.

I think, to be fair, you have to compare him against combination writer/artists.
Even if you don't, I would be hard pressed to put many above him, or even close to
him, Hank. On your list, I would consider Kirby. Not on your list, I would consider
Eisner. There is something in me that recoils a little from both of those two, but
there is no mistaking their talent. And I do have gobs of praise for the Buscemas
and Papa Kuberts of the world, and even Byrne. I'd wait a couple decades before I'd
rank some of these new guys up there. Let's see if they have some staying power.
Of them, I like Mignola, and Immonen. Mignola I am more familiar with, as he was
doing early fanzine work as I started seriously collecting.

I'm also quite keen on Kevin Nowlan.

Oh, other old timer who I greatly love is Walt Kelly.

What I wouldn't give to have access to a set of "Carl Barks Library" now! As it is I only have a few issues of varying vintages (one original printing) at home. And a 1970s reprint volume of several of the stories from Abbeville Press.

Inspired panel; I used to love the Duck Tales show when I was a kid.

No I don't. I'm giving his art the benefit of the doubt, because while I don't dislike his art, I DO have an active dislike of his writing.

Everybody on that list has been in the biz for at least 15 years, most over 20, with the exception of Wieringo, but he gets a special dispensation for being SO DAMNED GOOD from day one. I'm not too sure about Pia Guerra and the two Gorans - I've been reading the two Gorans since Outlaw Nation came out - what, 7, 8 years ago? They may have had work in Europe prior to that, I'm not sure.