ArtWords at Troynovant:
palimpsests of illustrated words & literate drawings,
cartoons, graphics, books about art:
clients of a latter-day hermaphrodite Muse;
listed by Title
The indexes Reels and Soundies include some animated films.
Barks: ... I have read in my fan mail that my ducks always seem to be thinking exactly what they were saying; their expressions always were fitted right to that balloon of dialogue. ... I started with a written script, and of course the dialogue was the key, the thing that hung it all together.
Question: Which do you feel to be more important, the image or the text?
Barks: When you first open the comic book, the image is the thing. If you're attracted to the image, then you're interested enough to read the script. Therefore the script would be secondary. The visual gag is more important than the dialogue gag, for which you have to depend on people's ability to read and to understand what little idioms you're using; and you've also got to figure on it being translated into foreign languages. So if you're leaning heavily on dialogue gags, it's a really flimsy prop.
Donald Ault, Thomas Andrae, & Stephen Gong
"An Interview with Carl Barks, Duckburg's True Founding Father", 4 August 1975
in Donald Ault, editor
Carl Barks: Conversations (2003)
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I grant thou wert not married to my muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise,
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of these time-bettering days.
William Shakespeare
Sonnets, 82
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Carl Barks & Disney Ducks:
cover design by Bruce Hamilton;
photo by E. B. Boatner;
colored by Susan Daigle-Leach.
The Carl Barks Library of
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color #46
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critiques in and around literary criticism
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works about Moving Pictures:
movies, films, television
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Reel reviews by Title
Soundie reviews by Title
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