tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post7053259278548756565..comments2024-02-25T03:15:48.893-05:00Comments on News and Views by Chris Barat: Comics Review: WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES #718 (April 2011, kaboom!)Chris Barathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4357793224370188597.post-90953405062454647492011-05-05T07:32:55.767-04:002011-05-05T07:32:55.767-04:00Chris:
Thanks for the kind words on “To the Moon ...Chris:<br /><br />Thanks for the kind words on “To the Moon by Noon”. <br /><br />As I may have said elsewhere (my Blog, private correspondence, etc.), I set out to take what was a typical early-to-mid-sixties Western/Disney style story (…and a pretty good one at that!) and write what I saw as the definitive comic book version of Ludwig Von Drake. I wanted to “hear” Paul Frees as I read the story. Early indications seem to indicate that I’ve succeeded. I’m all the more happy for this, because there were/are relatively few comics appearances for Von Drake – and, it would seem, fewer still to be seen in the USA. <br /><br />You also make an observation that some might not notice, or have simply taken for granted. <br /><br />That is that, while I set out to write the “Paul Frees version” of Ludwig, I also set out to write the “Paul Murry version” of Mickey. Basically, the straightforward calming, stabilizing influence, and resourceful “rock” of ‘50s – ‘70s American Disney comics. <br /><br />This is neither the ‘30s Gottfredson Mickey, nor the later Egmont Mickey of the “Byron Erickson/David Gerstein Era”. This is the “Omigosh!” and “Ye Cats!” Mickey of Murry and Fallberg who finds a way to save the day – because that’s what he does! This is the perfect Mickey to ground or anchor Von Drake’s wilder antics. I could have given him more “funny lines”, but it wouldn’t have rung true to the great period of the Silver Age – during which I was a happy young reader. <br /><br />Anyway, it meant a great deal to me to “collaborate” with Paul Murry – and on a story straight out of the period that made me a Disney comic book fan for life! <br /><br />Joe.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.com