here's a quote i found: Writer-artist Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books." The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist (because back then at disney they still wanted the kids to believe disney did everything by himself, while DC also didn#t use names Mort and co still had no problem mentioning them in letters and so on, but it was impossible to know who that artists was, so the nickname came to be) .
@ComicBookGo And you know what gives Don even more extra points for me? Back in the 60s he had all the disney comcis from his sister, getting older he sold them and got everything he could from the superman line, jimmy olsen, lois lane, superman, action comics, he has every marvel and Dc comics from the silver age, he also started buiying complete bronze age runs, but sold them becausde he didn't like it. His favorite Superheroe Artists are the 2 big C/Kurts, Curt Swan and Kurt Schaffenberger.
yeah, the fleishcger superman loooked awesome, as i said, 40s animation just had some kind of tightness perfection too it that the more on the loose 60s style can't match ImO. Yeah realism is harder to draw, and that's a reason why Curt Swan's Superman was so distinctive back then i think, he just had a perfect sense of Bodys and faces, unlike Jack Kirby for example, who's perfect for action, but some of his people look like deformed monsters, and some of his characters
Oh yeah, the Fleischer Brothers were awesome. I mean the man who did most for Animation surely was Walt Disney himself, Snow White alone gives him that position, inventing the animated future film. despite everybody telling him nobody would watch it, i love the special oscar he got for it, (one big and 7 little statues). Did you read some carl barks or Don Rosa Comics? My 2 favorite Disney Artists, in german comic scene superheroes aren't too important, more francobelgian, itlaian and disney.
@ComicBookGo you really should give barks a read, he's really one of the alltime greatest comic book writers/artists, he's funny, he even made a political statement about the vietnam war in 66 in the story Treasure of Marco Polo, spielberg and lucas are big fans of him, a sequence from one of carls best advenuture stories, called The Seven Cities of Cibola, inspired the opening sequence with the idol and the rolling stone, there's a dial b for blog article on it.
@ComicBookGo , like cap and johnny storm, look pretty close to one another while Curt on the other hand gave every Legionaire distinctive Features and even Hairdos, ImO he's an overlooked Giant, i wonder what he would have looked like doing marvel, i mean when Jack did Olsen and the new Gods it looked more like a Marvel, i think Curt could have quite well adopted a bit to the marvel style.
@ComicBookGo Barks mostly did 10 pagers, most where with donald and the nephews, the 10 pagers where gag stories for the most, for the advenutre stories he's got up to 30 pages per storie, and boy, does he use them. Or when he drew Mein Kampf lying on the Trashyard, you should try to get some of his work, and Don, i love Rosa, his life and times of scrooge mcduck, he deserved his eisner for it, collection every barks reference about scrooges life and making it one huge awesome story.
@ComicBookGo right, because on the suoperfriends superman cripplied criminals, batman killed with a gun, damn, NOW that is the super friends cartoon. just like we see speedy there on heroin and doing a cold turkey, and green lantern fighting against racism, repjudices and overpopulace, it really IS the bronze age i must agree.
@ComicBookGo The Art of the seres ImO is surely not on the same level as those early to mid 70s DC comics, Curt Swans Superman and the like. Some of it looks good, yeah, for sure, but just like the Old Spidey Cartoons can't match Ditko or Romita.
