Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Dec 10, 2016 20:00:32 GMT
I just read Donald Duck #17, and I am positively enthusiasmed by The Big Sneezer. It's like a Barks story with the madness of a Scarpa story, and I love it!
I just read Donald Duck #17, and I am positively enthusiasmed by The Big Sneezer. It's like a Barks story with the madness of a Scarpa story, and I love it!
It's a super story. Freddie Milton is a great artist, and story writer. I think he is very underappreciated. That story was published first in a Vacantieboek (Summer Vacation annual thick book) in 1980. Most non-Scandinavians know him mainly from his co-productions with Daan Jippes. But, he's written and drawn hundreds of fabulous stories on his own. Not just Disney Duck stories, but a Barks-style Woody Woodpecker universe, and his own Family Gnuff series, his detective Goose series of interactive mysteries, Mouse Family series, and his "William" series, and stories using other human characters.
I just read Donald Duck #17, and I am positively enthusiasmed by The Big Sneezer. It's like a Barks story with the madness of a Scarpa story, and I love it!
I've never read a good Milton story. I guess I'll have to check this out.
I just read Donald Duck #17, and I am positively enthusiasmed by The Big Sneezer. It's like a Barks story with the madness of a Scarpa story, and I love it!
I've never read a good Milton story. I guess I'll have to check this out.
Do you mean you've never read a "good" story that Freddy had written alone? Or is it that you didn't like The Milton/Jippes collaboration stories, or have never read them? If the latter is the case, you have a big treat in store(assuming you like Carl Barks' writing and drawing style), as they wrote and drew 13 excellent stories, all of which have been reprinted in US comics since the 1980s, none of which would be difficult to find or expensive.
I checked my comic collection and turns out I have read some older Milton stories that I liked. But they were short stories, unlike "The Big Sneeze", and I usually prefer longer stories.
I checked my comic collection and turns out I have read some older Milton stories that I liked. But they were short stories, unlike "The Big Sneeze", and I usually prefer longer stories.
Well, "The Big Sneezer" is the only long story Freddy Milton wrote and drew for Disney Comics. All his others were 10-12 pages, a few 8-9 pagers and a lot of 4-pagers. He drew and wrote many 44 to 48 page long album stories in his "Family Gnuff", "Woody Woodpecker", "William", and other non-Disney series. But his co-productions with Daan Jippes were the "next best thing to Barks", and his 5 or 6 10-pagers just after the pair's break-up were excellent, as well.
Honestly, for all the hype, I was a little underwhelmed. It actually felt, in my mind, more like a higher-tier Lockman/Strobl story filtered through Barks' art and editing. But, still, good.