Wow! This is a very informative post, thank you. You have basically provided a complete answer to the question opening the thread.
I do like to watch storyboards, and wish more Disney writers using this kind of method would post them on the web, like Gerards used to do on his blog for instance. The 'storyboarders' put much effort in communicating the right mimics and facial/emotional expressions to the artists. As a consequence, sometimes characters look more alive in the storyboards than in the final art (Well, of course the Kinney-Hubbard duo is an exception to that, since you know, Hubbard was great at mimics and faces...)
I do agree on your point of view on the Kinney-Hubbard universe. They just took the main characters (Donald, HDL, Srooge) available, but did not bind themselves to the narrative approach of Barks. They re-invented the thing for their own narrative and comic purposes. As Barks himself had done before them. That's the key aspects of this thing we call "Disney comics", never be stuck to any 'standard'.
Among the characters 'introduced' by Kinney I would also mention Rockerduck. Invented by Barks, yes, but Kinney was the one who started to use him frequently in the late 60's, pushing the Barosso's brothers, and then all the other Italian authors in the 70's (Martina and Pezzin in particular) to make him the main antagonist to Scrooge.
Among the characters 'introduced' by Kinney I would also mention Rockerduck. Invented by Barks, yes, but Kinney was the one who started to use him frequently in the late 60's, pushing the Barosso's brothers, and then all the other Italian authors in the 70's (Martina and Pezzin in particular) to make him the main antagonist to Scrooge.
Oh, that's interesting! I never knew that Kinney was the missing link between Barks and the Italians in their use of Rockerduck.
Among the characters 'introduced' by Kinney I would also mention Rockerduck. Invented by Barks, yes, but Kinney was the one who started to use him frequently in the late 60's, pushing the Barosso's brothers, and then all the other Italian authors in the 70's (Martina and Pezzin in particular) to make him the main antagonist to Scrooge.
Oh, that's interesting! I never knew that Kinney was the missing link between Barks and the Italians in their use of Rockerduck.
Actually, I do not want to be a bother, but this is not completely true. The Barosso brothers had 2 stories with Rockerduck inducks.org/story.php?c=I+AT+++75-A (March '63) inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL++425-A (January '64) before Kinney published his first with Cavazzano drawings inducks.org/story.php?c=S+64007 (later in 1964) I do agree that Kinney was the one american writer that pushed Rockerduck in comics and it is possible that other authors (i.e. Fletcher, Bradbury, Martina, Pezzin) picked up after him. I also think that he would have started earlier to draw the character, if the Studio Program would have started earlier
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jan 23, 2018 19:10:29 GMT
Thanks for the correction. So I guess that we can credit both the B. Brothers and Kinney for that idea. It is hard to imagine that the guys of the Studio program had an idea of what was happening in Italy 'in real time', so to speak. Probably Kinney did not know that Rockerduck was already in use. Although the coincidence of the year 1964 seems strange. Also, from the date of release of the stories we cannot infer the date of writing. We don't even know what was the policy of the Italians on the drawing of scripts coming from the US, if they gave priority to their realization or not. (I doubt it.)