I always wanted to try thier work,any suggestions as were to begin? I heard its best to start the Spirit archives in the teens and not in the beginning and I have no clue were to begin with Barks.
ytrez
12-14-05, 08:54 AM
I'd suggest hunting down some of Barks Uncle Scrooge collections.
Early Spirt is very golden age and the art & stories are much more primitive than Eisner's later work, though I certainly read it fondly. If you're okay with non-hero, humanistic type stories, I'd recommend A Contract with God or To the Heart of the Storm.
boredsilly
12-14-05, 10:37 AM
Yeah, I honestly have a hard time reading golder age superhero stuff, but Eisner's tales of New York are great. Any of those should knock your socks off, but A Contract With God is the place to start.
cultshock
12-14-05, 12:59 PM
I don't know if there is really any wrong place to start with Barks. Perhaps with some of his Walt Disney Comics & Stories 10 pagers, before moving on to his longer full length Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories?
I started reading Eisner back before his graphic novels were published, so I pretty well had to start with the early Spirit stories. But maybe nowadays "A Contract with God" would be a good place to start.
MBoyd
12-14-05, 03:12 PM
The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck has been getting a lot of buzz this past year.
JasonF
12-14-05, 04:29 PM
I'll definitely second the recommendation for Life & Times of Scrooge McDuck, but it's not by Barks -- it's by Don Rosa.
cultshock
12-15-05, 12:11 AM
I haven't read that. How does it compare to Barks?
boredsilly
12-15-05, 03:57 AM
I haven't read that. How does it compare to Barks?
I can't speak for Barks, but the book turned this some what fan of Ducktales into a full blown Scrooge-aholic. I think it's possibly the best comic (superhero or otherwise) comic I've read all year. Plus Rosa is very true to the spirit of Barks, working in a lot of facts about Scrooge Barks hinted at in his comics.
JasonF
12-15-05, 05:25 PM
I haven't read that. How does it compare to Barks?
The drawing style is a little more detailed and a little closer to the modern cartoons (well, the 80s cartoons, anyway -- when was the last time a Disney Duck appeared in new animation?) In terms of writing, it's so close to Barks that Rosa must be channelling his spirit.
bloopbleep
12-27-05, 07:19 PM
hello I got Walt Disney Presents Uncle Scrooge: Back to the Klondike (Gladstone Comic Album Series No. 4) .The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Paperback), A Contract with God : And Other Tenement Stories (Paperback)
and the newly released
The Best of the Spirit (DC comics) (Paperback) by Will Eisner ,thank you all for the recommendations, I now look forward to my first exposure to Barks,Eisner and Rosa.I will check back in a few weeks and let you know what I thought of them.
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