June 17, 2004

Another Item For the To-Do List

. . . but, along with visiting the train museum, perhaps something for the "to do when Shelby is away doing something else" list: a visit to the Ernst Barlach Museum in Wedel to see their "The Duck Family" special exhibit. It's comic art of Donald Duck and his relatives, with comic books, ephemera, and original drawings from such luminaries of Disney art as Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson, and Al Taliaferro.

I've been a closet Duck fan ever since the days of my youth, when I discovered that our local library had multiple volumes of the Carl Barks Library in its collection. The CBL was a thirty-volume collection of oversized hardcovers showcasing the art of Carl Barks, the most prolific writer and illustrator of Duck comics [and inventor of Uncle Scrooge, among other things]. Unfortunately the library didn't have all of them -- but it was a lucky mystery as to why they even had some of them, since they were expensive even at the time!

(Fun Fact: In Germany, Uncle Scrooge is called Onkel Dagobert.)

Posted by Kevin at June 17, 2004 07:02 AM