Gallery Comments by Thomas L

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Thanks, added images of those publications. :)

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Monty B

Nice detail with the sled! I wonder if that fifth panel is a reference to The Shining or just a coincidence.

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Thanks!

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Interesting! Do you know why Don colored this piece? Is the coloring made with markers?

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Thanks for sharing those images of your lettering! I'd love to see images of the art framed as well!

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Beautiful page, a great gag with those egg cartons. :)

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Monty B

So many great Klondike Scrooge panels here.

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Perhaps my favorite page from this chapter as well. :)

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One of the best gags in the story in those four first panels. :)

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Monty B

A fantastic page that exudes adventure! You can also tell that Don had a blast drawing this. Must have taken a lot of planning to get it right.

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Monty B

Perhaps the most emotionally demanding page I can recall in Duck comics. I remember how I was surprised even as a kid that Don was allowed to deal with a character's death in such an open way. Beautiful storytelling.

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Monty B

Such an iconic page with Scrooge acquiring his character outfit and that emotional last panel.

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Monty B

Wow, I've never read the series, but I still thought this was an awesome cover when it came on auction. Congrats!

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Søren M

Can not get enough of Raymond's style. The man was a genius. This strip has everything: Rip, a beautiful woman, and that striking car! 

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Søren M

Such a nice graphic page with all those black silhouettes. Plus, it tells an exciting story. Classy! 

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Monty B

This is truly an extraordinary page by Don; works as its own short story and those ducks look like they've been carved from stone by Michelangelo. I'm not sure ducks have ever looked as handsome and sharp as they do here. Love the pristine blacks as well.

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Thanks again! I do really appreciate it when books can be beautifully displayed on the shelf without crass dustjackets or colors. Kudos to whoever designed these books!

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Thanks, this piece really sold me as well. :)

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Wow, I wonder what happened to all those 5800 pages... Murry's Ducks certainly have a distinct and appealing look. 

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Thanks for the comment! I'll do that. :)  

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I'll keep an eye out if one of these comes across again!

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Monty B

The elegance with which Barks draws the duck here on this page is simply exquisite. Such finesse in that linework and such character in those faces and poses.

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My favorite page from chapter nine as well. :) Congratulations! 

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Monty B

Stunning opening splash page! Love the title, which seems to have been drawn straight on the page as well! 

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Jim Reid

Talk about a masterpiece...

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Dan F

Nice framing and what a pristine page as well! Great content, I totally get what you were looking for.

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Dan F

Great cover with perhaps my favorite Duckburg villain. Love the graphic look of that black armor. I was lucky to acquire the pin-up. :)

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Thanks! Glad to finally share it. It took some work...

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Stunning painting. :) 

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Wow, amazing work. Would you like to add a close-up image for us to marvel at? :)

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Amazing Tex. Ticci at his best is perhaps the best comic artist ever.

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Rabid Ferret

Thanks! I was also prepared for much more competition.

I extracted the lettering from the DRL Kindle publication but found that the lettering was too bold for my taste to be directly used for the larger-sized original art. The resolution wasn't quite the best either. Got it to work okay with masking and edge refinement, however. Even went as far as to ask the original letterer Todd Klein himself for comments. Also had to scan the original art since the dimensions for the Heritage Auctions images were slightly off (apparently they use a camera to photograph the pages they display and don't scan). Since I'll be framing the artwork on the wall, there's also the question of achieving optimal optical quality (minimum reflection, hazing, warping), proper air space between the art and the glass, minimum shadows cast by the lettering, proper overlay materials that don't taint the artwork etc. It's been a lot of work, but maybe I'm just being a stickler for these things. :)

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Rabid Ferret

Amazing page. Those last two money shots really had me interested as well. Nice to see that someone else has been photoshopping the original lettering to overlay the artwork with. Not as easy of a task as it may initially seem if you want to get it to work when framed...

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Thanks, I'm inclined to go with the same decision. Didn't consider the possibility of the tapes falling off over time, however. But it's not 100% guaranteed that a conservationist will be able to peel the tapes off without leaving a stain either. So maybe just safest to let them remain.

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Congratulations again. This was the page I would have attempted to obtain if I hadn't managed to purchase page 14. Goldie, Soapy, Dawson, great humor and drama...

I'm wondering if you (or anyone else) have had any thoughts about trying to peel those tapes on the sides off at a paper conservationist? There may be a way to peel them off without leaving any marks. This might also preserve the page longer from being damaged by the tapes. On the other hand, I don't mind the tapes too much since you can still see through them and they sort of fit the rugged aesthetic of the Klondike story. And they are still a part of the history of the page.

To anyone wondering where the tapes are from, here is Don Rosa's response regarding them (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10222180880813761&set=pcb.1836749206676220):

Why would I tape over my own coloring and lettering instructions?

One of the IDIOTIC rules in those days in the Egmont assembly-line method of producing comics for kiddies is that the first thing that my art went through is the hands of a functionary whose assigned job was to white-out or tape-over ANY lettering that was on my art. This included ALL of my coloring, lettering and sound effect instructions so as to make sure that NO LIVING BEING would ever be aware of them. This person also whited out any "?", "!", "Z", etc., that I wrote into tiny bubbles that I decided to add as I drew, these bubbles NOT having been included in my previous scripts, bubbles which I never dreamt would be deleted from my original art for no purpose whatsoever other than to screw up the presentation. As a result, later on a letterer, confronted with a bubble NOT in the script, would, for example, add a "!" where there was supposed to be a "Z" over an obviously sleeping form.

These changes were NEVER done on copies, but senselessly done directly onto my original art, which was MY property, no one else's. This is how they operated in those days, as if the art was community property that anyone had the right to change. When my art was returned to me, damaged, I needed to scrape off the white-out and add the correct contents back to those small bubbles, or draw $crooge's eyes BACK into his eyeglasses. Y'see, those same functionaries were ordered to delete all such eyes because $crooge's eyeglasses were "officially" supposed to be OPAQUE (???!!!) So, sometimes my $crooge heads looked as if he was blind, having no eyes. (See original 1990 publications of "Treasure Under Glass".)

Is there ever any doubt in anyone's mind as to WHY I quit 15 years ago? I just couldn't take it any longer. I preferred to be unemployed, mowing grass and growing chiles.

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Thanks, proud to have bought a few pages to Finland.

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Thanks and merry Christmas to you too! :)