(quello che posso fare è quanto segue... qualsiasi traduzione letterale ad integrazione del mio riassunto e/o correzione è ben accetta)
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First of all, welcome Don Rosa!!
Thanks to your presence, the interest of this discussion is definitely increasing!
In the following, I'll try to arbitrarily summarize last few messages (which, indeed, come from an infinite discussion within the forum)...
The user "Reginella portami via" started with two assertions, coming from the book written by Thomas Andrae: "
Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity". The first statement is that Andrae explained (?) how your aesthetics is not in continuity with Barks' one, being even at its opposite; the second one is that Barks didn't appreciate your works.
In a very strong summing up, Marco,313 answered that he doesn't care even if the Pope doesn't appreciate your works!!! Your stories are wonderful (or not: it depends on everyone's tastes) apart from Barks, even if they are so strictly connected with the world, characters and facts told by Barks.
Also I, piccolobush and paperinika agree with this position. Furthermore, piccolobush doubted that Andrae really knows all the story about the conversations between you and Barks, while I've claimed that indeed I've not found that position in Thomas Andrae's book. In fact, in the pages that Reginella-portami-via has cited, I've just found some suggestion that (maybe) Barks have given you---presumably, when you were preparing your "Life and Time"----regarding his doubts on the necessity to homogenize Scrooge's life... a very different position that saying that he didn't like your Saga, once it was finished.
Moreover, regarding the relationship between your stories and Barks' ones, I (but not only I) think that even if your work is so strictly permeated through Barks' stories, one finds a different atmosphere: in some sense, Barks' stories are just tales, while your ones are more "realistic" (as well-claimed by Brigitta, in her message)... and, obviously, nothing to say about the greatness of you and Barks: these are not considerations about "quality", but just about "features"!!!
Well... sorry for my bad english, but google translator from italian to english is not so good... :
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(nel riassumere il mio post sono andato liberamente e mi rendo conto che non tutto quello che dico qua l'avevo sostenuto nell'ultimo messaggio, ma beh... mi perdono :
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