tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756369649414088624.post5245562004807296552..comments2023-11-02T10:31:11.830-04:00Comments on (Some of) Ryan Wynns' Assorted Thoughts: New comic review: Uncle Scrooge #3 (#407) (IDW, June 2015)Ryan Wynnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00477919968924048814noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756369649414088624.post-79157741072497120192015-07-14T08:22:11.564-04:002015-07-14T08:22:11.564-04:00Elaine writes:
“…blue is a calm and placid color,...Elaine writes:<br /><br />“…blue is a calm and placid color, not suitable for a lively, active boy!”<br /><br />So, Donald’s clothing color scheme is not only esthetically pleasing… It’s also ironic! <br /><br />Unless we're referring to the Donald of <i>"The Perfect Calm"</i>, coming this August! Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756369649414088624.post-42975850038199380652015-07-14T00:22:36.282-04:002015-07-14T00:22:36.282-04:00Excellent Review. Your blog post has warranted a r...Excellent Review. Your blog post has warranted a reread of U$#3. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on DD#2.Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541889123825833808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756369649414088624.post-76399604991183110252015-07-13T21:50:51.243-04:002015-07-13T21:50:51.243-04:00Pink and blue were assigned to girl and boy babies...Pink and blue were assigned to girl and boy babies already in the 1950's; my mother explained to me that baby shower gifts would often be yellow or green, as the sex of the baby was not known. But there was much less absoluteness about these color codes. In the mid-1960's there was a fad among businessmen who wore suit-and-tie to work which had them wearing pale pink shirts. And stuff made for girls was not so exclusively pink/lavender/purple. Bicycles or jackets for girls, for example, could come in primary colors. <br /><br />I'm not sure when the girl/pink boy/blue code began, but it was in the 20th century. I remember reading a quotation from an early 20th-century women's magazine where mothers were cautioned against dressing their little boys in blue, because blue is a calm and placid color, not suitable for a lively, active boy!Elainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756369649414088624.post-17451562253613403872015-07-13T15:26:28.692-04:002015-07-13T15:26:28.692-04:00Joe: Thank you for your kind words and for the plu...<b>Joe:</b> Thank you for your kind words and for the plug! <br /><br />It's interesting how with 50-60-year-old Scarpa stories that have never before printed in the U.S., it's now common practice to present them as "new", which to American audiences, they essentially are. But it's contrary to how, with the exception of material that would now be culturally offensive, since the Gladstone I era, such updating in the regular comics (as opposed to collected editions, albums, trade paperbacks, etc.) has long been seen as unthinkable and largely avoided. So at first, I balked a little when this kind of thing started being done more often with older European stories, but really, since for the most part, this is the first time they've been presented in English anyway, there is no original English that's being abridged. As we've discussed before, given that a straightforward translation would be a less satisfying reading experience, the kind of work that you, David, Jonathan and others do is the optimal route to go, and the modernizations that you work never defy the spirit of the original story.<br /><br /><b>Elaine:</b> And thank you for your kind words, as well, and glad Joe brought you over here! I had actually forgotten that it was tradition to color Donald and the nephews' shirts on the covers. It's because of the modern CG coloring methods that on IDW's reactions, their familiars outfits struck me as looking radically more vibrant. I'm always thinking they look closer to their animated counterparts.<br /><br />I know I've seen one of the nephews being attired in yellow up through the early stages of the Gladstone I era, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen one of them decked out in pink. That's an interesting tidbit about the advent of pink as "a girls' color" being relatively recent. Off the top of my head, I would figure that that had not come about up through the early 1900's, but I never thought about exactly when it did. Now that I think about it, though, in '50's iconography, teenage alpha males' hot rods are often pink, aren't they? <br /><br />-- RyanRyan Wynnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00477919968924048814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756369649414088624.post-88024649771411679242015-07-12T20:34:52.032-04:002015-07-12T20:34:52.032-04:00Excellent review, Ryan! I'm glad Joe put us on...Excellent review, Ryan! I'm glad Joe put us onto this. And like Joe, I hope you'll be reviewing lots more of the IDW Disney comics. <br /><br />Your comments made me appreciate Scarpa's construction of the story more. I'm glad you give Joe deserved props for his scripting. The whole Captain Retro-Duck thing, while it began as a way to explain why Donald could be excited about a walkie-talkie, became for me the funniest aspect of the story. <br /><br />I went for the Silvani cover, myself, but not out of any particular fondness for DuckTales. I just love the depiction of HDL as JWs, and the trapdoor for donation-seekers is certainly part of the classic Scrooge. On the boys' shirts: my sense is that their shirts were usually colored on the comics covers, and kept black in the stories only to simplify the color scheme there--just as Donald's jacket was blue on the covers but black in the story art. The colors used for the nephews' shirts, though, weren't standardized until the Gladstone era. I have comics where one of the nephews' shirts is yellow or even pink. (Up through the 1960's, pink wasn't so definitively slotted as feminine as it is today.)Elainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2756369649414088624.post-39797263736880759312015-07-12T15:59:16.402-04:002015-07-12T15:59:16.402-04:00Great review, Ryan!
You clearly "get" w...Great review, Ryan!<br /><br />You clearly "get" what Romano Scarpa was doing with the story <i>"The Duckburg 100"</i>, and also "get" that which I felt was necessary to best serve Scarpa's wonderful story for the American audience of 2015. <br /><br />I like it so much I've put up a linking post to it at my own Blog! <br /><br />Looking forward to more of your IDW Disney reviews! <br /><br />Joe. Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.com