Reading Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comics has put me in a kind of awe about the Disney company in general. I’ve read Neal Gabler’s biography on Walter Disney himself, but upon seeing these other famous Disney workers I’m starting the fathom the whole company’s impact is greater than I originally thought. Combing both Mr. Disney’s own work and his employees in different departments, the company *broke ground* and/or made greatness in animation, animation technology, animated *and* non-animated movies, amusement parks, comic books (Scrooge McDuck), newspaper comics (Gottfredson Mickey Mouse), television (*Ducktales*; *Phineas and Ferb*), and who knows what else. I’m amazed that while I read a good and thick book on Walt Disney, I’m surprised to find that there’s this whole other person, Floyd Gottfredson, who deserves a good and thick book on his own, for his own extensive greatness. Carl Barks (Scrooge McDuck’s creator) deserves his own too. Will Eisner – too. What other great people and great achievements could I be unaware of? I’d like to read more about this company and its people more in-depth to find out. (It’s certainly on my mental bucket list to watch the old shorts.) I relent that the Disney company isn’t very good these days with few exceptions like *Phineas and Ferb*. When Walt Disney died it went comatose for some decades before Will Eisner came along, and then it went comatose again – still comatose today, in my opinion – when Eisner got fired. As such, I’m not interested in following it’s present-day doings except for how it’s releasing its classics, such as Carl Barks’ anthologized comics. Perhaps one day it’ll be worth of watching again, but at the very least it’s incredibly interesting to learn and think of the company’s incredible impact while it was under the guise of Disney and Eisner. They’ve done everything from invent new technology to alternating the vocabulary of our culture to creating new stylistic techniques in art, and infinitely on.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:15:59 +0000
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