When bibliographer Michael Barrier asked Barks about why he drew it, Barks ' vague recollection was no one was available and he was asked to do it as a favor by editor Chase Craig.

Their correspondence was never published in the media, nonetheless it was sent to Michael Barrier, who had conducted the interview with Clampett and was distributed by Jones to multiple people concerned with animation over the years.

* Barrier, Michael ( 1999 ).

* Barrier, Michael ( 1999 ).

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Historian Michael Barrier has lamented the apparent loss of Western's business records for the use of future researchers.

By 1952 the popularity of the character convinced Dell to give Scrooge a try-out as a lead character in the seminal " Only a Poor Old Man ", a story Barks expert Michael Barrier has termed a masterpiece.

Animation historian Michael Barrier called the film " an offensively bad picture, the kind that makes people who love animation get up and leave the theater in disgust ".

* Barrier, Michael ( 1999 ): Hollywood Cartoons.

* Barrier, Michael ( 1999 ): Hollywood Cartoons.

Among them are Michael Barrier, Jerry Beck, Colin and Timothy Cowles, Donald Crafton, David Gerstein, Milt Gray, Mark Kausler, Leonard Maltin, and Charles Solomon.

* Barrier, Michael ( 1999 ): Hollywood Cartoons.

* Barrier, Michael.

Animation historian Michael Barrier speculates that one of Cohl's unnamed visitors may have been Bray instead of Barré.

Michael Barrier, an animation historian, said that Kricfalusi's works " testify to his intense admiration for Bob Clampett's Warner Bros. cartoons " and that no cartoonist since Clampett created cartoons in which the emotions of the characters " distort their bodies so powerfully.

Michael Barrier, an animation historian, described Heavy Traffic and Fritz the Cat as " not merely provocative, but highly ambitious.

* Barrier, Michael ( 1999 ).

Comic book historian Michael Barrier notes that by the early 1950s, Dell seemed to be giving more emphasis to subscription sales ( promoted via premium giveaways as part of the Dell Comics Club ), which necessitated stable series instead of one-shots.

* Is He a Bridge or a Barrier: Christian College Hires New President After a Faculty Revolt – Michael Alison Chandler, The Washington Post.

The DVDs also feature several special features including interviews / documentaries of the people behind the cartoons such as Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, musical conductor Carl Stalling, and voice-artist Mel Blanc, pencil tests, and audio commentaries by animation historians Jerry Beck, Michael Barrier, and Greg Ford, as well as current animators Paul Dini, Eric Goldberg, and John Kricfalusi.

Disney and animation historian Michael Barrier has cited it as " an extremely valuable record, one that can no longer be duplicated, given the deaths of most of the interview subjects.

Responding to pressure from the African-American community, the character Lil ' Eightball ( who appeared in a handful of Walter Lantz cartoons in the late 1930s and in those initial appearances constituted what animation and comics historian Michael Barrier described as being a " grotesquely stereotypical black boy ") was discontinued as one of the featured characters in the Lantz anthology comic book New Funnies ; the last appearance of the character was in the August 1947 issue.

Animation historian Michael Barrier reports that Miller, in August 2007, sent a fax to a number of executives at the Walt Disney Company, denouncing Neal Gabler's biography of Walt Disney published in 2006, titled Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, as " a monstrous piece of libelous junk.

Michael Barrier, an animation historian, described American Pop as one of two films that demonstrated " that Bakshi was utterly lacking in the artistic self-discipline that might have permitted him to outgrow his limitations.

Beginning in 2009, some detainees captured in Afghanistan have been read their Miranda rights by the FBI, according to Congressman Michael Rogers of Michigan, who claims to have witnessed this himself.

While at least one researcher, Michael Persinger, claims otherwise, Jeffrey Gray states in his book Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, that tests looking for the influence of electromagnetic fields on brain function have been universally negative in their result.

In the audio commentary for The Sea Devils, Michael Briant claims to have suggested it as a one-off gadget in 1968.

Michael Feingold, an American critic, claims that Wilde drew inspiration for his plot from W. S. Gilbert's Engaged.

In his dissections of the heart, Vesalius became convinced that Galen's claims of a porous Interventricular septum were false. This fact was previously described by Michael Servetus, fellow of Vesalius, but never reached the public, for it was written down in the " Manuscript of Paris ", in 1546, and just published later in his Christianismi Restitutio ( 1553 ), an heretic book for the Inquisition.

Sir Joshua Reynolds in his Discourses praised his " simple, grave, and majestic dignity " and said he " stands in general foremost of the first best painters ", especially for his frescoes ( in which he included the " Raphael Cartoons "), whereas " Michael Angelo claims the next attention.

The legend also claims that Æthelberht was killed at Sutton St. Michael and buried four miles ( 6 km ) to the south at Hereford, where his cult flourished, becoming at one time second only to Canterbury as a pilgrimage destination.

The Satanic Panic culminated with a documentary conducted by Geraldo Rivera, on which Michael Aquino of the Temple of Set, and Zeena LaVey ( Still a part of the Church of Satan at this point ) both renounced claims that Satanists were ritualistically murdering and abusing children and animals as part of their religion.

Historian Michael Cannon claims that " In September 1855 she performed her erotic Spider Dance at the Theatre Royal in Melbourne, raising her skirts so high that the audience could see she wore no underclothing at all " ( actually a salacious and unfounded rumour ).

Although an official policy of anti-Semitism did not exist in the Soviet Union, Michael Brin claims Communist Party heads barred Jews from upper professional ranks by denying them entry to universities, as Jews were excluded from the physics departments in particular.

Michael Coogan claims the book of Joshua, more than any other book of the Bible, contains short narratives that explain the origins of religious rituals, topographical features, genealogical relationships, and other aspects of ancient Israelite life, and that the legend of Rahab is such an example.

In a March 2010 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, philosopher of science Michael Ruse claims that Plantinga is an " open enthusiast of intelligent design ".

The mockumentary Opération lune briefly claims Michael Collins to be so deeply disappointed by not having set foot on the moon that he allegedly has retired from any public life and that his current whereabouts are supposed to be unknown.

Several claims have been made about Adair's sexuality by his former girlfriend Jackie " Legs " Robinson, and Michael Stone.

Michael Lydon, in defense of Dreiser, claims that his patience and powers of observation created accurate depictions of the urban world and the desires and ambitions of the people of the time.

Billy Sheehan, after his band Talas completed a tour with Van Halen, claims he was approached by Eddie Van Halen to replace Michael Anthony.

In the 19th century, long after the demise of the other branches, the family claimed name and title of Counts Báthory, since their ancestor Michael had never consented to the sale conducted by his brothers, and in 1852 the Russian government confirmed the legitimacy of their claims.

Patterson claims that Michael, a gorilla who lived with Koko for several years, also developed a broad vocabulary of signs, over 600, but did not become as proficient as Koko before his death in 2000.

Michael Crick revealed that he had compiled embarrassing evidence, this time of dubious salary claims Duncan Smith made on behalf of his wife that were paid out of the public purse from September 2001 to December 2002.

A number of post-processualists, such as Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley and Peter Ucko, undermined " archaeology's claims to be an authoritative source of knowledge about the past ", thereby " encourag people to question and resist all forms of authority … This position was hailed by its supporters as democratizing archaeology and purging it … of elitist pretensions ".

No Holding Back, a book by Brian Reid on " Operation Totalize ", contains an entire appendix devoted to the death of Michael Wittmann, in which these claims are completely discredited.

" Two Orthodox Jews, Rabbi Daniel Lapin and conservative talk-show host and author Michael Medved, also vocally rejected claims that the film is anti-Semitic.

Local historian Michael Dames claims the name is related to the word " cunt ", though it is more likely derived from the nearby Roman settlement of Cunetio ( now Mildenhall ).

Scholars ; L. Michael White and Helmut Koester see the account of the guards in Matthew as an apologetic insertion, an attempt by the writer to explain the Jewish claims that the disciples stole the body ; which were circulating at the time.