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A while ago, I asked Dutch editor Thom Roep why the Rosa story "On a silver
platter" wasn't printed in Holland yet. He answered (translated):

| We sent the story to Bob Foster from the Danish publisher Egmont. He
| publishes it in the Danish "Anders And" and we get the color prints
| afterwards.

(I know that Bob Foster went to Denmark, but what is Egmont?)

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A message for whoever wants to keep the Dutch Rosa-list up-to-date:
the story 'Cash flow' is published in 'WB.92' (Groot Winterboek 1992).

--Harry

From a posting to rec.arts.comics.info:
> New releases for the week of November 11:
> [...]
> Disney
> Colossal Comics Collection 8
> Dinosaurs 1
> Donald Duck Adventures 33

Contents, anyone?
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: Per.Starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

Yet another addition to the Don Rosa index: the third part of Uncle
Scrooge's life is in the current Scandinavian books (47/92).
"Scrooge's Life: The Vagabond in the Wild West", 15 pages, D 92008.
(I've retranslated the title from Swedish back into English. I don't
know what the original title was.)

I'm still ambivalent to Rosa's stories, and this one didn't do much
for me. I'll be very unspecific here as not to spoil the story for
anyone, but there's a totally uncalled-for appearance of a character
mentioned in a story by Barks, as well as the appearance of a
real-world character. Add to this some gags, but not much of a story,
and that's it.

During his time Barks showed us some glimpses of Scrooge's earlier
life, and I think it's interesting to see another duck fan, like Rosa,
trying to piece it all together, *but* I think it's hard to make new
interesting stories that stand on their own in the process.

There's another attempt at collecting all the tidbits of information
on Scrooge's youth I know of, which doesn't have this problem as it
doesn't try to make new stories aimed for "the masses" out of it, but
contents itself with the collecting and piecing together of facts from
Barks's stories. That is Jack L. Chalker's book "An Informal
Biography of Scrooge McDuck". Pretty fun reading, I think, but it's
difficult to come by. (I have it xeroxed somewhere --- can't find it
now.)
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: Per.Starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

"
1. Per Starback writes:

> >From a posting to rec.arts.comics.info:
> > New releases for the week of November 11:
> > [...]
> > Disney
> > Colossal Comics Collection 8
> > Dinosaurs 1
> > Donald Duck Adventures 33
>
> Contents, anyone?

I went to a comic book shop last saturday, but the issues above were not
there yet.

Since DDA #32 contains "Return to Bear Mountain" part 1, I expect #33 to
contain part 2... (BTW: story Tom Anderson, art Branca, code D 9614)

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2. The Rosa story "War of the Wendigo" is scheduled for Uncle $crooge #278
and #279.
In U$ 275 there will be an all new center-spread by Rosa, specially made
for Disney Comics.

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3. About the DuckTales index, we discussed a while ago: in the shop, I saw
issue 24/25 of "The Duckburg Times". It has a very extensive index on the
first 3 seasons (I think) of "DuckTales", with authors, artists, voices
etc. They also had an advertisement for an even completer index (book).

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4. New character for Rich Bellacera's list:
While browsing through my Gladstone comics, I found a story with a the
character 'Chi-chi', a female chipmunk. She appeared in the Chip 'n' Dale
story, in Gladstone's WDC 456, 1990. This is a reprint of WDC 225, 1959
(author unknown, art Jack Bradbury).
I discussed this with Per Starback, and he thinks the character may occur
in some other stories as well, hence she would be a 'recurring character'.
If anyone remembers in which stories she occurs, then tell us...

That's all..

--Harry Fluks.

Well, I like Barks and Don Rosa as much as anyone, but are there any
other fans of Al Hubbard out there? I really liked the way he drew
animals of all kinds in "Scamp" (Along with the reprinted
"Lady and the Tramp" comic, which seemed to have better, less-
rushed work than the later Scamp comics did.)

I also liked the work of the artist who did "Little Bad Wolf"
for a while.. there seem to be two prominant artists.. one who
did the very early stuff, (the 1st Lil' Bad Wolf stories) and
than another who did a great bulk of the latter ones.

Mike Kazaleh is definatly a favorite penciler to me.. the only Disney
work I can think of that he has done would be the illustrated
"Tummy Trouble" Graphic Novel for Disney. Aside from his
own "Captain Jack" Comic from Fantagraphics books, his other
work included pencils for an issue of Marvel's "Mighty Mouse", "The
Mighty Mutimals", as well as the recent "Ren and Stimpy Show #1"..
but thats a different subject. However, he's a great artist to
look for, should he do any more Disney work.

I really like how Disney seems to be serious about artistic quality
in some of their stories these days (still not all of them are up
to snuff, but some are) .. I would go so far as to say that
the art for "Darkwing Duck" in "Colossal Comics Collection #6" is
up there with artwork in the Italian Disney book ("Il Grandi
Classicci Disney", or something like that), which seemed somewhat
superior to the artwork I was seeing from American Disney-Comic
artists for a while. I also like the artwork in "Alladin",
a comic that came out somewhat better than the "Beuty and the Beast"
books, which seemed to have some printing problems. (the ones I saw did)

- Jamal Hannah

jamal at silver.lcs.mit.edu

Harry Fluks wrote:
> In U$ 275 there will be an all new center-spread by Rosa, specially made
> for Disney Comics.

Strange... Will Rosa get his original for that back?

> [...] I saw issue 24/25 of "The Duckburg Times". It has [...]

Ah, I didn't know The Duckburg Times still existed---the latest ish I
have is #22 (1987). Is it the same address (400 Valleyview Selah, WA
98942) and price (four issue subscription $5, sample $1.25, overseas
rates double (*sigh*))?
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: Per.Starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

Jamal Hannah wrote:
> Well, I like Barks and Don Rosa as much as anyone, but are there any
> other fans of Al Hubbard out there? I really liked the way he drew
> animals of all kinds in "Scamp" (Along with the reprinted
> "Lady and the Tramp" comic, which seemed to have better, less-
> rushed work than the later Scamp comics did.)

Yeah, I like Al Hubbard a lot! The looseness of his lines, and the
expressiveness of his characters. All his dogs and cats are so damn
cute too. I generally dislike speculative cuteness, but Hubbard makes
them in such a way that I just can't help loving them. :-)

He has done many adaptions of the animated features, not only Lady and
the Tramp, but also e.g., Dumbo, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, and
Aristocats. He has also done Mickey, Chip & Dale, the ducks, Li'l Bad
Wolf, etc.

> I also liked the work of the artist who did "Little Bad Wolf"
> for a while.. there seem to be two prominant artists.. one who
> did the very early stuff, (the 1st Lil' Bad Wolf stories) and
> than another who did a great bulk of the latter ones.

The very early stuff was by Carl Buettner, who worked at Western
mostly as an editor or art director or something like that, but who
also did some stories himself.

The later artist you mention must be Gil Turner, even if lots of other
artists also did some wolf stories (Jack Bradbury, Paul Murry, Harvey
Eisenberg, Al Hubbard, Frank McSavage, ...)
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: Per.Starback at student.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"