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Dear Folks,

First of all, note my new E-mail address... I'm now at home in
Hanover, NH and will be here for a while. So I'm using my Dad's E-Mail
system.

Now that I'm here I've gotten the first look at the new Gladstones.
Well, they look generally good. The WDC&S has, in my opinion, a Li'l Bad
Wolf with downright poor artwork; after about 1958, Paul Murry's work just
doesn't strike me as anything like attractive. Here it is wooden and stiff.
(The writing is okay, I guess, but Gladstone didn't know who did it.)
However, the Donald's a nice pick, and the Mickey is, too. (Note: This is a
different-looking reformatting of this story than was in Gladstone's old
Album #4, and it's got far superior colors, although it looks rather stuffed
in with 5 rows of panels to a page.)

(Again, I think that the Gottfredson stuff should be in Donald and
Mickey, not here, because there the Gottfredson can have 13 pages, whereas
even with 12 here, he blocks out space that could be used for a longer middle
story (LBW is 4 pgs). Whereas the other artists' Mickey stories are all
shorter and can be used in 8-page chunks; in fact, many that were in WDC&S
are *already* this way.)

Okay, fellas and gals, what do you think of the Gladstone color
scheme? I know no one who liked the ducks to have blue eyes; they're gone.
Disney *also* colored the insides of the ducks' mouths red-brown, like they
and Gladstone always have on the covers, and as was also the fashion in the
earlier cartoons. I liked having this inside the comics. Now the ducks have
the insides of their mouths the same color as the outsides. This wouldn't be
bad if the bills' color was orange-yellow, like in the newsprint comics, or
light orange, as in the albums; it's now (and the same is true of the recent
CBL Albums) almost an orange-BROWN, which I think is flatter and less
attractive, particularly when they give the ducks similarly bland pink
tongues (as opposed to red, or the odd lavender Disney used).
On the pro side, Mickey and Goofy lose their pink faces. On the
other hand, I think Li'l Bad Wolf looked better with one.

(I'm just bringing all these things up to see what you guys think of
'em, so that maybe if anyone figures they're worth arguing about, a group of
letters could be sent to Gladstone about it, and a group may be more likely
to get results than just ONE person.)

Well, let's see what you think...

Your friend,

David Gerstein

OK, it looks like I, a lowly US citizen, may never get to see a copy of
"War of the Wendigo". But, perhaps I can improvise. Could one of our
overseas readers purchase me a copy of the comic with this story in it? I,
of course, would pay for all shipping+handling, etc.

Don, do you have the script for this comic on-line? If so, could you
post it to our mailing list (or to one person who could put it at the ftp
site)? If not, again, could one of our overseas readers translate the
story (panel by panel) and post it?

It may not be pretty, but it would sure help me round out my collection,
and I would be eternally grateful!

Thanks much.

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I seem to be having problems with all the compressed files at the archive,
however, I just uncompressed a few of them a couple days ago. Is anyone
else having problems, or is it just me?

Andy

Mailing list: digests, archives
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Per wrote:
> (I'm leaving town for a few days now, so any list management duties
> won't be done until Tuesday. CU later!)

I've been wondering how the Digests are compiled: do you have a program
for that, or do you collect the mails manually? (If the latter, then this
mail won't appear in a digest before tuesday...)

And about our archives at the ftp-site: there are new versions coming up
of the Gladstone list and the Disney Comics list. Next week!
(BTW: we could still use volunteers to fill in gaps in the lists. If you want
to do some indexing, contact me: I'm coordinating this.)

A question for Don Rosa
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I have been wondering about this for a while: in the first USA reprint of
the story "Return to Xanadu", the story is split up into 2 episodes. The
first page of the 2nd episode is an extract of the 1st episode. I recognize
some of the panels on this page, but some of the panels don't seem to
appear anywhere else in the story.
Don: did you draw that 'introductory' page especially for Disney Comics?

--Harry.

Harry Fluks ()_() Dutch Disney comics freak
PTT Research, Leidschendam (NL) (_) H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl
"Yeah... I've _heard_ of coral barques!"

Don Rosa wrote to me:
> Now hold on just a darn minute. I know my artwork is not very polished
> or professional... but it's all my extra detail and depth of atmosphere that
> makes MY artwork more interesting and entertaining to the older readers than
> all that simplistic Disney-esque art from Vicar and the like! I know where
> my artistic faults are, but I also know for a fact that it's the older
> readers who are my boosters.
> If you're reflecting Tom Roep's opinion, I know he's dead wrong on THAT count!

What I wrote is what I think is Thom Roep's opinion. Personally, I like
your artwork (especially your Egmont stories).

I think most people in Holland still don't know who made which story,
even when they heard about a guy named Barks. It's no Scandinavia here...
Maybe it's time that someone publishes an article about Rosa in a Dutch comic
fanzine...

But.. I like Vicar's artwork, too. His work has improved the last 2 or 3
years! One time, I caught myself believing a panel was Barks's, while
it was in fact a Vicar panel.
His "Eurodisney" stories are very good (I'm talking about the *drawings*, not
the scripts!)

--Harry.