Just a comment on Don Rosa's recent posted difficulties with other duck people.
While we all love D. Duck and his family, and delight in his character,
how many of us could actually stand LIVING anywhere near the guy? Or
Scrooge for that matter?
Is there something about their intense personalities that rubs off on
those who document their fantastic lives, or perhaps does it take the
kind of people who are hard to get along with to tell their stories?
BTW I like what DR has done with the Duck universe and wait impatiently
for the Life O' to come out.
W. Hathaway
Author
Topic: 199306
(85 messages)
HATHAWAY
Of Ducks and Artists
Message 46 -
1993-06-16 at 18:01:07
Per Starback
Sotheby's
Message 47 -
1993-06-17 at 11:15:32
Now I've looked at Sothey's catalog for its comics auction June 26. I
was wrong on what Barks stuff there were. This is what they have:
* Cover artwork to Donald Duck Album 1140. They list it as
"$2,000-3,000". I guess that is the estimated price.
* Original art for page 1, 17, and 20 of "The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack"
(US 62). Each $3,500--4,500.
* The Watercolor "The Witches of Salem", 1979. $1,000--1,500.
* The original for an illustration in Overstreet '76. $2,500--3,000.
* Conceptual Pencil Drawing for either "A Tall SHip and a Star to
Stear Her By" or "Sailboat", 1977, pencil on vellum. $750--1,000.
* Pencil Concept Drawing for a Parade Poster, 1982. $750--1,000.
* The oil painting "Hands Off My Playthings". $75,000--95,000.
* "Always Another Rainbow", bone china figurine with accessories.
$4000--5,000.
Strips and Sunday pages:
* Al Taliaferro -- Donald Duck Sunday page, March 10, 1957.
$400--600.
* Al Taliaferro -- Donald Duck Daily Strip, January 1, 1954.
$300--500.
Those are in the daily strips section of the catalog. Earlier in the
Disney section there's:
* Group of Mickey Jouse and Donald Duck Daily Strips, 1969--1981,
(11) each $800--1,000.
I guess there are different persons doing the the price estimates for
the various sections?
There's also some groups of old comics and some Disney children's
books art artwork for such.
The item by Rosa is described like this in the catalog:
* Don Rosa -- Drawing of Disney Characters, circa 1970's, pen and ink
on paper, depicting various poses of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge.
13 in. (33 cm.) by 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm.)
The artist has confirmed that this original was the tryout sheet
sent to Another Rainbow, Gladstone publishing, to convince publisher
Bruce Hamilton of Don Rosa's artistic skill in rendering Scrooge
McDuck.
$500--700.
was wrong on what Barks stuff there were. This is what they have:
* Cover artwork to Donald Duck Album 1140. They list it as
"$2,000-3,000". I guess that is the estimated price.
* Original art for page 1, 17, and 20 of "The Queen of the Wild Dog Pack"
(US 62). Each $3,500--4,500.
* The Watercolor "The Witches of Salem", 1979. $1,000--1,500.
* The original for an illustration in Overstreet '76. $2,500--3,000.
* Conceptual Pencil Drawing for either "A Tall SHip and a Star to
Stear Her By" or "Sailboat", 1977, pencil on vellum. $750--1,000.
* Pencil Concept Drawing for a Parade Poster, 1982. $750--1,000.
* The oil painting "Hands Off My Playthings". $75,000--95,000.
* "Always Another Rainbow", bone china figurine with accessories.
$4000--5,000.
Strips and Sunday pages:
* Al Taliaferro -- Donald Duck Sunday page, March 10, 1957.
$400--600.
* Al Taliaferro -- Donald Duck Daily Strip, January 1, 1954.
$300--500.
Those are in the daily strips section of the catalog. Earlier in the
Disney section there's:
* Group of Mickey Jouse and Donald Duck Daily Strips, 1969--1981,
(11) each $800--1,000.
I guess there are different persons doing the the price estimates for
the various sections?
There's also some groups of old comics and some Disney children's
books art artwork for such.
The item by Rosa is described like this in the catalog:
* Don Rosa -- Drawing of Disney Characters, circa 1970's, pen and ink
on paper, depicting various poses of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge.
13 in. (33 cm.) by 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm.)
The artist has confirmed that this original was the tryout sheet
sent to Another Rainbow, Gladstone publishing, to convince publisher
Bruce Hamilton of Don Rosa's artistic skill in rendering Scrooge
McDuck.
$500--700.
Don Rosa
Digest #42
Message 48 -
1993-06-17 at 16:34:52
COMMENT ON #41:
Harry F. -- the excuse you got from the nice folks at Oberon doesn't make 100% sense to me. If they KNEW it was part 3, why did they
still put it into the schedule when there is SO MANY OTHER Duck stories they could have used instead? Sounds like they didn't realize
it until too late, or that the idea of a set of Duck stories that need to be told in a certain sequence is such a totally new concept
to a Disney publisher that they just didn't know how to deal with it (though it doesn't seem like it would take much finesse).
I wish I could know how their use of the Sneekah Peak story works out ("Fortune on the Rocks"). That was one I did before the concept
that my stuff was being seen in Europe far more than in America had really sunk into my skull -- and that story is jammed with
untranslatable puns. It must be murder to translate since so many scenes are built around exchanges of dialogue that culminate in
a pun and nothing else. Whew!
How did I know there were no credits or explanations given in the Dutch use of that "Pied Piper" story? I may not be able to read
Dutch, but I can read "ROSA" or even "BARKS" when I see it. If there had been an explanation in the comic, I would have seen those
two names surrounded by wild European gibberish, right? Or is your friend at Oberon saying that the credits were stuck in some other
section of the comic, and I missed them? That's possible. I have a copy -- I'll look again.
What is "RBCC"? The ROCKET'S BLAST COMICOLLECTOR... it was the focal point of American comics fandom up until about 1977. It was the
main ad and article magazine that everyone read -- like a combo of CBG and COMICS JOURNAL or something.
Oh, and I wrote the RBCC "Information Center" and did comic stories with my own characters which I now am slowly turning into Duck
stories, one by one, same plot - scenes- etc.
W.Hathaway -- I didn't understand your comments about difficulties that you say I claim to have with Duck people. What was it I said?
I can't place what you might be referring to.
Tom Galloway -- As you see, I've known that Barks dislikes my work for many years. But how did that "dealer in Atlanta" know that?
Did Barks tell him himself?!
Finally, to anyone interested in that piece of my work in the Sotheby's auction: as you surely know, it wasn't "1970's"! It was
done in mid 1986.
Harry F. -- the excuse you got from the nice folks at Oberon doesn't make 100% sense to me. If they KNEW it was part 3, why did they
still put it into the schedule when there is SO MANY OTHER Duck stories they could have used instead? Sounds like they didn't realize
it until too late, or that the idea of a set of Duck stories that need to be told in a certain sequence is such a totally new concept
to a Disney publisher that they just didn't know how to deal with it (though it doesn't seem like it would take much finesse).
I wish I could know how their use of the Sneekah Peak story works out ("Fortune on the Rocks"). That was one I did before the concept
that my stuff was being seen in Europe far more than in America had really sunk into my skull -- and that story is jammed with
untranslatable puns. It must be murder to translate since so many scenes are built around exchanges of dialogue that culminate in
a pun and nothing else. Whew!
How did I know there were no credits or explanations given in the Dutch use of that "Pied Piper" story? I may not be able to read
Dutch, but I can read "ROSA" or even "BARKS" when I see it. If there had been an explanation in the comic, I would have seen those
two names surrounded by wild European gibberish, right? Or is your friend at Oberon saying that the credits were stuck in some other
section of the comic, and I missed them? That's possible. I have a copy -- I'll look again.
What is "RBCC"? The ROCKET'S BLAST COMICOLLECTOR... it was the focal point of American comics fandom up until about 1977. It was the
main ad and article magazine that everyone read -- like a combo of CBG and COMICS JOURNAL or something.
Oh, and I wrote the RBCC "Information Center" and did comic stories with my own characters which I now am slowly turning into Duck
stories, one by one, same plot - scenes- etc.
W.Hathaway -- I didn't understand your comments about difficulties that you say I claim to have with Duck people. What was it I said?
I can't place what you might be referring to.
Tom Galloway -- As you see, I've known that Barks dislikes my work for many years. But how did that "dealer in Atlanta" know that?
Did Barks tell him himself?!
Finally, to anyone interested in that piece of my work in the Sotheby's auction: as you surely know, it wasn't "1970's"! It was
done in mid 1986.
Gilbert Milburn
Private Duck (third time is the charm!)
Message 49 -
1993-06-17 at 17:51:08
(*AAAAARRRGGHHHHUAAA!!!*)
Oh Hi,
This is cute... I came in today to check my messages and
received a friendly little note from the Mail Delivery Subsystem.
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
All this trouble over a *few* simple questions (is that too
much to ask?). If this comes back to me again I'll just have to
kill somebody (that's all)!!! Oh yeah, have a nice day =)
Gil
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: by unix.campbellsvil.edu (5.59/25-eef)
id AA00568; Fri, 11 Jun 93 12:35:11 EDT
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 12:35:11 EDT
From: Gilbert Milburn <gilbert>
Full-Name: Gilbert Milburn
Message-Id: <9306111635.AA00568 at unix.campbellsvil.edu>
To: disney-comics at MINKS.DOCS.UU.SE
Subject: Re: Private Duck... Attention!!
Hello again,
(I haven't been in since last week in part due to the weather!..
I will explain below.)
Per you said this about my last dispatch to the list:
> which looks all garbled to me. If you send a correct version
> before I send out the next digest, I'll just include the correct
> version in the digest.
I'm sorry about that garbage that got sent to the list last
time... However, there is no great *mystery* for me, what
transpired here. There was even a comment made by Mr. Rosa that
pretty much says it all.
On: 04 Jun 93 10:42:35 EDT.
Don Rosa <72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM> said...
> COMMENTS ON #THIRTY-SOMETHING
> Lots of lightning here -- excuse the line noise.
Don didn't really relay the *whole* story here! Kentucky has
had some really hazardous **Thunderstorms** over the last week and
a half!! Fallen trees, homes and businesses seriously damaged as
well as phone and power outages (the whole 9 yards!)!!
In fact one of my digest cuts off right in the middle of Per
Starback's "Barks's non-Disney comics". I did not even get Harry
Fluks' "Flemish Character names" or Don Rosa's "Re: Digest #35"!
Does anyone out there save the materials that come out on the
list and/or digest?? If so could you repost some of the things I
missing?
I recently asked Per:
> Is there anyway to repost those (28-30) that I'm missing???
Per> I don't save the digests as such, but I their headers, so I
Per> know what messages were in them, and since I keep all messages
Per> sent to the list I could resend those messages to you. [...]
Per, I need all that stuff you sent me a list of!
The weather service is forecasting more storms for the
Kentucky area (let's see if I can beat them here!) we'll try this
again and hopefully their will be mo more
"kfverybody,#M#J#M#J#M#J~%"!!
Here's my letter...
------------------------------cut-here!----------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 14:06:44 EDT
From: Gilbert Milburn <gilbert at unix.campbellsvil.edu>
Subject: Private Duck... Attention!!
Hello everybody,
It's good to be back and to see all of your smiling faces
again (sort-of,) =D. Let's hope your glad to hear from me again
("GROWN - Boo - Hiss!!").
I have a wee little question. I recently saw on T.V. an old
World War II Disney cartoon where Donald had enlisted (or was
drafted!) in the Military. He was of course under the best
commander to steer him into `being all that he could be' the
amiable Sgt. "Black" Pete! Poor Donald, how he ever survived
basic-training is beyond me. Although he gets the last laugh when
he succeed singlehandedly, to convinces the General into believing
that "Ol' Petey" is a nut-case.
Anyway the way it was edited for television it looked as
though it could have been a series of cartoon shorts... yet, I have
a feeling that it was originally one long cartoon. Dose anyone out
there know how it was originally packaged for the theaters? Also,
what was it entitled?
Thanks,
Gilbert Milburn ("Kill the Bum!!")
P.S. How did Allied Forces ever win with Donald and Pete on the
same side?? And why would anyone want to join to Military after
Disney (and other studios) made military-life look so miserable?!?
------------------------------cut-here!----------------------
P.S. Per I'm NOW missing Digest #40!.. Why me??
Oh Hi,
This is cute... I came in today to check my messages and
received a friendly little note from the Mail Delivery Subsystem.
> From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
All this trouble over a *few* simple questions (is that too
much to ask?). If this comes back to me again I'll just have to
kill somebody (that's all)!!! Oh yeah, have a nice day =)
Gil
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
----- Unsent message follows -----
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id AA00568; Fri, 11 Jun 93 12:35:11 EDT
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 12:35:11 EDT
From: Gilbert Milburn <gilbert>
Full-Name: Gilbert Milburn
Message-Id: <9306111635.AA00568 at unix.campbellsvil.edu>
To: disney-comics at MINKS.DOCS.UU.SE
Subject: Re: Private Duck... Attention!!
Hello again,
(I haven't been in since last week in part due to the weather!..
I will explain below.)
Per you said this about my last dispatch to the list:
> which looks all garbled to me. If you send a correct version
> before I send out the next digest, I'll just include the correct
> version in the digest.
I'm sorry about that garbage that got sent to the list last
time... However, there is no great *mystery* for me, what
transpired here. There was even a comment made by Mr. Rosa that
pretty much says it all.
On: 04 Jun 93 10:42:35 EDT.
Don Rosa <72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM> said...
> COMMENTS ON #THIRTY-SOMETHING
> Lots of lightning here -- excuse the line noise.
Don didn't really relay the *whole* story here! Kentucky has
had some really hazardous **Thunderstorms** over the last week and
a half!! Fallen trees, homes and businesses seriously damaged as
well as phone and power outages (the whole 9 yards!)!!
In fact one of my digest cuts off right in the middle of Per
Starback's "Barks's non-Disney comics". I did not even get Harry
Fluks' "Flemish Character names" or Don Rosa's "Re: Digest #35"!
Does anyone out there save the materials that come out on the
list and/or digest?? If so could you repost some of the things I
missing?
I recently asked Per:
> Is there anyway to repost those (28-30) that I'm missing???
Per> I don't save the digests as such, but I their headers, so I
Per> know what messages were in them, and since I keep all messages
Per> sent to the list I could resend those messages to you. [...]
Per, I need all that stuff you sent me a list of!
The weather service is forecasting more storms for the
Kentucky area (let's see if I can beat them here!) we'll try this
again and hopefully their will be mo more
"kfverybody,#M#J#M#J#M#J~%"!!
Here's my letter...
------------------------------cut-here!----------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 14:06:44 EDT
From: Gilbert Milburn <gilbert at unix.campbellsvil.edu>
Subject: Private Duck... Attention!!
Hello everybody,
It's good to be back and to see all of your smiling faces
again (sort-of,) =D. Let's hope your glad to hear from me again
("GROWN - Boo - Hiss!!").
I have a wee little question. I recently saw on T.V. an old
World War II Disney cartoon where Donald had enlisted (or was
drafted!) in the Military. He was of course under the best
commander to steer him into `being all that he could be' the
amiable Sgt. "Black" Pete! Poor Donald, how he ever survived
basic-training is beyond me. Although he gets the last laugh when
he succeed singlehandedly, to convinces the General into believing
that "Ol' Petey" is a nut-case.
Anyway the way it was edited for television it looked as
though it could have been a series of cartoon shorts... yet, I have
a feeling that it was originally one long cartoon. Dose anyone out
there know how it was originally packaged for the theaters? Also,
what was it entitled?
Thanks,
Gilbert Milburn ("Kill the Bum!!")
P.S. How did Allied Forces ever win with Donald and Pete on the
same side?? And why would anyone want to join to Military after
Disney (and other studios) made military-life look so miserable?!?
------------------------------cut-here!----------------------
P.S. Per I'm NOW missing Digest #40!.. Why me??
HATHAWAY
Ducks and Artists
Message 50 -
1993-06-17 at 19:23:26
For Don Rosa,
- W.Hathaway -- I didn't understand your comments about difficulties
- that you say I claim to have with Duck people. What was it I said?
- I can't place what you might be referring to.
-
I was referring to the following opinion Barks has about your works and
to the coldness Barks has reportedly shown to you. Such behavior is
something Donald Duck might show when he gets into one of his snits.
Please excuse my lack of clarity.
- Tom Galloway -- As you see, I've known that Barks dislikes my work
- for many years. But how did that "dealer in Atlanta" know that?
- Did Barks tell him himself?!
-
W. Hathaway
- W.Hathaway -- I didn't understand your comments about difficulties
- that you say I claim to have with Duck people. What was it I said?
- I can't place what you might be referring to.
-
I was referring to the following opinion Barks has about your works and
to the coldness Barks has reportedly shown to you. Such behavior is
something Donald Duck might show when he gets into one of his snits.
Please excuse my lack of clarity.
- Tom Galloway -- As you see, I've known that Barks dislikes my work
- for many years. But how did that "dealer in Atlanta" know that?
- Did Barks tell him himself?!
-
W. Hathaway
Gilbert Milburn
Something for Don to think about!..
Message 51 -
1993-06-17 at 19:27:41
Dear Disney-folks,
In Don's comments he said:
> Date: 16 Jun 93 09:31:58 EDT
> From: Don Rosa <72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM>
> Subject: Re: Digest #41
> I needn't have worried. Though EVERYONE knew I was there, and
>there ONLY to meet Barks, I waited all weekend and still received
>NO invitation. I was royally snubbed in favor of all the
>millionaires and news people. I was quite hurt, but I had too much
>pride to go begging to be introduced. At least I shook his hand in
>a crowd, but no words were passed between us in those 5 seconds.
> I'll stop short of telling you what sort of person Barks
>really is, according to the people that have dealt closely with
>him. It's all hearsay for one thing.... and besides, you're all
>better off admiring his WORK -- you may not be able to admire the
>MAN.
Don, I'm really *SORRY* things turn out for you the way they
did!.. I know how distressing (and PAINFUL) it is to reach out to
someone that you have admired for years and they turn out to be
hateful or arrogant as well as conceited and not at all
respectable!! I am only thankful that when I contacted YOU several
years ago, that you were very open and friendly towards me and just
down-right pleasant to talk to (and for that I *THANK* you!)!!!!!!
At least, as far as you are concerned, your fans can admire both
for your work and you as a human being!
That's about all for now,
Gil (what's-his-face)
P.S. If someone is currently logged-on and has BOTH messages that I
sent out today, *PLEASE* let me know!!
In Don's comments he said:
> Date: 16 Jun 93 09:31:58 EDT
> From: Don Rosa <72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM>
> Subject: Re: Digest #41
> I needn't have worried. Though EVERYONE knew I was there, and
>there ONLY to meet Barks, I waited all weekend and still received
>NO invitation. I was royally snubbed in favor of all the
>millionaires and news people. I was quite hurt, but I had too much
>pride to go begging to be introduced. At least I shook his hand in
>a crowd, but no words were passed between us in those 5 seconds.
> I'll stop short of telling you what sort of person Barks
>really is, according to the people that have dealt closely with
>him. It's all hearsay for one thing.... and besides, you're all
>better off admiring his WORK -- you may not be able to admire the
>MAN.
Don, I'm really *SORRY* things turn out for you the way they
did!.. I know how distressing (and PAINFUL) it is to reach out to
someone that you have admired for years and they turn out to be
hateful or arrogant as well as conceited and not at all
respectable!! I am only thankful that when I contacted YOU several
years ago, that you were very open and friendly towards me and just
down-right pleasant to talk to (and for that I *THANK* you!)!!!!!!
At least, as far as you are concerned, your fans can admire both
for your work and you as a human being!
That's about all for now,
Gil (what's-his-face)
P.S. If someone is currently logged-on and has BOTH messages that I
sent out today, *PLEASE* let me know!!
Harry Fluks
Starting with #3 (Rosa in Holland)
Message 52 -
1993-06-17 at 19:40:47
Don Rosa's COMMENT ON #41:
> Harry F. -- the excuse you got from the nice folks at Oberon doesn't
> make 100% sense to me. If they KNEW it was part 3, why did they
> still put it into the schedule when there is SO MANY OTHER Duck stories they
> could have used instead?
A story has to match some requirements for being used as an opening story in
DD Extra:
1. The story should be available *including* the colouring;
2. The story should be new, i.e. never printed in Holland before;
3. The story should be good enough to let people buy the comic (which implies
Rosa, Van Horn or Rota).
Apparently, there were not many new stories available, and those that were,
were not that good to be a lead story. Beekman said they really discussed the
fact that they started with part 3, but they decided they had no other
choice at that moment.
Strange though, that Egmont delivers part 3 first... maybe they deliver
their stories in random order?
> Sounds like they didn't realize
> it until too late, or that the idea of a set of Duck stories that need to be
> told in a certain sequence is such a totally new concept
> to a Disney publisher that they just didn't know how to deal with it (though
> it doesn't seem like it would take much finesse).
Well, they may have problems with that. There was an Egmont series a while
ago, with Donald and the nephews traveling in time. The first 44-page episode
was by Marco Rota, the 2nd by Vicar (and I have not seen more of it).
When the Dutch published the stories, they changed the ending of the 1st story,
and they let Michel Nadorp draw a new beginning and ending of the 2nd
story, so that each story is a story of its own, and not a part of a
sequence.
(Fortunately, they don't do that kind of stuff with Rosa stories.)
> I wish I could know how their use of the Sneekah Peak story works out
> ("Fortune on the Rocks").
I'll give a report as soon as I have the comic (I hope I can re-translate
the texts from Dutch to English...).
> How did I know there were no credits or explanations given in the
> Dutch use of that "Pied Piper" story? I may not be able to read
> Dutch, but I can read "ROSA" or even "BARKS" when I see it. If there had
> been an explanation in the comic, I would have seen those
> two names surrounded by wild European gibberish, right? Or is your friend
> at Oberon saying that the credits were stuck in some other
> section of the comic, and I missed them?
No, you didn't miss them: they're not there.
BTW: that same story ("Pied Piper") is now reprinted in a comic album,
Uncle Scrooge #50. The album contains the 38-page Rota story "The Money
Ocean" as a lead story, and the Piper story as a fill-in.
Those albums always have an introductory text, explaining who Carl Barks is
(though his stories were only in #1 - #30), and with some explanation
about the lead story. In this album, it is the first time they mentioned
the name of an artist other than Barks: Marco Rota. They missed the chance
to explain the background of Pied Piper (again)...
--Harry.
> Harry F. -- the excuse you got from the nice folks at Oberon doesn't
> make 100% sense to me. If they KNEW it was part 3, why did they
> still put it into the schedule when there is SO MANY OTHER Duck stories they
> could have used instead?
A story has to match some requirements for being used as an opening story in
DD Extra:
1. The story should be available *including* the colouring;
2. The story should be new, i.e. never printed in Holland before;
3. The story should be good enough to let people buy the comic (which implies
Rosa, Van Horn or Rota).
Apparently, there were not many new stories available, and those that were,
were not that good to be a lead story. Beekman said they really discussed the
fact that they started with part 3, but they decided they had no other
choice at that moment.
Strange though, that Egmont delivers part 3 first... maybe they deliver
their stories in random order?
> Sounds like they didn't realize
> it until too late, or that the idea of a set of Duck stories that need to be
> told in a certain sequence is such a totally new concept
> to a Disney publisher that they just didn't know how to deal with it (though
> it doesn't seem like it would take much finesse).
Well, they may have problems with that. There was an Egmont series a while
ago, with Donald and the nephews traveling in time. The first 44-page episode
was by Marco Rota, the 2nd by Vicar (and I have not seen more of it).
When the Dutch published the stories, they changed the ending of the 1st story,
and they let Michel Nadorp draw a new beginning and ending of the 2nd
story, so that each story is a story of its own, and not a part of a
sequence.
(Fortunately, they don't do that kind of stuff with Rosa stories.)
> I wish I could know how their use of the Sneekah Peak story works out
> ("Fortune on the Rocks").
I'll give a report as soon as I have the comic (I hope I can re-translate
the texts from Dutch to English...).
> How did I know there were no credits or explanations given in the
> Dutch use of that "Pied Piper" story? I may not be able to read
> Dutch, but I can read "ROSA" or even "BARKS" when I see it. If there had
> been an explanation in the comic, I would have seen those
> two names surrounded by wild European gibberish, right? Or is your friend
> at Oberon saying that the credits were stuck in some other
> section of the comic, and I missed them?
No, you didn't miss them: they're not there.
BTW: that same story ("Pied Piper") is now reprinted in a comic album,
Uncle Scrooge #50. The album contains the 38-page Rota story "The Money
Ocean" as a lead story, and the Piper story as a fill-in.
Those albums always have an introductory text, explaining who Carl Barks is
(though his stories were only in #1 - #30), and with some explanation
about the lead story. In this album, it is the first time they mentioned
the name of an artist other than Barks: Marco Rota. They missed the chance
to explain the background of Pied Piper (again)...
--Harry.
Tom Galloway
Digest #42
Message 53 -
1993-06-18 at 00:12:53
Don Rosa writes:
>Oh, and I wrote the RBCC "Information Center" and did comic stories with my
>own characters which I now am slowly turning into Duck stories, one by one,
>same plot - scenes- etc.
So does this mean we can look forward to the return of Octa-Hexa-Glop?
Or a yearly Kentucky Derby story? And does the Channel 32 Sky-Cam need
to be worried again? (for those wondering, I'm refering to Don's Captain
Kentucky strip which I was introduced to in The Comic Reader way back when
and have the collections of. Don't have the Lance Pertwilaby (sp?)
collections though, which I guess are much more likely for duck stories)
As for how my dealer heard about Barks, the impression I got from him was
that it seemed to be fairly common knowledge among the attendees, probably
due to your not being introed to Barks and the like. I can ask him for
more details if you like.
tyg tyg at hq.ileaf.com
>Oh, and I wrote the RBCC "Information Center" and did comic stories with my
>own characters which I now am slowly turning into Duck stories, one by one,
>same plot - scenes- etc.
So does this mean we can look forward to the return of Octa-Hexa-Glop?
Or a yearly Kentucky Derby story? And does the Channel 32 Sky-Cam need
to be worried again? (for those wondering, I'm refering to Don's Captain
Kentucky strip which I was introduced to in The Comic Reader way back when
and have the collections of. Don't have the Lance Pertwilaby (sp?)
collections though, which I guess are much more likely for duck stories)
As for how my dealer heard about Barks, the impression I got from him was
that it seemed to be fairly common knowledge among the attendees, probably
due to your not being introed to Barks and the like. I can ask him for
more details if you like.
tyg tyg at hq.ileaf.com
Torsten Wesley Adair
Our indices (Gosh Polly! It just might work!)
Message 54 -
1993-06-18 at 03:45:59
On Wednesday, 16 June 1993, Don Rosa wrote:
> Don Rosa:
> > First off, do I see mention here of a need for an index to WDC&S? I
> > indexed the ENTIRE contents of each issue of WDC&S from #1-400,
> > all the way down to the text features, years ago in RBCC when I was comic
> > fandom's answer guy. DON'T ask me to upload it!!!!!
> > I guess I only mention it to aggravate everyone? But I'm constantly hearing
> > of people launching in-depth indexes to Disney comics
> > even though they were all thoroughly indexed in the late 60s and early 70s
> > (albeit in magazines that many current collectors are
> > not familiar with).
Don, I was not aware of your involvement with RBCC. I did know that you
had a column in the Comics Buyer's Guide (CBG). Why not offer your index
to them? I do not see any reason why they would not publish it, although
it would be best in serial form.
Here's a crazy idea: (Think Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as teenagers)
Everyone sends Mr. Rosa a stamped, self addressed envelope (or, if to be
sent air-mail, include a dollar bill instead of stamps).
Mr. Rosa photocopies his Disney index and mails a copy to everyone who
asked for it.
Then, all of us who get a copy would get together, and each of us would
take part of the list, and word-process it. Then we would mail it to a
central source, where the list would be assembled and archived, thereby
earning us the gratitude of future generations.
What do you all think?
> Don Rosa:
> > First off, do I see mention here of a need for an index to WDC&S? I
> > indexed the ENTIRE contents of each issue of WDC&S from #1-400,
> > all the way down to the text features, years ago in RBCC when I was comic
> > fandom's answer guy. DON'T ask me to upload it!!!!!
> > I guess I only mention it to aggravate everyone? But I'm constantly hearing
> > of people launching in-depth indexes to Disney comics
> > even though they were all thoroughly indexed in the late 60s and early 70s
> > (albeit in magazines that many current collectors are
> > not familiar with).
Don, I was not aware of your involvement with RBCC. I did know that you
had a column in the Comics Buyer's Guide (CBG). Why not offer your index
to them? I do not see any reason why they would not publish it, although
it would be best in serial form.
Here's a crazy idea: (Think Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as teenagers)
Everyone sends Mr. Rosa a stamped, self addressed envelope (or, if to be
sent air-mail, include a dollar bill instead of stamps).
Mr. Rosa photocopies his Disney index and mails a copy to everyone who
asked for it.
Then, all of us who get a copy would get together, and each of us would
take part of the list, and word-process it. Then we would mail it to a
central source, where the list would be assembled and archived, thereby
earning us the gratitude of future generations.
What do you all think?
Larry J. Gerstein
Ducks, Vikings and Misanthropy
Message 55 -
1993-06-18 at 04:41:22
Dear Folks,
It saddens me to see that Carl Barks not only doesn't like Don Rosa's
stories, but treats Mr. Rosa curtly and apparently tries to avoid him.
Mr. Barks DOES seem quite misanthropic, though, from just the general
feel a lot of his stuff has (and particularly the editorials about him in the
CBLIC albums lately!). This is no excuse for such behavior, however.
A correction for disney.index: The second story planned for DiDDA
20, "The Bad Penny" by Vicar, was bumped and replaced by "The Ice Planet,"
also by Vicar. I don't know if the earlier story was actually completed in
an American version and if so, why it might have been bumped.
(Later this summer I'll be back at home with a near-complete
collection of Disneys and I can REALLY fill in some gaps then!!!)
As for whether Donald's temper and Scrooge's nastiness rub off on all
duck writers/artists... say it ain't so! I've been doing duck stuff for
Disney (briefly) and Egmont for several years, now, and I get nothing but
delight out of it. Okay, I can't say I agreed with all Disney's policies
when I was working with them (but that was the management, not the editors
who I dealt with), and I have a hard time corresponding regularly and
successfully with folks in Denmark, but fer gosh sakes, I get a THRILL out of
working with Disney (*and* Carl Barks) characters, and a THRILL chatting and
discussing things with fellow fans and historians!
I also have a tendency to run off at the mouth. You heard it here
first.
By the way... Disney prepared three long Egmont time-travel DD
stories for use here, planning to make albums out of them, but as so often
happened the publishing division laid eggs when it came to figuring out how
to market them, so they never appeared. They were announced in lettercols
several times, however, and Gary Gabner's writing and someone's color were
apparently finished for them.
I have mentioned that to John Clark and maybe Gladstone will print
them. I have seen Vicar's "Back to the Stone Age!" in a German printing, and
it's far, far beyond anything Vicar ever did elsewhere. I don't know what
Rota's item is like, but I can't imagine it's that *bad!!!* And there's a
third story, either. Bob Foster tells me that one of the three is about
Vikings. Is this the Rota, or the mysterious third one?
I must head for the tall timber, folks. But I'll be back.
Your friend,
David Gerstein
"Why a duck?" -- Chico Marx
It saddens me to see that Carl Barks not only doesn't like Don Rosa's
stories, but treats Mr. Rosa curtly and apparently tries to avoid him.
Mr. Barks DOES seem quite misanthropic, though, from just the general
feel a lot of his stuff has (and particularly the editorials about him in the
CBLIC albums lately!). This is no excuse for such behavior, however.
A correction for disney.index: The second story planned for DiDDA
20, "The Bad Penny" by Vicar, was bumped and replaced by "The Ice Planet,"
also by Vicar. I don't know if the earlier story was actually completed in
an American version and if so, why it might have been bumped.
(Later this summer I'll be back at home with a near-complete
collection of Disneys and I can REALLY fill in some gaps then!!!)
As for whether Donald's temper and Scrooge's nastiness rub off on all
duck writers/artists... say it ain't so! I've been doing duck stuff for
Disney (briefly) and Egmont for several years, now, and I get nothing but
delight out of it. Okay, I can't say I agreed with all Disney's policies
when I was working with them (but that was the management, not the editors
who I dealt with), and I have a hard time corresponding regularly and
successfully with folks in Denmark, but fer gosh sakes, I get a THRILL out of
working with Disney (*and* Carl Barks) characters, and a THRILL chatting and
discussing things with fellow fans and historians!
I also have a tendency to run off at the mouth. You heard it here
first.
By the way... Disney prepared three long Egmont time-travel DD
stories for use here, planning to make albums out of them, but as so often
happened the publishing division laid eggs when it came to figuring out how
to market them, so they never appeared. They were announced in lettercols
several times, however, and Gary Gabner's writing and someone's color were
apparently finished for them.
I have mentioned that to John Clark and maybe Gladstone will print
them. I have seen Vicar's "Back to the Stone Age!" in a German printing, and
it's far, far beyond anything Vicar ever did elsewhere. I don't know what
Rota's item is like, but I can't imagine it's that *bad!!!* And there's a
third story, either. Bob Foster tells me that one of the three is about
Vikings. Is this the Rota, or the mysterious third one?
I must head for the tall timber, folks. But I'll be back.
Your friend,
David Gerstein
"Why a duck?" -- Chico Marx
Harry Fluks
Fortune on the rocks (SPOILERS)
Message 56 -
1993-06-18 at 10:06:29
SPOILER WARNING: THE FOLLOWING TEXT CONTAINS SEVERAL TEXTUAL JOKES FROM
"FORTUNE ON THE ROCKS" BY DON ROSA (FROM U$ ADVENTURES 9)
I bought the Dutch version of this story yesterday (in DD Extra 6-1993).
I will give a simultaneous translation of some of the textual jokes in the
story. This can serve two purposes: Don Rosa himself can see how his
stories are treated, and Dutch members that don't have the English version
can see some of the original text...
English original Retranslated from the Dutch
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(page 1, bottom row)
Nephew: That's a mighty bleak peak, Maybe a silly question, uncle
uncle Scrooge! Don't you own any Scrooge, but what do you want to
OTHER desert land? do with that rock?
Scrooge: Just a single hundred-acre tract! I wish I knew!
..: That's not a lot of land for Scrooge That's why I got you here! You
McDuck! Where's it located? have to help me!
..: Downtown Phoenix! Of course!
(note that the gag is gone, and that the speakers are reversed in the last
panel)
(page 2)
Don: that's nothing! I was quite the rock There's more to that, Uncle
expert in my day! The little Booneheads Scrooge! Not the names of the
named me Champion Rockhound and Adept stones are important, but their
Collector of Keen Pebbles and Other finding place... and that's MY
Treasures! speciality!
Scrooge: Your were a C.R.A.C.K.P.O.T.? Are you such a tracker?
Don: I don't like to BRAG, but *ahem*... Yep! I spot everything!
(page 3)
Don: So where do I hammer this spike? How do we start?
Nephew: Right there, unca Donald! That's We tie ourselves together!
YOUR fault!
Don: Oh, SURE! Blame everything on ME! Is there anything you guys
DON'T know?
(page 5)
Scrooge: Bah! These are just worthless rocks! These are tracks of...
Don: Can I have a sample of whatever you've I know it, uncle Scrooge!
found? Sapphire!
Nephew: I'm sure unca Scrooge would give you Sorry, uncle Donald! The tracks
the CHERT off his PACK! are of worthless graphite!
Don: Ha! Not the uncle Scrooge *I* know! But admit it, I WAS close!
Nephew: No, I mean... Well...
(page 8: in the Dutch version, the first panel is missing. This is because
it is a copy of the German version, and they published the story in 2
parts in Germany, replacing this panel by an introduction of part 2.
In Holland, however, they didn't publish it in 2 parts, so they filled
the panel space with the following text:)
Uncle Scrooge's swing
is that breathtaking, that
readers with acrophobia
will have guaranteed nightmares.
Therefore we decided, after
consulting the Duckburgian
medical union "Quack",
not to publish this scene.
(page 9, panel 3)
Nephew: Are you okay, unca Scrooge? Something happened?
Scrooge: Well, perhaps if you LOOSENED this Nothing worth mentioning. Can
rope just a trifle... someone loosen the rope?
(a rare example of a quite funny translation)
(page 10)
Don: What's THIS colorful rock? What's this funny rock?
Nephew: That's GNEISS! Flint ("Fire rock")!
Don: I think it's nice, too, but what IS it? But it feels cold!
Nephew: No, I mean that's a GNEISS rock! The No, they used to break parts off
rock is GNEISS! It's just plain it to make knives!
GNEISS!
Don: Jeepers! if you're THAT crazy about it, So it's falling apart as well?
HERE...it's YOURS! Away with it!
(and in the last page, the 'Rock Crusher' gag has gone, of course...)
I hadn't read the story for a while, and when I read the Dutch version, I
noticed that it's a very funny story, even without the word gags. That is
what you could call QUALITY... even when you remove all the textual gags
and references, still a good story remains!
--Harry.
"FORTUNE ON THE ROCKS" BY DON ROSA (FROM U$ ADVENTURES 9)
I bought the Dutch version of this story yesterday (in DD Extra 6-1993).
I will give a simultaneous translation of some of the textual jokes in the
story. This can serve two purposes: Don Rosa himself can see how his
stories are treated, and Dutch members that don't have the English version
can see some of the original text...
English original Retranslated from the Dutch
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(page 1, bottom row)
Nephew: That's a mighty bleak peak, Maybe a silly question, uncle
uncle Scrooge! Don't you own any Scrooge, but what do you want to
OTHER desert land? do with that rock?
Scrooge: Just a single hundred-acre tract! I wish I knew!
..: That's not a lot of land for Scrooge That's why I got you here! You
McDuck! Where's it located? have to help me!
..: Downtown Phoenix! Of course!
(note that the gag is gone, and that the speakers are reversed in the last
panel)
(page 2)
Don: that's nothing! I was quite the rock There's more to that, Uncle
expert in my day! The little Booneheads Scrooge! Not the names of the
named me Champion Rockhound and Adept stones are important, but their
Collector of Keen Pebbles and Other finding place... and that's MY
Treasures! speciality!
Scrooge: Your were a C.R.A.C.K.P.O.T.? Are you such a tracker?
Don: I don't like to BRAG, but *ahem*... Yep! I spot everything!
(page 3)
Don: So where do I hammer this spike? How do we start?
Nephew: Right there, unca Donald! That's We tie ourselves together!
YOUR fault!
Don: Oh, SURE! Blame everything on ME! Is there anything you guys
DON'T know?
(page 5)
Scrooge: Bah! These are just worthless rocks! These are tracks of...
Don: Can I have a sample of whatever you've I know it, uncle Scrooge!
found? Sapphire!
Nephew: I'm sure unca Scrooge would give you Sorry, uncle Donald! The tracks
the CHERT off his PACK! are of worthless graphite!
Don: Ha! Not the uncle Scrooge *I* know! But admit it, I WAS close!
Nephew: No, I mean... Well...
(page 8: in the Dutch version, the first panel is missing. This is because
it is a copy of the German version, and they published the story in 2
parts in Germany, replacing this panel by an introduction of part 2.
In Holland, however, they didn't publish it in 2 parts, so they filled
the panel space with the following text:)
Uncle Scrooge's swing
is that breathtaking, that
readers with acrophobia
will have guaranteed nightmares.
Therefore we decided, after
consulting the Duckburgian
medical union "Quack",
not to publish this scene.
(page 9, panel 3)
Nephew: Are you okay, unca Scrooge? Something happened?
Scrooge: Well, perhaps if you LOOSENED this Nothing worth mentioning. Can
rope just a trifle... someone loosen the rope?
(a rare example of a quite funny translation)
(page 10)
Don: What's THIS colorful rock? What's this funny rock?
Nephew: That's GNEISS! Flint ("Fire rock")!
Don: I think it's nice, too, but what IS it? But it feels cold!
Nephew: No, I mean that's a GNEISS rock! The No, they used to break parts off
rock is GNEISS! It's just plain it to make knives!
GNEISS!
Don: Jeepers! if you're THAT crazy about it, So it's falling apart as well?
HERE...it's YOURS! Away with it!
(and in the last page, the 'Rock Crusher' gag has gone, of course...)
I hadn't read the story for a while, and when I read the Dutch version, I
noticed that it's a very funny story, even without the word gags. That is
what you could call QUALITY... even when you remove all the textual gags
and references, still a good story remains!
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Ducks, Vikings and Misanthropy
Message 57 -
1993-06-18 at 13:22:51
David Gerstein:
> By the way... Disney prepared three long Egmont time-travel DD
> stories for use here, planning to make albums out of them, but as so often
> happened the publishing division laid eggs when it came to figuring out how
> to market them, so they never appeared. They were announced in lettercols
> several times, however, and Gary Gabner's writing and someone's color were
> apparently finished for them.
Now that you mention it: I have seen your name quite a lot in Disney
Comics letter columns. In one of your letters you mention a German artist
re-inking Barks's "King Scrooge the first" for Gladstone. The artist must
be Ulrich Schroeder. Disney replied that the reinked story was sent back to
the artist, so that he could make some minor changes. The artist then
destroyed the work because he was not satisfied with it!
Are we supposed to *believe* that??
> I have seen Vicar's "Back to the Stone Age!" in a German printing, and
> it's far, far beyond anything Vicar ever did elsewhere.
Agreed. The story's not that great, but the artwork is!
> I don't know what
> Rota's item is like, but I can't imagine it's that *bad!!!*
That one is very good, too. It's the one about Vikings. I hope you Americans
will get to see them someday.
--Harry.
> By the way... Disney prepared three long Egmont time-travel DD
> stories for use here, planning to make albums out of them, but as so often
> happened the publishing division laid eggs when it came to figuring out how
> to market them, so they never appeared. They were announced in lettercols
> several times, however, and Gary Gabner's writing and someone's color were
> apparently finished for them.
Now that you mention it: I have seen your name quite a lot in Disney
Comics letter columns. In one of your letters you mention a German artist
re-inking Barks's "King Scrooge the first" for Gladstone. The artist must
be Ulrich Schroeder. Disney replied that the reinked story was sent back to
the artist, so that he could make some minor changes. The artist then
destroyed the work because he was not satisfied with it!
Are we supposed to *believe* that??
> I have seen Vicar's "Back to the Stone Age!" in a German printing, and
> it's far, far beyond anything Vicar ever did elsewhere.
Agreed. The story's not that great, but the artwork is!
> I don't know what
> Rota's item is like, but I can't imagine it's that *bad!!!*
That one is very good, too. It's the one about Vikings. I hope you Americans
will get to see them someday.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Our indices (Re Torsten)
Message 58 -
1993-06-18 at 13:28:13
Torsten:
> Here's a crazy idea: (Think Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as teenagers)
>
> Everyone sends Mr. Rosa a stamped, self addressed envelope (or, if to be
> sent air-mail, include a dollar bill instead of stamps).
>
> Mr. Rosa photocopies his Disney index and mails a copy to everyone who
> asked for it.
>
> Then, all of us who get a copy would get together, and each of us would
> take part of the list, and word-process it. Then we would mail it to a
> central source, where the list would be assembled and archived, thereby
> earning us the gratitude of future generations.
>
> What do you all think?
What about copyrights and stuff?
But apart from that: I am willing to type in the *entire* index if I have a
copy of it. And we're getting some text scanners here, so maybe the effort is
not that great...
(This offer also goes for other indexes, as long as they are in a language
I can understand. 8-)
--Harry.
> Here's a crazy idea: (Think Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland as teenagers)
>
> Everyone sends Mr. Rosa a stamped, self addressed envelope (or, if to be
> sent air-mail, include a dollar bill instead of stamps).
>
> Mr. Rosa photocopies his Disney index and mails a copy to everyone who
> asked for it.
>
> Then, all of us who get a copy would get together, and each of us would
> take part of the list, and word-process it. Then we would mail it to a
> central source, where the list would be assembled and archived, thereby
> earning us the gratitude of future generations.
>
> What do you all think?
What about copyrights and stuff?
But apart from that: I am willing to type in the *entire* index if I have a
copy of it. And we're getting some text scanners here, so maybe the effort is
not that great...
(This offer also goes for other indexes, as long as they are in a language
I can understand. 8-)
--Harry.
Don Rosa
Digest #43
Message 59 -
1993-06-18 at 16:26:57
COMMENTS TO #4?:
Harry F.:
STILL the explanation from Oberon doesn't "wash". Egmont doesn't just send photostats to publishers unless the story has been
specifically REQUESTED by serial number. And the only way Oberon would know the serial number is by seeing the actual story art.
Therefore, they knew all along what they ordered. And the previous two chapters were available and fully colored. And at least part
1 was the same length as 3. I'm not trying to carry this on forever, but I'm just explaining how these excuses from the nice folks
at Oberon don't make 100% sense.
And you say they used that story because they thought it was good? Tha's swell -- but you said they don't like to use my stories
in the most prominent publications because they don't LIKE 'em. This is all confusin'.
By the way, when I dug into my files to see if I'd missed a credit listing in that Oberon use of "Pied Piper" (as you said, I didn't)
I jotted down the Dutch issues with my stories that I already have. Maybe this is all there is -- I dunno -- but it's not many and
I suspect there are more.
I HAVE: DONALD DUCK 1990 - #15 & 47; 1991 - #14.
DONALD DUCK EXTRA: 1991 - #2, 6, 9, 11.
DONALD DUCK EXTRA: 1992 - #3, 9, 10.
That's it. If you can find others, I'd sure like to get 'em.
TOM GALLOWAY -- I think it was T.G. That last message in the digest didn't seem to have a name on it.
I would be VERY INTERESTED to know just who knew about Barks' snubbing me in Atlanta, and exactly HOW they knew it. Could you please
investigate that for me??? It's important to me to know just what's going on and how big of a fool I was made.
Harry F.:
STILL the explanation from Oberon doesn't "wash". Egmont doesn't just send photostats to publishers unless the story has been
specifically REQUESTED by serial number. And the only way Oberon would know the serial number is by seeing the actual story art.
Therefore, they knew all along what they ordered. And the previous two chapters were available and fully colored. And at least part
1 was the same length as 3. I'm not trying to carry this on forever, but I'm just explaining how these excuses from the nice folks
at Oberon don't make 100% sense.
And you say they used that story because they thought it was good? Tha's swell -- but you said they don't like to use my stories
in the most prominent publications because they don't LIKE 'em. This is all confusin'.
By the way, when I dug into my files to see if I'd missed a credit listing in that Oberon use of "Pied Piper" (as you said, I didn't)
I jotted down the Dutch issues with my stories that I already have. Maybe this is all there is -- I dunno -- but it's not many and
I suspect there are more.
I HAVE: DONALD DUCK 1990 - #15 & 47; 1991 - #14.
DONALD DUCK EXTRA: 1991 - #2, 6, 9, 11.
DONALD DUCK EXTRA: 1992 - #3, 9, 10.
That's it. If you can find others, I'd sure like to get 'em.
TOM GALLOWAY -- I think it was T.G. That last message in the digest didn't seem to have a name on it.
I would be VERY INTERESTED to know just who knew about Barks' snubbing me in Atlanta, and exactly HOW they knew it. Could you please
investigate that for me??? It's important to me to know just what's going on and how big of a fool I was made.
Harry Fluks
Dutch Rosa again
Message 60 -
1993-06-18 at 16:58:02
Don Rosa about how the Dutch think of his comics:
> And you say they used that story because they thought it was good?
> Tha's swell -- but you said they don't like to use my stories
> in the most prominent publications because they don't LIKE 'em. This is all
> confusin'.
Thom Roep, supervising editor, edits the 'prominent' publication (DD Weekly),
doesn't like the ART of Rosa comics (..but he likes the scripts).
Jos Beekman, editor of the monthly DD Extra, DOES like Rosa comics (art AND
script).
(And, as I understand now, DD Extra is meant for the more 'mature' reader,
so it fits perfectly.)
Beekman and Roep sometimes contradict each other when explaining things to me.
Maybe that's the origin of the confusion.
And Don, I *will* send you as much Dutch comics as I can - it'll just take
some time...
--Harry.
> And you say they used that story because they thought it was good?
> Tha's swell -- but you said they don't like to use my stories
> in the most prominent publications because they don't LIKE 'em. This is all
> confusin'.
Thom Roep, supervising editor, edits the 'prominent' publication (DD Weekly),
doesn't like the ART of Rosa comics (..but he likes the scripts).
Jos Beekman, editor of the monthly DD Extra, DOES like Rosa comics (art AND
script).
(And, as I understand now, DD Extra is meant for the more 'mature' reader,
so it fits perfectly.)
Beekman and Roep sometimes contradict each other when explaining things to me.
Maybe that's the origin of the confusion.
And Don, I *will* send you as much Dutch comics as I can - it'll just take
some time...
--Harry.