>From: "Jon Cato Lorentzen" 26-FEB-1994 11:43:22.66
...
>About Moby Duck.
>He was in a lot of stories in the 70s, and (flame me) I liked many of them.
>But this is probably because I was just a kid then, and read my Disney
>comics to shreads, and I don't think I would have liked those stories as
>much if I had read them for the first time today.
>
>Jon C. Lorentzen
>
I've got some Moby Duck issues from that time - in his own title.
I think they are in un-shreaded condition - indexed in boxes. Strange
how some issues would be considered valueless but if one were to try
to find good copies of them, it would be near impossible. The comic
shows and conventions seem to have few if any Duck books and the stores
have little selection on older ones like this. But I'd probably only read
a couple of them (Moby) myself nowadays. Maybe when I retire???
W. Hathaway
Author
Topic: 199402
(215 messages)
HATHAWAY
Moby Duck
Message 211 -
1994-02-28 at 18:05:41
Fredrik Ekman
Giuseppe Perego
Message 212 -
1994-02-28 at 20:17:42
Fabio wrote:
> As the owner of the whole collection of Italian pocket-books since 1957, I
> can assure you that the author was Italian. It was Giuseppe Perego, one of
> the few contributors to Disney books who were employed by Mondadori
Yourch! Of all the bad Disney comic artists I have ever had the
questionable pleasure to read, Giuseppe Perego is the worst by
far! "Crude", as Fabio later wrote, is a tremendous understatement.
He draws all the ducks with extremely short beaks, and for some
reason the beak is always wide open. Especially when one of them
is furious, which happens in every second panel or so. Donald
constantly gets mad at Huey, Dewey and Louie for no apparent
reason and Scrooge constantly gets mad at Donald.
All in all, it's a shame that all you Americans will certainly
never get to see anything by this man. I just love to hate him. ;-)
By the way, Scarpa's "MM as the Emperor of Calisota" which David
mentioned, is one of my favourite Italian stories. Not everything
Italian is bad. :-)
/F
> As the owner of the whole collection of Italian pocket-books since 1957, I
> can assure you that the author was Italian. It was Giuseppe Perego, one of
> the few contributors to Disney books who were employed by Mondadori
Yourch! Of all the bad Disney comic artists I have ever had the
questionable pleasure to read, Giuseppe Perego is the worst by
far! "Crude", as Fabio later wrote, is a tremendous understatement.
He draws all the ducks with extremely short beaks, and for some
reason the beak is always wide open. Especially when one of them
is furious, which happens in every second panel or so. Donald
constantly gets mad at Huey, Dewey and Louie for no apparent
reason and Scrooge constantly gets mad at Donald.
All in all, it's a shame that all you Americans will certainly
never get to see anything by this man. I just love to hate him. ;-)
By the way, Scarpa's "MM as the Emperor of Calisota" which David
mentioned, is one of my favourite Italian stories. Not everything
Italian is bad. :-)
/F
Chris Lawton
Last one on this topic...
Message 213 -
1994-02-28 at 20:28:00
Hiya Gang!
A few last comments about the recent topic I started:
I'll continue to reread the stuff I enjoy whether or not it is considered
by the experts to be clasics or high-quality or whatever. Is that bad?
Does that make me not like the good stuff (i.e. DELL Disney)?
At this point, I felt a little picked on by someone I admire for his talent. :(
Oh well. I can take it. And I still consider myself a "Fan" of Disney
Comics. :)
So... in order to aid in the education of the unsophisticated comic reader,
(I certainly consider myself to be in that catagory! :) ) how about a
recommendation of issues to try to find so that I *will* have
something to compare to? Authors? Titles? Dates? That way, I (and others)
can know what the experts consider to be the best. Sort of a "Requiered
Reading List"?
Looking forward to hearing from you! :)
Chris
(I'll leave the .sig off for this group!)
A few last comments about the recent topic I started:
I'll continue to reread the stuff I enjoy whether or not it is considered
by the experts to be clasics or high-quality or whatever. Is that bad?
Does that make me not like the good stuff (i.e. DELL Disney)?
At this point, I felt a little picked on by someone I admire for his talent. :(
Oh well. I can take it. And I still consider myself a "Fan" of Disney
Comics. :)
So... in order to aid in the education of the unsophisticated comic reader,
(I certainly consider myself to be in that catagory! :) ) how about a
recommendation of issues to try to find so that I *will* have
something to compare to? Authors? Titles? Dates? That way, I (and others)
can know what the experts consider to be the best. Sort of a "Requiered
Reading List"?
Looking forward to hearing from you! :)
Chris
(I'll leave the .sig off for this group!)
Fredrik Ekman
Donald's car
Message 214 -
1994-02-28 at 20:45:21
Hi!
About the brand of Donald's car; a couple of years ago it was
concluded by one Swede and a group of Norwegians (of which I
believe Geir was a member?) independently of each other came
to the conclusion that Donald's car is an A-Ford Roadster.
Recently, a friend of mine came up with some new information
on the subject. In the January-February issue of "Classic
Motor Magasin" (a Swedish magazine about old cars) there is
an article about old Austins. It begins with a full-page
picture of an (almost) full-size cardboard Donald Duck beside
an old Austin that I (who knows absolutely nothing about cars)
must admit looks very much like the car he has in the comics.
The article is titled "Otursf|rf|ljd Kalle Anka-bil" which
very roughly translates to "Donald Duck-car followed by bad
luck". Below follows a quote from the article:
"Donald Duck, drawn by Carl Barks, made his debut in 1934 and
was soon given his well-known little car. Gess what was the
model?"
If anyone desperately wants a copy of the picture, I guess I
could scan it and send it through e-mail. I won't send it out
to the whole list, though.
Comments, anyone?
/F
About the brand of Donald's car; a couple of years ago it was
concluded by one Swede and a group of Norwegians (of which I
believe Geir was a member?) independently of each other came
to the conclusion that Donald's car is an A-Ford Roadster.
Recently, a friend of mine came up with some new information
on the subject. In the January-February issue of "Classic
Motor Magasin" (a Swedish magazine about old cars) there is
an article about old Austins. It begins with a full-page
picture of an (almost) full-size cardboard Donald Duck beside
an old Austin that I (who knows absolutely nothing about cars)
must admit looks very much like the car he has in the comics.
The article is titled "Otursf|rf|ljd Kalle Anka-bil" which
very roughly translates to "Donald Duck-car followed by bad
luck". Below follows a quote from the article:
"Donald Duck, drawn by Carl Barks, made his debut in 1934 and
was soon given his well-known little car. Gess what was the
model?"
If anyone desperately wants a copy of the picture, I guess I
could scan it and send it through e-mail. I won't send it out
to the whole list, though.
Comments, anyone?
/F
James Williams
Disney-comics digest #252.
Message 215 -
1994-02-28 at 21:50:34
>Now, about reprints... I remember some decent Gold Key stories
>with Moby Duck. Is there a reason why he hasn't appeared recently?
I don't consider Moby part of the duck universe. I've always thought
that Scrooge, Donald, and company lived in Moby's universe, but that
Moby didn't live in theirs. They routinely appeared in Moby's stories,
but Moby rarely ever appeared in theirs.
>And what do you all think about using Emil Eagle (Super Goof's
>foe) as a Duck villain? I think he would make a decent nemesis for the
>Junior Woodchucks.
Emil on the other hand exists in all universes. I've seen him battle
SuperGoof, Mickey Mouse, and Gyro Gearloose.
>Has anyone got DD 284??? WHAT Taliaferro material is in this comic?
The dailys (starting from day #1), two strips to a page. Unlike the
sunday strips, Taliaferro wrote and drew the dailys. I really enjoyed
the dailys. I think Taliaferro was a much better writer than the
people writing the sunday strip.
>I know that the DD "Silly Symphony" Sunday strip ended in Dec. 1937,
>and we were at the beginning of December 1937 at the end of DD 284.
>There should only be a very few SS Sundays in DD 284. What then? Do we
>start with Jan. 1938 dailies, or do we jump ahead to 1939 when Donald
>got his own Sunday strip again?
This brings up a question I've been wondering about. What Disney
characters have had newspaper strips? The reason I ask is that a few
months ago, I saw the original artwork to what I swore was a Scamp
daily newspaper strip.
>P. S. Gladstone kinda blew it with "Rocket Wing." The story
>was reprinted by Disney in a regular comic, their 3-D special, in
>summer 1992.
I don't consider a 3-D special a regular comic, so I didn't have any
problems with Gladstone printing the story again.
James Williams
>with Moby Duck. Is there a reason why he hasn't appeared recently?
I don't consider Moby part of the duck universe. I've always thought
that Scrooge, Donald, and company lived in Moby's universe, but that
Moby didn't live in theirs. They routinely appeared in Moby's stories,
but Moby rarely ever appeared in theirs.
>And what do you all think about using Emil Eagle (Super Goof's
>foe) as a Duck villain? I think he would make a decent nemesis for the
>Junior Woodchucks.
Emil on the other hand exists in all universes. I've seen him battle
SuperGoof, Mickey Mouse, and Gyro Gearloose.
>Has anyone got DD 284??? WHAT Taliaferro material is in this comic?
The dailys (starting from day #1), two strips to a page. Unlike the
sunday strips, Taliaferro wrote and drew the dailys. I really enjoyed
the dailys. I think Taliaferro was a much better writer than the
people writing the sunday strip.
>I know that the DD "Silly Symphony" Sunday strip ended in Dec. 1937,
>and we were at the beginning of December 1937 at the end of DD 284.
>There should only be a very few SS Sundays in DD 284. What then? Do we
>start with Jan. 1938 dailies, or do we jump ahead to 1939 when Donald
>got his own Sunday strip again?
This brings up a question I've been wondering about. What Disney
characters have had newspaper strips? The reason I ask is that a few
months ago, I saw the original artwork to what I swore was a Scamp
daily newspaper strip.
>P. S. Gladstone kinda blew it with "Rocket Wing." The story
>was reprinted by Disney in a regular comic, their 3-D special, in
>summer 1992.
I don't consider a 3-D special a regular comic, so I didn't have any
problems with Gladstone printing the story again.
James Williams