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By the way, it's Carl Barks's birthday today!
-- "
Per Starback

Now that Dwight Decker joined this list (Welkom, Dwight! Zoals je wellicht
gezien hebt volstaat het om Engels te schrijven 8-) I'll repeat one of the
previous messages:

David asked about the Jippes story in last
month's WDC&S ("High-Flying Picnic"):

> Important question: The author of Donald's ballooning book in
> that story, Hotwind J. Flated, is clearly a caricature of Carl Barks.
> Some of the ink lines look altered. Was this a Barks caricature in
> the Dutch version as well? If so, has it been altered for its
> appearance here?

In the Dutch version the book has no author at all.

Dwight, did you translate (and script) that story? If so, maybe you could
give us some more information.

(Now don't unsubscribe because of the questions... if you just want to
READ the messages in this list, that's OK too)

--Harry.

Harry PTT Research ()_() Dutch Disney comics freak
Fluks Leidschendam (_) H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl

"Yeah... I've _heard_ of coral barques!"

Just some notes to make this mailing list less quiet...

Rumour says there have been several fake schedules for Barks'
European tour, to distract the fans. Otherwise, Barks wouldn't survive
his tour... In any case, his Amsterdam visit will be very quiet, just
dinner with some big-shots from the publisher, and maybe a boat
tour through the Amsterdam canals.

Jippes will keep redrawing the Barks Junior Woodchuck stories: Thom Roep
keeps asking for them. But Jippes is not in a hurry, so it may be
several years before he finishes the last story...
(Americans can see the first one in the Uncle Scrooge issue with Rosa's
Lo$ part 3)

--Harry.

>By the way, it's Carl Barks's birthday today!
>-- "
>Per Starback

Gosh, from the headline I thought you were talking about MY birthday
(Btw on March, 25).

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JACK CHALKER'S "INFORMAL BIOGRAPHY OF $CROOGE McDUCK":
I certainly have this lil' booklet. And, asamatterafack, the
cover artist, Ron Miller< was visiting me last week and signed my copy.
The booklet is both a help and a hindrance. Jack did exactly
what I did -- take all the Barksian "facts" and construct a biography.
But what I used his book for were the footnotes. It was invaluable in
telling me in which stories were found all those many, many "facts",
which I then dug out, made notes on, and proceeded to construct my own
history, regardless of Jack's. The HINDRANCE comes from the very
puzzling fact that, even though Chalkers makes it quite clear that he
only uses Barks' stories as a source for his info, this is actually not
true at all! He uses ANY story that appears in U$ #1-71, regardless of
who wrote or drew the tale. I can't figure this out, but that's the
case. So I needed to weed out his many "FALSE facts". He also seemed to
ignore lots of stuff that did NOT happen to appear in U$ comics. One
might guess that he had the idea that the only $crooge stories that
Barks did were those in U$, and that someone had told him that Barks
wrote everything in the first 71 issues (though I assume he could see
there were different artists). I know the guy must have known better
than this, so I can't guess what was really going on here.
But I DO always have my Chalkers book near at hand, if only to
use the footnotes.
The other book that is never more than a foor from my elbow is
Mark Worden's similarly sized complete Barks index. It is SO much
handier than any other because it is simply an index and is
handbook-sized. I've never seen (nor really could there BE) a better
Barks handbook.

And is someone saying that Dwight Decker is here???

DAVID and FREDRIK

I have just begun cleaning up my email file and will have some answers for
you regarding Egmont stuff etc. In the main time, over to

DON

> Of course, your comments about my work, other than that story,
>continue to be rather... nice. (Do I send your monthly bribery check to
>the usual address?)

I will now and then bring my comics to work to go into irritating detail
about those stories you have made:

Son of the Sun.

I remember when I opened the comic - Gladstone subscribtion - and was
totally taken after a few glances. The pages literally exploded in my face,
and I do think that the visual strength of the airplane coming towards
Gladstone, the mountaintop exploding, and the treatment of the flight and
the mountain returning into the lake are about the best things I have ever
seen in a comic. I dont even think Barks has done as well as that, and I
wonder if you have since. Perfect timing and perfect perspectives, it flows
beautifully and with a tremendous musicality.

However, a question: Where did you find a reference to the treasure of King
Croesus (p. 3)? I assume that since you refer to other treasures on the
other pages of which I know the reference, this is also a reference. By the
way, since you are reading about and working with Croesus now, I assume
that you are already familiar with the History of Herodotus? There is a lot
about Croesus there.

The panels showing the flight on p. 9 always irritated me, because they
disturbed the else so realistic story. You were trying to do some visual
gags, and I dont think they function in that setting. Everything else is so
well explained and even believeable that these panels are more irritating
than they would have been had it just been an ordinary story. If you were
to reprint the story once more, I would ask you to redraw those two panels.

Nobodys Business

Wonderful story, with all the references one can think of to make it a
delight for a Barks quiz. It flows natural and even though a little crazy
it is almost perfectly believable.

I do need to remind you that Gladstone is reading a Mickey Mouse comic on
pages 1-2 and later a Pluto comic.

Is the flat cliff on p. 6 a reference, and in that case, which story? If it
wasnt, I would have opposed using it because it was the most unbelieveable
thing in the story. Not that Donald could have bought it, but 1) I dont
think it natural to have such a place in Duckburg, and 2) you always sell
an estate with horizontal measurement of the area to be sold.

The leaves-will-leave fertilizer would probably not have worked
instantaneously on _all_ the trees on p. 8. You probably went too fast
here, because you didnt wish to use too much time on one gag.

Of course you were right. Why didnt Barks think of it? Gladstone would be
the worst threat ever to Scrooge. Your ending is therefore splendid.
However, the visual gag with Gladstone in the last panel was lost in
Norway, they simply removed the G and did nothing to the dialogue.

Geir Hasnes

Geir wrote, about Son of the Sun:
> The panels showing the flight on p. 9 always irritated me, because they
> disturbed the else so realistic story. You were trying to do some visual
> gags, and I dont think they function in that setting. Everything else is so
> well explained and even believeable that these panels are more irritating
> than they would have been had it just been an ordinary story. If you were
> to reprint the story once more, I would ask you to redraw those two panels.

Hmm... I never thought about that. I guess you're principally right, Geir
but I still don't think it's reason enough to change them. They don't
disturb me. Apart from that, I agree 100% with your analysis. "Son of the
Sun" (with the possible exception of "Return to Xanadu") is absolutely my
favourite Rosa.

/F

Since my New Zealand account does not allow me to FTP, I have had to
adopt the New Zealand attitude of using only what was available to me.
Therefore, I entered the Wellington City Council Gopher (highly recommended!),
gophered to Minnesota, selected the "all the gophers in the world", and then
selected the following menu choices. (Each one of these lines is a separate
menu screen.)

5 Europe
35 Sweden
9 Lysator Computer Society, Linkoping University, (SE)/
12 ...Search and find information (gopher, ftp, ...)/
5 Ta en titt i Lysator FTP-arkiv/
8 pub
11 comics
1 disney

After selecting "disney", you should get a menu listing 25 files. If you want
to read the file, type the number and hit return. To save the file, mail the
file, or quit, type "Q", hit return, then select one of the options at the
bottom of the screen.

I mailed the Don Rosa list to myself. It arrived in less than a minute, and
was easy to read. I know will try and find the various issues.

Torsten Adair adair_t at kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Wellington, New Zealand