Don Rosa wrote:
>to America in 425 BC; there's actually some evidence of this in a stone
>with Punic writing found on Cape Cod in the 1600's by a native (which
>would seem to make it unlikely to be a hoax?). Also, you mention the
Around here (Minnesota) some people believe that the Vikings made it this far
inland. They believe this because of a stone (called the Kensington
runestone) that a farmer was using as a front step to his barn. One day the
farmer turned the stone over and to his surprise found cryptic writing on it!
The writing was supposedly done by Vikings, but it is believed that the whole
thing is a hoax because the writing is not typical of that period of time (I
think it contained Roman numerals which the Vikings did not use...or
something like that). You also have to keep in mind that the area is
primarily made up of people of Scandinavian descent (myself included).
Incidentally, that is why our state's (American) football team name is the
Vikings.
Andrew Peterson
andrewp603 at aol.com
Author
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Vikings, etc.
Message 1 -
1994-09-01 at 03:56:12
Ajd105
HBC name
Message 2 -
1994-09-01 at 05:06:13
Hi all, I haven't seen in mentioned, but the hillbilly character was
always called "Hard Haid Mo" in Australian printings. I wasn't sure it
was the same one until someone mentioned the U$/Fethry stroy with the
country restaurant. I always liked this story.
Andrew
"Ah turn to the west, and hope for the best."
always called "Hard Haid Mo" in Australian printings. I wasn't sure it
was the same one until someone mentioned the U$/Fethry stroy with the
country restaurant. I always liked this story.
Andrew
"Ah turn to the west, and hope for the best."
Tryg Helseth
Beaagles and the age of discovery.
Message 3 -
1994-09-01 at 14:24:00
Beagle Boys in Ducktales
--------------------------
James Williams said that he didn't like the portrayal of the Beagle Boys in
Ducktales because they were too young. The age factor hadn't occured to
me, but I always found Ducktales depiction of the BB disturbing because
they were so different in size and appearance. The BB in the comics looked
identical except for their permuted 1,7,6 identification numbers.
Turning over a new Leif
-----------------------
Was it Columbus, Leif Ericsson, Brendan, ... ? Andrew Peterson mentioned
the infamous Kensington Runestone and how it is considered a fake by
historians. There was an earlier stone found in North Dakota by French
explorer, La Verendrye, in 1738. He took it to Jesuit scholars in Canada
who described the inscription on it as Tatarian. The stone was sent to
France and never seen again. Tatarian and Runic alphabets are similar in
appearance, so some think it may be evidence of the authenticity of the
Kensington Runestone.
Indians and the politically correct
-----------------------------------
Dwight Decker mentioned that the politically correct crowd are pushing for
"encountered" instead of "discovered" claiming that the native americans
found it first. There are those who believe that the native americans were
here all the time and actually migrated to Asia instead of the other way
around. It that were so, then the native americans couldn't have
discovered something they had all along... :)
Tryg Helseth <trygve at maroon.tc.umn.edu> Minneapolis, MN, USA
or <tryg.helseth at tstation.mn.org>
"Nobody can make a machine so smart that
some jerk won't be too dumb to run it!" -Gyro Gearloose
--------------------------
James Williams said that he didn't like the portrayal of the Beagle Boys in
Ducktales because they were too young. The age factor hadn't occured to
me, but I always found Ducktales depiction of the BB disturbing because
they were so different in size and appearance. The BB in the comics looked
identical except for their permuted 1,7,6 identification numbers.
Turning over a new Leif
-----------------------
Was it Columbus, Leif Ericsson, Brendan, ... ? Andrew Peterson mentioned
the infamous Kensington Runestone and how it is considered a fake by
historians. There was an earlier stone found in North Dakota by French
explorer, La Verendrye, in 1738. He took it to Jesuit scholars in Canada
who described the inscription on it as Tatarian. The stone was sent to
France and never seen again. Tatarian and Runic alphabets are similar in
appearance, so some think it may be evidence of the authenticity of the
Kensington Runestone.
Indians and the politically correct
-----------------------------------
Dwight Decker mentioned that the politically correct crowd are pushing for
"encountered" instead of "discovered" claiming that the native americans
found it first. There are those who believe that the native americans were
here all the time and actually migrated to Asia instead of the other way
around. It that were so, then the native americans couldn't have
discovered something they had all along... :)
Tryg Helseth <trygve at maroon.tc.umn.edu> Minneapolis, MN, USA
or <tryg.helseth at tstation.mn.org>
"Nobody can make a machine so smart that
some jerk won't be too dumb to run it!" -Gyro Gearloose
Mattias Hallin
Lo$ #4
Message 4 -
1994-09-01 at 16:30:30
DON:
Well -- I got my copy back from where I'd managed to leave it behind; and since
you know already that I sincerly approve of these first parts of Lo$ I don't
have all that much new, praize-wise, to lavish upon it, deserving though it is.
One questionmark, though -- huccome you decided to reduce the number of waddies
laughing at $crooge staking his claim to just the *one* waddie? I mean, it
seems to me that you've tilted the picture-quote panel, moving the "camera" to
the right, so that the second waddie in Barks' original panel wouldn't be
visible anyway, but the one waddie you *have* included is part of the entire
sequence, all the way to the assayers, and excepting McMurdo there's no other
cowpuncher visible... why?
But I like the morals of this story -- how $crooge for the first time faces the
fact that true friends and great riches doesn't always go together, and how
this perceptibly begins to change him into the stingy loner he is yet to
become. I also thoroughly enjoyed the cameo appearance of Rockerduck (and his
pa!), though I'm kinda surprised no editors tried to edit out that reference to
him getting horse-whipped by his pa (well, it's inferred, not stated, of
course, but still...) -- I'da thought that'd be very un-PC?! Not that *I* mind
the joke, don't think that, but some editors do seem to have fairly thin skin,
or so I believe. Or, hey! Maybe horse-whippin' some editors (or a certain
weasel?) might be the cats pyjamas, eh...? (Add smiley here)
Also, I've talked to Stefan, and:
a) his regards, greetings and sundry salutations!
b) the Gothenburg thing orter be hunky-dory, since Dick Brobeck told him
yesterday that he had ordered your air-plane tickets. While Stefan didn't know
doodly-squat about the Stockholm business really, he believes that to be Daniel
Atterbom's show all through -- i.e. no official Egmont rep. in Stockholm. But
he said, too, that Egmont/Sweden are notorious (in his experience) for not
making their minds up about these kinds of things, and that it might turn out in
the end that Egmont will be in Stockholm, too... But that's about all he knows,
presently. Or maybe Egmont has been in touch with you already, since you posted
last time?
Well, all my best!
Mattias
**** Mattias Hallin ** Lund * Sweden ** <Mattias.Hallin at jurenh.lu.se> ****
* *
* "Oh bury me thar! With my battered git-tar! *
************** A-screamin' my heart out fer yew!" *************
Well -- I got my copy back from where I'd managed to leave it behind; and since
you know already that I sincerly approve of these first parts of Lo$ I don't
have all that much new, praize-wise, to lavish upon it, deserving though it is.
One questionmark, though -- huccome you decided to reduce the number of waddies
laughing at $crooge staking his claim to just the *one* waddie? I mean, it
seems to me that you've tilted the picture-quote panel, moving the "camera" to
the right, so that the second waddie in Barks' original panel wouldn't be
visible anyway, but the one waddie you *have* included is part of the entire
sequence, all the way to the assayers, and excepting McMurdo there's no other
cowpuncher visible... why?
But I like the morals of this story -- how $crooge for the first time faces the
fact that true friends and great riches doesn't always go together, and how
this perceptibly begins to change him into the stingy loner he is yet to
become. I also thoroughly enjoyed the cameo appearance of Rockerduck (and his
pa!), though I'm kinda surprised no editors tried to edit out that reference to
him getting horse-whipped by his pa (well, it's inferred, not stated, of
course, but still...) -- I'da thought that'd be very un-PC?! Not that *I* mind
the joke, don't think that, but some editors do seem to have fairly thin skin,
or so I believe. Or, hey! Maybe horse-whippin' some editors (or a certain
weasel?) might be the cats pyjamas, eh...? (Add smiley here)
Also, I've talked to Stefan, and:
a) his regards, greetings and sundry salutations!
b) the Gothenburg thing orter be hunky-dory, since Dick Brobeck told him
yesterday that he had ordered your air-plane tickets. While Stefan didn't know
doodly-squat about the Stockholm business really, he believes that to be Daniel
Atterbom's show all through -- i.e. no official Egmont rep. in Stockholm. But
he said, too, that Egmont/Sweden are notorious (in his experience) for not
making their minds up about these kinds of things, and that it might turn out in
the end that Egmont will be in Stockholm, too... But that's about all he knows,
presently. Or maybe Egmont has been in touch with you already, since you posted
last time?
Well, all my best!
Mattias
**** Mattias Hallin ** Lund * Sweden ** <Mattias.Hallin at jurenh.lu.se> ****
* *
* "Oh bury me thar! With my battered git-tar! *
************** A-screamin' my heart out fer yew!" *************
James Williams
Beagles
Message 5 -
1994-09-01 at 16:43:15
Tryg Helseth wrote:
>but I always found Ducktales depiction of the BB disturbing because
>they were so different in size and appearance.
Actually there were two different Beagle Boy trios who appeared
regulary. One set of beagles looked different; The others looked the
same.
James Williams
>but I always found Ducktales depiction of the BB disturbing because
>they were so different in size and appearance.
Actually there were two different Beagle Boy trios who appeared
regulary. One set of beagles looked different; The others looked the
same.
James Williams
Dwight Decker
Kensington Runestone
Message 6 -
1994-09-01 at 20:04:55
Quick note for Andrew: The Kensington Runestone (i.e., the stone with
alleged Norse carvings found by a Minnesota farmer in the late 19th
Century) isn't taken very seriously by experts, as I understand from
my reading. The provenance of the stone has always been suspicious,
as it was found by a Scandinavian farmer at a time when Vikings were
on the public mind (if I remember right, a reproduction of a Viking
ship had just crossed the Atlantic to the US in a highly publicized
event on the occasion of the Chicago World's Fair -- that Viking ship
was still in a Chicago park the last I knew, though vandalized and
sadly deteriorating). A French-speaking farmer with no known interest
in Scandinavian history finding such a stone in Quebec might have been
more believable. Also (and this is from memory), the Minnesota farmer
was known to have a copy of a popular encyclopedia of the time called
(in Swedish) "The Well-Informed Swedish Schoolmaster," and the Runic
inscription on the Runestone supposedly could have been made using
the information in the encyclopedia's article on runes.
--Dwight Decker
alleged Norse carvings found by a Minnesota farmer in the late 19th
Century) isn't taken very seriously by experts, as I understand from
my reading. The provenance of the stone has always been suspicious,
as it was found by a Scandinavian farmer at a time when Vikings were
on the public mind (if I remember right, a reproduction of a Viking
ship had just crossed the Atlantic to the US in a highly publicized
event on the occasion of the Chicago World's Fair -- that Viking ship
was still in a Chicago park the last I knew, though vandalized and
sadly deteriorating). A French-speaking farmer with no known interest
in Scandinavian history finding such a stone in Quebec might have been
more believable. Also (and this is from memory), the Minnesota farmer
was known to have a copy of a popular encyclopedia of the time called
(in Swedish) "The Well-Informed Swedish Schoolmaster," and the Runic
inscription on the Runestone supposedly could have been made using
the information in the encyclopedia's article on runes.
--Dwight Decker
Don Rosa
Disney-comics digest #421.
Message 7 -
1994-09-02 at 07:09:06
MATTIAS:
Why did I shift the camera over to crop out that extra "waddie"
in my copy of the old Barks' panel in "Lo$"#4? Again, I have trouble
recalling stuff from over 2 1/2 years ago. I guess I had no need of two
extra cowboys in my sequence, just one? I guess. By the way, don't try
to work the word "waddie" into conversations with Americans. I have
searched long and hard searching for any reference anywhere to something
called a "waddie" and have found none. I went so far as to write and ask
Barks himself once a few years back (pre-Weasel) and he said he couldn't
recall what it meant and that it must have just been a word from his
youth.
Yes, showing $crooge learning different aspects of his
personality through the Lo$ was my whole intent. As for why editors
didn't change the reference to Rockerduck's father buying a horsewhip to
use on him -- well, that was a rather obtuse reference that would only
be inferred by the reader. And yet, what makes you think editors DIDN'T
edit it out? I'm sure they did, but how would I know since I can't read
foreign gibberish. I DO, however, have the British version, and in it
that panel shows Rockerduck asking to buy a buggy at that livery shop --
in other words, the reference to whips is deleted and the panel no
longer makes any sense in the storyline. So many readers must think I
write disjointed stories.
Thanks for reconfirming that Egmont still plans to take me to
that book fair. But, no, after not hearing from Dick Brobeck for months
and months, I haven't happened to hear from him in the past few days.
And it is rather important that someone tells me the DATES that I'm to
be gone from home so I can make plans. Also, since I need to also buy
tickets and find funding for their purchase for my wife, I need to know
the exact flight plans as soon as possible. I assume Stefan is hinting
to someone that they should "touch base" with me?
NEWS:
Speaking of Sweden, Egmont mentioned to me today that some
Swedish comic fans are suing the editor of the Egmont Disney weekly on
the basis that it is against Swedish law NOT to give artist and writer
credits and it's the editor's responsibility to obey the law. This is a
very noble and selfless thing for someone to be doing and paying for
themselves; and I think Egmont is interested in the outcome. It's DISNEY
that is preventing Egmont from putting those credits in while Egmont
WANTS to do so, and this will be interesting to watch. I wonder what
Swedish law says about denying the "creators" royalties off the use of
their work?
Also, I found out that the next one of my stories to see print
won't be until January. That "Duck Who Never Was" story was used in
June, so this will be 7 months between my stories. Sweden will get a
delayed use of Lo$#12 in December, so it'll be a bit shorter for them. I
asked about what the delay time is right now, and this story I'm
currently doing about Columbus' lost charts will be printed probably in
October '95 -- that's 1 year from completion.
Why did I shift the camera over to crop out that extra "waddie"
in my copy of the old Barks' panel in "Lo$"#4? Again, I have trouble
recalling stuff from over 2 1/2 years ago. I guess I had no need of two
extra cowboys in my sequence, just one? I guess. By the way, don't try
to work the word "waddie" into conversations with Americans. I have
searched long and hard searching for any reference anywhere to something
called a "waddie" and have found none. I went so far as to write and ask
Barks himself once a few years back (pre-Weasel) and he said he couldn't
recall what it meant and that it must have just been a word from his
youth.
Yes, showing $crooge learning different aspects of his
personality through the Lo$ was my whole intent. As for why editors
didn't change the reference to Rockerduck's father buying a horsewhip to
use on him -- well, that was a rather obtuse reference that would only
be inferred by the reader. And yet, what makes you think editors DIDN'T
edit it out? I'm sure they did, but how would I know since I can't read
foreign gibberish. I DO, however, have the British version, and in it
that panel shows Rockerduck asking to buy a buggy at that livery shop --
in other words, the reference to whips is deleted and the panel no
longer makes any sense in the storyline. So many readers must think I
write disjointed stories.
Thanks for reconfirming that Egmont still plans to take me to
that book fair. But, no, after not hearing from Dick Brobeck for months
and months, I haven't happened to hear from him in the past few days.
And it is rather important that someone tells me the DATES that I'm to
be gone from home so I can make plans. Also, since I need to also buy
tickets and find funding for their purchase for my wife, I need to know
the exact flight plans as soon as possible. I assume Stefan is hinting
to someone that they should "touch base" with me?
NEWS:
Speaking of Sweden, Egmont mentioned to me today that some
Swedish comic fans are suing the editor of the Egmont Disney weekly on
the basis that it is against Swedish law NOT to give artist and writer
credits and it's the editor's responsibility to obey the law. This is a
very noble and selfless thing for someone to be doing and paying for
themselves; and I think Egmont is interested in the outcome. It's DISNEY
that is preventing Egmont from putting those credits in while Egmont
WANTS to do so, and this will be interesting to watch. I wonder what
Swedish law says about denying the "creators" royalties off the use of
their work?
Also, I found out that the next one of my stories to see print
won't be until January. That "Duck Who Never Was" story was used in
June, so this will be 7 months between my stories. Sweden will get a
delayed use of Lo$#12 in December, so it'll be a bit shorter for them. I
asked about what the delay time is right now, and this story I'm
currently doing about Columbus' lost charts will be printed probably in
October '95 -- that's 1 year from completion.
Mikko Henri Juhani Aittola
Disney-comics digest #422.
Message 8 -
1994-09-04 at 11:00:43
Don Rosa wrote:
> Speaking of Sweden, Egmont mentioned to me today that some
> Swedish comic fans are suing the editor of the Egmont Disney weekly on
> the basis that it is against Swedish law NOT to give artist and writer
> credits and it's the editor's responsibility to obey the law. This is a
> very noble and selfless thing for someone to be doing and paying for
> themselves; and I think Egmont is interested in the outcome. It's DISNEY
> that is preventing Egmont from putting those credits in while Egmont
> WANTS to do so, and this will be interesting to watch.
This is not true at least here in Finland. Finnish editors have
complete credits for new Egmont stories but they have decided
not to print 'em. They say that part of the reason to do that
is that they don't get the credits for Dutch (and propably
Italian) stories. And they don't want to treat various artists
differently....
I asked this from Byron also when he was in Finland, but
he didn't give answer.
PS. The new 'mickey-in-old-red-shorts-with-two-buttons' story
by Verhagen&Erickson is currently being published in
Finland.
> Speaking of Sweden, Egmont mentioned to me today that some
> Swedish comic fans are suing the editor of the Egmont Disney weekly on
> the basis that it is against Swedish law NOT to give artist and writer
> credits and it's the editor's responsibility to obey the law. This is a
> very noble and selfless thing for someone to be doing and paying for
> themselves; and I think Egmont is interested in the outcome. It's DISNEY
> that is preventing Egmont from putting those credits in while Egmont
> WANTS to do so, and this will be interesting to watch.
This is not true at least here in Finland. Finnish editors have
complete credits for new Egmont stories but they have decided
not to print 'em. They say that part of the reason to do that
is that they don't get the credits for Dutch (and propably
Italian) stories. And they don't want to treat various artists
differently....
I asked this from Byron also when he was in Finland, but
he didn't give answer.
PS. The new 'mickey-in-old-red-shorts-with-two-buttons' story
by Verhagen&Erickson is currently being published in
Finland.
Sigurdur Hrafn Gislason
Mickey as a child counselor!
Message 9 -
1994-09-05 at 17:58:15
I was reading a 3 year old Italian Disney pocket comic book just yesterday
and I came upon a most pecculiar story. Very unDisneylike in fact.
The plot was about Mickey's two nephews meeting a new friend and finding
out that he was being abused at home, that is, he shows up with a bruise on
his face and claims his father did it. The nephews contact the local
phoneline for abused children and ask for help. The phone agency then
contacts one of their top agents who, incidentally, is Mickey Mouse.
In the end everything works out. The father promises never to do this again,
he was under a lot of strain etc.
Anyway, this is something I never ever saw in a Disney comic.
Stories that address real social problems? Never seen those in a Disney comic.
Maybe this was the only time, but I wonder how it got past the editors.
Could it be that the italian comics are more serious in this matter?
DON:
In one of your stories (Lo$11 I think) Scrooge escapes some hoods in a western
bar and hides some paper (deed or something) in a bottle embedded in a wall.
Is this in any way connected to some other story by Barks or just some
story detail of your own? I ask because I found it a curious thing to do.
Sigurdur
and I came upon a most pecculiar story. Very unDisneylike in fact.
The plot was about Mickey's two nephews meeting a new friend and finding
out that he was being abused at home, that is, he shows up with a bruise on
his face and claims his father did it. The nephews contact the local
phoneline for abused children and ask for help. The phone agency then
contacts one of their top agents who, incidentally, is Mickey Mouse.
In the end everything works out. The father promises never to do this again,
he was under a lot of strain etc.
Anyway, this is something I never ever saw in a Disney comic.
Stories that address real social problems? Never seen those in a Disney comic.
Maybe this was the only time, but I wonder how it got past the editors.
Could it be that the italian comics are more serious in this matter?
DON:
In one of your stories (Lo$11 I think) Scrooge escapes some hoods in a western
bar and hides some paper (deed or something) in a bottle embedded in a wall.
Is this in any way connected to some other story by Barks or just some
story detail of your own? I ask because I found it a curious thing to do.
Sigurdur
Larry Gerstein
Disney-comics digest #402.
Message 10 -
1994-09-06 at 01:58:42
Dear Folks,
Don said, ""Wendigo" was in the German #45-47 for 1991. I don't
have any recent German issues, but it seems to me that Byron Erickson was
telling me that "Wendigo" was appearing in a 3 issue series including the
recent #2000 issue."
Actually, it was, if I remember right, "Return to Xanadu" that
partly appeared in #2000. "War of the Wendigo" did not appear twice in
Germany.
More to come...
David Gerstein
<gerstein at math.ucsb.edu>
gerstein at math.ucsb.edu
Don said, ""Wendigo" was in the German #45-47 for 1991. I don't
have any recent German issues, but it seems to me that Byron Erickson was
telling me that "Wendigo" was appearing in a 3 issue series including the
recent #2000 issue."
Actually, it was, if I remember right, "Return to Xanadu" that
partly appeared in #2000. "War of the Wendigo" did not appear twice in
Germany.
More to come...
David Gerstein
<gerstein at math.ucsb.edu>
gerstein at math.ucsb.edu
Larry Gerstein
The Jippes situation
Message 11 -
1994-09-06 at 02:22:23
Dear Folks,
Now to comment as best I can on Don Rosa's comments about Jippes,
Grandey, and that whole quagmire. First, though...
"Grandey ... uses Barks as his shield, and people like Dana Gabbard
and Joe Torcivia and Daan Jippes will still kiss up to him regardless of
how he conducts himself or his business."
Joe Torcivia? How does HE "kiss up" to the Grandeys? Simply being
friends with Dana Gabbard isn't enough, no matter what Gabbard has done
with or for Grandey. Later by inserting a $ into one word you even suggest
Torcivia is on the Grandeys' payroll for something. I guess there's
something going on I don't know...
"Now that you've mentioned it, what brought up that subject with
Jippes? What does he know of this, or that famous FAX?"
When I was inviting Jippes to my panel, he told me (in our final
conversation before the Convention itself) that he was interested in
meeting the "Carl Barks Studio" people at the Con. No indication of what
he wanted to do with them. So he only RECENTLY made his deal with the
Grandeys -- although I had forgotten this when talking with you on the
phone last week, Don, it must have been earlier in that same afternoon that
he spoke on the panel with us! That *was* the only day that Jippes was at
the Convention.
When Jippes originally told me that over the phone, I warned him
about the Grandeys saying that they were people he might do better to
avoid... I mentioned the FAX. He had heard of it, but apparently not seen
it. Sadly, I think that if he had seen it, he would have felt very
different about meeting with the Grandeys...
More on this, Don, in a missive I'll send straight to you. No need
to drag on in this digest, which many people pay for.
I'll be back, folks!
David Gerstein
<gerstein at math.ucsb.edu>
gerstein at math.ucsb.edu
Now to comment as best I can on Don Rosa's comments about Jippes,
Grandey, and that whole quagmire. First, though...
"Grandey ... uses Barks as his shield, and people like Dana Gabbard
and Joe Torcivia and Daan Jippes will still kiss up to him regardless of
how he conducts himself or his business."
Joe Torcivia? How does HE "kiss up" to the Grandeys? Simply being
friends with Dana Gabbard isn't enough, no matter what Gabbard has done
with or for Grandey. Later by inserting a $ into one word you even suggest
Torcivia is on the Grandeys' payroll for something. I guess there's
something going on I don't know...
"Now that you've mentioned it, what brought up that subject with
Jippes? What does he know of this, or that famous FAX?"
When I was inviting Jippes to my panel, he told me (in our final
conversation before the Convention itself) that he was interested in
meeting the "Carl Barks Studio" people at the Con. No indication of what
he wanted to do with them. So he only RECENTLY made his deal with the
Grandeys -- although I had forgotten this when talking with you on the
phone last week, Don, it must have been earlier in that same afternoon that
he spoke on the panel with us! That *was* the only day that Jippes was at
the Convention.
When Jippes originally told me that over the phone, I warned him
about the Grandeys saying that they were people he might do better to
avoid... I mentioned the FAX. He had heard of it, but apparently not seen
it. Sadly, I think that if he had seen it, he would have felt very
different about meeting with the Grandeys...
More on this, Don, in a missive I'll send straight to you. No need
to drag on in this digest, which many people pay for.
I'll be back, folks!
David Gerstein
<gerstein at math.ucsb.edu>
gerstein at math.ucsb.edu
Larry Gerstein
Lots of things!
Message 12 -
1994-09-06 at 03:42:10
Hi, Folks!
At last I have a (however brief) chance to tell you about my recent
experiences. I've been writing a lot and working hard on a variety of
projects, many of which you'll be interested in.
First, the long-awaited Scarpa story "Colossus of the Nile" has
been received by Gladstone and will appear in late 1995. They just got the
proofs in recently.
I've just completed the script for a Duck story done directly for
Gladstone: the "Pirate Gold" sequel "Return to Morgan's Island," which will
be a 26-pager. Then, for Egmont, I completed a new Donald 10-pager -- "The
Sheepish Rancher" is about Donald having an overseer job at a sheep ranch
and attempting to rout a wolf seen nearby with chaotic results. And I'm
doing a 15-page adventure for them now, of which you'll hear more soon.
At the San Diego Comic Convention I bought WDC&S 16, 19, 23, and 38
-- all of which aren't in our database. Well, they are now -- I'll send
Harry the data on them in moments!
MATTIAS: Is all okay with my NAFSK article? I'm excited to see
it! When will the magazine be published? (Forgive my excitement!)
Pat Block and Ron Fernandez had a great visit with me over dinner
at the Convention. They have shown me artwork from their second Duck tale.
"No Time for Christmas" is to appear in DDA #30 (a double-sized issue with
Barks' original Shacktown tale filling up the second half). The art is
MUCH better in this story -- and Witch Hazel returns, too. Then their
THIRD story -- "The Secret of the Dragon's Den" -- will show up in March.
In this last tale, the dialogue is much better than before, and the
lettering is identical to Barks'. In short, these two are getting much
better each time, and I'm excited to tell you of the good things they have
coming.
Someone (I'm sorry, I forgot who) mentioned the publication of the
Erickson/Ferioli story in which Mickey wore his shorts. That's right --
it's called "Fantasy Island" in English. And did you notice Pegleg Pete
has his peg leg back? I'll see if I can do that when I use Pete... and I
plan to, next year. I have to admit that I find Ferioli's art quite
inconsistent -- great at times, but quite simplistic and flat at others.
But it's sure better than a lot of poor Mouse work that we've seen, and in
English with a good script (as in the upcoming DM #27) I think the result
will be good.
Well, folks, I'm off for now. I'm interested to hear about
Hard-haid Moe the Hillbilly having a name in English, and particularly
about the 6-page hog-calling story. MAYBE -- just maybe, I can get John
Clark to track it down. We'll see. I can think of a better name for the
Hillbilly -- Phineas Agle ("Phin Agle" for short), but if you guys prefer
his Australian name, I can still go with that if I have a chance to use the
character.
All the best,
David
<gerstein at math.ucsb.edu>
gerstein at math.ucsb.edu
At last I have a (however brief) chance to tell you about my recent
experiences. I've been writing a lot and working hard on a variety of
projects, many of which you'll be interested in.
First, the long-awaited Scarpa story "Colossus of the Nile" has
been received by Gladstone and will appear in late 1995. They just got the
proofs in recently.
I've just completed the script for a Duck story done directly for
Gladstone: the "Pirate Gold" sequel "Return to Morgan's Island," which will
be a 26-pager. Then, for Egmont, I completed a new Donald 10-pager -- "The
Sheepish Rancher" is about Donald having an overseer job at a sheep ranch
and attempting to rout a wolf seen nearby with chaotic results. And I'm
doing a 15-page adventure for them now, of which you'll hear more soon.
At the San Diego Comic Convention I bought WDC&S 16, 19, 23, and 38
-- all of which aren't in our database. Well, they are now -- I'll send
Harry the data on them in moments!
MATTIAS: Is all okay with my NAFSK article? I'm excited to see
it! When will the magazine be published? (Forgive my excitement!)
Pat Block and Ron Fernandez had a great visit with me over dinner
at the Convention. They have shown me artwork from their second Duck tale.
"No Time for Christmas" is to appear in DDA #30 (a double-sized issue with
Barks' original Shacktown tale filling up the second half). The art is
MUCH better in this story -- and Witch Hazel returns, too. Then their
THIRD story -- "The Secret of the Dragon's Den" -- will show up in March.
In this last tale, the dialogue is much better than before, and the
lettering is identical to Barks'. In short, these two are getting much
better each time, and I'm excited to tell you of the good things they have
coming.
Someone (I'm sorry, I forgot who) mentioned the publication of the
Erickson/Ferioli story in which Mickey wore his shorts. That's right --
it's called "Fantasy Island" in English. And did you notice Pegleg Pete
has his peg leg back? I'll see if I can do that when I use Pete... and I
plan to, next year. I have to admit that I find Ferioli's art quite
inconsistent -- great at times, but quite simplistic and flat at others.
But it's sure better than a lot of poor Mouse work that we've seen, and in
English with a good script (as in the upcoming DM #27) I think the result
will be good.
Well, folks, I'm off for now. I'm interested to hear about
Hard-haid Moe the Hillbilly having a name in English, and particularly
about the 6-page hog-calling story. MAYBE -- just maybe, I can get John
Clark to track it down. We'll see. I can think of a better name for the
Hillbilly -- Phineas Agle ("Phin Agle" for short), but if you guys prefer
his Australian name, I can still go with that if I have a chance to use the
character.
All the best,
David
<gerstein at math.ucsb.edu>
gerstein at math.ucsb.edu
Don Rosa
Disney-comics digest #424.
Message 13 -
1994-09-06 at 05:04:12
SIGURDUR:
The "odd" story in that Italian Disney digest was surely not
something that "slipped by the editors". Wouldn't you suppose it was
something that the editors planned carefully?
I think I'd rather not see such sordid things dealt with in a
Disney comic, even though I know exactly what the editors would say and
the good that they were hoping to accomplish. And for all I know, it
might have DONE some good somewhere. I just hate to think that it's the
responsibility of a Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck story to deal with this
sort of thing when it should be dealt with in some other manner or
agency. Oh, well, I guess if I get away with the weird stuff I am
allowed to put into "Disney comics" simply as entertainment, other
people can use their stories to save mankind.
DAVID:
The '$' was not meant to apply to Torcivia, only Jippes, and
then not even so much as to Jippes directly, but to the type of
motivation which may be involved with his relation to Grandey.
So you're saying that Torcivia avoided any contact with Grandey?
The "odd" story in that Italian Disney digest was surely not
something that "slipped by the editors". Wouldn't you suppose it was
something that the editors planned carefully?
I think I'd rather not see such sordid things dealt with in a
Disney comic, even though I know exactly what the editors would say and
the good that they were hoping to accomplish. And for all I know, it
might have DONE some good somewhere. I just hate to think that it's the
responsibility of a Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck story to deal with this
sort of thing when it should be dealt with in some other manner or
agency. Oh, well, I guess if I get away with the weird stuff I am
allowed to put into "Disney comics" simply as entertainment, other
people can use their stories to save mankind.
DAVID:
The '$' was not meant to apply to Torcivia, only Jippes, and
then not even so much as to Jippes directly, but to the type of
motivation which may be involved with his relation to Grandey.
So you're saying that Torcivia avoided any contact with Grandey?
Lars
No subject
Message 14 -
1994-09-06 at 09:48:00
Don Rosa asks 27 Aug:
>
> FRANCE:
> (Is there anyone on here who's in France?)
>
Yes, I live in France this year (and works in Switzerland). Anything I
can do for you?
Lars Lundheim
>
> FRANCE:
> (Is there anyone on here who's in France?)
>
Yes, I live in France this year (and works in Switzerland). Anything I
can do for you?
Lars Lundheim
Harry Fluks
Various (David & Gladstone)
Message 15 -
1994-09-06 at 13:30:26
David:
~~~~~~
> I've just completed the script for a Duck story done directly for
> Gladstone: the "Pirate Gold" sequel "Return to Morgan's Island," which will
> be a 26-pager.
You mean they found an artist to draw stories like this? Is this the same
artist James was talking about?
> At the San Diego Comic Convention I bought WDC&S 16, 19, 23, and 38
> -- all of which aren't in our database. Well, they are now -- I'll send
> Harry the data on them in moments!
About that database: David (old Dell/new Gladstone comics) and Anders Engwall
(Swedish comics from the 70s) have been sending me a lot of information,
lately. I'm still busy incorporating the data in the database. I plan
to issue a new version on ftp before the end of the month (after that,
I won't be able to ftp anymore...)
> Pat Block and Ron Fernandez had a great visit with me over dinner
> at the Convention. They have shown me artwork from their second Duck tale.
I saw a long Dutch Scrooge story a few weeks ago, with art that looked very
much like Pat Block's. Did he draw a story for GP in Holland, before he
worked for Gladstone?
> Someone (I'm sorry, I forgot who) mentioned the publication of the
> Erickson/Ferioli story in which Mickey wore his shorts.
I think it was Mikko. He erroneously said it was a Verhagen story.
On some other subject:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think the most recent Gladstone Donald Duck comic had two errors in the
letters page:
- They say 'experts' claim that Barks wrote the "Too Many Pets" story
(Four Color 29) himself.
But Michael Barrier quotes Barks from a letter, saying "the story was
written my Merrill something-or-other" (meaning Merill deMaris).
- They say they don't use "Popop" (Fethry) much because all his stories
are Italian, and they can't translate them. Apparently, they don't know
there are quite a lot of English stories with Fethry, even by Strobl.
(Does someone care to tell them?)
--Harry.
~~~~~~
> I've just completed the script for a Duck story done directly for
> Gladstone: the "Pirate Gold" sequel "Return to Morgan's Island," which will
> be a 26-pager.
You mean they found an artist to draw stories like this? Is this the same
artist James was talking about?
> At the San Diego Comic Convention I bought WDC&S 16, 19, 23, and 38
> -- all of which aren't in our database. Well, they are now -- I'll send
> Harry the data on them in moments!
About that database: David (old Dell/new Gladstone comics) and Anders Engwall
(Swedish comics from the 70s) have been sending me a lot of information,
lately. I'm still busy incorporating the data in the database. I plan
to issue a new version on ftp before the end of the month (after that,
I won't be able to ftp anymore...)
> Pat Block and Ron Fernandez had a great visit with me over dinner
> at the Convention. They have shown me artwork from their second Duck tale.
I saw a long Dutch Scrooge story a few weeks ago, with art that looked very
much like Pat Block's. Did he draw a story for GP in Holland, before he
worked for Gladstone?
> Someone (I'm sorry, I forgot who) mentioned the publication of the
> Erickson/Ferioli story in which Mickey wore his shorts.
I think it was Mikko. He erroneously said it was a Verhagen story.
On some other subject:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think the most recent Gladstone Donald Duck comic had two errors in the
letters page:
- They say 'experts' claim that Barks wrote the "Too Many Pets" story
(Four Color 29) himself.
But Michael Barrier quotes Barks from a letter, saying "the story was
written my Merrill something-or-other" (meaning Merill deMaris).
- They say they don't use "Popop" (Fethry) much because all his stories
are Italian, and they can't translate them. Apparently, they don't know
there are quite a lot of English stories with Fethry, even by Strobl.
(Does someone care to tell them?)
--Harry.