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AUGIE:

AD>So you're among the crowd that doesn't like the Goofy King Arthur-type
>stories, eh? I like them myself.

Me, too. I used to read tthose stories whenever Abril felt like
publishing them (very sparingly, indeed). Although the earliest story
of that kind I can remember (Christopher Columbus) had its first
Brazilian printing in 1977, only in 1981 Abril released a decent
six-volume series - each volume with 100 pages and two stories pasted
together by some flimsy Brazilian plot (e.g. Goofy hits his head and
thinks he's King Tut). Just to make things worse, the series never had
a real nationwide release; I bought volumes 1 and 6 on interstate trips
and hunted the other ones at local newsstands. It's a small world but
Brazil isn't... <G>

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ANDERS:
>I suddenly realise I'm not sure if I have described the main gag of
>'A tiresome cure for insomnia' or that other insomnia story,

I think you're right. I remember now the story you're describing, and
I think the story I discribed is more than four pages.

JON:
>Is this Barks?

Yup. It has been published here before those orange books were published.
There are several stories were Barks used donkeys, BTW.

DAVID:
>For example, Fethry makes dinner,

I begin to think that I'm mixing up two, or possibly three, stories. A lack
of imagination from the writers, eh?

Pork-Barrel
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The pigs are called Napoleon, Snoball (Snowball, the 'o' is a Norwegian 'oe',
like the one in my name) and Pipskrik (Squealer).

DAVID:
>I'm very honored to know you like my stories so much

You better go on writing that way ;-)

Goofy stories
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I like those stories, but... I'm not so sure I like to see them in a small
comic book format, together with stories of a more familiar type. I like
them a lot better the way they were published here, as an own album series.
BTW: I don't like the Mickey and Sleuth stories.

FREDRIK:
>I certainly hope not. One of the things I like best about both Van Horn
>and our own Don Rosa is that both have a different and original style.
>Van Horn trying to copy Barks can only become worse, in my opinion. What
>do you mean by "relaxed", by the way?

I like Don's style very much, but not neccesarily because it's so different.
Don has found his style, and it's a good one.
Van Horn does also have his own style, but I usually don't like it. I think
the duck's, and other character's, expressions usually are too exaggerated.
Don's ducks seems very real, and you can be sure that a character is exactly
the same from one panel to another one (in the same story). I don't get that
feeling with a van Horn story (except for this last one, and maybe that fish
story). This non-relaxed style fits a few stories, like the pizza delivery
story, but certainly not that Barks story.
I agree that it wouldn't neccesarily be a good thing if he started to copy
Barks, but I would like it if he "slowed down" to Barks' tempo.

Jorgen

Hi. I subscribed to this list last week and have been reading the
mailings with great interest. I have looked at the material on the
ftp server and perused Per's web pages. I feel much the way I did
some years ago when I first discovered the Carl Barks Library and
realized that I was not alone in my strange obessesion with ducks.
I feel a bit humbled to be listening to discussions that include the
likes of Don Rosa.

Anyway, I wanted to ask some questions that I hope are not so basic
that they are irritating. As backgound, I have been sort of a
casual Uncle Scrooge fanatic all of my life. I have never passed
a newsstand that contained a new US comic in my life without buying
it, if I had the money. I own a couple of the 3-book boxed CBL sets.
I would like to have a complete set of both the CBL books and the
comics but I doubt that I will ever get there. I have a framed Scrooge
poster on the wall in my office (Scrooge with Indian headdress fanning
flames yielding a smoke signal dollar sign). When I set up a unix
server at my last job it was named duckburg and the workstations that
I configured became huey, dewey and louie. Tomorrow we install a
new RS/6000 which will become duckburg.sunquest.com. Still I don't
always have time to keep up with what is going on. I am fairly clear
on the history up until a couple of years ago. I knew about Gladstone
comics and then the Disney venture. The last Uncle Scrooge I found
(#281?) had the Marvel symbol on the cover but a familiar Money Bin
column from Gladstone. I haven't stumbled across any new issues in
a long time. From one of the articles I read yesterday I inferred that
Marvel was still publishing but perhaps without any Gladstone involve-
ment? Are Don Rosa and Bill van Horn still producing Scrooge art
somewhere? And what about the European output that I learned of from
the Gladstone issues? Are they produced in English? Are they available
in the states? What is Gladstone doing these days? Etc.

Thanks
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MIKE P.:
Depending on how the Finnish editor sent those comics, they could be here
in anything from a few days to a few months; I would assume he had the money to
send them airmail and not by boat!
And he sent me 3 months worth of that fanmail he's asked his readers to
send for me? I hope he includes a note from himself telling me what he expects
me to DO with that stuff! I always answer what little mail finds its way to me
now, but it takes months to get to the answering. If he sends me dozens
(hundreds?) of letters in one lump, there's no way I can answer it all, and
being the democratic guy I am, I'll therefore read but answer NONE of it. We'll
see what his idea is.

DAVID G.:
There's an enormous difference between an antique dealer and what I was
calling a flea market dealer. The former deal in certain items and know their
material, understand their market, respect their customers, and are honest. The
latter deal in anything they can get at auctions and estate sales, have no
understanding of any sorts of markets, no respect for their "victims", and only
seek to put the highest prices from the price guides on their shoddy merchandise
regardless of condition. I see these people at local flea markets with the same
toys and books year after years, all priced too unresonably to ever sell except
to that one sucker who wants to become an "investor" that they expect will
stumble by their booth someday. They won't discuss their merchandise with you
since they know they know nothing about it and their ignorance will make their
pricing suspect. They won't buy anything from anyone at the show since they are
used to getting their material literally for pennies from estate auctions. No
matter what Duck or Mouse toy they have, even if it's clearly labelled
DISNEYWORLD 10TH ANNIVERSARY, they'll claim it's from 1928, and won't listen to
any discussion to the contrary. This is not their day job, only once-a-month
weekends, and they only seek to get windfall money which they naturally don't
report to the IRS. In 20 years of visiting flea markets, I haven't seen but a
handful of respectable dealers... I only go looking for recent Duck toys that
even THEY wouldn't charge more than $5 - $10 for.
Finding those mint condition BLBs at fair prices from a flea market
dealer was a shock until I noticed he couldn't read or write; I figured that
would explain his ineptitude at dishonesty. I caught him in several lies about
where he got the books and how long he'd had them... but he still didn't know
enough to overprice them.
At flea markets, let the buyer beware. That's why I call 'em fleece
markets.

DON:
"Where did those words/sounds [Jackie Gleason's "Homina! Homina!"]
actually appear in print [in a duck story]?"
In LO$ 2, right after Scrooge first sees the sawyer shooting
upward. And there's been at least one other instance, too. DD said it
upon being surprised by a Beagle Boy in my "Return to Morgan's Island,"
and I was told to change it to something else. It became "Oh, me!" (in
very small, shaky letters).

JON:
"...that donkey that Al used in many strips..."
This is actually a burro, named Basil. The 1937 cartoon "Don
Donald" introduced this burro -- in his only screen appearance -- as
well as DD's 313 roadster, and AT began using both in the strip
promptly. Note: 313 does not have a license plate in the cartoon; it
has a crank where the license plate should go, which is just how it
looked in the comics at first. Anyway, Disney (and now Gladstone) color
that car EXACTLY as it was colored in that cartoon.
I don't believe that 313 appeared in any other cartoon.

FABIO (and others):
Sad to say, Disney has banned all other Federico Pedrocchi 1930s
DD stories from American reprint now. They consider the art too poor.
It's a tremendous shame, as if this had not happened I would now be
working on the second one, with Fabio's help (I hope!). Maybe one day
things will change.
Are you there, by the way, Fabio? Is everything okay with you
these days? I haven't heard from you in a LONG time...

That's about it for now, gang.

David Gerstein
<9475609 at arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>