Keskustelujen arkisto

FABIO:
I sent your signed album loooooong ago. Seems like most of a year.
If you haven't gotten it yet, I'd say it's lost.

DWIGHT:
I was being asked if any of the CURRENT Italian digest Duck comics
were being reprinted in America. You know, the 6-panel/page things with the
art that looks like Harvey comics. Of course, they DON'T print those stoies
here, and probably never will since it is too different in style from the
accepted Dell tradition.>

DON:
You liar!-) When will you exactly be in Finland and will the
hardcover book be published by then? How's that frontcover pic doing?
Do you still want those issues of Finnish Aku Ankka where there are
your stories or articles about you? And the photo of you does make you
look like somebody's grandfather while just a few years ago it was stated
that you were "a young American artist". Geesh... By the way, is "Of Ducks
and Dimes and Destinies" a long adventure or a shorter gag story?

--

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

DWIGHT:
> Gladstone Phase II has published Romano Scarpa's Lentils of Babylon
> and the ancient 1930s Donald Duck on Mars story.
Maybe you recall they've also published Rota's "Andold Wild
Duck" (D-version of I-277, heavily condensed) and Scarpa's "Man from
Oola-Oola." Sometime in the next year we'll also be seeing Scarpa's
much-requested "Colossus of the Nile," which has a translation by
Fabio, his friend Mirko, and me. Probably in one of the COLLECTORY
issues (#4? I don't know).
Disney Comics published a Romano Scarpa Mickey and Goofy story
as the second story in MICKEY MOUSE ADVENTURES #16. It involves
Goofy falling into his TV set (maybe he's only having a nightmare
that this happens -- but actually, I think not). Sure is
hypocritical that Disney objected to John Lustig's magician story...
compared to the Scarpa television story, the gritty realism of
"Peek-A-Boo Bunny" is stark and gripping. ;-)

HARRY:
Now that I think about it, I guess Disney Comics' MMA, while
not a great series, has enough interesting (if not really great)
stuff in it to merit indexing for the Database. In particular, Rick
Hoover did some very good art for some of the stories. Really, this
comic would have actually been a good COMPANION title for Gladstone's
MM. As a replacement, it didn't hold water... but now, what do we
have? NO Mickey title, which is hardly an improvement...
So I'll index MMA 1-13 and 15-18 when I'm back home next month.

FABIO:
Your copy of my finished "Colossus of the Nile" is going off in
the mail, at last, today. Sorry about the delay. You're going to
love it! You'll notice a few corrections made on the copy with blue
ink. These are a few corrections I lately sent to Gladstone (after I
originally made the copy for you) and I wanted to wait until
Gladstone approved them before I sent you your copy. I wanted you to
have a copy of what I knew they were using.
I have news regarding your trip to California, too. You'll
just have to wait for a private E-Mail which you'll get in a minute!

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

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Hi!
I'm again here.
As I said I'm looking for my stories published outside Italy.
I got my story I 1941 (Topolino e il furto archeologico: MM at the Egiptian
Museum of Turin) reprinted in France (Mickey Parade 182).
So I'm looking anywhere for:
I 1941 (Topolino e il furto archeologico - MM and the Egiptian Museum of
Turin and an Indian statue of Shiva Nataraja, with Goofy and professor Boom,
a new character of mine); art by Giampiero Ubezio;
I 2048 (Indiana Pipps e il sigillo Vallindo - Arizona Goof and the Hindus
civilization, roaming through Pakistan and Kashmir with MM and professor
Boom); art by Massimo De Vita;
I M 21 (Minni e la Radiosa Primavera - Minnie Mouse and the little nephews
talking about the origin of the martial arts style of Wing Chun in China): I
M stays for the Italian Disney magazine "Minni".
Thank you!

>Can you tell me more about your work? (Or have you already done that
>on the list?)

DANIEL:
I am just a comics text writer (for the Walt Disney co. Italia and for other
Italian cartoonists) and a cartoonist.
I am also the president of Anonima Fumetti (the Italian Cartoonists Society)
and I teach comics text writing, cartooning, analysis of the language of
comics and story of comics in Italian schools and universities (although I
can't consider myself as a teacher: I just try to make people - adults and
boys - understand what IS comics and how to read it and love it, and may be
do it themselves).
About what IS comics and what it CAN be, there is a wonderful book by Scott
McCloud, "Understanding Comics - the invisible art", a scientific book on
the language of comics written using the language of comics!
And another really great book on these problems is "La bande dessinee" by
Benoit Peeters.
And, obviously, "Comics and Sequential Art" by Will Eisner!
About European cartooning you can try the Cartoon Arts Network at:
http://www.pavilion.co.uk/cartoonet/
You'll find there Anonima Fumetti, too.
That's all for tonight...
Bye!

>MIKE:
I'll tell everyone the exact dates of my Finland visit when they
tell me. I guess I'll be at the Finnish comic convention which is Oct.
21/22... but I'm not sure if I'll be around before or after that weekend.
"Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies"... is it an adventure story or a
short gag story? Hm. It's sorta in between, I s'pose, like the 15 page "Lo$"
episodes. It's 15 pages like those stories, and maybe it has more "meat" to
it than a typical "gag" story. Besides, you might call it the "Lo$" chapter
0, since I did it immediately before chapter 1 and it deals with events of
that same day in 1877 in Glasgow. It will remind you a lot of the movie BACK
TO THE FUTURE PART II (if you saw that) in that it's a time-travel tale that
shows the same events from a different angle, revealing other events going
on simultaneously just "off camera".
Yes, I still would like any issues of the Finnish weekly with my
stories or articles about me that came out last year. Beginning this year
they began sending me a subscription, so I'm okay from 1995, #1 - on. But I
would especially like to see this article that I'm told they ran about me
last year, and the request to send me "fan mail" (which I finally finished
answering just last month).>

DON:
Actually, both some of the folks at Gladstone, and Disney's
Russell Schroeder, are quite partial to a lot of the "modern" Italian
stories, which you say resemble Harvey Comics (I'd say not, because
although the style has its similarities, the characters don't have
that sickening cuteness that I associate with Harvey).
Some "modern" Italian stories (not just DRAWN by Italian
artists for Disney, but actually originating in Italy) have appeared
in some Disney Comics, Inc. publications. And a very
"modern-Italy-style" cover just came out on Gladstone's own DD 291 (I
think that's the number -- it shows a huge flower with a pair of
shears about to prune DD's tail feathers). It's that Cavazzano style,
although drawn by another.
John Clark has told me that length is the major reason he
hasn't used more Italian stories (both old and new), but that's just
what he's told me.

MICHAEL T.:
Have you used Mickey's mean neighbor Muscles McGurk in any
other stories besides the initial "Knights and Bolts"? Did you know
that I used him last year in a story of my own ("The Egg Collector")
and that I plan to use him again soon?
When I criticized MICKEY MOUSE ADVS yesterday, I didn't mean to
lump your stories, and Lee Nordling's, together with the others that
were used in the title. The two of you did some good Mouse tales,
hampered only by their short length (which Disney imposed, natch).

JANET:
Was the birthday story you wrote really 52 pages, or was it a
frame story for a 52-page comic? If it was 52 pages, was this the
one drawn by an Italian artist, involving crocodiles or something
like that, and showing Neighbor Jones among the partygoers?

DANIEL:
What a pleasure to have you here! I still remember that great
visit we had with Harry when I was in Holland. Ah, if every evening
could be as memorable as that...
When it comes to the Disney cartoons I need from your
collection, I'd say there are only two: "Broken Toys" and "Spare the
Rod" (the now-banned one where DD thinks that those pygmy cannibals
are HDL in costume).

ALL MICKEY WRITERS ON THIS LIST:
As you may or may not know, Byron Erickson and I are beginning
a campaign to revitalize Mickey to his classic, Gottfredson persona
and to revive a lot of the Mouse's classic pals and foes.
Unfortunately, we haven't been able to put together a new "MM
writers' bible" as fast as we would have liked. I have written some
components of this thing and Byron has worked on others, but it'll
probably be next year before it's finished.
As a result, except for Dave using Eli Squinch a few times (in
which stories?) I don't know of anyone who has used the vintage
characters I'm working with now. So that everyone here can make
their MM tales part of this "new breed," I'd just like to mention
that we have revived the 1931 character Butch, we will be giving
Horace the kind of prominence he had in the mid-1930s, and we are
going to be emphasizing such classic characters as Uncle Mortimer,
Montmorency Rodent, Captain Churchmouse, and Sylvester Shyster (as
well as Squinch, mentioned above). Byron has compiled a set of
references on these characters and will gladly send some data on them
to any interested writer. I personally can send the character
synopsis on Butch (which I myself wrote) or a preliminary version of
a guide to "Mickey as a humorous character" to those who are
interested. In this way, we can speed the revival of the classic
Mickey right away!

David Gerstein
<9475609 at arran.sms.ed.ac.uk>
"Wherever he's going, give me two more tickets!"