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>The Forth Annual Comic Arts Conference still needs professionals to participate
>in two of the seminars.

I just want you to know that the Italian professionals are now united in an
association:
ANONIMA FUMETTI - Italian Cartoonists Society
We work to promote Comics and Authors, we try to link the Italian
cartoonists and we teach Comics and Graphic Novel in schools and Universites
in Italy.
You can find us at CARTOONET (European Cartoon Arts Network):
http://www.pavilion.co.uk/cartoonet/network/anonima/anonima.htm
Our e-mail address is:
goria at inrete.alpcom.it
Bye!

> Whew! I'm finally back! Hiya!

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Hana Miyake

Don:
> Whew! I'm finally back! Hiya!

Welcome back. Strange thing that you can be reached better when you're on
the other side of the earth. We have been not far away from each other last
week. I was in Bocholt, but I couldn't make it to Bochum or Koeln, where
you were that day.

I looked for a TEMPO magazine with your art in it. But the current edition
(June, 1995) has not a single panel of Rosa. Which issue contains (or will
contain) your 1-page gag?

Another question:
Have you read all the digests from the period you were in Germany?

--Harry.

Hi,

I just reread Lo$ and have a few questions and remarks. I know some of these
might have been answered/discussed before, but please don't get too upset :-)

For norwegians only: Is there any D.U.C.K in the first panel of chapter 8 in
the norwegian version? I don't want to know where it is if there is one, but
if there isn't I don't want to spend any more time looking for it!

- I guess it's no coincidence that the poem used in the norwegian version in
the poetry part of the highland games is from Scotland's national poet:
Robert Burns (translated to norwegian)? If it is, the original should be
something like: "O, my luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in
June." (No spelling mistakes in luve here, this is quoted from the book: The
essential Burns, and I think it's the original dialect).

- A curiosity for scandinavians concerning that very same poem by Burns. The
well known Evert Taube's song: "Min alskling, du er som en ros" is an almost
direct translation of that poem. You can even sing Burns' original text to
Taube's melody with only minor modifications to the rythm. I don't know if
that's a well known fact and if Taube ever pointed it out himself, but at
least I have never heard it anywhere. If you compare them, there is no doubt
about it, though. That brings me to a question here: did the swedish version
use the words from Taube's song? I'll check some day if the norwegian
version comes from one of the published translations of Burns' poems or not.

- Anyone who'd enjoy a real juicy poem should check out Burns' "Tam o'
Shanter", BTW (or the excellent norwegian translation by Hartvig Kiran)

- The scene where U$'s father passes away is the most touching I've ever
seen in a comic! I want to go away like that, too!

- Is the "Voodoo hoodoo"-story published in Norway? I am getting quite
curious about what parts are Barks' and what parts are Rosa's.

- Has anyone (except Don :-) ever made a compilation of what stories are
mentioned in one way or another in Lo$? I'd like something like a list in
order of the pages of Lo$ where I can see which stories relate to the page
and where I can find the stories. And then read the whole Lo$ again while
reading each "original" story in the progress (and of course the wonderful
ODaDaD). I understand you italians will get all this compiled into some sort
of huge library? Lucky you!

Well, that's all for now, folks!

Knut Hunstad

HARRY:
I was also looking for that issue of TEMPO when I first arrived in
Germany, but they told me it was not out yet. I had thought it was intended
to coincide with my tour, but I guess not. I also found out that the German
publisher sent the art photostat to them uncolored and they planned to use
it in B&W -- I never intended they do that and I'll be very disappointed if
it doesn't appear in full color. But the way these things go, I guess I'll
be lucky if they put all the correct text into the balloons and
sound-effects and signage.

Yes, I read ALL the Digests sent to me while I was gone, and, along
with my Compuserve mail, it took me about 4 hours! I either saw nothing
there that needed my comments, or I was to pooped to make any by the time I
was done reading. My "whew" might have referred to that moment rather than
my mad dash through Germany, top to bottom.

KNUT:
Yes, there is definitely a "D.U.C.K." in the splash panel of chapter
8. Look for it somemore before I give you a hint. And there was supposed to
be one in the first panel of "Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies", but it was
mostly cut off when they chopped the bottom off that panel (as they always
do to my splash panels in Egmont countries due to their policy of putting
the logo above and outside the panel).

I didn't know about "luve" being the proper dialect version of
writing Brown's poem word... but I wouldn't have used it even if I had. One
scholar in Scotland would have understood what it was, and the entire
remainder of the readership would have thought it was a spelling error.

And what's this about you thinking the Italians will get the "Lo$"
in one great compilation? Where did you hear that?

When I finally finished opening my mail today, I stumbled onto a new
COMICS JOURNAL with a lengthy review of my $crooge bio series in it. I
thought it was a completely accurate and fair review... it basically praised
how I did my series but questioned the necessity of it (which I understand,
though I wonder what the "necessity" is for any $crooge story or any comic
book story, period). The writer decided the reason was purely financial,
which I felt was so off the mark that I'm sending a letter to explain that
fallacy, while agreeing with the review otherwise. I mean, when I collect no
royalties and the difficulty of the series resulted in a drop in page
production for me for those 2 years, the financial result for ME was to lose
income! And the Disney comics already sell too well in Europe that 12
stories would never make a whit of difference to circulation. No, the
really-and-truly reason was that we all wanted to prevent the impending
threat of a "Lo$" written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by the Haime Diaz
studio. I also corrected the inference made from some inaccurate quotes
attributed to me by Geof Blum in ancient text pieces. But read the review
yourselves, and see if you don't think it was on the mark otherwise. It was
also good attention for Barks' Ducks, which I always like to see in America,
especially after again returning from Europe where Barks' Ducks are
universally regarded as the supreme comic, along with ASTERIX and TINTIN.

Daniel van Eijmeren wrote:

> > I've heard of a theory about HDL's father before, it said that HDL
> > blew up their father with a giant firework. At least that was
> > told in the cartoon "Donald's nephews" or the newspaper-strips. Maybe
> > their father could have died by then... (as the theory said).

Fredrik Ekman replied:

> The fireworks story was told in the first newspaper-strip appearance of
> HDL.

More precisely, in the Sunday strip of 17 October 1937.

> I recall having read somewhere that they later briefly returned to
> their parents after their father had recovered.

Indeed they did, in the strip of 21 November 1937. They returned to
Donald on 25 February 1940, without any explanation whatsoever. Actually
we didn't see them return, suddenly they were just there.

/Anders