Wait a minute - didn't I just now post a message to this list about a
poem by the 16th century English poet Andrew Marvell? Surely I meant
the 17th century English poet Robert Herrick. I'm always getting
those "seize the day" advocates mixed up...
Wilmer Rivers
Author
Topic: 199509
(268 messages)
Wilmer Rivers
Wrong dead poets society
Message 226 -
1995-09-25 at 22:27:17
Wilmer Rivers
Wrong geography society
Message 227 -
1995-09-25 at 22:45:50
Yet another correction to my earlier posting - I see that I said
"The Man Who Would Be King" deals with searching for Alexander
the Great's fortune in India in the Himalayas, when of course it
was the Hindu Kush instead. I really do know which mountain
range is which, honest! Now I had better stop typing, before I
make a few dozen more misteaks. :)
Wilmer Rivers
"The Man Who Would Be King" deals with searching for Alexander
the Great's fortune in India in the Himalayas, when of course it
was the Hindu Kush instead. I really do know which mountain
range is which, honest! Now I had better stop typing, before I
make a few dozen more misteaks. :)
Wilmer Rivers
Knut Hunstad
Uncles and Jippes (digest #794)
Message 228 -
1995-09-25 at 23:32:31
This is starting to sound like a language discussion group, but there is
some connection to the ducks left still, I think...
>But there is no usual name for "grandmother's brother". At least
>not in English or Dutch. Maybe in Swedish? "farmorbror" or so?
Well, in Norway we may call him "Grandonkel" (Grand uncle), I think. I mean,
I never heard the male version before, but at least it's not uncommon to
call your grandma's sister "Grandtante" (Grand aunt). Which doesn't mean
that calling the same guy simply uncle is uncommon either...
P.S.: Just saw a commercial on NRK TV today that they are going to send
"Citizen Kane" shortly. I can hardly wait! Very interesting to have that
background information, BTW...
Knut
some connection to the ducks left still, I think...
>But there is no usual name for "grandmother's brother". At least
>not in English or Dutch. Maybe in Swedish? "farmorbror" or so?
Well, in Norway we may call him "Grandonkel" (Grand uncle), I think. I mean,
I never heard the male version before, but at least it's not uncommon to
call your grandma's sister "Grandtante" (Grand aunt). Which doesn't mean
that calling the same guy simply uncle is uncommon either...
P.S.: Just saw a commercial on NRK TV today that they are going to send
"Citizen Kane" shortly. I can hardly wait! Very interesting to have that
background information, BTW...
Knut
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Harry, David, Jakob, Mike
Message 229 -
1995-09-25 at 23:46:08
HARRY & DAVID:
> Recently, I got xerox copies of the original giveaway comic containing
> Barks' "Santa's Stormy Visit". I compared the xeroxes with the version
> published in Gladstone's CBL in Color album, and they were EXACTLY the same.
> So there seems no need to look for a German edition of this story.
I compared the CBL-version with the Dutch redrawn version and they
are *different*. So, my former conclusion that they are the same is
definitely *wrong*. (By now I realise that I only compared them from
my memory and not by laying the versions next to each other!)
But... the CBL-version looks restored, I'm saying this because some
lines look kinda un-Barks. The art has also thick lines, which looks
like they used bad photostats or maybe bad xeroxes.
Of course the CBL could have used *another* redrawn version, but that
doesn't explain why the art looks kinda "out of focus" with it's
thick lines.
You say that the xeroxes and the CBLiC look the same, so maybe
there's also another possibility: It could be that they indeed used
the original photostats, but that those original photostats were made
in a quite bad way, back in the 40's.
This could mean that there has never been a good printing of the
story. Sometimes we hear Don complain that his art was printed quite
muddy because of bad photostats, so it could be possible.
There are also a lot of other stories in the CBL with thick lines, so
it could be that they also originate from bad photostats which were
made *before* the first printing of the stories.
> DAVID: to which version did you compare this German version? Did the
> Black-and-white CBL print a version differing from the CBL in color?
Yeah, that's what I'm also wondering.
HARRY & JACOB:
>> So now [Jippes] has studied the original Barks-sketches slavily and
>> inked those old Junior Woodchucks-stories *exactly* in Barks own
>> style. He even changed back all the things that Western-publishing
>> changed in Barks' sketches!
> He didn't have to "change back" anything, because he worked from
> the original scripts. He just ignored the fat black lines from the
> editor.
While comparing Jippes' "Duckmade Disaster" with the original sketches
I *did* discover some minor differences. In the original sketches the
man in the 5th panel of the last page looks very much the same as
the man in the 4th panel who says: "The flood did Duckburg a
priceless *favor*!" But Jippes drew this man as two completely
different persons. There are also sometimes some differences in the
crowd, sometimes a dog- or pig-face is drawn as a duck-face or vice
versa.
Well, I'm not saying this because it bothers me or something, it was
just something that I noticed. Maybe I should put away my *microscope*
and stop cavilling? ;-)
HARRY & MIKE:
> The few Halloween stories Barks made were changed into "Carnival"
> stories in Holland. Except "Trick or Treat", which had an
> explanation on the letters page of the comic: "Every year they have
> a celebration in Duckburg and in whole America...". "Trick or
> Treat" was first published in Holland in February/March, so for
> some years I thought Halloween was an American alternative for our
> Easter feasts or so.
Did you ever wonder how much of your education comes from Barks-
stories? I remember reading an article which noticed this (which was
the reason why I also noticed it). There are really a lot of Barks-
stories including educational "lessons" which you learn without even
realizing it! You also learn a lot about habits in countries all over
the world and also about history.
The article about this included the line that "it's no wonder that a
lot of young Barks readers became for example engineers and
professors".
Well, just look at Don's former profession! ;-)
Greetings,
--- Daniel
> Recently, I got xerox copies of the original giveaway comic containing
> Barks' "Santa's Stormy Visit". I compared the xeroxes with the version
> published in Gladstone's CBL in Color album, and they were EXACTLY the same.
> So there seems no need to look for a German edition of this story.
I compared the CBL-version with the Dutch redrawn version and they
are *different*. So, my former conclusion that they are the same is
definitely *wrong*. (By now I realise that I only compared them from
my memory and not by laying the versions next to each other!)
But... the CBL-version looks restored, I'm saying this because some
lines look kinda un-Barks. The art has also thick lines, which looks
like they used bad photostats or maybe bad xeroxes.
Of course the CBL could have used *another* redrawn version, but that
doesn't explain why the art looks kinda "out of focus" with it's
thick lines.
You say that the xeroxes and the CBLiC look the same, so maybe
there's also another possibility: It could be that they indeed used
the original photostats, but that those original photostats were made
in a quite bad way, back in the 40's.
This could mean that there has never been a good printing of the
story. Sometimes we hear Don complain that his art was printed quite
muddy because of bad photostats, so it could be possible.
There are also a lot of other stories in the CBL with thick lines, so
it could be that they also originate from bad photostats which were
made *before* the first printing of the stories.
> DAVID: to which version did you compare this German version? Did the
> Black-and-white CBL print a version differing from the CBL in color?
Yeah, that's what I'm also wondering.
HARRY & JACOB:
>> So now [Jippes] has studied the original Barks-sketches slavily and
>> inked those old Junior Woodchucks-stories *exactly* in Barks own
>> style. He even changed back all the things that Western-publishing
>> changed in Barks' sketches!
> He didn't have to "change back" anything, because he worked from
> the original scripts. He just ignored the fat black lines from the
> editor.
While comparing Jippes' "Duckmade Disaster" with the original sketches
I *did* discover some minor differences. In the original sketches the
man in the 5th panel of the last page looks very much the same as
the man in the 4th panel who says: "The flood did Duckburg a
priceless *favor*!" But Jippes drew this man as two completely
different persons. There are also sometimes some differences in the
crowd, sometimes a dog- or pig-face is drawn as a duck-face or vice
versa.
Well, I'm not saying this because it bothers me or something, it was
just something that I noticed. Maybe I should put away my *microscope*
and stop cavilling? ;-)
HARRY & MIKE:
> The few Halloween stories Barks made were changed into "Carnival"
> stories in Holland. Except "Trick or Treat", which had an
> explanation on the letters page of the comic: "Every year they have
> a celebration in Duckburg and in whole America...". "Trick or
> Treat" was first published in Holland in February/March, so for
> some years I thought Halloween was an American alternative for our
> Easter feasts or so.
Did you ever wonder how much of your education comes from Barks-
stories? I remember reading an article which noticed this (which was
the reason why I also noticed it). There are really a lot of Barks-
stories including educational "lessons" which you learn without even
realizing it! You also learn a lot about habits in countries all over
the world and also about history.
The article about this included the line that "it's no wonder that a
lot of young Barks readers became for example engineers and
professors".
Well, just look at Don's former profession! ;-)
Greetings,
--- Daniel
Knut Hunstad
Harry, David, Jakob, Mike
Message 230 -
1995-09-26 at 00:20:57
I'm rather in a talkative mood these days, ain't I?
>Did you ever wonder how much of your education comes from Barks-
>stories?
No, that's something I realized very early! DD&Co. and Asterix have been
major input for me in many fields. After some rounds of Trivial Pursuit
lately my mother has finally started to realize this, too! I never fail to
tell when I know something because I've read about it in some comic book...
>The article about this included the line that "it's no wonder that a
>lot of young Barks readers became for example engineers and
>professors".
Well, might it be the other way around? That it's the "engineering"-mind who
is naturally drawn to Barks' (and now also Don's) stories? Which came first,
the hen or the egg?
>Well, just look at Don's former profession! ;-)
It surely shows in some of his stories. But I can't quite remember _what_
kind of an engineer he is? How about it Don, would you mind telling us what
kind of job you quit when you started doing comics full time?
Just to round up with a question both comic, duck and physics related: In
"The fliegende Hollaender", wouldn't it be more likely that the boat was
totally covered with ice? I mean, they just sort of dig up a hole trough the
"wall" and enter the boat, it seems. In reality they would have to dig out
the boat piece for piece, right? But that trick is used several times, I
know, and it would make a rather boring story just digging and digging, I
guess...
And one more thing, while I'm at it: I never was quite sure whether "The
flying dutchman" is just a book with a story about a (previously) fictional
legend or a book based on a real legend. And if the latter is the case, to
what extent the book differs from the legend. Anyone able to elaborate on that?
Knut
>Did you ever wonder how much of your education comes from Barks-
>stories?
No, that's something I realized very early! DD&Co. and Asterix have been
major input for me in many fields. After some rounds of Trivial Pursuit
lately my mother has finally started to realize this, too! I never fail to
tell when I know something because I've read about it in some comic book...
>The article about this included the line that "it's no wonder that a
>lot of young Barks readers became for example engineers and
>professors".
Well, might it be the other way around? That it's the "engineering"-mind who
is naturally drawn to Barks' (and now also Don's) stories? Which came first,
the hen or the egg?
>Well, just look at Don's former profession! ;-)
It surely shows in some of his stories. But I can't quite remember _what_
kind of an engineer he is? How about it Don, would you mind telling us what
kind of job you quit when you started doing comics full time?
Just to round up with a question both comic, duck and physics related: In
"The fliegende Hollaender", wouldn't it be more likely that the boat was
totally covered with ice? I mean, they just sort of dig up a hole trough the
"wall" and enter the boat, it seems. In reality they would have to dig out
the boat piece for piece, right? But that trick is used several times, I
know, and it would make a rather boring story just digging and digging, I
guess...
And one more thing, while I'm at it: I never was quite sure whether "The
flying dutchman" is just a book with a story about a (previously) fictional
legend or a book based on a real legend. And if the latter is the case, to
what extent the book differs from the legend. Anyone able to elaborate on that?
Knut
JALustig
My Story List--Finally!
Message 231 -
1995-09-26 at 06:24:05
Harry:
The information I needed to compile a story list came this morning and
so I typed this up. Danish Publication refers, of course, to when a story has
appeared or is scheduled to appear in Anders And & Co.
Unfortunately, it's not a very big list. My work schedule has been
extremely limited in the last few years and I'm constantly scrambling for
little scraps of time so I can get some work done. (Health problems--combined
with the need to care for our two children while my wife works--have kept me
somewhat on the sidelines. Even though I can make more money per hour
writing (at least theoretically) than my wife can as a nurse she has to work
so that our family qualifies for health insurance from her employer. If we
ever get our childcare problems resolved--which are difficult because our
two-year-old has several disabilities and needs extra care and therapy
several times a week--my output will doubtlessly increase.
In the meantime, here's my list. Harry, you've already got all the info
on all the stories I've done for Gladstone. This is the rest of my Disney
stories:
CODES Danish Page Story Title
Publication Count
D 92568 AA 8/94 11 NO TIME FOR NAPPIN'
D 92211 AA 42/93 12 STAMPEDE AND DELIVER
D 92253 1 HAPPY TO MEET YOU
D 92226 AA 43/93 11 HI-TECH, LOW-DOWN BLUES
D 92212 AA 34/93 14 PEACE IN PIECES
D 92041 AA 18/94 14 THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
D 93394 AA 10/95 2 PEEK-A-BOO BUNNY
D 93393 1 SOMETHING FISHY
D 93392 AA 41/94 6 HOCUS POCUS HYPNOSIS
D 93155 AA 34/95 5 FIFTY-CENT FRENZY
D 93062 1 FEUD OF LIGHTS
D 93061 1 HOME COOKING
D 93060 1 DANGEROUS AND DANGEROUSER
D 94147 10 TERROR IN THE TRASH
D 94111 AA 37/95 10 THE SWELL OF SUCCESS
D 95154 12 ROMANCE AT A GLANCE
D 95099 14 CAUGHT IN THE COLD RUSH
D 95020 AA 2/96 10 SNOW SMITTEN
I did two other Disney stories that don't have codes and appeared only
in "Disney's DuckTales Magazine" which probably only appeared in the U.S. and
Canada. "The Count of McDuck" was a 4-pager and appeared in the Summer 1990
issue of the magazine. "Scrooge's Nose Knows Gold" appeared in the Fall 1990
issue.
I also scripted a 62-page graphic novel (a fancy word for a really long
comic book) adaption of Disney's "DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost
Lamp." It was published by Walt Disney Publications in 1990 and the art was
by Cosme Quartieri, Robert Bat, Carlos Valenti and Ruben Torreiro. The
original movie script was written by Alan Burnett. There's no story code for
this comic either.
Well, that's it. Harry, I hope you have a nice vacation. You are going to
mail us all post cards--aren't you?
---John Lustig
The information I needed to compile a story list came this morning and
so I typed this up. Danish Publication refers, of course, to when a story has
appeared or is scheduled to appear in Anders And & Co.
Unfortunately, it's not a very big list. My work schedule has been
extremely limited in the last few years and I'm constantly scrambling for
little scraps of time so I can get some work done. (Health problems--combined
with the need to care for our two children while my wife works--have kept me
somewhat on the sidelines. Even though I can make more money per hour
writing (at least theoretically) than my wife can as a nurse she has to work
so that our family qualifies for health insurance from her employer. If we
ever get our childcare problems resolved--which are difficult because our
two-year-old has several disabilities and needs extra care and therapy
several times a week--my output will doubtlessly increase.
In the meantime, here's my list. Harry, you've already got all the info
on all the stories I've done for Gladstone. This is the rest of my Disney
stories:
CODES Danish Page Story Title
Publication Count
D 92568 AA 8/94 11 NO TIME FOR NAPPIN'
D 92211 AA 42/93 12 STAMPEDE AND DELIVER
D 92253 1 HAPPY TO MEET YOU
D 92226 AA 43/93 11 HI-TECH, LOW-DOWN BLUES
D 92212 AA 34/93 14 PEACE IN PIECES
D 92041 AA 18/94 14 THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
D 93394 AA 10/95 2 PEEK-A-BOO BUNNY
D 93393 1 SOMETHING FISHY
D 93392 AA 41/94 6 HOCUS POCUS HYPNOSIS
D 93155 AA 34/95 5 FIFTY-CENT FRENZY
D 93062 1 FEUD OF LIGHTS
D 93061 1 HOME COOKING
D 93060 1 DANGEROUS AND DANGEROUSER
D 94147 10 TERROR IN THE TRASH
D 94111 AA 37/95 10 THE SWELL OF SUCCESS
D 95154 12 ROMANCE AT A GLANCE
D 95099 14 CAUGHT IN THE COLD RUSH
D 95020 AA 2/96 10 SNOW SMITTEN
I did two other Disney stories that don't have codes and appeared only
in "Disney's DuckTales Magazine" which probably only appeared in the U.S. and
Canada. "The Count of McDuck" was a 4-pager and appeared in the Summer 1990
issue of the magazine. "Scrooge's Nose Knows Gold" appeared in the Fall 1990
issue.
I also scripted a 62-page graphic novel (a fancy word for a really long
comic book) adaption of Disney's "DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost
Lamp." It was published by Walt Disney Publications in 1990 and the art was
by Cosme Quartieri, Robert Bat, Carlos Valenti and Ruben Torreiro. The
original movie script was written by Alan Burnett. There's no story code for
this comic either.
Well, that's it. Harry, I hope you have a nice vacation. You are going to
mail us all post cards--aren't you?
---John Lustig
Don Rosa
Disney-comics digest #796.
Message 232 -
1995-09-26 at 06:59:00
DAVID:
Why was there a different cover for "Lo$" episode VI in Germany
(though unused) than in America? Hm. I can't recall -- that was over a year
or so ago... even longer when I did the German one. I just had another idea
when the time came to do Gladstone a cover. I recall sending them three
different scribble ideas, one was the German idea... the third one was
$crooge roping the water buffalo that had Glomgold on his horns.
Coincidentally, today I drew the cover for Gladstone's "Lo$" part XII.
The "Treasury of Croesus" cover that was used in Europe will be on
WDC&S #602.
GEIR:
How did you know there'd be a special cover on the Norwegian edition
of my "Lost Charts of Columbus"? Well, actually, that cover was done for any
Egmont publisher who wanted it... though that is assumed to be Norway and
Denmark at least. (The Norwegian and Danish editions are the same now...
well, except the writin'). I would guess they'll use it in Germany on my
album series. Surely (?) they'll use it at Gladstone, I guess...
The "D.U.C.K." dedication was, indeed, in the last panel of "The Son
of the Sun", but Disney told Gladstone to take it out since it looked too
much like it might be a signature of some sort... an idea that should have
occured to me when I placed it there. But somebody was right -- I was
surprised to see it in one foreign edition, meaning that when Gladstone
ships out photostats of "tSotS" the "D.U.C.K." is still there in the art.
Soon after that I started hiding it so it wouldn't be spotted by
editors. Then when I was once interviewed by the Danish editors and they
found out about how I placed that in all my splash panels, they thought that
was a nifty bit of trivia and included it in their article in the weekly
comic; however, the next story of mine they printed happened to be one of
the few that I'd forgotten to place the "D.U.C.K." into the splash, so the
editors simply wrote it into the first panel in plain sight, presumably to
prevent their readers from going nuts trying to find what wasn't there. And
the reason I tell this meandering tale is that I just got the first chapter
of "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad" from Denmark... and I see the editor
has REMOVED the "D.U.C.K." from the splash panel. I don't know whathahecks
goin' on. Editors are sure whacky critters.
WILMER:
"The Man Who Would Be King" is one of my very favorite movies (in
fact, there is hardly another movie made in the past 35 years that I like as
much as that one). Thank gosh John Huston didn't make it in the early 50s as
he originally planned, using Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart instead of
Connery and Caine. The former are slightly unBritish; I guess the story
would have been drastically rewritten for American soldiers-of-fortune, but
nothing can beat the Connery-Caine version, eh?
Was I thinking of it when I did "Ten Avatars" the way I often think
of movies while doing stories? Not exactly... and you finally answered your
own question. I knew there was that Alexander the Great connection. But the
Huston movie involved them going through the Khyber Pass into the barren
mountains near Afganistan to a city built by Alexander. My story involves a
city that licked Alexander in the upper jungles of the Punjab. Plus,
Huston's story is about 100,000% better.
KNUT:
Whoops -- you're about to see CITIZEN KANE? Forget anything anybody
said about sleds and Rosebuds! (I wouldn't talk so openly about filmdom's
greatest surprise ending if I didn't think everyone on earth had SEEN that
movie by now.)
What did I do before comics? My college degree is in civil
engineering, and I owned & operated a construction-finish company, though
this job actually involved very little of my engineering background.
Why was there a different cover for "Lo$" episode VI in Germany
(though unused) than in America? Hm. I can't recall -- that was over a year
or so ago... even longer when I did the German one. I just had another idea
when the time came to do Gladstone a cover. I recall sending them three
different scribble ideas, one was the German idea... the third one was
$crooge roping the water buffalo that had Glomgold on his horns.
Coincidentally, today I drew the cover for Gladstone's "Lo$" part XII.
The "Treasury of Croesus" cover that was used in Europe will be on
WDC&S #602.
GEIR:
How did you know there'd be a special cover on the Norwegian edition
of my "Lost Charts of Columbus"? Well, actually, that cover was done for any
Egmont publisher who wanted it... though that is assumed to be Norway and
Denmark at least. (The Norwegian and Danish editions are the same now...
well, except the writin'). I would guess they'll use it in Germany on my
album series. Surely (?) they'll use it at Gladstone, I guess...
The "D.U.C.K." dedication was, indeed, in the last panel of "The Son
of the Sun", but Disney told Gladstone to take it out since it looked too
much like it might be a signature of some sort... an idea that should have
occured to me when I placed it there. But somebody was right -- I was
surprised to see it in one foreign edition, meaning that when Gladstone
ships out photostats of "tSotS" the "D.U.C.K." is still there in the art.
Soon after that I started hiding it so it wouldn't be spotted by
editors. Then when I was once interviewed by the Danish editors and they
found out about how I placed that in all my splash panels, they thought that
was a nifty bit of trivia and included it in their article in the weekly
comic; however, the next story of mine they printed happened to be one of
the few that I'd forgotten to place the "D.U.C.K." into the splash, so the
editors simply wrote it into the first panel in plain sight, presumably to
prevent their readers from going nuts trying to find what wasn't there. And
the reason I tell this meandering tale is that I just got the first chapter
of "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad" from Denmark... and I see the editor
has REMOVED the "D.U.C.K." from the splash panel. I don't know whathahecks
goin' on. Editors are sure whacky critters.
WILMER:
"The Man Who Would Be King" is one of my very favorite movies (in
fact, there is hardly another movie made in the past 35 years that I like as
much as that one). Thank gosh John Huston didn't make it in the early 50s as
he originally planned, using Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart instead of
Connery and Caine. The former are slightly unBritish; I guess the story
would have been drastically rewritten for American soldiers-of-fortune, but
nothing can beat the Connery-Caine version, eh?
Was I thinking of it when I did "Ten Avatars" the way I often think
of movies while doing stories? Not exactly... and you finally answered your
own question. I knew there was that Alexander the Great connection. But the
Huston movie involved them going through the Khyber Pass into the barren
mountains near Afganistan to a city built by Alexander. My story involves a
city that licked Alexander in the upper jungles of the Punjab. Plus,
Huston's story is about 100,000% better.
KNUT:
Whoops -- you're about to see CITIZEN KANE? Forget anything anybody
said about sleds and Rosebuds! (I wouldn't talk so openly about filmdom's
greatest surprise ending if I didn't think everyone on earth had SEEN that
movie by now.)
What did I do before comics? My college degree is in civil
engineering, and I owned & operated a construction-finish company, though
this job actually involved very little of my engineering background.
Knut Hunstad
Disney-comics digest #796.
Message 233 -
1995-09-26 at 07:01:00
Hi again!
Very interesting to get the full story behind the D.U.C.K.!
>the reason I tell this meandering tale is that I just got the first chapter
>of "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad" from Denmark... and I see the editor
>has REMOVED the "D.U.C.K." from the splash panel. I don't know whathahecks
>goin' on. Editors are sure whacky critters.
I couldn't see it in the norwegian edition either...
> Was I thinking of it when I did "Ten Avatars" the way I often think
Aside topic: Check out http://www.worlds.net/ and download WorldChat. That's
really amazing! And the reason I mentioned it is because the program uses
avatars... Perhaps we can meet in a live chat some day?
Knut
Very interesting to get the full story behind the D.U.C.K.!
>the reason I tell this meandering tale is that I just got the first chapter
>of "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad" from Denmark... and I see the editor
>has REMOVED the "D.U.C.K." from the splash panel. I don't know whathahecks
>goin' on. Editors are sure whacky critters.
I couldn't see it in the norwegian edition either...
> Was I thinking of it when I did "Ten Avatars" the way I often think
Aside topic: Check out http://www.worlds.net/ and download WorldChat. That's
really amazing! And the reason I mentioned it is because the program uses
avatars... Perhaps we can meet in a live chat some day?
Knut
Hnewton
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1995-09-26 at 13:36:39
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1995-09-26 at 14:36:39
Harry:
I tried sending this a few hours ago, but it doesn't look like it went
through. If this comes through twice instead of only once then I appologize.
---------------
Harry:
The information I needed to compile a story list came this morning and
so I typed this up. Danish Publication refers, of course, to when a story has
appeared or is scheduled to appear in Anders And & Co.
Unfortunately, it's not a very big list. My work schedule has been
extremely limited in the last few years and I'm constantly scrambling for
little scraps of time so I can get some work done. (Health problems--combined
with the need to care for our two children while my wife works--have kept me
somewhat on the sidelines. Even though I can make more money per hour
writing (at least theoretically) than my wife can as a nurse she has to work
so that our family qualifies for health insurance from her employer. If we
ever get our childcare problems resolved--which are difficult because our
two-year-old has several disabilities and needs extra care and therapy
several times a week--my output will doubtlessly increase.
In the meantime, here's my list. Harry, you've already got all the info
on all the stories I've done for Gladstone. This is the rest of my Disney
stories:
CODES Danish Page Story Title
Publication Count
D 92568 AA 8/94 11 NO TIME FOR NAPPIN'
D 92211 AA 42/93 12 STAMPEDE AND DELIVER
D 92253 1 HAPPY TO MEET YOU
D 92226 AA 43/93 11 HI-TECH, LOW-DOWN BLUES
D 92212 AA 34/93 14 PEACE IN PIECES
D 92041 AA 18/94 14 THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
D 93394 AA 10/95 2 PEEK-A-BOO BUNNY
D 93393 1 SOMETHING FISHY
D 93392 AA 41/94 6 HOCUS POCUS HYPNOSIS
D 93155 AA 34/95 5 FIFTY-CENT FRENZY
D 93062 1 FEUD OF LIGHTS
D 93061 1 HOME COOKING
D 93060 1 DANGEROUS AND DANGEROUSER
D 94147 10 TERROR IN THE TRASH
D 94111 AA 37/95 10 THE SWELL OF SUCCESS
D 95154 12 ROMANCE AT A GLANCE
D 95099 14 CAUGHT IN THE COLD RUSH
D 95020 AA 2/96 10 SNOW SMITTEN
I did two other Disney stories that don't have codes and appeared only
in "Disney's DuckTales Magazine" which probably only appeared in the U.S. and
Canada. "The Count of McDuck" was a 4-pager and appeared in the Summer 1990
issue of the magazine. "Scrooge's Nose Knows Gold" appeared in the Fall 1990
issue.
I also scripted a 62-page graphic novel (a fancy word for a really long
comic book) adaption of Disney's "DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost
Lamp." It was published by Walt Disney Publications in 1990 and the art was
by Cosme Quartieri, Robert Bat, Carlos Valenti and Ruben Torreiro. The
original movie script was written by Alan Burnett. There's no story code for
this comic either.
Well, that's it. Harry, I hope you have a nice vacation. You are going to
mail us all post cards--aren't you?
---John Lustig
I tried sending this a few hours ago, but it doesn't look like it went
through. If this comes through twice instead of only once then I appologize.
---------------
Harry:
The information I needed to compile a story list came this morning and
so I typed this up. Danish Publication refers, of course, to when a story has
appeared or is scheduled to appear in Anders And & Co.
Unfortunately, it's not a very big list. My work schedule has been
extremely limited in the last few years and I'm constantly scrambling for
little scraps of time so I can get some work done. (Health problems--combined
with the need to care for our two children while my wife works--have kept me
somewhat on the sidelines. Even though I can make more money per hour
writing (at least theoretically) than my wife can as a nurse she has to work
so that our family qualifies for health insurance from her employer. If we
ever get our childcare problems resolved--which are difficult because our
two-year-old has several disabilities and needs extra care and therapy
several times a week--my output will doubtlessly increase.
In the meantime, here's my list. Harry, you've already got all the info
on all the stories I've done for Gladstone. This is the rest of my Disney
stories:
CODES Danish Page Story Title
Publication Count
D 92568 AA 8/94 11 NO TIME FOR NAPPIN'
D 92211 AA 42/93 12 STAMPEDE AND DELIVER
D 92253 1 HAPPY TO MEET YOU
D 92226 AA 43/93 11 HI-TECH, LOW-DOWN BLUES
D 92212 AA 34/93 14 PEACE IN PIECES
D 92041 AA 18/94 14 THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
D 93394 AA 10/95 2 PEEK-A-BOO BUNNY
D 93393 1 SOMETHING FISHY
D 93392 AA 41/94 6 HOCUS POCUS HYPNOSIS
D 93155 AA 34/95 5 FIFTY-CENT FRENZY
D 93062 1 FEUD OF LIGHTS
D 93061 1 HOME COOKING
D 93060 1 DANGEROUS AND DANGEROUSER
D 94147 10 TERROR IN THE TRASH
D 94111 AA 37/95 10 THE SWELL OF SUCCESS
D 95154 12 ROMANCE AT A GLANCE
D 95099 14 CAUGHT IN THE COLD RUSH
D 95020 AA 2/96 10 SNOW SMITTEN
I did two other Disney stories that don't have codes and appeared only
in "Disney's DuckTales Magazine" which probably only appeared in the U.S. and
Canada. "The Count of McDuck" was a 4-pager and appeared in the Summer 1990
issue of the magazine. "Scrooge's Nose Knows Gold" appeared in the Fall 1990
issue.
I also scripted a 62-page graphic novel (a fancy word for a really long
comic book) adaption of Disney's "DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost
Lamp." It was published by Walt Disney Publications in 1990 and the art was
by Cosme Quartieri, Robert Bat, Carlos Valenti and Ruben Torreiro. The
original movie script was written by Alan Burnett. There's no story code for
this comic either.
Well, that's it. Harry, I hope you have a nice vacation. You are going to
mail us all post cards--aren't you?
---John Lustig
Kirk
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Message 236 -
1995-09-26 at 17:41:27
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Lutz Koch
Disney-comics digest #795.
Message 237 -
1995-09-26 at 18:01:18
DON:
> That German TEMPO magazine with my $crooge page will be, last I
>heard, in the October issue... which means it should be out NOW. Unless
>that's a weekly magazine... or if it was postponed.
No, TEMPO is not a weekly but a monthly.
No, it wasn't postponed.
Yes, your $crooge page *is* in the October issue. Nice work! I like the way you
used the TEMPO logo in the last panel. Did they ask you to use their logo?
Anyway, great idea!
--Lutz
> That German TEMPO magazine with my $crooge page will be, last I
>heard, in the October issue... which means it should be out NOW. Unless
>that's a weekly magazine... or if it was postponed.
No, TEMPO is not a weekly but a monthly.
No, it wasn't postponed.
Yes, your $crooge page *is* in the October issue. Nice work! I like the way you
used the TEMPO logo in the last panel. Did they ask you to use their logo?
Anyway, great idea!
--Lutz
David A Gerstein
Disney-comics digest #796.
Message 238 -
1995-09-26 at 20:27:08
HARRY and DANIEL:
> I compared ... xerox copies of the original giveaway comic containing
> Barks' "Santa's Stormy Visit" with the version in Gladstone's CBL in
> Color album, and they were EXACTLY the same. So there seems no need to
> look for a German edition of this story.
> DAVID: to which version did you compare this German version? Did the
> Black-and-white CBL print a version differing from the CBL in color?
The bw CBL and CBLIC have the same version of "Santa's Stormy
Visit," just for the record.
Daniel, you said there was a Dutch redrawn version, by Jippes
I'm assuming. This, I never knew. Now I conclude that the version in
the German edition must be the Dutch redrawn version, and Jippes
fooled me by being such a good artist. I couldn't tell that his
version wasn't by Barks, so thought that the sharper images and finer
lines in the German edition marked it as a more authentic version of
the original.
Doggone that Daan Jippes, with his perfection. ;-) ;-)
DON:
So they take 28-pagers at Egmont now! Hmmmm....
Thanks for telling us about your Avatar story! Also, do you
know if Egmont will publish your 10-page DD "An Eye for Detail" soon?
ROBERT:
A lot of Egmont stories are fairly dull, but I find that the
best ones are very, very enjoyable indeed, particularly when given a
good translation. For example, "A Witch in Crime" (US 238), "Con Job
for a Snob" (US 240), "Ill Met by Moonlight" (USA 9), "That's the
Ticket" (DD 265), "Break-in Breakdown" (US 230), and "In the Talons of
Wan Fu" (USA 21).
Some of the lesser Egmont stories, on the other hand, were
published in the first ten months of Disney Comics comics, and in the
first four months of Gladstone series II, IMHO. Maybe you're thinking
about those.
Re: Dutch stories, You can't be panning stories like Daan
Jippes' great 10-pagers! Can you? Say it ain't so! And I love Ben
Verhagen's adventure stories; they're all drawn well, and a good
number of them are written very memorably.
But if you want to argue, let's argue! What are some examples
of individual stories you disliked, and why didn't you like them?
After all, we can have a debate without descending into flames, and
such (as someone suggested might happen).
David Gerstein
<96dag at williams.edu>
> I compared ... xerox copies of the original giveaway comic containing
> Barks' "Santa's Stormy Visit" with the version in Gladstone's CBL in
> Color album, and they were EXACTLY the same. So there seems no need to
> look for a German edition of this story.
> DAVID: to which version did you compare this German version? Did the
> Black-and-white CBL print a version differing from the CBL in color?
The bw CBL and CBLIC have the same version of "Santa's Stormy
Visit," just for the record.
Daniel, you said there was a Dutch redrawn version, by Jippes
I'm assuming. This, I never knew. Now I conclude that the version in
the German edition must be the Dutch redrawn version, and Jippes
fooled me by being such a good artist. I couldn't tell that his
version wasn't by Barks, so thought that the sharper images and finer
lines in the German edition marked it as a more authentic version of
the original.
Doggone that Daan Jippes, with his perfection. ;-) ;-)
DON:
So they take 28-pagers at Egmont now! Hmmmm....
Thanks for telling us about your Avatar story! Also, do you
know if Egmont will publish your 10-page DD "An Eye for Detail" soon?
ROBERT:
A lot of Egmont stories are fairly dull, but I find that the
best ones are very, very enjoyable indeed, particularly when given a
good translation. For example, "A Witch in Crime" (US 238), "Con Job
for a Snob" (US 240), "Ill Met by Moonlight" (USA 9), "That's the
Ticket" (DD 265), "Break-in Breakdown" (US 230), and "In the Talons of
Wan Fu" (USA 21).
Some of the lesser Egmont stories, on the other hand, were
published in the first ten months of Disney Comics comics, and in the
first four months of Gladstone series II, IMHO. Maybe you're thinking
about those.
Re: Dutch stories, You can't be panning stories like Daan
Jippes' great 10-pagers! Can you? Say it ain't so! And I love Ben
Verhagen's adventure stories; they're all drawn well, and a good
number of them are written very memorably.
But if you want to argue, let's argue! What are some examples
of individual stories you disliked, and why didn't you like them?
After all, we can have a debate without descending into flames, and
such (as someone suggested might happen).
David Gerstein
<96dag at williams.edu>
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Again Santa's Stormy Visit
Message 239 -
1995-09-27 at 02:09:25
DAVID:
> The bw CBL and CBLIC have the same version of "Santa's Stormy
> Visit," just for the record.
No, they *haven't*! Tonight I was at Harry's house and we both
compared the xeroxes of the original give-away with the CBL in Color.
We concluded that there's *almost* no difference between them, only a
little few lines were a little bit different: This could mean that
the version in CBL in Color is a little restored, but ten they did it
that good that it's almost invisible!
At home I compared the same xeroxes with my B/W-CBL and I saw *lots*
of differences! The version in the B/W-CBL is at least heavily
restored (in a bad way, as usually).
So this is what I think of the publications:
* Firestone Giveaway '46:
Original version used.
* Carl Barks Library in B/W:
(Heavily) restored version used.
* Carl Barks Library in Color:
Original version used, with a few (almost invisible)
restorations.
> Daniel, you said there was a Dutch redrawn version, by Jippes
> I'm assuming. This, I never knew. Now I conclude that the version in
> the German edition must be the Dutch redrawn version, and Jippes
> fooled me by being such a good artist.
No, the Dutch version is *not* by Jippes. It's also not very well
redrawn, let's say it's like the redrawn "Darkest Africa". (The lines
look traced.)
> I couldn't tell that his version wasn't by Barks, so thought that
> the sharper images and finer lines in the German edition marked it
> as a more authentic version of the original.
Did you compare the German version with the CBL in Color by laying
them next to each other? If the German version would be the redrawn
Dutch version, then you should see some details in the CBL in Color
that are missing in the German version.
But you said that Germany used the Egmont version. The CBL in Color
also said that they did that, so maybe these versions are the same?
Greetings,
--- Daniel
> The bw CBL and CBLIC have the same version of "Santa's Stormy
> Visit," just for the record.
No, they *haven't*! Tonight I was at Harry's house and we both
compared the xeroxes of the original give-away with the CBL in Color.
We concluded that there's *almost* no difference between them, only a
little few lines were a little bit different: This could mean that
the version in CBL in Color is a little restored, but ten they did it
that good that it's almost invisible!
At home I compared the same xeroxes with my B/W-CBL and I saw *lots*
of differences! The version in the B/W-CBL is at least heavily
restored (in a bad way, as usually).
So this is what I think of the publications:
* Firestone Giveaway '46:
Original version used.
* Carl Barks Library in B/W:
(Heavily) restored version used.
* Carl Barks Library in Color:
Original version used, with a few (almost invisible)
restorations.
> Daniel, you said there was a Dutch redrawn version, by Jippes
> I'm assuming. This, I never knew. Now I conclude that the version in
> the German edition must be the Dutch redrawn version, and Jippes
> fooled me by being such a good artist.
No, the Dutch version is *not* by Jippes. It's also not very well
redrawn, let's say it's like the redrawn "Darkest Africa". (The lines
look traced.)
> I couldn't tell that his version wasn't by Barks, so thought that
> the sharper images and finer lines in the German edition marked it
> as a more authentic version of the original.
Did you compare the German version with the CBL in Color by laying
them next to each other? If the German version would be the redrawn
Dutch version, then you should see some details in the CBL in Color
that are missing in the German version.
But you said that Germany used the Egmont version. The CBL in Color
also said that they did that, so maybe these versions are the same?
Greetings,
--- Daniel
David A Gerstein
Disney-comics digest #797.
Message 240 -
1995-09-27 at 02:37:40
LUTZ (or anyone with a German connection):
I'd like to have a copy of the "Tempo" U$ gag for my Don Rosa
collection. Can someone send me one? In exchange, I can trade a
one-shot magazine published by Malcolm Willits, collecting about 25
Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse paintings. (I mentioned I needed this
item about two years ago... yes, it's the same thing, only now I have
a few extra copies of it.) Really good paintings, most of them.
DON:
Do you know where Gladstone is planning to use "The Universal
Solvent"? Must be pretty soon -- maybe in USA 37? (I have no proof,
I'm just guessing.)
David Gerstein
<96dag at williams.edu>
I'd like to have a copy of the "Tempo" U$ gag for my Don Rosa
collection. Can someone send me one? In exchange, I can trade a
one-shot magazine published by Malcolm Willits, collecting about 25
Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse paintings. (I mentioned I needed this
item about two years ago... yes, it's the same thing, only now I have
a few extra copies of it.) Really good paintings, most of them.
DON:
Do you know where Gladstone is planning to use "The Universal
Solvent"? Must be pretty soon -- maybe in USA 37? (I have no proof,
I'm just guessing.)
David Gerstein
<96dag at williams.edu>