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I sent a new version of the Disney comics Database to Per. He will make it
publicly available (I hope).

A list of what you can find in the Database:

creators.legend
A file with all creators and their abbreviations. In [] some information
is added where to find work of the creator.

heroes.legend
A file with all heroes and their abbreviations. In [] some information is
added where to find a hero.

indexed-issues.legend
A list of the indexed issues in the Database. Currently, only American and
Dutch issues are listed.

indexers.legend
A list of people who indexed the data in the DcD.

The other files are in several subdirectories:

western
Files with information about the USA comics, published by
Western, under the Dell, Gold Key, and Whitman label.

gladstone-disney
Some of the most recent Gladstone issues have not been indexed yet.

netherlands
An updated version of the Dutch index. Information from 1990-present
and special books need an update; I'm working on that.

sweden
A totally new Swedish index by Lars Olsson, merged with the existing index
by Anders Engwall (and Kjell Crone). The merging process is not
completely done yet, so a lot of entries appear twice in the index.
Also, strange things like [hero:?] and [ser:CB(a)] can appear.
I'm working on this, but I didn't want to wait till I was finished
(this is taking a lot of time!)

denmark
A totally new Danish index by Ole Reichstein Nielsen, with a.o. a lot
of information about Italian stories.
There are a lot of things in this index that need to be cleaned up
(e.g. some unknown creator's codes are used). That'll have to wait till
the next version.

uk
A small British index.

creators
Files with cover and/or story indexes by the most important people
(in no particular order):
Barks, Jippes, Rosa, Van Horn, Lustig, Gerstein, Goria, Rawson, Gilbert,
Jonker, Rota, Verhagen, Heymans.

stories
Files with information grouped by "story code". For instance a list
of all Mickey Mouse newspaper stories (by Gottfredson and
others) in "ym.stories" (dailies), "ymgags.stories" and "zm.stories"
(sundays).

Especially the Italian file (i.stories) has grown considerably.
Also note the Rosa data in the German file (g.stories).

There are also a few directories with internal files and source files.
(The C-program sources have not been updated yet.)

Enjoy, and don't hesitate to give remarks or additions!
--Harry.

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Greetings,

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At risk of engendering another FLOOD of "unscribe"s, I'll answer the
lettering questions from the last 6 or 8 digests. Skip ahead if this doesn't
interest you.
Why would I want to do computer lettering at all? Several reasons: 1) I
like to try new things. 2) While it actually takes me longer to letter a
whole comics page on computer, it saves time for smaller jobs like titles,
cover blurbs and logos. 3) Some companies that do electronic coloring and
paste-ups are now requesting computer lettering, as it's easier for them to
work with. My feeling is that the computer is another tool to add to the
ones I have been using for many years. A very expensive, complicated tool,
but one that shows great promise. Of course, it can never replace
hand-lettering, and is only as good as the creativity and work you put into
it.

ARTHUR:

On your list of how it's done: I've used #1 & #3 , #2 isn't possible.
One company (Homage Studios) sends me scans of the artwork by modem, I do the
lettering on-screen over the scan, but on a separate layer, print out a copy
to see how it looks, fax it to the editor for corrections, he faxes back any
changes, I make the changes, then modem the lettering to the company. Hardly
any real paper involved! Of course, the artist has to draw and ink the
original art on paper.
I haven't seen any Gladstone stories using computer lettering except for
the recent ones using "Whiz-Bang" as described in an earlier digest. If you'd
like to see an example of good computer lettering, look for any American
stories lettered by Richard Starkings/Comicraft. He is on the cutting edge of
this new process.

Harry> I sent a new version of the Disney comics Database to Per. He
Harry> will make it publicly available (I hope).

Yep, it's there now, at the ftp server ftp.update.uu.se in the
directory pub/comics/disney/index.

(There's a link to it from the WWW pages on Disney comics, so all you
WWW people need to remember is the URL of the top of the Disney comics
pages:

http://www.update.uu.se/(J~(Bstarback/disney-comics

Or better yet, let your computer remember it for you.

Other news there: I've added links to Jacob Sparre's page on Disney
and David's list on the current Gladstones.

Frank Stajano wrote:
Frank> I'm glad you liked my Scarpa periods guide. I too would like to see
Frank> it on the Web, where it belongs, together with lots more stuff I
Frank> always plan to write. Promises, promises...

OK, there is now a new page on Scarpa with your breakdown of his
periods. I haven't html-ized it, so it's just the plain text, but
anyway. There are lots of other texts that have been sent to this
list which I ought to put there as well. Does anyone have any
specific suggestions? The problem with most texts sent to the list is
that they are part of an ongoing discussion. Well, there's nothing
wrong with that, but it makes it hard to just cut something about
and put on the Web without some editing. I'd like informational texts
on any creators of and characters in Disney comics there, so come on
everyone!

By the way, check out http://www.polar7.com/cc where there's a
crossword on Disney films where one of the clues is a link to the
Disney comics pages!
-- "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

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