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MELANIE:

ARTHUR:
"Something that I didn't get was, that they didn't print a
Barks-story in WDC#601. They printed everything, except a
Barks-story."
Gosh -- you want more Barks stories? Every issue of DONALD
AND MICKEY, and nearly every issue of DONALD DUCK, has a Barks
ten-page reprint in it. And this month, DDA also has a Barks
ten-pager (I'm not sure why; I don't think they're planning to use
any others there for now).
And WDG #6 will be US+DD reprinting "Hawaiian Hideaway," so no
need to get worried... you've got plenty of Barks coming. (It's been
7 years since "Hawaiian Hideaway" was reprinted, and in an album, not
a comic, so I'm not complaining.)
I'm glad that non-Barks Duck stories have been appearing in
DDA and WDC&S (and will also appear in WDG 5). In fact, I wish we
could have some new stuff in DD and DDM as well, because there are
many, many more good new foreign stories than Gladstone actually gets
around to using.

OTHER EUROPEAN STUFF:
What has Egmont published lately? I'm really wondering if
anyone keeps track of their non-Rosa, non-Van-Horn publications? I
particularly wonder if any of my stories have been used? (Can't help
it, I'm curious! ;-)
I'm a little concerned, by the way, about the impending German
Van Horn collections; the "60 JAHRE DD" album last year, which
claimed to feature Van Horn's work, instead printed two MAU HEYMANS
stories which it credited to Van Horn by putting his name on the first
panel! If that's how much Ehapa knows about Van Horn, we have cause
for some anxiety.

DANIEL:
"Might it be possible that "Back to the Klondike" had such an
impressive feel to it (regarding the impossible love subject) because
Barks made it during his divorce?"
Could be! Let's see, I'm in final exams now, loaded with
stress, and the current story I'm doing is of MM in a rigorous,
exhausting athletic competition against Muscles McGurk. I hope I
never get divorced though, so you won't have to see how that reflects
in my stories years from now. ;-)

David Gerstein
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HARRY

> Something seemed to be wrong with your address; my message to you
> bounced.

I get a lot of messages so I'm not sure what the problem may be. Anything on you side?

Regarding my first messages to the Digest I may have misremembered slightly what the
real problem was. However, I do believe that there's a strong Norwegian cultural
tendency to (over)use irony/puns and that this easily gets misunderstood. Even minor
differences in language and thought patterns may make it hard to understand the deep
and profund humour of all us happy light minded dancing Norwegians, desperate to
show how free we are from our purtitan past :-D.

I've later started to put in smileys to help with the understanding, though I sometimes feel
rather stupid when doing it as I imagine they kind of overstate the obvious .

> Is it a coincidence that this city was also the very first subject you brought up on this
> list? 8-)

No, I love Byzantinian curlture, not the least because its been an underdog in Western
European text books (either not mentioned or not mentioned very favorable). When I
went to The City myself in 1988 it was an experience of a life. And just think how the
vikings must have felt after having grown up in Birka or Bergen and then seeing the land
and sea walls of Constantinope, not to mention the churches, statues, palaces and
people. Talk about cultural shock! I mean, the whole city of Oslo in the 11. century was
not larger than the Imperial Palace! So I loved it when Don placed part of his
"Guardians" story in Constantinople and later also "Treasure of Croesus". I think that
one of Don's really strong sides is that he is so much touching my own pet subjects :-)

> I think the Turks explained to me that Red was supposed to be its original colour from
> the Byzantine period.

Hopefully the people responsible for the coloring for Gladstone will follow the Turks
example and restoring the colours to their original.

No, as I guess you guess, we do not have any day in Norway on which the children say
"Trick or Threat", neither in English nor in Norwegian :-). The local kindergarden did a
brave attempt this year to celebrate Halloween, however, I had to read several Barks
and one Rosa for my 5 year old daugther to give her an impression of what it was all
about.

BTW, its been a long time since Geir shared his experiences with us on reading
Barks for his kids, so perhaps its time to pick up the thread?

I've been reading children stories to my daugther for several years, however, comics
has been difficult as it involves so much pointing at who does the talking as well as need
for understanding of things between the panels. So she has very soon lost patience.
And this is a girl who manages to sit through the whole of (e.g.) "The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe", in fact so involved in the story that we had to read the chapter following
Aslan's death at once. So it was intriguing going from unsuccessfull readings of comics
in general (e.g. Tintin, Gammelpot, Bamse) to Barks and seeing the same fascination in
her as with "real literature" :-).

We've been sitting each evening the last weeks going through stories like "Ancient
Persia", "Mummy's Ring", "Terror of the River", "Queen of the Wild Dog Pack", "Island of
the Golden Geese" and "Island in the Sky". She particularly loved "Lost in the Andes"
and "The Pygmy Indians". In fact she loved the last one so much that I read her Don's
"War of the Wendigo" early this week and she loved that one too. She even has to have
the Barks books with her in bed, especially when the stories are on the terrifying side
(like yesterday's "Ghost of the Grotto").

I'm beginning to get the impression that there are a some quality both in Barks' and
Don's stories :-))

Bjo/rn Are

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Now at last a real ducky question! When did $crooge buy his glasses? We know
(from the money-well story) he did it in Glasgow; and Don (Lo$ #5) tells us
this was when he came back to Scotland AFTER his adventures on the
Mississippi (Lo$ #2). But when $crooge recalls his adventures on the river
("U$ goes to Disneyland", August 1957) he depicts himself as wearing glasses!
(Maybe it is just that $crooge couldn't recall well after so many years, huh?)

Merry Christmas, everybody!

Marco

(An addendum to MELANIE - but I would rather not stirr up a mess again!.
Does she know any of the adventures of $crooge with Brigitte McBridge? She
is a character I guess Melanie would like. Brigitte was created by Romano
Scarpa, BUT she does somehow exist in the Barks universe since Carl Barks
himself drew some sketches of Brigitte when he gave "as a gift" to Scarpa
the idea for a later story with that character!)

Marco Barlotti, Dept. of Math., University of Florence
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"Here's the first billion I've ever made - Down at the bottom of the pile,
where it's been for seventy years!" (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 130,
7/1951)

DON,

>Next I might need to do a cover or two for Egmont (to go
>with the "Avatar" thing)

Does this mean we are finally going to see your covers with your stories
every time? So far they've published only one of your covers in the Finnish
Aku Ankka weekly.

--
Henri Sivonen
(Email removed) Some pictures that I've made at:
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/html/english.html

Gary, about WDC&S 601:

> what gets me is the CONTINUED stories.
> I can't believe that with a large book like this, they have to try the old
> sucker-the-reader ploy with continuing two [3 actually - HF]
> stories until the next issue.

I think it's an effective way to introduce good stories to people that
wouldn't buy a comic for such a story alone. I mean, who would buy
a comic with only "The Sword in the Stone"? Or even "Blaggard Castle"?
(OK, David would, but I'm afraid he's an exception. 8-)
By putting Rosa as well as parts of those two stories together in
one issue makes people buy it for the Rosa, and then discover that the
other stories are actually good as well.
This selling technique works with at least one person: me. In the past,
I learned about really good stories that I wouldn't have bought if they
were alone in a comic.

--Harry.

Marco wrote:

> Brigitte was created by Romano
> Scarpa, BUT she does somehow exist in the Barks universe since Carl Barks
> himself drew some sketches of Brigitte when he gave "as a gift" to Scarpa
> the idea for a later story with that character!

*Some* sketches? I know of only one sketch. About perfume with a money scent.
A re-drawing of this sketch by Scarpa was published in one of Gladstone's
first run comics. I think I have a copy of the original Barks sketch,
as published in a French comic.

Were there more sketches? And did Scarpa use this gag or other Barks gags
in a story?

--Harry.

Wes:

I have that tie, and though it's a favourite where I work, I don't think
$crroge looks all that good. He's all stretched and squashed like he
appears in some of the Italian comics.

I didn't pay for it, it was a gift from a very kid person.

I have another $crooge tie that is quite nice. It actually has Barks
images of Uncle $crooge in various poses, all with money involved.
Sometimes he's charming a snake-like pile of coins, at others protecting
his cash bag. I don't see any license from Disney on the tie, so I
suspect it to be a boot-leg. It only cost 10 bucks!

--Dan