> Date sent: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:32:17 -0700
> From: (Email removed)
> To: (Email removed)
> Subject: Re: pocahontas
> Copies to: (Email removed)
> Squertermous saith:
> >
> > I am have been practicing to draw for almost eight years now, and I
> > am able to draw the ninja turtles like they look on cartoons. I also
> > am able to draw Wolverine and Gambit from the X-MAN. I have been
> > wondering how do your artists at your studio draw Pocahontas? Could
> > you send a list of your artists who were responsible for drawing this
> > character.
> >
> Uh, Shaun...there's one thing you've got to understand. This is a
> mailing list for fans of Disney comic books. It is not, repeat, not,
> an official part of the Disney organization. With any luck at all,
> the Walt Disney Company doesn't even know this group exists. Some of
> us here are artists and writers who work on a freelance basis for
> Disney's licensees, but that's as "official" as it gets. If you're
> trying to get a job with Disney out of this, this ain't the place to
> be...except in a general sense of following the discussions and learning
> about Disney comics and the Disney company overall, so that when you
> do apply for work at the Mouse Factory, you'll have some background
> knowledge of how things are and why they got that way.
>
> As for drawing Pocahontas...I have no idea why you want a list of the
> artists responsible for drawing this character, but you might go see
> the movie again and check the end credits. There's probably a list of
> the key personnel who worked on the animation for each major character.
> As for how to draw Pocahontas, in the tidal wave of merchandise that
> came with the movie, there must be a "How to Draw Pocahontas" book in
> there somewhere. Failing that, you might pick up things like the Pocahontas
> coloring book, the comic book adaptation of the movie, story books, etc.,
> and just study the character design in the illustrations, and try to figure
> out how and why she was put together the way she is. How many multiples
> of her own head tall is she? What basic shapes were used to form her body?
> The studio would have used model sheets with such information, but you
> can dope it out on your own.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> --Dwight Decker
I'm 14 years old you're a monkey spanking mamas boy. So, shut up!>
Author
Topic: 199601
(219 messages)
Dind Dong The Witch Is Dead
pocahontas
Message 151 -
1996-01-24 at 06:10:30
Augie De Blieck Jr
Disney comics Digest V96 #20
Message 152 -
1996-01-24 at 07:14:51
MIKKO:
Nope, those numbers are correct as they were posted. I saw them, too.
However, Gladstone is not distributed solely through Diamond. We'd need
to know how many copies Capital sold and any other distributors, as
well. Also, don't forget the subscribers.
JAMES:
Duck Daze is a disaster. I've even read where some of the people
behind-the-scenes aren't so sure of the show. They weren't quite sure
where to go with it. Humor? Action? Still unknown. One person even
hinted that they didn't think it would be done for the fall. (It
probably will, but its messing around with HDL already labels it a
disaster in my book.)
Let's hope this one stinks even worse than Bonkers so we can get it off
the TV as soon as possible.
-Augie
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Augie De Blieck Jr. - "An army of ninjas versus a Mortal Kombat player
(Email removed) - who think Emperor Shakhan is an orangutan."
(Email removed) - "Bet on the boy." -Impulse #11 [Mark Waid]
Nope, those numbers are correct as they were posted. I saw them, too.
However, Gladstone is not distributed solely through Diamond. We'd need
to know how many copies Capital sold and any other distributors, as
well. Also, don't forget the subscribers.
JAMES:
Duck Daze is a disaster. I've even read where some of the people
behind-the-scenes aren't so sure of the show. They weren't quite sure
where to go with it. Humor? Action? Still unknown. One person even
hinted that they didn't think it would be done for the fall. (It
probably will, but its messing around with HDL already labels it a
disaster in my book.)
Let's hope this one stinks even worse than Bonkers so we can get it off
the TV as soon as possible.
-Augie
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Augie De Blieck Jr. - "An army of ninjas versus a Mortal Kombat player
(Email removed) - who think Emperor Shakhan is an orangutan."
(Email removed) - "Bet on the boy." -Impulse #11 [Mark Waid]
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #20
Message 153 -
1996-01-24 at 14:45:00
DAVID:
That DUCKHUNTER magazine is not so new -- I received a copy about a
year ago, at least. But it's put out by Pat Hanifin who is an old friend,
and between him and another contributor, Wes Plumtree (another Duck-pal),
they truly have some amazing Uncle $crooge items, and they write about them
in that magazine. In America, we don't see many non-DuckTales,
non-Mickey's-Xmas Carol, non-Uncle-$crooge-and-Money Uncle $crooge toys or
items. In other words, not much of the real thing. But with their
Duckhunting on a worldwide basis, and with their travels to many toy shows
(where Uncle $crooge items often go unwanted since the "Disneyana
collectibles" people don't recognize them), Pat and Wes have found some
amazing $crooge items. Now... is that worth $11 to you to read about? You
might not even collect Duck figurines like I do... so maybe not.
As for the interview with me that's in there -- I don't know what I
might have said that I haven't already said here. And anything I haven't
said here you can ask me anytime. But that interview is...oh, now I can't
recall... it's either the same as the one featured in OVERSTREET'S GOLD AND
SILVER magazine last year, or it's expanded from that'n. (Writer - Michael
Naiman.) If you were a Duck collector and you didn't have me at your beck
and call once a day, I'd say you might like DUCKHUNTERS for $11. But
otherwise... I dunno... but I'd sure like to see Pat do well enough to
publish a second issue, so I hope people buy more copies.
JAMES:
NOT TO WORRY! Nothing on "DuckTales" ever had any lasting effect on
the Duck comics. It came and went. And it certainly was less a departure
from "reality" than "Duckdaze" promises to be, with these high-school-age
slightly-punk nephews. Nothing will change in the Duck comics.
VIDAR:
You're right. If I SAY that $crooge will never keep a treasure, I'm
spoiling the endings of all my stories yet-to-be, eh? Well, there's a
relatively negligible number of people on this List... so mum's de woid.
You never know -- I might someday violate that "law". You notice how
seriously I take my Duck Universe... making the history and geography of the
Duck Universe the same as the ACTUAL history and geography of the world,
without using any goofy made-up names for people or places. Yet I'll still
put an occasional impossible something going on in the background clutter of
my stories. And you noticed the impossible trophy $crooge had in his trophy
room in Gladstone's "Lo$" chapter XII? My laws might be somewhat like what
Roger Rabbit said in one scene (and I don't bring Roger Rabbit up because I
think of him as a Disney character, which I DON'T... but he's the one who
said this) -- recall that he couldn't take his arm out of those handcuffs
until doing so was FUNNY. Same with me -- I will absolutely, positively,
NEVER violate my firm laws of the Duck Universe, ever ever
ever.............. until doing so is funny.
That DUCKHUNTER magazine is not so new -- I received a copy about a
year ago, at least. But it's put out by Pat Hanifin who is an old friend,
and between him and another contributor, Wes Plumtree (another Duck-pal),
they truly have some amazing Uncle $crooge items, and they write about them
in that magazine. In America, we don't see many non-DuckTales,
non-Mickey's-Xmas Carol, non-Uncle-$crooge-and-Money Uncle $crooge toys or
items. In other words, not much of the real thing. But with their
Duckhunting on a worldwide basis, and with their travels to many toy shows
(where Uncle $crooge items often go unwanted since the "Disneyana
collectibles" people don't recognize them), Pat and Wes have found some
amazing $crooge items. Now... is that worth $11 to you to read about? You
might not even collect Duck figurines like I do... so maybe not.
As for the interview with me that's in there -- I don't know what I
might have said that I haven't already said here. And anything I haven't
said here you can ask me anytime. But that interview is...oh, now I can't
recall... it's either the same as the one featured in OVERSTREET'S GOLD AND
SILVER magazine last year, or it's expanded from that'n. (Writer - Michael
Naiman.) If you were a Duck collector and you didn't have me at your beck
and call once a day, I'd say you might like DUCKHUNTERS for $11. But
otherwise... I dunno... but I'd sure like to see Pat do well enough to
publish a second issue, so I hope people buy more copies.
JAMES:
NOT TO WORRY! Nothing on "DuckTales" ever had any lasting effect on
the Duck comics. It came and went. And it certainly was less a departure
from "reality" than "Duckdaze" promises to be, with these high-school-age
slightly-punk nephews. Nothing will change in the Duck comics.
VIDAR:
You're right. If I SAY that $crooge will never keep a treasure, I'm
spoiling the endings of all my stories yet-to-be, eh? Well, there's a
relatively negligible number of people on this List... so mum's de woid.
You never know -- I might someday violate that "law". You notice how
seriously I take my Duck Universe... making the history and geography of the
Duck Universe the same as the ACTUAL history and geography of the world,
without using any goofy made-up names for people or places. Yet I'll still
put an occasional impossible something going on in the background clutter of
my stories. And you noticed the impossible trophy $crooge had in his trophy
room in Gladstone's "Lo$" chapter XII? My laws might be somewhat like what
Roger Rabbit said in one scene (and I don't bring Roger Rabbit up because I
think of him as a Disney character, which I DON'T... but he's the one who
said this) -- recall that he couldn't take his arm out of those handcuffs
until doing so was FUNNY. Same with me -- I will absolutely, positively,
NEVER violate my firm laws of the Duck Universe, ever ever
ever.............. until doing so is funny.
INET62
(No subject)
Message 154 -
1996-01-24 at 20:38:07
list
David A Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V96 #20
Message 155 -
1996-01-25 at 00:22:36
HARRY (and everyone):
Egmont weekly 6/1996 will include my Donald 12-pager "Donald
Duck's Double-Dealt Deal." I don't know if you have access to the
Egmont issues, Harry, but you don't want this one, because it's a
story of DD in conflict with animals. ;-)
This is the story which began as a Hard-Haid Moe story until
Vicar wanted to make the hillbilly into someone else. We'll see what
names the "revised" hillbilly (whom I named Abbott McGoon) will get in
foreign countries. When I use Moe again (later this year), I'll do
all that's in my power to make sure he STAYS Moe.
Egmont writers aren't allowed to use Fethry now, BTW. He was
to have been in my next story, but Byron didn't want him there. Sure;
that's up to Byron, of course. I've written a few stories for Pat
Block at Gladstone (yet to be drawn), and maybe I'll do another one
for him, with Fethry, one time.
JOHN L.:
Don't mean to beat a dead horse but... although that was a
fine letter you wrote yesterday, you didn't mention any of the new
stories you had recently done!
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Egmont weekly 6/1996 will include my Donald 12-pager "Donald
Duck's Double-Dealt Deal." I don't know if you have access to the
Egmont issues, Harry, but you don't want this one, because it's a
story of DD in conflict with animals. ;-)
This is the story which began as a Hard-Haid Moe story until
Vicar wanted to make the hillbilly into someone else. We'll see what
names the "revised" hillbilly (whom I named Abbott McGoon) will get in
foreign countries. When I use Moe again (later this year), I'll do
all that's in my power to make sure he STAYS Moe.
Egmont writers aren't allowed to use Fethry now, BTW. He was
to have been in my next story, but Byron didn't want him there. Sure;
that's up to Byron, of course. I've written a few stories for Pat
Block at Gladstone (yet to be drawn), and maybe I'll do another one
for him, with Fethry, one time.
JOHN L.:
Don't mean to beat a dead horse but... although that was a
fine letter you wrote yesterday, you didn't mention any of the new
stories you had recently done!
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Augie De Blieck Jr
DuckDaze on the Web ::sigh::
Message 156 -
1996-01-25 at 06:09:35
For those of you who are curious about the bastardization of HDL as
propogated by the evil masterminds at Disney Afternoon Television, you
can now download a .gif file of Donald, Daisy, and the redesigned nephews.
It is at
http://www.disney.com/DisneyTelevision/DuckDaze/DuckDazeG.html
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
-Augie
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Augie De Blieck Jr. - "An army of ninjas versus a Mortal Kombat player
(Email removed) - who think Emperor Shakhan is an orangutan."
(Email removed) - "Bet on the boy." -Impulse #11 [Mark Waid]
propogated by the evil masterminds at Disney Afternoon Television, you
can now download a .gif file of Donald, Daisy, and the redesigned nephews.
It is at
http://www.disney.com/DisneyTelevision/DuckDaze/DuckDazeG.html
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
-Augie
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Augie De Blieck Jr. - "An army of ninjas versus a Mortal Kombat player
(Email removed) - who think Emperor Shakhan is an orangutan."
(Email removed) - "Bet on the boy." -Impulse #11 [Mark Waid]
Augie De Blieck Jr
Happy Birthdays!
Message 157 -
1996-01-25 at 07:24:29
My trusty CBG week-at-a-glance calendar tells me that today (Thursday) is
John Lustig's birthday! Happy birthday!
And also that tomorrow is Dwight Decker's day o' birth. And a happy and
healthy birthday to you, too, Dwight!
Dwight is one year older than John, for what it's worth.
-Augie
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Augie De Blieck Jr. - "An army of ninjas versus a Mortal Kombat player
(Email removed) - who think Emperor Shakhan is an orangutan."
(Email removed) - "Bet on the boy." -Impulse #11 [Mark Waid]
--------------------------------
End of dcomics Digest V96 Issue #21
***********************************
John Lustig's birthday! Happy birthday!
And also that tomorrow is Dwight Decker's day o' birth. And a happy and
healthy birthday to you, too, Dwight!
Dwight is one year older than John, for what it's worth.
-Augie
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Augie De Blieck Jr. - "An army of ninjas versus a Mortal Kombat player
(Email removed) - who think Emperor Shakhan is an orangutan."
(Email removed) - "Bet on the boy." -Impulse #11 [Mark Waid]
--------------------------------
End of dcomics Digest V96 Issue #21
***********************************
MASSENGALE MELANIE O
Pocahandsonus
Message 158 -
1996-01-25 at 08:22:12
On Thu, 25 Jan 1996 (Email removed) wrote:
> I'm 14 years old you're a monkey spanking mamas boy. So, shut up!>
Hey, you! This is a "family-oriented" mailing list, and you don't want to
give HDL any nonJrWoodchuck, Robert Crumb derived, let alone offtopic ideas ;-D
Piously,
Melanie
> I'm 14 years old you're a monkey spanking mamas boy. So, shut up!>
Hey, you! This is a "family-oriented" mailing list, and you don't want to
give HDL any nonJrWoodchuck, Robert Crumb derived, let alone offtopic ideas ;-D
Piously,
Melanie
Henri Sivonen
Disney comics Digest V96 #20
Message 159 -
1996-01-25 at 14:39:34
John,
>vocabulary and phrases were simplified to an
>alarming degree.
Do they have any reason for this kind of sabotage? I thought I could
subscribe to some British variation of the DD magazine. I don't if this is
how they "edit" the stories.
Mike P,
> Don Rosa's Hearts in the Yukon came out today in Finland, too.
The Egmont coloring was a disappointment (as always). There's something
good, too! This time they've translated the names correctly!!! (unlike some
names in the Lo$)
--
Henri Sivonen
(Email removed) WWW:
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris
>vocabulary and phrases were simplified to an
>alarming degree.
Do they have any reason for this kind of sabotage? I thought I could
subscribe to some British variation of the DD magazine. I don't if this is
how they "edit" the stories.
Mike P,
> Don Rosa's Hearts in the Yukon came out today in Finland, too.
The Egmont coloring was a disappointment (as always). There's something
good, too! This time they've translated the names correctly!!! (unlike some
names in the Lo$)
--
Henri Sivonen
(Email removed) WWW:
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #21
Message 160 -
1996-01-25 at 14:58:00
PER:
Now seems the time to ask this... Just out of curiosity -- over on
Compuserve, we see such ill-behaved children as just popped up here
permanently barred from newsgroups and forums. Do you have that capability
(until, of course, they reappear with a different address)? It's nice to
think we never needed it up till now.
Now seems the time to ask this... Just out of curiosity -- over on
Compuserve, we see such ill-behaved children as just popped up here
permanently barred from newsgroups and forums. Do you have that capability
(until, of course, they reappear with a different address)? It's nice to
think we never needed it up till now.
Deckerd
Happy Birthdays!
Message 161 -
1996-01-25 at 17:39:14
On Jan 25, 12:24am, Augie De Blieck Jr wrote:
> Subject: Happy Birthdays!
> My trusty CBG week-at-a-glance calendar tells me tomorrow is
> Dwight Decker's day o' birth. And a happy and
> healthy birthday to you, too, Dwight!
>
Thanks, Augie! Several people who know me have commented
about seeing the birthday listing in CBG, so I guess it's
no use dabbing on the Grecian Formula and fibbing about my
age. That's one thing I like about Disney comics, though:
age isn't a factor for enjoying them or making them. Marvel
and Image and DC-type comics seem to be a young man's game,
but when the most revered practitioner of the Disney comics
artform is about to turn 95, there's hope for the rest of us
who are 50-odd years younger!
--Dwight Decker
> Subject: Happy Birthdays!
> My trusty CBG week-at-a-glance calendar tells me tomorrow is
> Dwight Decker's day o' birth. And a happy and
> healthy birthday to you, too, Dwight!
>
Thanks, Augie! Several people who know me have commented
about seeing the birthday listing in CBG, so I guess it's
no use dabbing on the Grecian Formula and fibbing about my
age. That's one thing I like about Disney comics, though:
age isn't a factor for enjoying them or making them. Marvel
and Image and DC-type comics seem to be a young man's game,
but when the most revered practitioner of the Disney comics
artform is about to turn 95, there's hope for the rest of us
who are 50-odd years younger!
--Dwight Decker
Donald D. Markstein
Junkville Journal
Message 162 -
1996-01-25 at 17:45:21
DAVID GERSTEIN:
This welcome note from M.B. Bugge
Has left me feeling rather smug.
(Or is his name pronounced as "Bugge"?
(What rhymes with "bugge"? "Sluggy"? "Muggy"?))
In any case, this welcome's neat --
A rhyming one is no mean feat!
I wonder, tho, whence comes the name?
The 1930s strip? The same
Has not in "C&S" been found.
I've searched in detail, 'round and 'round.
It isn't practical, for it
In meter's not a cinch to fit!
I love writing in meter and rhyme. It takes longer than is economically
feasible most of the time, but it's a lot of fun. I'm currently working on an
Uncle Scrooge story for Gladstone, which contains a large block of dialog
beginning "When I was a lad I spent my time shining miners' shoes for only one
thin dime. I cleaned the heel and I scrubbed the toe and I scraped off all the
mud that had encrusted so. I scraped off so much dirt and muck that now I am the
universe's richest duck."
The whole story will be packed with stuff like that. It contains a
character named "Heron Mallard Swan Pinfeather". Guess what the title of the
story is.
DON ROSA:
As I recall, you also allowed Scrooge to retain ownership of the treasure
in your first story... The only problem you gave him was access to it.
"What took you so long to get here?"
Inertia. I can be very inert.
"Please stay!"
Now that I'm on the track, inertia will keep me here. Thanx.
What're we, a bunch of Marvel Zombie Continuity Freaks? You and I have
already agreed that your interpretation of Calisota Chronology, i.e., that
Scrooge's "contemporary" adventures take place mostly in the 1950s, does not
conflict with mine, that they can continue right up to the present, with nobody,
even the nephews, getting older, and if there's GOT to be an explanation for it,
their 1959 encounter with the Fountain of Youth will do quite nicely. So, if we
can accommodate that, why are you and David going back and forth about getting
signals crossed on the Croesus treasure business?
I'm perfectly willing to accept the idea that, seen from one angle,
Scrooge has that treasure; whereas, seen from another, he failed in the end to
obtain it. He's a many-faceted, or in this case, many-angled kind of guy.
If others see an apparent contradiction in this, that's okay too. But I
don't doubt that there are Deeper Levels Of Truth, less literal ones than the
kind perceived by Marvel-style continuity cops, in which there is no
contradiction at all. Reference to past stories is loads of fun, but it's also
fun to drive the continuity freaks to distraction.
There's a scene in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, where somebody utters a pearl of
wisdom, to which Tevye agrees. Somebody else utters a contradictory pearl of
wisdom, to which Tevye also agrees. A third character takes Tevye to task for
agreeing to two mutually contradictory things at the same time, and Tevye agrees
with him, too.
JOHN LUSTIG:
I refer to the re-scripting work as "translating from English to
American". (Example: in "The Man from Oola-Oola", something to the effect of
"I've learned charm from this book" became "After reading this, I can charm the
socks off the president's cat") I guess you, writing in American, fell afoul of
a poor translation from American into English.
It sometimes amazes me how bland and dull the dialog can be in the
British editions. I count Barks as a prime influence on my own prose style, but
some of those guys read like they never heard of him.
Indeed yes, knowing how the characters "properly" talk makes a
difference. I've read Barks over and over myself -- most recently, aloud to my
children -- and when I put words into Scrooge's mouth, I can almost feel him
looking over my shoulder. I've re-scripted one Mickey Mouse story, and I just
couldn't seem to make him use such colorful phrases as Scrooge. Goshwow, I
wonder why?
And it is certainly not true that Americans have a tradition of not
writing boring comics stories. American Disney writers, perhaps -- but look at
Marvel.
Quack, Don
(Email removed)
This welcome note from M.B. Bugge
Has left me feeling rather smug.
(Or is his name pronounced as "Bugge"?
(What rhymes with "bugge"? "Sluggy"? "Muggy"?))
In any case, this welcome's neat --
A rhyming one is no mean feat!
I wonder, tho, whence comes the name?
The 1930s strip? The same
Has not in "C&S" been found.
I've searched in detail, 'round and 'round.
It isn't practical, for it
In meter's not a cinch to fit!
I love writing in meter and rhyme. It takes longer than is economically
feasible most of the time, but it's a lot of fun. I'm currently working on an
Uncle Scrooge story for Gladstone, which contains a large block of dialog
beginning "When I was a lad I spent my time shining miners' shoes for only one
thin dime. I cleaned the heel and I scrubbed the toe and I scraped off all the
mud that had encrusted so. I scraped off so much dirt and muck that now I am the
universe's richest duck."
The whole story will be packed with stuff like that. It contains a
character named "Heron Mallard Swan Pinfeather". Guess what the title of the
story is.
DON ROSA:
As I recall, you also allowed Scrooge to retain ownership of the treasure
in your first story... The only problem you gave him was access to it.
"What took you so long to get here?"
Inertia. I can be very inert.
"Please stay!"
Now that I'm on the track, inertia will keep me here. Thanx.
What're we, a bunch of Marvel Zombie Continuity Freaks? You and I have
already agreed that your interpretation of Calisota Chronology, i.e., that
Scrooge's "contemporary" adventures take place mostly in the 1950s, does not
conflict with mine, that they can continue right up to the present, with nobody,
even the nephews, getting older, and if there's GOT to be an explanation for it,
their 1959 encounter with the Fountain of Youth will do quite nicely. So, if we
can accommodate that, why are you and David going back and forth about getting
signals crossed on the Croesus treasure business?
I'm perfectly willing to accept the idea that, seen from one angle,
Scrooge has that treasure; whereas, seen from another, he failed in the end to
obtain it. He's a many-faceted, or in this case, many-angled kind of guy.
If others see an apparent contradiction in this, that's okay too. But I
don't doubt that there are Deeper Levels Of Truth, less literal ones than the
kind perceived by Marvel-style continuity cops, in which there is no
contradiction at all. Reference to past stories is loads of fun, but it's also
fun to drive the continuity freaks to distraction.
There's a scene in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, where somebody utters a pearl of
wisdom, to which Tevye agrees. Somebody else utters a contradictory pearl of
wisdom, to which Tevye also agrees. A third character takes Tevye to task for
agreeing to two mutually contradictory things at the same time, and Tevye agrees
with him, too.
JOHN LUSTIG:
I refer to the re-scripting work as "translating from English to
American". (Example: in "The Man from Oola-Oola", something to the effect of
"I've learned charm from this book" became "After reading this, I can charm the
socks off the president's cat") I guess you, writing in American, fell afoul of
a poor translation from American into English.
It sometimes amazes me how bland and dull the dialog can be in the
British editions. I count Barks as a prime influence on my own prose style, but
some of those guys read like they never heard of him.
Indeed yes, knowing how the characters "properly" talk makes a
difference. I've read Barks over and over myself -- most recently, aloud to my
children -- and when I put words into Scrooge's mouth, I can almost feel him
looking over my shoulder. I've re-scripted one Mickey Mouse story, and I just
couldn't seem to make him use such colorful phrases as Scrooge. Goshwow, I
wonder why?
And it is certainly not true that Americans have a tradition of not
writing boring comics stories. American Disney writers, perhaps -- but look at
Marvel.
Quack, Don
(Email removed)
Cdoberman
Scarpa
Message 163 -
1996-01-25 at 20:40:31
Last night, I read "Colossus of the Nile" Part 1, and it's the best Scarpa
story I've read. Generally, I've had trouble reading Scarpa stories because
the plots have felt a bit disjointed to me -- "Lentils of Babylon" is a case
in point. So many readers on this list seem to think "Lentils" is such a
terrific story, but I found it confusing and unclear. How much of this is
Scarpa, and how much of this is due to the translation, I wonder. But I'm
happy to be enjoying "Colossus" because I really do like Scarpa's art. His
characters have a wonderful sense of expression. While his art does not
necessarily flow from frame to frame as well as Rosa's or Barks's, taken
individually, his panels are always fun to see.
-- Wes
"But, Mickey! It's SUICIDE! We'll be KILLED! How'll we ever land without
wheels?" -- Captain Doberman
story I've read. Generally, I've had trouble reading Scarpa stories because
the plots have felt a bit disjointed to me -- "Lentils of Babylon" is a case
in point. So many readers on this list seem to think "Lentils" is such a
terrific story, but I found it confusing and unclear. How much of this is
Scarpa, and how much of this is due to the translation, I wonder. But I'm
happy to be enjoying "Colossus" because I really do like Scarpa's art. His
characters have a wonderful sense of expression. While his art does not
necessarily flow from frame to frame as well as Rosa's or Barks's, taken
individually, his panels are always fun to see.
-- Wes
"But, Mickey! It's SUICIDE! We'll be KILLED! How'll we ever land without
wheels?" -- Captain Doberman
CASE6402_at_^STUDENT
What do you have?
Message 164 -
1996-01-25 at 22:33:57
Hi there! My name is Casey. I'm an art major at Georgian
Court College in Lakewood, New Jersey. GCC is an all girls
school. Anyway, what sort of comics do you have?
By the way...if I could be a cartoon it would be Sylvester
and I would get Tweety bird once and for all.
Write me at:
(Email removed)
Court College in Lakewood, New Jersey. GCC is an all girls
school. Anyway, what sort of comics do you have?
By the way...if I could be a cartoon it would be Sylvester
and I would get Tweety bird once and for all.
Write me at:
(Email removed)
David A Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V96 #21
Message 165 -
1996-01-25 at 23:41:48
AUGIE:
Have you seen the Duck Daze illustrations at www.disney.com?
On one of them (a rougher ink drawing), Donald has lost the white
space behind his eyes -- they're right against each other, like Plucky
Duck's (in TINY TOON ADVENTURES).
Donald's standard outfit for the show appears to be that
Hawaiian shirt he wore in a lot of Disney Comics Inc. publicity
artwork c. 1991. He also wore it in a few old "Wonderful World of
Disney" segments. So it has precedent, although I really prefer his
more normal outfit.
Daisy hasn't changed much, although she wears her hair
differently (it's on top of her head, rather than sticking up in
back).
HDL look VERY much like Plucky Duck, and the attempt to give
them messy "teenage" hairstyles looks IMHO very weird when we're
dealing with feathers. One of them in the "smoother," more finished
drawing, has a very normal, cheerful expression (aside from the hair,
he looks normal), but the other two have very "cool" Pluckyesque
expressions.
There are apparently only 35 episodes of this show for this
season, by the way.
I don't really know what to say. IMHO the show looks
disappointing. Who knows, maybe some writers have, the concept
notwithstanding, done a very good batch of characterization and other
such stuff, in which case despite their appearances, the characters
will be okay. But if it fails (as I suspect such a drastic revision
of Donald Duck will), then will Disney -- at least in this country --
decide that Donald isn't worth promoting? Really, if it fails, all
that it will show is that this "New" Duckburg isn't a success. It
won't say anything about the classic Barks-era versions of the
characters (who only aren't more popular now because the cartoons and
comics aren't very widely available here).
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Have you seen the Duck Daze illustrations at www.disney.com?
On one of them (a rougher ink drawing), Donald has lost the white
space behind his eyes -- they're right against each other, like Plucky
Duck's (in TINY TOON ADVENTURES).
Donald's standard outfit for the show appears to be that
Hawaiian shirt he wore in a lot of Disney Comics Inc. publicity
artwork c. 1991. He also wore it in a few old "Wonderful World of
Disney" segments. So it has precedent, although I really prefer his
more normal outfit.
Daisy hasn't changed much, although she wears her hair
differently (it's on top of her head, rather than sticking up in
back).
HDL look VERY much like Plucky Duck, and the attempt to give
them messy "teenage" hairstyles looks IMHO very weird when we're
dealing with feathers. One of them in the "smoother," more finished
drawing, has a very normal, cheerful expression (aside from the hair,
he looks normal), but the other two have very "cool" Pluckyesque
expressions.
There are apparently only 35 episodes of this show for this
season, by the way.
I don't really know what to say. IMHO the show looks
disappointing. Who knows, maybe some writers have, the concept
notwithstanding, done a very good batch of characterization and other
such stuff, in which case despite their appearances, the characters
will be okay. But if it fails (as I suspect such a drastic revision
of Donald Duck will), then will Disney -- at least in this country --
decide that Donald isn't worth promoting? Really, if it fails, all
that it will show is that this "New" Duckburg isn't a success. It
won't say anything about the classic Barks-era versions of the
characters (who only aren't more popular now because the cartoons and
comics aren't very widely available here).
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>