There is now a new version of the Disney comics Database on the ftp
server!
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You will be able to find it from the URL
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Per Starback
New version of Disney comics Database!
Message 181 -
1996-01-27 at 01:02:49
TKlein28
H.M.S. Pinfeather
Message 182 -
1996-01-27 at 01:44:53
DON M.:
As a long-time Gilbert & Sullivan fan, I was delighted to hear about your
story. Hope we get to see it. What parts did you place the Ducks in? I think,
actually, it would be fun to see them play their own version of G&S as
actors, along the lines of Mickey's Christmas Carol (but better), something
that would be quite feasible, since the plays are now in public domain, I
believe. I think there are enough Duckburg characters to make it work for
most of the plays, except maybe The Gondoliers. (Merely a corroborative
detail designed to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and
unconvincing narrative.)
Todd
As a long-time Gilbert & Sullivan fan, I was delighted to hear about your
story. Hope we get to see it. What parts did you place the Ducks in? I think,
actually, it would be fun to see them play their own version of G&S as
actors, along the lines of Mickey's Christmas Carol (but better), something
that would be quite feasible, since the plays are now in public domain, I
believe. I think there are enough Duckburg characters to make it work for
most of the plays, except maybe The Gondoliers. (Merely a corroborative
detail designed to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and
unconvincing narrative.)
Todd
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Jippes/Heijmans working on Barks' scripts
Message 183 -
1996-01-27 at 02:29:52
HARRY:
About Mau Heijmans re-inking a Woodchuck-script:
> Mau got a letter from Barks last week, with his compliments about the
> great artwork, and Barks hoped Mau would do more of his stories.
> I'm very curious what the redrawn story looks like...
I'd also like to see the results, because I don't know if I should be
happy or not with hearing this news. That Barks complimented Heijmans
says nothing to me, because he also complimented William van Horn with
the "Horsing Around" story, which didn't look that good to me.
(Although it could of course be a lot worser.)
Of course Heijmans' style looks a lot like Barks' style, but after
seeing all that great work by Jippes, everything else could be a big
disappointment. (Let's hope I'm wrong with this.)
> Jippes is currently working on the redrawing of "Officer for a day"
> (a script-only Barks Donald Duck story). Maybe we will see this
> before the end of the year...
Very nice to hear that another Barks-script is going to be re-inked
by Jippes. I hope that Jippes also will ink Barks' original (rejected)
cover-idea of "Officer for a Day". Maybe you can find out more about
this, Harry?
Greetings,
--- Daniel
About Mau Heijmans re-inking a Woodchuck-script:
> Mau got a letter from Barks last week, with his compliments about the
> great artwork, and Barks hoped Mau would do more of his stories.
> I'm very curious what the redrawn story looks like...
I'd also like to see the results, because I don't know if I should be
happy or not with hearing this news. That Barks complimented Heijmans
says nothing to me, because he also complimented William van Horn with
the "Horsing Around" story, which didn't look that good to me.
(Although it could of course be a lot worser.)
Of course Heijmans' style looks a lot like Barks' style, but after
seeing all that great work by Jippes, everything else could be a big
disappointment. (Let's hope I'm wrong with this.)
> Jippes is currently working on the redrawing of "Officer for a day"
> (a script-only Barks Donald Duck story). Maybe we will see this
> before the end of the year...
Very nice to hear that another Barks-script is going to be re-inked
by Jippes. I hope that Jippes also will ink Barks' original (rejected)
cover-idea of "Officer for a Day". Maybe you can find out more about
this, Harry?
Greetings,
--- Daniel
JALustig
Birthdays & a Welcome to Don M.!
Message 184 -
1996-01-27 at 09:28:42
Augie & Dave:
Thanks for the birthday greetings. That's the first time anyone's ever
wished me a happy birthday via the internet. What fun! Now...where are my
presents?
Dwight:
So, we almost share a birthday, huh? Just 364 days apart! Hope you had
a good BD. I know I did. I went out to dinner with Shelagh--without our kids
for a change!--and finally got to see Toy Story. Amazing stuff. I wouldn't
want to see all animation done that way--but it was a darn good movie.
Don Markstein:
Welcome! It's nice to have another pro join our ever-growing list. So,
you're a Bucky Bug fan, huh? So is Noel Van Horn. (He's drawing Mickey Mouse
these days for Egmont.) I don't imagine Egmont would be interest in any Bucky
stories--that much rhyming would probably be a nightmare to translate--but if
you can ever interest Gladstone in publishing a new Bucky piece then you
might want to contact Noel. John Clark likes Noel's work and had Noel draw an
issue of EEK! The CAT for Hamilton Comics two or three years ago. Noel would
probably enjoy drawing a Bucky story. Admittedly, the chances of Gladstone
commissioning a new Bucky Bug --and then getting Disney to approve it--seems
pretty remote. Oh, well...file this info away...just in case things change.
----John Lustig
Thanks for the birthday greetings. That's the first time anyone's ever
wished me a happy birthday via the internet. What fun! Now...where are my
presents?
Dwight:
So, we almost share a birthday, huh? Just 364 days apart! Hope you had
a good BD. I know I did. I went out to dinner with Shelagh--without our kids
for a change!--and finally got to see Toy Story. Amazing stuff. I wouldn't
want to see all animation done that way--but it was a darn good movie.
Don Markstein:
Welcome! It's nice to have another pro join our ever-growing list. So,
you're a Bucky Bug fan, huh? So is Noel Van Horn. (He's drawing Mickey Mouse
these days for Egmont.) I don't imagine Egmont would be interest in any Bucky
stories--that much rhyming would probably be a nightmare to translate--but if
you can ever interest Gladstone in publishing a new Bucky piece then you
might want to contact Noel. John Clark likes Noel's work and had Noel draw an
issue of EEK! The CAT for Hamilton Comics two or three years ago. Noel would
probably enjoy drawing a Bucky story. Admittedly, the chances of Gladstone
commissioning a new Bucky Bug --and then getting Disney to approve it--seems
pretty remote. Oh, well...file this info away...just in case things change.
----John Lustig
JALustig
Henri S. & Don M.--Translation Troubles
Message 185 -
1996-01-27 at 09:28:47
Henri S. & Don M.:
Gee, I really don't know what to tell you about the British editions of
the Disney comics. I've only seen a handful of the ones with my scripts in
them. I didn't compare them all word-for-word to my original scripts. Just
glancing through "The Hi-Tech, Low-Down Blues" (D92226) it seemed to me that
my dialogue was basically intact.
On the other hand "Peace in Pieces" (D92212) was printed as "Love Your
Neighbour" and I wasn't happy with the numerous changes that were made. They
did not seem to me to be changes that were made for the sake of changing
American English into British English. I had the same sort of thing happen
when I wrote for DUCKTALES MAGAZINE. (Not the comic book series, the magazine
series.) This was an American magazine that was aimed at young kids and the
editor apparently simplified some of my dialogue with this in mind. To me, it
looks like much the same thing happens in the British comics--only more so.
In retrospect, I suppose the changes are pretty small. Maybe I'm the
only one who'd be bothered by them. Here's a few snippets from the
story--which starts out as a big water fight between the nephews and some
pig-faced kids and ends up as a gigantic waterfight between Donald and his
neighbor Jones:
My Script: "Oh my sloshing galoshes! We've been snookered!"
British Script: "Look out! We've been snookered!"
MS: "Mop and muse, Boys! You might learn something!"
BS: Think while you mop, boys! You might learn something!"
(This is a two-panel sequence. In the first, Donald is sitting under an
apple tree dreaming that two beautiful women in ancient Grecian attire are
playing music and feeding him grapes. In the second, an apple falls off the
tree and hits Donald on the head.)
MS Caption: "Oh, how sweet are dreams of peace...
"....and, oh, how very fragile!"
BS Caption: Soon Donald was sweet-dreaming...
"....but then, rudely awakened!"
There were a lot of changes like these. (I'd give you more examples, but
the dialogue doesn't make much sense without the art.) None of them changed
the meaning of the story and most people--I suppose--would consider them
relatively minor. In fact, I didn't notice the changes myself when I first
read the British version. It'd been long enough since I wrote the story that
I just thought--with some embarrassment--that I must've written a rather flat
script. It wasn't until I compared it to my original script that I noticed
the differences.
As I've said, I may be the only one who's bothered by these changes.
And some of my scripts seem to have gone through with relatively modest
changes. This was also a few years back and things may have changed since
then.
----John Lustig
Gee, I really don't know what to tell you about the British editions of
the Disney comics. I've only seen a handful of the ones with my scripts in
them. I didn't compare them all word-for-word to my original scripts. Just
glancing through "The Hi-Tech, Low-Down Blues" (D92226) it seemed to me that
my dialogue was basically intact.
On the other hand "Peace in Pieces" (D92212) was printed as "Love Your
Neighbour" and I wasn't happy with the numerous changes that were made. They
did not seem to me to be changes that were made for the sake of changing
American English into British English. I had the same sort of thing happen
when I wrote for DUCKTALES MAGAZINE. (Not the comic book series, the magazine
series.) This was an American magazine that was aimed at young kids and the
editor apparently simplified some of my dialogue with this in mind. To me, it
looks like much the same thing happens in the British comics--only more so.
In retrospect, I suppose the changes are pretty small. Maybe I'm the
only one who'd be bothered by them. Here's a few snippets from the
story--which starts out as a big water fight between the nephews and some
pig-faced kids and ends up as a gigantic waterfight between Donald and his
neighbor Jones:
My Script: "Oh my sloshing galoshes! We've been snookered!"
British Script: "Look out! We've been snookered!"
MS: "Mop and muse, Boys! You might learn something!"
BS: Think while you mop, boys! You might learn something!"
(This is a two-panel sequence. In the first, Donald is sitting under an
apple tree dreaming that two beautiful women in ancient Grecian attire are
playing music and feeding him grapes. In the second, an apple falls off the
tree and hits Donald on the head.)
MS Caption: "Oh, how sweet are dreams of peace...
"....and, oh, how very fragile!"
BS Caption: Soon Donald was sweet-dreaming...
"....but then, rudely awakened!"
There were a lot of changes like these. (I'd give you more examples, but
the dialogue doesn't make much sense without the art.) None of them changed
the meaning of the story and most people--I suppose--would consider them
relatively minor. In fact, I didn't notice the changes myself when I first
read the British version. It'd been long enough since I wrote the story that
I just thought--with some embarrassment--that I must've written a rather flat
script. It wasn't until I compared it to my original script that I noticed
the differences.
As I've said, I may be the only one who's bothered by these changes.
And some of my scripts seem to have gone through with relatively modest
changes. This was also a few years back and things may have changed since
then.
----John Lustig
JALustig
David--You are persistent!
Message 186 -
1996-01-27 at 09:28:49
DAVID:
OK! So you still want to know what I'm working on? Well, right now I'm doing
my first two-part duck story, "Filthy Rich." In it Scrooge has forced Donald
into going along with him on a trip to Upper Crustovia--the world richest
little country. (Even the alley cats eat out of gold-plated garbage cans!)
Donald's job is to lug around a mysterous (and very heavy) trunk that
Scrooge is delivering to the ruler of Upper Crustovia. Donald doesn't know
what's in the trunk, but everyone seems to be after it. Or are they?
Hopefully there are enough twists and turns in the plot to keep everyone
guessing about what's really going on and what Scrooge is really up to.
I hope to polish this off soon, but I keep having to put the script aside for
a very offbeat, nonDisney project that I'm doing for COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE.
Assuming everything works out--and it looks like it will--it'll be appearing
on a semi-regular basis in that paper. I hope to have the first few
installments wrapped up in less than a week.
When I've got a little more time I'll try to explain more about the project
and some other things that I've been working. Right now it's getting late and
I'm going to bed.
Sweet Dreams Everybody,
John Lustig
--------------------------------
End of dcomics Digest V96 Issue #23
***********************************
OK! So you still want to know what I'm working on? Well, right now I'm doing
my first two-part duck story, "Filthy Rich." In it Scrooge has forced Donald
into going along with him on a trip to Upper Crustovia--the world richest
little country. (Even the alley cats eat out of gold-plated garbage cans!)
Donald's job is to lug around a mysterous (and very heavy) trunk that
Scrooge is delivering to the ruler of Upper Crustovia. Donald doesn't know
what's in the trunk, but everyone seems to be after it. Or are they?
Hopefully there are enough twists and turns in the plot to keep everyone
guessing about what's really going on and what Scrooge is really up to.
I hope to polish this off soon, but I keep having to put the script aside for
a very offbeat, nonDisney project that I'm doing for COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE.
Assuming everything works out--and it looks like it will--it'll be appearing
on a semi-regular basis in that paper. I hope to have the first few
installments wrapped up in less than a week.
When I've got a little more time I'll try to explain more about the project
and some other things that I've been working. Right now it's getting late and
I'm going to bed.
Sweet Dreams Everybody,
John Lustig
--------------------------------
End of dcomics Digest V96 Issue #23
***********************************
Donald D. Markstein
Junkville Journal
Message 187 -
1996-01-27 at 17:10:29
WES --
I haven't had a lot of experience with "raw" Scarpa stories, but the one
I did deal with -- "The Man from Oola-Oola" -- had several minor plot problems,
which (I hope) I cleaned up in re-scripting. It also had a couple of spots where
Scrooge acted out of character, at least as I understand him, one of which was
fairly egregious. Again, I cleaned it up, making a couple of modifications in
earlier dialog to set things up so his motivation in the scene in question could
be made more Scrooge-like.
I'm told this isn't so much "out of character" as it is "inconsistent
with his character as perceived outside of Italy". That's fine -- it gives guys
like me something to do as we polish up the translations for an American
audience.
Despite minor quibbles, I'm a BIG fan of Scarpa, and would love to have a
chance to work on more of his stories.
HENRI --
There is a point of view which holds that material aimed at kids should
be bland and watered-down. That doesn't fit my personal observations of what
kids like, or what's good for them, but sometimes people like that manage to
become editors...
DWIGHT --
<<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!>>
I suppose it's too late for those of us who are younger by a few LESS
than 50 years... sigh...
TODD and DAVE --
Thanx for the nice words. I'm looking forward to future repartee with
this group.
Quack, Don Markstein
(Email removed)
I haven't had a lot of experience with "raw" Scarpa stories, but the one
I did deal with -- "The Man from Oola-Oola" -- had several minor plot problems,
which (I hope) I cleaned up in re-scripting. It also had a couple of spots where
Scrooge acted out of character, at least as I understand him, one of which was
fairly egregious. Again, I cleaned it up, making a couple of modifications in
earlier dialog to set things up so his motivation in the scene in question could
be made more Scrooge-like.
I'm told this isn't so much "out of character" as it is "inconsistent
with his character as perceived outside of Italy". That's fine -- it gives guys
like me something to do as we polish up the translations for an American
audience.
Despite minor quibbles, I'm a BIG fan of Scarpa, and would love to have a
chance to work on more of his stories.
HENRI --
There is a point of view which holds that material aimed at kids should
be bland and watered-down. That doesn't fit my personal observations of what
kids like, or what's good for them, but sometimes people like that manage to
become editors...
DWIGHT --
<<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!>>
I suppose it's too late for those of us who are younger by a few LESS
than 50 years... sigh...
TODD and DAVE --
Thanx for the nice words. I'm looking forward to future repartee with
this group.
Quack, Don Markstein
(Email removed)
Torsten Wesley Adair
Comics Buyer's Guide #1160 (February 9, 1996)
Message 188 -
1996-01-28 at 09:32:46
Four reasons to read this newspaper:
1) On page 36, Bruce Hamilton gives an excellent review of Charles
Solomon's The Disney That Never Was : The Stories and Art from Five
Decades of Unproduced Animation.dston He rates it a 4 on a scale of 10.
2) On page 84 (back cover), Gladsotne advertises WD Uncle Scrooge
Advcentures in Color 1 and Walt Disney Giant 5. WDG has Don Rosa's museum
cover, showing Donald, Mickey, and Scrooge. Mickey doesn't look like he
was drawn by Rosa, but if he was, then it's pretty good, although his head
looks a bit large.
3) On page 24, Comicraft has an add for seven font packages (ten total
fonts). The entire package costs US$750, the cheapest is US$49.
4) It's just a great newspaper about comics with great columns and lots
of advertisements for golden age comics.
Torsten Adair (Email removed) Washington, DC, USA
1) On page 36, Bruce Hamilton gives an excellent review of Charles
Solomon's The Disney That Never Was : The Stories and Art from Five
Decades of Unproduced Animation.dston He rates it a 4 on a scale of 10.
2) On page 84 (back cover), Gladsotne advertises WD Uncle Scrooge
Advcentures in Color 1 and Walt Disney Giant 5. WDG has Don Rosa's museum
cover, showing Donald, Mickey, and Scrooge. Mickey doesn't look like he
was drawn by Rosa, but if he was, then it's pretty good, although his head
looks a bit large.
3) On page 24, Comicraft has an add for seven font packages (ten total
fonts). The entire package costs US$750, the cheapest is US$49.
4) It's just a great newspaper about comics with great columns and lots
of advertisements for golden age comics.
Torsten Adair (Email removed) Washington, DC, USA
Deckerd
Birthdays & a Welcome to Don M.!
Message 189 -
1996-01-28 at 22:48:16
On Jan 27, 2:28am, (Email removed) wrote:
> I went out to dinner with Shelagh--without our kids
> for a change!--and finally got to see Toy Story.
Wait a minute -- you went and saw Toy Story -- a movie
about toys and the kids who own them -- without your
kids? Is something not right here...?
Thanks for the birthday greeting! We share the same
astrological sign -- but since I'm an Aquarius, I
don't believe in that stuff.
--Dwight Decker
> I went out to dinner with Shelagh--without our kids
> for a change!--and finally got to see Toy Story.
Wait a minute -- you went and saw Toy Story -- a movie
about toys and the kids who own them -- without your
kids? Is something not right here...?
Thanks for the birthday greeting! We share the same
astrological sign -- but since I'm an Aquarius, I
don't believe in that stuff.
--Dwight Decker
Deckerd
Junkville Journal
Message 190 -
1996-01-28 at 23:22:01
On Jan 27, 4:10pm, Donald D. Markstein wrote:
> Subject: Junkville Journal
> <<Marvel and Image and DC-type comics seem to be a young
> <<man's game, but when the most revered practitioner of
> <<the Disney comics artform is about to turn 95, there's
> <<hope for the rest of us who are 50-odd years younger!>>
> I suppose it's too late for those of us who are younger by
> a few LESS than 50 years... sigh...
>
I think Don Rosa said it best in the speech he gave Scrooge
in the last chapter of LO$. In fact, I was kind of touched
by the line about "some great men" staying active into their
90s. For all the trouble Don's had with Unca Carl (or at
least his management), it seemed to me a gracious gesture on
Don R's part to salute the great Duckmeister like that.
As for comics being a young man's game...I've heard one of
the DC upper management types reportedly said that anybody
who stayed in comics after the age of 30 was nuts. The
implication seemed to be that comics are for kids, and
someone who made a career out of them must have a case of
arrested development. The person who quoted the line to
me is in his mid-40s and has little to show for 25 years in
comics, and observed rather bitterly and cynically that age
30 is about the time people start getting interested in
things like health plans and buying houses and saving and
investing money and getting into retirement plans. If comics
pros are regularly cycled out of the business before they
start getting uppitty, the company stands to benefit. However,
I didn't hear the remark first hand, and my cynical friend
may be putting a different spin on it than was intended.
On the other hand, I have seen a newspaper article covering
the visit by several comic-book company executives to the
Kubert School. The DC exec was quoted as telling the students
that they're in the prime of their professional lives already,
because they have the freshest and newest ideas, so now is the
time they can contribute the most to comics.
My jaw dropped at that one. Take Barks -- he didn't even start
doing Duck comics until he was past 40, and there was nothing
in his career up until then that would cause him to be remembered
today except as perhaps a footnote in six-point type in some
massive history of Disney's animation department. For that
matter, to this day Marvel Comics is subsisting on the momentum
of a burst of creativity by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko,
and a few other artists circa 1961-1963 or so. None of them
were fresh young sprouts by that point, but they completely
reshaped comic books.
I won't say freshness and youth don't contribute to creativity.
I wish I was half my age sometimes... But age and experience can
add something, too. There isn't a hard and fast rule here, unless
you're trying to avoid having to pay for the old dudes' dental
plan.
--Dwight Decker
> Subject: Junkville Journal
> <<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!>>
> I suppose it's too late for those of us who are younger by
> a few LESS than 50 years... sigh...
>
I think Don Rosa said it best in the speech he gave Scrooge
in the last chapter of LO$. In fact, I was kind of touched
by the line about "some great men" staying active into their
90s. For all the trouble Don's had with Unca Carl (or at
least his management), it seemed to me a gracious gesture on
Don R's part to salute the great Duckmeister like that.
As for comics being a young man's game...I've heard one of
the DC upper management types reportedly said that anybody
who stayed in comics after the age of 30 was nuts. The
implication seemed to be that comics are for kids, and
someone who made a career out of them must have a case of
arrested development. The person who quoted the line to
me is in his mid-40s and has little to show for 25 years in
comics, and observed rather bitterly and cynically that age
30 is about the time people start getting interested in
things like health plans and buying houses and saving and
investing money and getting into retirement plans. If comics
pros are regularly cycled out of the business before they
start getting uppitty, the company stands to benefit. However,
I didn't hear the remark first hand, and my cynical friend
may be putting a different spin on it than was intended.
On the other hand, I have seen a newspaper article covering
the visit by several comic-book company executives to the
Kubert School. The DC exec was quoted as telling the students
that they're in the prime of their professional lives already,
because they have the freshest and newest ideas, so now is the
time they can contribute the most to comics.
My jaw dropped at that one. Take Barks -- he didn't even start
doing Duck comics until he was past 40, and there was nothing
in his career up until then that would cause him to be remembered
today except as perhaps a footnote in six-point type in some
massive history of Disney's animation department. For that
matter, to this day Marvel Comics is subsisting on the momentum
of a burst of creativity by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko,
and a few other artists circa 1961-1963 or so. None of them
were fresh young sprouts by that point, but they completely
reshaped comic books.
I won't say freshness and youth don't contribute to creativity.
I wish I was half my age sometimes... But age and experience can
add something, too. There isn't a hard and fast rule here, unless
you're trying to avoid having to pay for the old dudes' dental
plan.
--Dwight Decker
Geir J. Netland
(No subject)
Message 191 -
1996-01-29 at 00:20:15
Dwight:
I think that the illusion saying that Disney-comics are
for children is an American problem. I once spoke
to a guy from Louisville (not Don) on IRC, and when
I asked him if he was reading Disney-comics, he asked if I
were implying that he was childish......................
When people in Norway see my "Donaldist-button" they
sometimes laugh, but no one has ever said that it's
childish...
---------------
Geir J. Netland
---------------
So, you're *scared*, eh? Well
these *roosters* aren't chicken!
Er...um...Sure they're *chicken*
but not *chicken* chickens!
I think that the illusion saying that Disney-comics are
for children is an American problem. I once spoke
to a guy from Louisville (not Don) on IRC, and when
I asked him if he was reading Disney-comics, he asked if I
were implying that he was childish......................
When people in Norway see my "Donaldist-button" they
sometimes laugh, but no one has ever said that it's
childish...
---------------
Geir J. Netland
---------------
So, you're *scared*, eh? Well
these *roosters* aren't chicken!
Er...um...Sure they're *chicken*
but not *chicken* chickens!
Harry Fluks
New version of Disney comics Database!
Message 192 -
1996-01-29 at 18:53:27
Per wrote:
> There is now a new version of the Disney comics Database on the ftp
> server!
> Anonymous ftp from ftp.update.uu.se at pub/comics/disney/index.
I transferred this new version in a new way: I sent Per the "source" files plus
a program to generate all the database files. He ran the program on his
machine. We never tested that before and I'm glad it worked!
New in this version:
- A lot of new creator listings, like "Gilbert-J.story-index" and
"Gilbert-MT.story-index".
- The Barks index was split into 4 files: stories, gags, covers and
oils. The oil index now also lists Dutch reprints (DD Extra etc.).
- The Rosa index was improved, and contains almost everything
from the old don-rosa.index (which wasn't part of the Database).
When Finnish and Norwegian data is included, the old file can
be removed.
- The Swedish index has been cleaned up: no double lines anymore.
- The Danish and Swedish indexes have been checked with each
other. Corrections have been made, and story codes added, on
both sides.
- The Dutch index is checked (from 52-01 through 95-48).
- Most of the recent Gladstone issues are included.
- A lot of appearing characters are added (in the [app:] field).
- I added a field [changes:] when a reprint is not the original version.
- The indexes of the creators don't have those $%&^ very long lines
anymore! Reprint information is now on separate lines.
(Hope you like this, Jorgen!)
- The files containing newspaper strips have a slightly better name:
Daily-Mickey-Mouse.stories (was: ym.stories).
- Every completely indexed issue now has a header, with information
about who indexed the issue [inx:], the cover date [date:] and,
for Swedish issues, the price. (I don't know why anyone would want
to know the price of an issue 8-), but it's included anyway.)
This header information is not yet complete in the Swedish and Danish
index.
Not yet in this version:
- Lars Olsson's most recent additions to the Swedish index (I didn't
have the time to include them! Sorry, Lars)
- Info on John Lustig's and Dave Rawson's most recent stories (they
mailed it after I sent the files to Per)
I think the Swedish/Danish indexes are now in a shape that Finnish
and Norwegian indexes can be based on them! So, volunteers: go
ahead! 8-)
If anyone has ideas for better output layouts, or misses lists of certain
creators etc., feel free to tell me. The database can always be improved!
--Harry.
> There is now a new version of the Disney comics Database on the ftp
> server!
> Anonymous ftp from ftp.update.uu.se at pub/comics/disney/index.
I transferred this new version in a new way: I sent Per the "source" files plus
a program to generate all the database files. He ran the program on his
machine. We never tested that before and I'm glad it worked!
New in this version:
- A lot of new creator listings, like "Gilbert-J.story-index" and
"Gilbert-MT.story-index".
- The Barks index was split into 4 files: stories, gags, covers and
oils. The oil index now also lists Dutch reprints (DD Extra etc.).
- The Rosa index was improved, and contains almost everything
from the old don-rosa.index (which wasn't part of the Database).
When Finnish and Norwegian data is included, the old file can
be removed.
- The Swedish index has been cleaned up: no double lines anymore.
- The Danish and Swedish indexes have been checked with each
other. Corrections have been made, and story codes added, on
both sides.
- The Dutch index is checked (from 52-01 through 95-48).
- Most of the recent Gladstone issues are included.
- A lot of appearing characters are added (in the [app:] field).
- I added a field [changes:] when a reprint is not the original version.
- The indexes of the creators don't have those $%&^ very long lines
anymore! Reprint information is now on separate lines.
(Hope you like this, Jorgen!)
- The files containing newspaper strips have a slightly better name:
Daily-Mickey-Mouse.stories (was: ym.stories).
- Every completely indexed issue now has a header, with information
about who indexed the issue [inx:], the cover date [date:] and,
for Swedish issues, the price. (I don't know why anyone would want
to know the price of an issue 8-), but it's included anyway.)
This header information is not yet complete in the Swedish and Danish
index.
Not yet in this version:
- Lars Olsson's most recent additions to the Swedish index (I didn't
have the time to include them! Sorry, Lars)
- Info on John Lustig's and Dave Rawson's most recent stories (they
mailed it after I sent the files to Per)
I think the Swedish/Danish indexes are now in a shape that Finnish
and Norwegian indexes can be based on them! So, volunteers: go
ahead! 8-)
If anyone has ideas for better output layouts, or misses lists of certain
creators etc., feel free to tell me. The database can always be improved!
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Heymans, Rawson, Lustig
Message 193 -
1996-01-29 at 19:04:29
DANIEL:
> About Mau Heijmans re-inking a Woodchuck-script
When I talked to Mau on the phone, he confirmed that his name is
Heymans, not Heijmans. (In Dutch, this is only a subtle difference.)
> That Barks complimented Heijmans
> says nothing to me, because he also complimented William van Horn with
> the "Horsing Around" story, which didn't look that good to me.
Well, I think the Horsing story has the best artwork Van Horn ever did.
When I saw a black-and-white half page of it, at first glance I thought it was Jippes!
(And that should be a *compliment*.)
> Maybe you can find out more about this, Harry?
I don't know. But when I find out something, I'll let you know (as usual)!
DAVE R.:
> Here's a list of my Disney comics work in 1995. I've included a few pieces of
> incomplete associated information, as well
JOHN L.:
> OK! So you still want to know what I'm working on?
Thanks! Your information was just too late for the current version of
the Disney comics Database, but it will be included in the next!
--Harry.
((Email removed))
> About Mau Heijmans re-inking a Woodchuck-script
When I talked to Mau on the phone, he confirmed that his name is
Heymans, not Heijmans. (In Dutch, this is only a subtle difference.)
> That Barks complimented Heijmans
> says nothing to me, because he also complimented William van Horn with
> the "Horsing Around" story, which didn't look that good to me.
Well, I think the Horsing story has the best artwork Van Horn ever did.
When I saw a black-and-white half page of it, at first glance I thought it was Jippes!
(And that should be a *compliment*.)
> Maybe you can find out more about this, Harry?
I don't know. But when I find out something, I'll let you know (as usual)!
DAVE R.:
> Here's a list of my Disney comics work in 1995. I've included a few pieces of
> incomplete associated information, as well
JOHN L.:
> OK! So you still want to know what I'm working on?
Thanks! Your information was just too late for the current version of
the Disney comics Database, but it will be included in the next!
--Harry.
((Email removed))
Per Starback
New version of Disney comics Database!
Message 194 -
1996-01-30 at 02:04:03
This new scheme where Harry sent me the data and his programs and I
generated the resulting files locally means that it's easier to update
it. If Harry gets updates for a couple of the files (like more
Swedish info or whatever) he only needs to send me those files and
then I can generate the whole shebang again after that and the data in
those new files will spread out to all the places where they belong.
Earlier he had to send me all those files then.
> New in this version:
> - A lot of new creator listings, like "Gilbert-J.story-index" and
> "Gilbert-MT.story-index".
Nice to see indexes of all the Disney comics creators who are on this
list. Unfortunately Janet Gilbert left this list late last year
though.
--
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: (Email removed)
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
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generated the resulting files locally means that it's easier to update
it. If Harry gets updates for a couple of the files (like more
Swedish info or whatever) he only needs to send me those files and
then I can generate the whole shebang again after that and the data in
those new files will spread out to all the places where they belong.
Earlier he had to send me all those files then.
> New in this version:
> - A lot of new creator listings, like "Gilbert-J.story-index" and
> "Gilbert-MT.story-index".
Nice to see indexes of all the Disney comics creators who are on this
list. Unfortunately Janet Gilbert left this list late last year
though.
--
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden. email: (Email removed)
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"
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Per Starback
List pbms
Message 195 -
1996-01-30 at 02:08:00
There were technical problems with mail on the host of this list this
weekend. I don't think any messages were lost because of it, but I'm
not sure, so if you sent something during that time it might be
worthwhile to check if your message really made it to a digest.
Sorry about this.
/Per
weekend. I don't think any messages were lost because of it, but I'm
not sure, so if you sent something during that time it might be
worthwhile to check if your message really made it to a digest.
Sorry about this.
/Per