DON M:
Nope, I've yet to read "Trala La." It might have been reprinted in album
format somewhere recently, but I have never subscribed to one of those
until this upcoming Uncle $crooge series, so... I've also never read the
Square Egg story. SIGH I like to think of this as plenty of fun times
ahead! ;-)
-Augie
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Augie De Blieck Jr
Disney comics Digest V96 #29
Message 106 -
1996-02-17 at 06:47:28
Augie De Blieck Jr
Disney comics Digest V96 #36
Message 107 -
1996-02-17 at 07:42:00
DON R.:
I think Frank's idea of an all-Don Rosa Uncle $crooge could work. True,
it wouldn't be 100% new, but some of your "older" stuff could use a
reprinting. Besides, you wouldn't need to fill up all 26 pages of every
issue with one of your stories. Just a lead-off ten-pager or something.
This would be a perfect excuse to get the reprinting of "His Majesty,
McDuck" done that I've long clamored for. ;-)
I realize this is just a dream, but it can be fun to speculate. (Are
those Don Rosa albums coming out this year? Or is it just going to be the
Lo$ albums?)
RE: The Comics Journal
Yes, my message did start mid-sentence. Every now and then I start a
message on the subject line and just continue it like it's all one sentence
with the first line of the subject header. It's a bad writing habit,
most likely.
Thanks for clearing up the timing of the interview. It's now going to be 3
parts? I'm going to go broke buying these issues. I will just make sure
not to quit my job for the next few months, is all. ;-)
Sorry I forgot to mention your cover. I LOVED it. Showed it to all my
friends at school. Showed it to my parents. (I didn't show them anything
on the inside. I'm not sure they'd understand Peep Show. ;-)
I suspect the reason they didn't do the faux-note on the cover was one of
layout. The way they put the title and your name on the cover, the only
place left for such a note would have been in the upper right, which
would have meant covering $crooge's hat. It is still a great cover. I
guess you got to keep the original art on this one, though? It looks so
weird to actually see your signature on your work. It looks similar to
the way the late Bob Ross signed his paintings.
-Augie
--
(Email removed)
http://daniel.drew.edu/~adebliec/index.html
I think Frank's idea of an all-Don Rosa Uncle $crooge could work. True,
it wouldn't be 100% new, but some of your "older" stuff could use a
reprinting. Besides, you wouldn't need to fill up all 26 pages of every
issue with one of your stories. Just a lead-off ten-pager or something.
This would be a perfect excuse to get the reprinting of "His Majesty,
McDuck" done that I've long clamored for. ;-)
I realize this is just a dream, but it can be fun to speculate. (Are
those Don Rosa albums coming out this year? Or is it just going to be the
Lo$ albums?)
RE: The Comics Journal
Yes, my message did start mid-sentence. Every now and then I start a
message on the subject line and just continue it like it's all one sentence
with the first line of the subject header. It's a bad writing habit,
most likely.
Thanks for clearing up the timing of the interview. It's now going to be 3
parts? I'm going to go broke buying these issues. I will just make sure
not to quit my job for the next few months, is all. ;-)
Sorry I forgot to mention your cover. I LOVED it. Showed it to all my
friends at school. Showed it to my parents. (I didn't show them anything
on the inside. I'm not sure they'd understand Peep Show. ;-)
I suspect the reason they didn't do the faux-note on the cover was one of
layout. The way they put the title and your name on the cover, the only
place left for such a note would have been in the upper right, which
would have meant covering $crooge's hat. It is still a great cover. I
guess you got to keep the original art on this one, though? It looks so
weird to actually see your signature on your work. It looks similar to
the way the late Bob Ross signed his paintings.
-Augie
--
(Email removed)
http://daniel.drew.edu/~adebliec/index.html
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #36
Message 108 -
1996-02-17 at 08:30:00
HARRY:
Your last name rhymes with Ducks? Like "flux"? Sounds like the name
of a comic-book scientist. Sorry. With no "e" in it, I should have known it
was pronounced thus. I guess I was thinking "Flooks" sounded more... Dutch?
Thanks for the info on Bolivar. I talked to Byron Erickson today,
and he was saying the same thing, and also that the name has been
"Bornworthy" ever since people in Colombia complained back in the late 40s.
Since I was doing a story set in Colombia, I was daydreaming that, if
Bolivar had disappeared since the late 40s, I might reintroduce him in this
story, since I adore dogs and would love to have a big, shaggy, drooly dog
as a HD&L sidekick. But now I'm in a spot. If I can't call him "Bolivar",
and if he's always been in the comics, I can't "introduce" him and certainly
there's no reason to do so in Colombia. Maybe I can use him some other time
-- though I don't know how I would explain the fact that, in all of my past
stories, the Ducks have clearly NOT had a pet. Hm...
EVERYONE:
STOP going to any trouble finding me an index to the GOOD
HOUSEKEEPING Disney pages!!! Leonardo Gori told me that there's one in the
4th supplementary edition to Tomart, which I have right on my shelf!!! I
never thought Tomart did such indexing. I had it all along! Sorry!!!
Your last name rhymes with Ducks? Like "flux"? Sounds like the name
of a comic-book scientist. Sorry. With no "e" in it, I should have known it
was pronounced thus. I guess I was thinking "Flooks" sounded more... Dutch?
Thanks for the info on Bolivar. I talked to Byron Erickson today,
and he was saying the same thing, and also that the name has been
"Bornworthy" ever since people in Colombia complained back in the late 40s.
Since I was doing a story set in Colombia, I was daydreaming that, if
Bolivar had disappeared since the late 40s, I might reintroduce him in this
story, since I adore dogs and would love to have a big, shaggy, drooly dog
as a HD&L sidekick. But now I'm in a spot. If I can't call him "Bolivar",
and if he's always been in the comics, I can't "introduce" him and certainly
there's no reason to do so in Colombia. Maybe I can use him some other time
-- though I don't know how I would explain the fact that, in all of my past
stories, the Ducks have clearly NOT had a pet. Hm...
EVERYONE:
STOP going to any trouble finding me an index to the GOOD
HOUSEKEEPING Disney pages!!! Leonardo Gori told me that there's one in the
4th supplementary edition to Tomart, which I have right on my shelf!!! I
never thought Tomart did such indexing. I had it all along! Sorry!!!
Donald D. Markstein
Junkville Journal
Message 109 -
1996-02-17 at 19:11:41
DAVID --
Is Felix the Cat still under copyright and/or trademark? There was a
satmorn show last year, but it does seem kind of old and mostly-out-of-use to be
still protected.
MORENO --
Walt Kelly's name is almost synonymous with good comics. Get his stuff by
all means. I'm a great fan of Carl Buettner, and Paul Murry's 1950s work tickles
my sense of nostalgia. Ken Hultgren is another highly-regarded creator whose
work I admire. Jack Bradbury and Bill Wright, I'm not quite so fond of.
But of course, these are just personal opinions.
TODD --
I mostly picked up on Tom Lehrer later on. THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS
wasn't allowed in my house because of its frequent slams against our region of
the country, the South. I enjoy his wordplay, and there's a lot of good humor in
there, but I still rankle a bit at lines like "I hope I can stay serene and calm
when Alabama gets the Bomb."
RHODE --
Yes, Kelly's best-known work was POGO, but he did a lot of other stuff
that was just plain excellent, including a good deal of his work for Disney. His
DONOCCHIO, which appeared in the back of the first printing of the PINOCCHIO
movie adaptation, is certainly worth having. I'm particularly fond of his
short-lived "Gremlins" series, which appeared in WDC&S about 1943-44.
DAVE --
Rotini, Canelloni, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... (do they still make
the last one?)
AUGIE --
Not the Square Egg story either??! Yow! That's probably the one story
Barks did that is best remembered by people who never heard of Barks.
Quack,
Don Markstein
(Email removed)
Is Felix the Cat still under copyright and/or trademark? There was a
satmorn show last year, but it does seem kind of old and mostly-out-of-use to be
still protected.
MORENO --
Walt Kelly's name is almost synonymous with good comics. Get his stuff by
all means. I'm a great fan of Carl Buettner, and Paul Murry's 1950s work tickles
my sense of nostalgia. Ken Hultgren is another highly-regarded creator whose
work I admire. Jack Bradbury and Bill Wright, I'm not quite so fond of.
But of course, these are just personal opinions.
TODD --
I mostly picked up on Tom Lehrer later on. THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS
wasn't allowed in my house because of its frequent slams against our region of
the country, the South. I enjoy his wordplay, and there's a lot of good humor in
there, but I still rankle a bit at lines like "I hope I can stay serene and calm
when Alabama gets the Bomb."
RHODE --
Yes, Kelly's best-known work was POGO, but he did a lot of other stuff
that was just plain excellent, including a good deal of his work for Disney. His
DONOCCHIO, which appeared in the back of the first printing of the PINOCCHIO
movie adaptation, is certainly worth having. I'm particularly fond of his
short-lived "Gremlins" series, which appeared in WDC&S about 1943-44.
DAVE --
Rotini, Canelloni, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... (do they still make
the last one?)
AUGIE --
Not the Square Egg story either??! Yow! That's probably the one story
Barks did that is best remembered by people who never heard of Barks.
Quack,
Don Markstein
(Email removed)
David A Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V96 #36
Message 110 -
1996-02-17 at 20:58:16
DON ROSA:
Bolivar is indeed in new stories to this day, such as my story
"Double-Dealt Deal" which appeared from Egmont last week (issue 6/1995
-- the story where DD is an insurance salesman is mine). So your
statement about "last week" is correct.
I've always wondered why you've never used Bolivar. Barks
himself used the character as late as that Gyro "Gab-Muffer" story
around 1958 (in a Gyro one-shot).
Around 1948 the government of Spain objected to the dog's name
as being degrading to their national hero Simon Bolivar. That's why
the famous WDC 125 Junior Woodchuck story, which includes the dog,
calls him Bornworthy, and why Taliaferro renamed him "Bernie" for a
while in the 1950s. Today, Gladstone calls him Bolivar, although
Egmont uses Bornworthy (the same way that for Egmont, Ms. Quackfaster
is Miss Typefast). This means that when Gladstone prints some of my
Egmont stories that use him, they'll change Bornworthy to Bolivar.
Fine by me -- I prefer the name Bolivar.
In the mid-1940s in the daily strip Bolivar had a pup named
Behemoth, or "Behe." Barks used this pup ONCE, in ONE panel of WDC&S
111's love-letter story (in which the animal is identified by name).
Taliaferro also regularly gave DD a burro as a pet, named Basil.
That's the same burro Barks used once, in the gag about DD buying him
a huge sombrero (OS 147).
I have a hunch that a lot of Barks fans who know little about
Taliaferro never knew that these were regular characters. I may use
that burro sometime, but I'd say something to the effect that he lives
at Grandma's most of the time, now.
Are you planning to use Bolivar in a story? Please do!
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Bolivar is indeed in new stories to this day, such as my story
"Double-Dealt Deal" which appeared from Egmont last week (issue 6/1995
-- the story where DD is an insurance salesman is mine). So your
statement about "last week" is correct.
I've always wondered why you've never used Bolivar. Barks
himself used the character as late as that Gyro "Gab-Muffer" story
around 1958 (in a Gyro one-shot).
Around 1948 the government of Spain objected to the dog's name
as being degrading to their national hero Simon Bolivar. That's why
the famous WDC 125 Junior Woodchuck story, which includes the dog,
calls him Bornworthy, and why Taliaferro renamed him "Bernie" for a
while in the 1950s. Today, Gladstone calls him Bolivar, although
Egmont uses Bornworthy (the same way that for Egmont, Ms. Quackfaster
is Miss Typefast). This means that when Gladstone prints some of my
Egmont stories that use him, they'll change Bornworthy to Bolivar.
Fine by me -- I prefer the name Bolivar.
In the mid-1940s in the daily strip Bolivar had a pup named
Behemoth, or "Behe." Barks used this pup ONCE, in ONE panel of WDC&S
111's love-letter story (in which the animal is identified by name).
Taliaferro also regularly gave DD a burro as a pet, named Basil.
That's the same burro Barks used once, in the gag about DD buying him
a huge sombrero (OS 147).
I have a hunch that a lot of Barks fans who know little about
Taliaferro never knew that these were regular characters. I may use
that burro sometime, but I'd say something to the effect that he lives
at Grandma's most of the time, now.
Are you planning to use Bolivar in a story? Please do!
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Michael_Pring
Europe Summer '96?
Message 111 -
1996-02-17 at 22:30:47
I was wondering if there are any disney/comics related conventions,
tours, etc.,. scheduled for this summer? I was in Europe a few years
back and missed the Carl Barks "tour" by only a matter of days because
I didn't know in advance!
Thanks for any info, Mike
tours, etc.,. scheduled for this summer? I was in Europe a few years
back and missed the Carl Barks "tour" by only a matter of days because
I didn't know in advance!
Thanks for any info, Mike
Harry Fluks
Non-Disney comics stuff
Message 112 -
1996-02-18 at 13:29:06
DON:
> Your last name rhymes with Ducks? Like "flux"? I guess I was
> thinking "Flooks" sounded more... Dutch?
Hm... Flooks would sound more German. And German and
Dutch _are_ quite different.
In fact, I have had two problems with my name. Dutch people
tend to spell it like "flux", and non-Dutch people tend to
pronounce it as "Flooks"...
--Harry Fluks.
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> Your last name rhymes with Ducks? Like "flux"? I guess I was
> thinking "Flooks" sounded more... Dutch?
Hm... Flooks would sound more German. And German and
Dutch _are_ quite different.
In fact, I have had two problems with my name. Dutch people
tend to spell it like "flux", and non-Dutch people tend to
pronounce it as "Flooks"...
--Harry Fluks.
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Dan Shane
Disney comics Digest V96 #37
Message 113 -
1996-02-18 at 15:51:27
DON MARKSTEIN:
I'm a moderate fan of Walt Kelly's Gremlins myself. Were you aware that
an animated feature was to be made based on those characters, but was
scrapped? I wonder if that is covered in the DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS
book.
In any case, a friend of mine (and Don Rosa's) has a copy of the little
movie adaptation book (publsihed by Whitman, I think)that was produced
before the project was scuttled. That's how close the movie was to
becoming a reality!
Dan Shane
I'm a moderate fan of Walt Kelly's Gremlins myself. Were you aware that
an animated feature was to be made based on those characters, but was
scrapped? I wonder if that is covered in the DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS
book.
In any case, a friend of mine (and Don Rosa's) has a copy of the little
movie adaptation book (publsihed by Whitman, I think)that was produced
before the project was scuttled. That's how close the movie was to
becoming a reality!
Dan Shane
Mikko Henri Juhani Aittola
Disney comics Digest V96 #34
Message 114 -
1996-02-18 at 16:35:02
Henri:
I usually prefer lighter colors in Duck stories. I think most
of the Gladstone-stuff is too dark (but the coloring itself
is superb). So I liked the brighter colors in WDCS #601.
IMHO, some of the best coloring can be found on Disney's
Don Rosa special trade paperback (featuring Don Rosa stories,
like 'Treasure Under Glass' - one of my favorites).
> How do you manage to get your Gladstone comics that early? My #296 arrived
> today!
In Finland, the fastest way to access comics is the comic-shops
like Good Fellows (Hki), Fennica Comics (Hki) and Kukunor (Tampere).
For example 'this week's comics' are on sale next Tuesday in GF.
There is also mailing lists about new comics releases available,
so you can keep track on what to buy.
( Email < (Email removed) > if you want to subscribe)
/Mikko
I usually prefer lighter colors in Duck stories. I think most
of the Gladstone-stuff is too dark (but the coloring itself
is superb). So I liked the brighter colors in WDCS #601.
IMHO, some of the best coloring can be found on Disney's
Don Rosa special trade paperback (featuring Don Rosa stories,
like 'Treasure Under Glass' - one of my favorites).
> How do you manage to get your Gladstone comics that early? My #296 arrived
> today!
In Finland, the fastest way to access comics is the comic-shops
like Good Fellows (Hki), Fennica Comics (Hki) and Kukunor (Tampere).
For example 'this week's comics' are on sale next Tuesday in GF.
There is also mailing lists about new comics releases available,
so you can keep track on what to buy.
( Email < (Email removed) > if you want to subscribe)
/Mikko
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #37
Message 115 -
1996-02-18 at 16:52:00
ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
Dan Shane's new web-site, "THE $CROOGE MCDUCK PAGE", is now open for
bizniz! This site will tell you more than any mortal would care to know of
the conception, writing, drawing and production of Disney comic books, the
first topic being "The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck". I expand greatly
on my text pages as already seen in the Gladstone issues, plus we present
pages from my original storyboard scripts which were never used, as well as
b&w images from my copies of the original art so you can see what it looks
like before the comic companies git at it. At the moment there are only
entries for episodes 1-10, but it will soon be completed. Someday I hope to
add material for my other stories, and hopefully other writers or artists
will help expand the site with their own uploads. Per, please stick this
into your Disney Page, if you deem it worthy. Here is the address:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dan_shane/
I invite anyone with far too much extra time to help us proofread it
and otherwise check for errors. At the moment, there are a few aesthetics
that need tweeking, but Mr.Shane has done a FABULOUS JOB. (This makes me
think -- the time has arrived for an Eisner Award for Internet Comic sites,
doncha think?) Please take a look!
Dan Shane's new web-site, "THE $CROOGE MCDUCK PAGE", is now open for
bizniz! This site will tell you more than any mortal would care to know of
the conception, writing, drawing and production of Disney comic books, the
first topic being "The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck". I expand greatly
on my text pages as already seen in the Gladstone issues, plus we present
pages from my original storyboard scripts which were never used, as well as
b&w images from my copies of the original art so you can see what it looks
like before the comic companies git at it. At the moment there are only
entries for episodes 1-10, but it will soon be completed. Someday I hope to
add material for my other stories, and hopefully other writers or artists
will help expand the site with their own uploads. Per, please stick this
into your Disney Page, if you deem it worthy. Here is the address:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dan_shane/
I invite anyone with far too much extra time to help us proofread it
and otherwise check for errors. At the moment, there are a few aesthetics
that need tweeking, but Mr.Shane has done a FABULOUS JOB. (This makes me
think -- the time has arrived for an Eisner Award for Internet Comic sites,
doncha think?) Please take a look!
Mark Mayerson
Gremlins
Message 116 -
1996-02-18 at 16:52:00
> I'm a moderate fan of Walt Kelly's Gremlins myself. Were you aware that
> an animated feature was to be made based on those characters, but was
> scrapped? I wonder if that is covered in the DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS
> book.
> In any case, a friend of mine (and Don Rosa's) has a copy of the little
> movie adaptation book (publsihed by Whitman, I think)that was produced
> before the project was scuttled. That's how close the movie was to
> becoming a reality!
> Dan Shane
There's quite a bit about the Gremlins feature in the book Donald Duck
Joins Up by Richard Shale. This is a book on the Disney studio during
World War II, and if I remember correctly it was published by UMI.
___________________________________________________________________
Mark Mayerson Catapult Productions
Internet: (Email removed) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In Production: Monster By Mistake (416) 504-9876
> an animated feature was to be made based on those characters, but was
> scrapped? I wonder if that is covered in the DISNEY THAT NEVER WAS
> book.
> In any case, a friend of mine (and Don Rosa's) has a copy of the little
> movie adaptation book (publsihed by Whitman, I think)that was produced
> before the project was scuttled. That's how close the movie was to
> becoming a reality!
> Dan Shane
There's quite a bit about the Gremlins feature in the book Donald Duck
Joins Up by Richard Shale. This is a book on the Disney studio during
World War II, and if I remember correctly it was published by UMI.
___________________________________________________________________
Mark Mayerson Catapult Productions
Internet: (Email removed) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
In Production: Monster By Mistake (416) 504-9876
Vsaari
Bolivar
Message 117 -
1996-02-18 at 19:57:45
Don Rosa
You asked if any new stories use Bolivar. Yes - at least these two new
stories in the recent issues of the Finnish Aku Ankka weekly:
DD: Double-Dealt Deal by Gerstein and Vicar, code D95060
and
A DD story with code D93506. Disney Comics Database doesn't know it, so I
can't tell the english title. It tells about a girl from stone age in
Duckburg. In the Finnish translation her name is Oona, but in the previous
story with the same character she had a different name Una. I guess Oona is
the original name? "Oona" pronounced by an English speaking person is quite
similar to "Una" pronounced by a Finn.
--
Ville Saari EMail: (Email removed)
Tallbergin puistotie 7 B 21 Phone: +358 0 682 2226
00200 Helsinki
FINLAND /dev/null: write failed, file system is full
You asked if any new stories use Bolivar. Yes - at least these two new
stories in the recent issues of the Finnish Aku Ankka weekly:
DD: Double-Dealt Deal by Gerstein and Vicar, code D95060
and
A DD story with code D93506. Disney Comics Database doesn't know it, so I
can't tell the english title. It tells about a girl from stone age in
Duckburg. In the Finnish translation her name is Oona, but in the previous
story with the same character she had a different name Una. I guess Oona is
the original name? "Oona" pronounced by an English speaking person is quite
similar to "Una" pronounced by a Finn.
--
Ville Saari EMail: (Email removed)
Tallbergin puistotie 7 B 21 Phone: +358 0 682 2226
00200 Helsinki
FINLAND /dev/null: write failed, file system is full
Geir J. Netland
The Scrooge McDuck page.
Message 118 -
1996-02-18 at 21:36:55
Don/Dan:
I just have to say it: The Scrooge McDuck page was
AMACEING!! This is something that I have waited for for a long
time now. Congratulations, Don and Dan!!!!!!!
---------------
Geir J. Netland
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| So, you're *scared*, eh? Well |
| these *roosters* aren't chicken! |
| Er...um...Sure they're *chicken* |
| but not *chicken* chickens! |
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http://www.misjonshs.no:80/~geinet
I just have to say it: The Scrooge McDuck page was
AMACEING!! This is something that I have waited for for a long
time now. Congratulations, Don and Dan!!!!!!!
---------------
Geir J. Netland
---------------
------------------------------------
| So, you're *scared*, eh? Well |
| these *roosters* aren't chicken! |
| Er...um...Sure they're *chicken* |
| but not *chicken* chickens! |
------------------------------------
http://www.misjonshs.no:80/~geinet
David A Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V96 #37
Message 119 -
1996-02-19 at 07:51:34
DON R.:
"But now I'm in a spot. If I can't call him "Bolivar",
and if he's always been in the comics, I can't "introduce" him and
certainly there's no reason to do so in Colombia."
As I've pointed out, no matter what you called this dog,
Gladstone themselves would be calling him Bolivar when the story was
printed in this country. Byron's contention that the dog's real name
is Bornworthy (nickname "Borny" or, more often, "Bernie") only
applies, it appears, to Egmont.
Why worry about "reintroducing" the character? Just bring him
along with the Ducks, and I, for one, won't grouse that something's
wrong. Just because you haven't used Bolivar until now doesn't mean
that you have to go through some rigmarole to "reintroduce" him. It
just happens that you haven't used him yet. So what? Barks didn't
create the Beagle Boys until he'd been writing stories for eight
years, but he first used them as if they'd always been around. If he
could do that with characters that he'd created moments before, you
can certainly do it with a character who's alive and well.
Go ahead, use Bolivar!
EVERYONE:
Gladstone's DONALD DUCK 300 and UNCLE SCROOGE 300 will be
48-page specials highlighting European stories. John Clark wanted me
to suggest some ASAP, and I've come up with the following:
DD 300 = Mau Heymans' "Hero 2000" (as "Hero 300," natch)
Any Marco Rota Andold Wild-Duck Egmont story
A Jippes 10-pager, or else his first (a 3-pager)
Something by Daniel Branca or Vicar (or both)
US 300 = Jippes' "Hi-Tech Havoc" ("Telivise-Bewakung"), the
only Scrooge-vs.-Beagle-Boys story he's done that I know of. (Dwight
already translated this and it's backlogged now, which is why I have
an English title for it.)
Something by Mau Heymans.
Something by Ben Verhagen.
Something by Daniel Branca.
Of course, Gladstone could decide to put a Rosa 24-pager in
either of these comics which would shorten the European quotient
somewhat, but I have to admit I wouldn't blame them. Anyone have some
suggestions, meanwhile? I can't guarantee any of them will be used
but it's worth a try! (You know how things always change at
Gladstone... these could end up being "best of.." issues like WDC&S
600, in which case none of our suggestions would be used. But the
fact remains John asked me, and told me to run my thoughts by the
mailing list.)
DON M.:
"Donocchio" was reprinted by Gladstone in DD 274, I believe.
Weird story, but good. The art looked like it was inked by Dan
Noonan, who was inker for WK on a lot of stories at the time (nice
brushwork, but sloppier than WK's own inking and MUCH messier
lettering).
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
"But now I'm in a spot. If I can't call him "Bolivar",
and if he's always been in the comics, I can't "introduce" him and
certainly there's no reason to do so in Colombia."
As I've pointed out, no matter what you called this dog,
Gladstone themselves would be calling him Bolivar when the story was
printed in this country. Byron's contention that the dog's real name
is Bornworthy (nickname "Borny" or, more often, "Bernie") only
applies, it appears, to Egmont.
Why worry about "reintroducing" the character? Just bring him
along with the Ducks, and I, for one, won't grouse that something's
wrong. Just because you haven't used Bolivar until now doesn't mean
that you have to go through some rigmarole to "reintroduce" him. It
just happens that you haven't used him yet. So what? Barks didn't
create the Beagle Boys until he'd been writing stories for eight
years, but he first used them as if they'd always been around. If he
could do that with characters that he'd created moments before, you
can certainly do it with a character who's alive and well.
Go ahead, use Bolivar!
EVERYONE:
Gladstone's DONALD DUCK 300 and UNCLE SCROOGE 300 will be
48-page specials highlighting European stories. John Clark wanted me
to suggest some ASAP, and I've come up with the following:
DD 300 = Mau Heymans' "Hero 2000" (as "Hero 300," natch)
Any Marco Rota Andold Wild-Duck Egmont story
A Jippes 10-pager, or else his first (a 3-pager)
Something by Daniel Branca or Vicar (or both)
US 300 = Jippes' "Hi-Tech Havoc" ("Telivise-Bewakung"), the
only Scrooge-vs.-Beagle-Boys story he's done that I know of. (Dwight
already translated this and it's backlogged now, which is why I have
an English title for it.)
Something by Mau Heymans.
Something by Ben Verhagen.
Something by Daniel Branca.
Of course, Gladstone could decide to put a Rosa 24-pager in
either of these comics which would shorten the European quotient
somewhat, but I have to admit I wouldn't blame them. Anyone have some
suggestions, meanwhile? I can't guarantee any of them will be used
but it's worth a try! (You know how things always change at
Gladstone... these could end up being "best of.." issues like WDC&S
600, in which case none of our suggestions would be used. But the
fact remains John asked me, and told me to run my thoughts by the
mailing list.)
DON M.:
"Donocchio" was reprinted by Gladstone in DD 274, I believe.
Weird story, but good. The art looked like it was inked by Dan
Noonan, who was inker for WK on a lot of stories at the time (nice
brushwork, but sloppier than WK's own inking and MUCH messier
lettering).
David Gerstein
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David A Gerstein
All-Rosa U$ issues
Message 120 -
1996-02-19 at 07:56:07
AUGIE and DON:
First, APOLOGIES to you, Don, for the following! But...
If U$ were to contain all-Rosa stories, even to the point of
using reprints to fill up space when no new stories were available,
there would be hardly any room for European stories. Also, as a
matter of SUBSISTENCE, Gladstone has to serialize at least some of
Rosa's output in WDC&S, or eat their shirt!
A decision to use only Rosa in U$ would be very much like the
decision, currently in effect, to make DD an all-reprint book: the
individual issues are enjoyable in and of themselves, but the decision
was made without knowledge of what was being published overseas, the
result being that there isn't a regular venue for a number of very
deserving stories.
David Gerstein
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First, APOLOGIES to you, Don, for the following! But...
If U$ were to contain all-Rosa stories, even to the point of
using reprints to fill up space when no new stories were available,
there would be hardly any room for European stories. Also, as a
matter of SUBSISTENCE, Gladstone has to serialize at least some of
Rosa's output in WDC&S, or eat their shirt!
A decision to use only Rosa in U$ would be very much like the
decision, currently in effect, to make DD an all-reprint book: the
individual issues are enjoyable in and of themselves, but the decision
was made without knowledge of what was being published overseas, the
result being that there isn't a regular venue for a number of very
deserving stories.
David Gerstein
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