1) I read the Don Rosa interview in the Comics Journal today.
a) I liked the "realistic" style of the cover! Don, your
detailed rendering which takes so much time, is perfect for detailed
realism. Unfortunateley (?), you only want to draw ducks, so I guess we
won't see this sort of thing too often.
b) You mentioned a villain you created to compliment Magica and
the Beagle Boys. Any chance of seeing him in future stories?
c) Any chance of seeing EC inspired work in your Duck stories?
Perhaps a Holloween story?
2) The Gremlins story which Walt Kelly did for Disney... These wouldn't
have anything to do with the Gremlin story Roald Dahl sold to Disney
during World War II? Perhaps we can convince Gladstone to do a movie
tie-in when Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach hits movie screens
later this year?
Could someone supply a Walt Kelly index as to what has been printed and
reprinted in the U.S.?
Torsten Adair (Email removed) Washington, DC, USA
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A few comments
Message 121 -
1996-02-19 at 08:37:02
David A Gerstein
Felix the Cat (and FG)
Message 122 -
1996-02-19 at 11:00:20
DON MARKSTEIN again:
Felix the Cat is still under copyright and trademark. Felix
the Cat Productions Inc. owns the trademark to the character in all
arenas but newspaper strips, and owns the copyright on those of the
old cartoons still protected. King Features Syndicate owns the
trademark on the character for reprints of older printed material
(such as Bruce Hamilton's 1992 album). They continue to hold the
copyright on all comics done from 1932 to 1955.
The Felix comics are in the public domain through 1931. Our
book was originally planned as an all-PD collection, but we may now be
getting the King license to add in a few special items (and so that if
we do other volumes, we can include some later strips). We'll see
what happens. Either way it will be a great book.
Er... Disney relevance here? We may include a picture of
Felix drawn by Floyd Gottfredson, if we can get a usable copy of it.
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Felix the Cat is still under copyright and trademark. Felix
the Cat Productions Inc. owns the trademark to the character in all
arenas but newspaper strips, and owns the copyright on those of the
old cartoons still protected. King Features Syndicate owns the
trademark on the character for reprints of older printed material
(such as Bruce Hamilton's 1992 album). They continue to hold the
copyright on all comics done from 1932 to 1955.
The Felix comics are in the public domain through 1931. Our
book was originally planned as an all-PD collection, but we may now be
getting the King license to add in a few special items (and so that if
we do other volumes, we can include some later strips). We'll see
what happens. Either way it will be a great book.
Er... Disney relevance here? We may include a picture of
Felix drawn by Floyd Gottfredson, if we can get a usable copy of it.
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Terje Sommerstad
Pseudo-Murry
Message 123 -
1996-02-19 at 15:29:25
Does anyone know the name of the Mickey Mouse artist who drew a lot of
stories for Gutenberghus in the late 70s/early 80s? I think he=B4s a "Tello
Team" artist, although the art is quite different from today=B4s Egmont/Tell=
o
Team output. The themes and villainous characters are often quite similar
to that of Paul Murry. A few stories, like D4140, "Treasure At Sea"
(appeared in the Donald Duck weekly 26-27/1978) is also a ripoff, in this
case: Murry's "Secret of Drake's Island" (MM67).
Additional sample stories:
D3134, Terror of the Sea (DD&Co 38-39/77) (featuring Captain Blackbeard)
D3143, Mystery of the Alligator (DD&Co 13-14/1977)
D4363, Space Pirates (DD&Co 22-23/1978)
D4491, Mystery of the Flying Saucer (DD&Co 18-19/1980)
(All titles translated from Norwegian)
Also I believe to have heard somewhere that Murry didn't draw his own
backgrounds, but had another artist do them for him (can't remember his
name though). Is this true? I have alays admired his stories for the
wonderful scenic artistry.
-terje
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stories for Gutenberghus in the late 70s/early 80s? I think he=B4s a "Tello
Team" artist, although the art is quite different from today=B4s Egmont/Tell=
o
Team output. The themes and villainous characters are often quite similar
to that of Paul Murry. A few stories, like D4140, "Treasure At Sea"
(appeared in the Donald Duck weekly 26-27/1978) is also a ripoff, in this
case: Murry's "Secret of Drake's Island" (MM67).
Additional sample stories:
D3134, Terror of the Sea (DD&Co 38-39/77) (featuring Captain Blackbeard)
D3143, Mystery of the Alligator (DD&Co 13-14/1977)
D4363, Space Pirates (DD&Co 22-23/1978)
D4491, Mystery of the Flying Saucer (DD&Co 18-19/1980)
(All titles translated from Norwegian)
Also I believe to have heard somewhere that Murry didn't draw his own
backgrounds, but had another artist do them for him (can't remember his
name though). Is this true? I have alays admired his stories for the
wonderful scenic artistry.
-terje
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Harry Fluks
#300 and #300
Message 124 -
1996-02-19 at 19:25:24
DAVID:
> Gladstone's DONALD DUCK 300 and UNCLE SCROOGE 300 will be
> 48-page specials highlighting European stories.
One very good Mau Heymans story is H 93154, "Computer Brain". Written by
Kirsten de Graaf with the help of Mau. 10 pages.
Heymans didn't do much stories with Scrooge as a hero. My personal
favourite is the "Telepatoe" story. About a mind-reading animal. This story
was mentioned here before, and I think you rejected it because of its
violent ending.
There's a story where Donald shouldn't mention Scrooge's name, and
he ends up on an island with all kinds of signs: Scrooge Island,
Scrooge Beach, Scrooge City, etc. (I'm not good at re-telling stories, but
I liked this one. You'd have to read it yourself. H 92145) It's a DD story,
but maybe US can be made the title character.
--Harry.
> Gladstone's DONALD DUCK 300 and UNCLE SCROOGE 300 will be
> 48-page specials highlighting European stories.
One very good Mau Heymans story is H 93154, "Computer Brain". Written by
Kirsten de Graaf with the help of Mau. 10 pages.
Heymans didn't do much stories with Scrooge as a hero. My personal
favourite is the "Telepatoe" story. About a mind-reading animal. This story
was mentioned here before, and I think you rejected it because of its
violent ending.
There's a story where Donald shouldn't mention Scrooge's name, and
he ends up on an island with all kinds of signs: Scrooge Island,
Scrooge Beach, Scrooge City, etc. (I'm not good at re-telling stories, but
I liked this one. You'd have to read it yourself. H 92145) It's a DD story,
but maybe US can be made the title character.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Kelly index
Message 125 -
1996-02-19 at 19:29:19
TORSTEN:
> Could someone supply a Walt Kelly index as to what has been printed
> and reprinted in the U.S.?
A Walt Kelly Index is coming up in private mail. It's not 100%
complete, but it contains all the info we have about Kelly's
Disney work.
By the way: anyone who wants an index of whatever subset of
Disney comic stories can just send me an e-mail. I can generate
the index from the Disney comics Database.
--Harry.
> Could someone supply a Walt Kelly index as to what has been printed
> and reprinted in the U.S.?
A Walt Kelly Index is coming up in private mail. It's not 100%
complete, but it contains all the info we have about Kelly's
Disney work.
By the way: anyone who wants an index of whatever subset of
Disney comic stories can just send me an e-mail. I can generate
the index from the Disney comics Database.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Tello (Pseudo-Murry)
Message 126 -
1996-02-19 at 19:48:10
TERJE (welcome) asked:
> Does anyone know the name of the Mickey Mouse artist who drew a
> lot of stories for Gutenberghus in the late 70s/early 80s? I think he?s
> a "Tello Team" artist
I think this is Tello himself. All the stories you mention are credited
to Tello in our database. I think Tello didn't have a studio back then
(in the 70s, early 80s).
Only recently Tello changed his style, to make it less Murry.
There are two things about Tello I would like to know:
- his full name;
- did he start working in a studio called "Recreo"? I think I read
something about that somewhere.
Anyone? (DON R: did Tello "tell you" anything? I think you met him
once?)
--Harry.
> Does anyone know the name of the Mickey Mouse artist who drew a
> lot of stories for Gutenberghus in the late 70s/early 80s? I think he?s
> a "Tello Team" artist
I think this is Tello himself. All the stories you mention are credited
to Tello in our database. I think Tello didn't have a studio back then
(in the 70s, early 80s).
Only recently Tello changed his style, to make it less Murry.
There are two things about Tello I would like to know:
- his full name;
- did he start working in a studio called "Recreo"? I think I read
something about that somewhere.
Anyone? (DON R: did Tello "tell you" anything? I think you met him
once?)
--Harry.
Henri Sivonen
Disney comics Digest V96 #38
Message 127 -
1996-02-19 at 21:13:03
I mentioned the Aku Ankan parhaat (The Best of Donald Duck) series
recently. Today I noticed that Helsinki Media is reprinting them.
Interestingly the albums have a new cover desingn. They now have a
Gladstone styled side bar on the left. The title of the albums used to be
(The Name of the Story) and some others of the best of Donald Duck. Now
the title is: The Carl Barks Library (number) The Best of Donald Duck (The
Name of the Story).
The albums have nothing to do with the Gladstone series, except the
cover. They have the old coloring and translations.
Does someone know how often will Helsinki Media publish a new reprint
and are they going to continue with new albums? The last one (as far as I
remember) is published in 1993.
BTW, I'm going to lose access to my email for a week.
David,
I think the selection of Dutch stories is good (if there will be an European
issue anyway) , because the Egmont stories are published in the AA mag.
Mikko,
If I bought U$ from GoodFellows, I'd have to go the every few days. I
have seen Lo$ issues left only twice!
--
Henri Sivonen
(Email removed) WWW:
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris
recently. Today I noticed that Helsinki Media is reprinting them.
Interestingly the albums have a new cover desingn. They now have a
Gladstone styled side bar on the left. The title of the albums used to be
(The Name of the Story) and some others of the best of Donald Duck. Now
the title is: The Carl Barks Library (number) The Best of Donald Duck (The
Name of the Story).
The albums have nothing to do with the Gladstone series, except the
cover. They have the old coloring and translations.
Does someone know how often will Helsinki Media publish a new reprint
and are they going to continue with new albums? The last one (as far as I
remember) is published in 1993.
BTW, I'm going to lose access to my email for a week.
David,
I think the selection of Dutch stories is good (if there will be an European
issue anyway) , because the Egmont stories are published in the AA mag.
Mikko,
If I bought U$ from GoodFellows, I'd have to go the every few days. I
have seen Lo$ issues left only twice!
--
Henri Sivonen
(Email removed) WWW:
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris
David A Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V96 #38
Message 128 -
1996-02-19 at 21:30:45
TERJE:
In a few 1960s stories titled "Mickey Mouse: Super Secret
Agent" Paul Murry had another artist draw his backgrounds for him, as
well as the supporting characters besides Mickey and Goofy (who in
these stories, were human beings). Weird idea. I can't name the
artist off the top of my head, but I believe Murry drew stories all by
himself in every other case.
D93506:
is called "Princess Oona" in English and was written by Stefan
Printz-Pahlson. The cave-duck will return again for an occasional
story in the future; in fact, he asked me to see what the
mailing-list thought of her. Any suggestions, guys and gals?
(Stefan may join us here before too long. A couple months ago
he thought E-mail for his office was imminent, but no such luck...)
THE KELLY GREMLINS
and the Roald Dahl gremlins are indeed the same. Charles
Solomon does have some art from the film in his book _The Disney That
Never Was_, but plainly has no idea that Disney got to the point of
having comics done about the characters. If Another Rainbow had done
this book, as was their initial hope, there would have been a lot more
about that project in there, as well as the short cartoons in general.
ON A RELATED NOTE:
WDC&S around 1943 contains a lot of material featuring
characters who were then only in the earliest stages of development.
There's a text story about "Pancho the Charro" in WDC&S 35 (titled "La
Pinata"), who has adventures with DD and Jose Carioca; this is an
embryonic version of Panchito, much less streamlined (the same model
was used for the Panchito story in WDC&S 38, but with the character's
final name). And WDC&S 34 has "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" (yes, THAT
penguin) as a text story two years before "The Three Caballeros" --
and rather than looking as he did in final form, Pablo resembles the
penguins in the 1939 AT strip-story "Polar Trapper".
There's a 1944 storybook, "Walt Disney's Surprise Package"
with stories that Disney Studio hoped to make into later films. It is
the first appearance of the Disney Br'er Rabbit and has a story about
Lady (of Lady and the Tramp) a full ten years before the character
appeared anywhere else! And again, there are a few characters whose
films never made it to fruition.
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
In a few 1960s stories titled "Mickey Mouse: Super Secret
Agent" Paul Murry had another artist draw his backgrounds for him, as
well as the supporting characters besides Mickey and Goofy (who in
these stories, were human beings). Weird idea. I can't name the
artist off the top of my head, but I believe Murry drew stories all by
himself in every other case.
D93506:
is called "Princess Oona" in English and was written by Stefan
Printz-Pahlson. The cave-duck will return again for an occasional
story in the future; in fact, he asked me to see what the
mailing-list thought of her. Any suggestions, guys and gals?
(Stefan may join us here before too long. A couple months ago
he thought E-mail for his office was imminent, but no such luck...)
THE KELLY GREMLINS
and the Roald Dahl gremlins are indeed the same. Charles
Solomon does have some art from the film in his book _The Disney That
Never Was_, but plainly has no idea that Disney got to the point of
having comics done about the characters. If Another Rainbow had done
this book, as was their initial hope, there would have been a lot more
about that project in there, as well as the short cartoons in general.
ON A RELATED NOTE:
WDC&S around 1943 contains a lot of material featuring
characters who were then only in the earliest stages of development.
There's a text story about "Pancho the Charro" in WDC&S 35 (titled "La
Pinata"), who has adventures with DD and Jose Carioca; this is an
embryonic version of Panchito, much less streamlined (the same model
was used for the Panchito story in WDC&S 38, but with the character's
final name). And WDC&S 34 has "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" (yes, THAT
penguin) as a text story two years before "The Three Caballeros" --
and rather than looking as he did in final form, Pablo resembles the
penguins in the 1939 AT strip-story "Polar Trapper".
There's a 1944 storybook, "Walt Disney's Surprise Package"
with stories that Disney Studio hoped to make into later films. It is
the first appearance of the Disney Br'er Rabbit and has a story about
Lady (of Lady and the Tramp) a full ten years before the character
appeared anywhere else! And again, there are a few characters whose
films never made it to fruition.
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Dan Shane
Disney comics Digest V96 #38
Message 129 -
1996-02-20 at 01:46:33
I'm glad a few of you are trying out THE $CROOGE McDUCK PAGE to see how
it's shaping up, and thank you, Geir, for the compliment. It's the hope
of Don and myself that folks are entertained while they're learning
about the comic creation process, so we've worked pretty hard to put out
a nice page, and we'll keep fiddlin' with it, since it will never truly
be a finished product. There will always be new stuff to add, and we
really hope other artists and writers will want to get involved in the
process.
We apologize for the slowness of the Web site at present. It's posted on
CompuServe's Web server, and lately they have been so busy that any
access to the service is slow right now. We're hoping we can move the
site to a faster, larger service in the future. We'll have to, if Don
doesn't stop producing so much material, let alone anyone else who jumps
on with us.
it's shaping up, and thank you, Geir, for the compliment. It's the hope
of Don and myself that folks are entertained while they're learning
about the comic creation process, so we've worked pretty hard to put out
a nice page, and we'll keep fiddlin' with it, since it will never truly
be a finished product. There will always be new stuff to add, and we
really hope other artists and writers will want to get involved in the
process.
We apologize for the slowness of the Web site at present. It's posted on
CompuServe's Web server, and lately they have been so busy that any
access to the service is slow right now. We're hoping we can move the
site to a faster, larger service in the future. We'll have to, if Don
doesn't stop producing so much material, let alone anyone else who jumps
on with us.
Harry Fluks
Non-Disney again... (sorry)
Message 130 -
1996-02-20 at 09:22:32
I said:
> in Holland we have stickers to put on our mailbox
> saying "no unaddressed mail".
And Mikko replied:
> Yep, we can do a similar thing in Finland. But what's the
> point? If somebody wants to treat me with tons of *free*
> advertisment-mail, I don't have problem with it.
I do. That's an unnecessary waste of tons of paper.
I think everyone should either have such a sticker, or
*read* all the stuff that comes in his mailbox.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks ()_() Dutch Disney comics freak
Leidschendam (_) (Email removed)
The Netherlands "Yeah.. I've _heard_ of coral barques"
> in Holland we have stickers to put on our mailbox
> saying "no unaddressed mail".
And Mikko replied:
> Yep, we can do a similar thing in Finland. But what's the
> point? If somebody wants to treat me with tons of *free*
> advertisment-mail, I don't have problem with it.
I do. That's an unnecessary waste of tons of paper.
I think everyone should either have such a sticker, or
*read* all the stuff that comes in his mailbox.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks ()_() Dutch Disney comics freak
Leidschendam (_) (Email removed)
The Netherlands "Yeah.. I've _heard_ of coral barques"
Adam Wieherdt
Disney comics Digest V96 #22
Message 131 -
1996-02-20 at 22:03:45
I would like for you to unsubscribe me please
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Disney comics Digest V96 #39
Message 132 -
1996-02-21 at 00:07:47
Please unsubscribe me from this mailing...
Thanx...
The End
Thanx...
The End
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #39
Message 133 -
1996-02-21 at 06:32:00
HARRY:
I'm not sure how much you know about what Tello told me "what did
Tello tell you". Are you aware - did you mention - that Tello is pronounced
"tell-you"? And you do seem to be aware that I did meet him during my very
first European tour in 1991 when I also visited a Disney comics conference
in Paris. And this is funny I'd be telling you this since I just got through
being confused about how your name is pronounced.
I met Tello at the hotel when I arrived, and shortly afterwards I
was in a cab with my then-editor, Nancy Dejgaard. And since I always have
trouble remembering these strange new European names, I hadn't caught his
name. So I asked Nancy "Could you tell me that fellow's name again?" and she
said "Tello." So I said, "yes, tell me." And she repeated "TELLO!" And I
said "That's right! ME! TELL ME!!!" And it went on like that for a few
seconds before I caught on. (That's actually a true lil' story, fer what
it's worth.)
But how about Dejgaard? That's pronounced "Die-go". But I don't have
any vaguely amusing story for that name.
I'm not sure how much you know about what Tello told me "what did
Tello tell you". Are you aware - did you mention - that Tello is pronounced
"tell-you"? And you do seem to be aware that I did meet him during my very
first European tour in 1991 when I also visited a Disney comics conference
in Paris. And this is funny I'd be telling you this since I just got through
being confused about how your name is pronounced.
I met Tello at the hotel when I arrived, and shortly afterwards I
was in a cab with my then-editor, Nancy Dejgaard. And since I always have
trouble remembering these strange new European names, I hadn't caught his
name. So I asked Nancy "Could you tell me that fellow's name again?" and she
said "Tello." So I said, "yes, tell me." And she repeated "TELLO!" And I
said "That's right! ME! TELL ME!!!" And it went on like that for a few
seconds before I caught on. (That's actually a true lil' story, fer what
it's worth.)
But how about Dejgaard? That's pronounced "Die-go". But I don't have
any vaguely amusing story for that name.
DBirnbaum
Disney comics Digest V96 #28
Message 134 -
1996-02-21 at 07:19:40
Please take my name off your e-mail list. Thanks, (Email removed)
Jacob Sparre Andersen
Princess Oona (D93506)
Message 135 -
1996-02-21 at 12:24:48
DAVID G:
If this story is the one I think it is, then I must admit that I didn't
think much of it.
The end of the story did (as said previously) indicate that the cave duck
will return.
Greetings,
Jacob
--
Have you played with your LEGO today?
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URL's: "mailto:(Email removed)", "http://fys.ku.dk/~sparre".
--
"We need a plan to diverge from", Fesser
--
LEGO: MOC+++c TO+++(6543) TC+++(8880) AQ+++ BV-- #++ S LS++ A-/+ YB72m
If this story is the one I think it is, then I must admit that I didn't
think much of it.
The end of the story did (as said previously) indicate that the cave duck
will return.
Greetings,
Jacob
--
Have you played with your LEGO today?
--
URL's: "mailto:(Email removed)", "http://fys.ku.dk/~sparre".
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"We need a plan to diverge from", Fesser
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LEGO: MOC+++c TO+++(6543) TC+++(8880) AQ+++ BV-- #++ S LS++ A-/+ YB72m