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ALL:
A couple of folks, much smarter than I, have responded to my pasta query via
E-Mail. This of course avoids cluttering up the list with redundent lists of
names of pasta (best submitted with a short descriptive phrase). So please,
folks wanting to have fun with this, reply via E-Mail to
(Email removed), rather than through the list. Thanks!

DON ROSA:
That Jesse James sounds like one tough hombre. Must be a mighty stern look he
puts behind that wagging finger. Does he just scold them into submission?
Boy-oh-boy...

I've done stories [Egmont, not Gladstone] where guns are used by the bad
guys. I've learned to always to describe the weapon as "a big
cartoony-looking pistol" which in my mind I see as something I must have once
seen in an old Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Also, as much as possible, after the gun is first displayed, I try to mask
its presence. (e.g. Put it in a bulging pocket, but still trained on the
victim, or keep it just out of frame once I've fixed its location for the
reader.) The effect of the gun is still there, though.
* Evaluation copy of Silver Xpress. Day # 62
--- via Silver Xpress V4.01 [NR]

DON
Sounds like Gladstone is using the old Charlton ploy of connecting titles or
continuing numbering so they don't have to pay added postal fees to begin a
new title. I remember talking to Dick Giordano once about that strange
practice and he said it was as much a money saving aspect of being a small
publishing company as it was just having to deal with the paperwork.
I've come to enjoy the color albums the way Gladstone has issued them -- I
wasn't enthalled at first, but considering the price they'd have to charge
for a hardback version and the uncertain return, it's probably the best
solution.
Mark Worden has decided to come out of hibernation and make a visit to sunny
Florida in early March -- he wants to see the Tigers in a spring training
game and do Disney World. I still remember going to Disney World about 6 or 7
years ago and seeing a Barks lithograph. I asked about the price and the
woman working there fumbled quite a bit and said it was $10. I was ready to
buy 20 of them when she quickly corrected herself and told me the real price
$600 or so (can't recall). It's tough to flirt with deceit when it's waved in
front of your nose like that.

Gary Brown
Bradenton, FL

HENRI:
"I got Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #601 today. The
coloring of "The Treasury of Croesus" was a disappointment for me. The
colors seemed too bright (IMHO). For example the page in the British
Museum. Is it just a matter of colorist or could the paper type cause
that?"
No, the paper type isn't responsible, for as you've probably
seen, the color in many other stories in the issue (especially
"Blaggard Castle") is great! I think Scott Rockwell, the colorist of
"Croesus," just used colors that were often too dark. I can always
tell his coloring because the inside walls of many rooms are a bright
turquoise, which takes my eyes off the characters.
Rockwell colors desert scenes exquisitely, and is often chosen
for Middle Eastern stories (i. e. "Colossus of the Nile", "The Lentils
from Babylon") on which he does a great job. I'm not so hot on his
stories set in Duckburg, but he can only improve with time.

David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>

HARRY:
As to the Greek spelling for Croesus, yes, there is always the "out"
that I was writing it as Croesus, himself, would have spelled it. My
research told me that the Lydians were known to use Greek letters, but that
NO ONE has ever found or disciphered any Lydian writing. Same as we use the
same letters as you do in Holland, but we still can't read each other's
gibberish. (Or... at least I can't read YOUR gibberish. I know you can read
MY gibberish better than can most other Americans.) So, any way I might have
written "Croesus", as long as I say it was in Lydian, no one can fault me.
HAH!!!

PER:
Something new and strange is happening to my e-mail as regards the
Digest. As you know, I and others would, for several years, always get
"undeliverable mail" bounced back at us on a daily basis. Then suddenly,
perhaps when you switched software or mainframe or something last year, I
realize now that those bounced messages completely ceased, which was swell.
But now, as of the past two days, I am getting the bounced messages
again (and perhaps this is true of others?). But instead of them being
messages I sent to the Digest one day ago, they are labelled "messages
undeliverable for 122 days" and they are messages from that long ago. Is
"122" some magic number of days for your Digest? I wonder if this will go
one all the time, like it useta, only with 122-day-old bouncers.

Don Rosa asked about the sudden reappearance of bounce messages,
saying "message undeliverable for 122 days". Well, those are *old*
messages from before I changed the list software, so they will still
bounce back just like any messages from that time did. Of course not
many mailers send bounce messages back after such a long time, so it's
just bad luck that some of these old messages still are generating
bounces.

/Per

MIKE M.:

About the Comic Art italian reprint:

> Can you please supply more
>information on these books? Price, reproduction quality, Comic Art's
>address? Thanks.

The address is
EDITRICE COMIC ART
Via F. Domiziano, 9
00145 Roma.
Italy

Tel. 06/5413737
Fax 06/5410775 (remember to add the country code for Italy...)

It's a publishing house specialized in reprint of classic works (Phantom,
Mandrake, Popeye, etc.: they claim that their edition of Flash Gordon has
the better reprodution ever seen of that work in the world)

Keep in mind that they don't do bi-lingual books: everything is in italian...

The prices are rather high, but if you subscribe to the "Comic Art Club"
(80.000 lire /Year) you get a discount (50% on the Disney Books)

They are reprinting a lot of Disney stuff: all the sunday pages (in color)
and all the daily strips (in b/w: some are then reprinted again in gourgeos,
very large, color albums).

The prices and the formats are very variable: as an example, the sunday
pages are reprinted on 12.5" x 17" albums (26 pages each) for 40.000 lire
each. (20.000 lire with the discount)

The Hardback serie I was talking about is named "Capolavori Disney" (Disney
Masterworks): I think that 24 have been published until now (but I am not sure)
Every book reprint the stories in chronological order, but the books
themselver are not printed chronologically... (so the book about Scarpa
1960 can be printed before Scarpa 1958...)
The books are 7" x 10" numbered hardbacks, without dustcovers, with a page
count ranging from 100 to 240 pages (in B/W) each:
6 with art by Romano Scarpa
4 with art by Giovan Battista Carpi
3 with art by Luciano Bottaro.
3 with art by Paul Murry
2 with art by Bill Wright
2 with art by Riley Thompson
and the others with art by Giorgio Cavazzano, Walt Kelly, Ken Hultgren, Jack
Bradbury (1 each)

Books from the same artist, plus Carl Buettner, are planned for this year.

The price is 40.000 lire each (20.000 with the discount)

I have all the books from italian artists, and I have already brought the
Walt Kelly one, too.

The book about Walt Kelly is the slimmest (102 pages only). It contains the
"Gremlins" pages from "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" 34-41, and the two
stories "Donald Duck and the Seven Dwarfs" (WDCS 43) and, "The three
Caballeros" (Four Color comics 71), plus 15 color covers from 1943-45 and
the two-pager "Donald Duck's contest" (WDCS 44)

(No, I am not so expert. There is a introdution by Alberto Beccatini and a
chronology...)

Ciao,
/\/\oreno.

ANYONE:
Does anyone know of a collector index of the Disney pages in GOOD
HOUSEKEEPING from 1934-44. I know the dates, but I need a list of the
subjects in each issue.
Also -- I haven't paid enough attention to know if I'm remembering
old reprints or new stories... but do any new Egmont or Oberon stories use
Donald's dog Bolivar? When was he last in the comic books? 1944? Or last
week? (I was checking old strip albums, and I see that in the 30s Donald
owned a whole menagerie of critters at his home. Bolivar, plus a goat, a
donkey and even an ostrich!)

FRANK:
As regards your idea of UNCLE $CROOGE being an "all Don Rosa" title:
to have my stories all in one title, as they have been for the past 2 years,
and as is the case with most other comic artists in America with the system
such as it is, would be fun. But it wouldn't work. At 6 26-page issues a
year, that's around 160 pages per year. I only produce about 100-105 pages
per year, since I do the writing and the drawing, and I do it all soooo
sloooow. Also, I do a Donald sans $crooge story once or twice a year.
Besides, you don't want UNCLE $CROOGE comics to no longer have Barks
stories!

AUGIE:
Your message seemed to pick up in mid-sentence, but you seem to be
referring to the new COMICS JOURNAL with my antique interview. Yes, that's
finally out -- they sent me some issues earlier this week. There is some
confusion in all this "update" business... the interview was done in 1989
when I was unemployed, and had yet to start working for Egmont -- so this is
an interview desparately in need of an update! But the prologue that Dana
Gabbard's name is on was written in 1993 when he submitted the 1989
interview to TCJ, so there is actually nothing in his text newer than 1989
except that paragraph. And even the last few sentences in that paragraph are
not his words, as you might guess. There's a reference to an update done
last month by R.C.Harvey -- Dana would have had to been in touch with Dionne
Warwick to know about that in 1993.
Also, due to the many deaths of greats in the last weeks which TCJ
will naturally need to deal with, they've told me that they don't want to
cut anything out of the interview, so it will now be in THREE parts, with
Harvey's update as part 3.
You didn't mention the flip-cover I did of real ducks dressed up in
comic-book Duck clothes in $crooge's office. They were supposed to have an
image of a note clipped to the cover saying "MEMO from the desk of G.Groth:
to Don Rosa... we begged and pleaded, but Disney flatly refused to allow us
to use their characters on the cover, so you'll need to redraw that great
cover you sent."
They wanted photos of me from around 1975-90, which I don't have, at
least none except of me hiking or snorkeling or somesuch. Nobody wanted my
picture in those days. The shot you refer to of me and one of my bassetts is
off the back cover of one of my CAPTAIN KENTUCKY issues. Wow -- that's from
over 15 years ago and I have more hair than the dog does. Not no mo.

DAVE R.:
I get away with murder, I guess. Well, that's the wrong anology in
this case. But in my Egmont stories I never shy from using guns. And, of
course, ME -- I get out reference books and draw them as true-to-life as I
can, not cartoony. I think the only thing anyone ever told me to do is not
have anybody blow somebody's head off. No, I mean they said not to have
anyone actually shoot AT anyone. Threatening and firing warning shots seems
to be okay. Or did they tell me that or did I just decide that was the way
to go? I don't even recall for certain. I just realized that I had people
shooting $crooge's hat to bits in chapter XI of the "Lo$". And Disney let
that go through. (Now I wonder why they took the guns out of Jesse's hands
in part III? Does the James Gang have a pending lawsuit, I wonder?)

PER:
No more 122 day old bounces today. Were those just flukes? Harry,
did you do that?

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