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DAVID:
I read your Sheep story! At first I thought it wasn't too great,
because I was sure I knew the way it would end (actually I thought so
all the time before the last page); Donald would take the wolf to the farm,
be discovered out and fired. It was a real surprise that the sheep were
in the pithole! And the Little Red Ridinghood part was funny, too. And the
part where Donald fell in the two pitholes. The first one was funny, but
the second one really surprised me.

THE BEAGLES:
I just finished a short four page story "Horsing around with
His story" which is a parody of a certain Barks story, which I made to show
Egmont editor-in-chief Byron Erickson the way I draw. In that story I had
Beagles "14152873162227192312", "176-66", "1701" and "176-176=0". So I think
that proves that everybody don't use the same rules. And some of the Beagles
could be wearing another Beagle's shirt or they could be disguised as another
Beagle by changing the number...

--

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

WES:
Fethry is also a duck (isn't he referred to as "Fethry DUCK"
in the first panel? Without the capital letters that is ;-)
And I thought Fethry, with his Britishisms and slang, was a
refreshing change to have now and then. The best stories using him
have yet to see print here, though. I'm particularly fond of one
where he comes to Donald's house claiming he's now an efficiency
expert. He "remodels" Donald's household and even his diet in an
effort to improve things. He's sort of a Laurel to Donald's Hardy
(and sure enough, in the last panel, Donald is chasing Fethry
furiously down the street). It's an Italian story, one which I may
rework for Gladstone one of these days.
The last page of "Colossus of the Nile" did not exist in
black-and-white proof form and had to be restored from a digest, as
did the last page of the first part and the first page of the second.
This is why it has not been printed by Gladstone until now (there
weren't even these restored versions of the pages until recently).

David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>

DON D. & DON R.

The point about Duckburgian embassy was an interesting one and it
reminded me about one other thing that puzzled me at the time I
first saw it: in Don R's Lillehammer story Donald was chosen to
be Duckburg's representative in the Olympic Games. Was this just
some odd choice of words or was it like that in the original
script as well? Why was it so? And if it wasn't it still seem a
bit strange that a member of the American contingent of the
Olympics was to be chosen in a local tournament like that.

--- Jyrki Vainio ---

WES:

Nice of you to defend my use of Donald, but I am in partial agreement with
the critic on that count. Being primarilly a fan of the $crooge adventures,
I DO seem to treat Donald as just a comedy-relief sidekick, and therefore I
inadvertantly often find myself giving the meaningful dialogue and
activities to $crooge and the Kids, while I find little to do with Donald
but use him for prattfalls and deadpan comments on how useless he sees any
quest for riches or knowledge. I don't mean to say I think this is correct,
but I do know it is a rut I easilly fall into, and I try to watch myself.

...But I think I have, on a few occaisions, made excellent use of Donald as
the hero. My whole purpose of"Super Snooper Strikes Again" was expressly to
prove that Donald is the most noble of all the Ducks in Duckburg, and that
was also part of the message in "The Duck Who Never Was". He's the hero in
"The Once and Future Duck" (which is yet to be printed), and the "War of the
Wendigo" which you site (which is yet to be seen in America, if ever). But
one you didn't mention where I thought I did an especially nice job with
Donald is in "Return to Xanadu" where he saves everyone in Tralla La through
sheer determination and will, though he thinks he's sacrificing his own life
to do so. I can't see how to give him a better part in a story than that.

But it might help me to see someone write an "essay" on just how noble a
character Donald is made out in all those 10-pagers. I probably just don't
catch the nuances myself. He's usually shown as too proud or arrogant or
beligerent or vengeful or selfish or jealous or greedy or having his actions
controlled by about two dozen more of the 7 Deadly Sins. But that's why I
like him! What nobility he has might be the simple nobility of the common
man, which is rather vague, but no less real... and I think that was the
idea I was trying to highlight in "Super Snooper Strikes Again".

But (and that's the third paragraph to begin with that word) -- I DO think
I'm not diligent enough for finding a reason for Donald to exist in the
$crooge adventures, and I'll keep trying to improve along those lines.

JYRKI:

Of course it was inexplicable as to why Duckburg would send a special
contingent to the Winter Olympics in my story, since I regard Duckburg as
simply a common, mid-sized American city. But the Norwegian editor (and my
good friend) naturally wanted a story where I dealt with the actual Olympics
in Norway, and I don't blame him. Actually, in my first draft of the story,
I was just saying that Duckburg was having try-outs for the American Olympic
teams, and that was to be it. But then Norway wanted me to actually set the
end of the story in Lillehammer, and I was at a loss as to explain why an
American city would have an Olympic presence as if it were an entire
country. But, as glad as I was to do that story for the Norwegian publisher
and the Norwegian Duck fans, I've always said it was rather awkward to
handle and NOT one of my better jobs.

WES AND HEFFALUMP:

There is one Don Rosa's Scrooge story that especially caught my eye
with having Donald be such a hero was Return to Xanadu, where Donald is friendly
and strong and big and gourageous and everything. Rather surpsided me.

--

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

I was surfing the Web and found a site advertising Citizen Kane
<http://www.voyagerco.com:80/CC/ph/p.citizenkane.html>. Those who haven't
seen the movie can download a QuickTime clip from the beginning of the
movie. There's a reference to this scene in Lo$ #12. Don't wait too much
though, the clip is too short.

-- ___
Henri Sivonen / \
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Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris \__

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David Gerstein on some Fethry story:

> I'm particularly fond of one
> where he comes to Donald's house claiming he's now an efficiency
> expert. He "remodels" Donald's household and even his diet in an
> effort to improve things. [...] It's an Italian story, one which I
> may rework for Gladstone one of these days.

Hey, that sounds like a rework of an old S-coded classic by Al Hubbard
(code: S 64038, Swedish publication: KA 1/1965). In fact, Hubbard even did
another one with a "effectiveness theme" (S 64033, KA 43/65), although that
one is not limited to Donald's household. Two of the great ones, alright.

---
Anders Engwall

"Alle man står still som en stum fisk, tills vi hittar den knyckta stångkorven!"