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FABIO --

Far be it from me to question an expert on the subject, but "rotini" is
the name used in the U.S. for that helix-shaped pasta so popular in salad bars.
The artist who did the backgrounds and non-toons figures in the "Mickey
Mouse, Secret Agent" stories is Dan Spiegel. He did a lot of work for Dell and
Gold Key, mostly westerns and other TV adaptations. Later, at Marvel, he drew a
lot of Hanna Barbera stories. Mark Evanier has written on the irony of being the
"realistic" guy at a company that did mostly toons, then the "toon" guy at a
company that did mostly superheroes.

DON R. --
"I have NO idea what Gladstone needs to get approved by Disney."
And neither does anybody else. My official guideline on that is to stick
in whatever I want, and if they don't like it, they'll say so.

JYRKI VAINIO --
It may be that I'm just unobservant, but as far as I ever noticed, the
only Beagle who ever had an individual trait, as depicted by Beagles creator
Carl Barks, was the one who liked prunes. Other than that, it was like they all
came out of the same cookie cutter.
Others have done specialized Beagles -- notably the Duck Tales TV show
guys, but they're far from the only ones -- but none of these seem to be
particularly consistent with one another. Again, tho, this could be just because
I'm unobservant.

Quack, Don

DAVID or DON or whoever has been in contact with Gladstone recently:

Are they EVER going to bring back the letters columns to the titles other
than WDC&S?!?

-Augie, and have they used any of my letters in the newsletter I refuse
to get?
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> Talking about websurfing, I saw an article about Carl Barks on
> <HTTP://WWW.IFI.UIO.NO/%7EBJOERNEN/HB-4-94/BARKS.HTML>. It's all in
> Norwegian though, so I couldn't read it. It also had a picture of Carl
> Barks. Can anyone tell me what it's about?

For anyone interested in this article, the URL is

http://www.ifi.uio.no/~bjoernen/HB-4-94/barks.html

Please note differences in case. The article contains an interesting and
as far as I can tell accurate description of Barks' life and career.
There are also some words about his visit to Norway, which obviously
prompted the writing of it.

Most facts should be known to those who have been on this list a while,
so I don't think a full translation is necessary and if so it should best
be done by a native Norwegian.

/F

I'm looking for more information about a story published by
Egmont in 1990. It is a Danish story titled "Det glade pip" and I'm
trying to figure out if it's the one where Scrooge gets panic attacks
every time he thinks about Magica De Spell. The Ducks take him to a
psychologist, whose techniques begin backfiring when Magica really
does show up.
The code is D 10108 and it was in number 21/1990. Does my
plot match the story code and issue, or am I remembering something
else? The story was most certainly drawn by Daniel Branca.

David Gerstein
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JYRKI:
Barks never gave any of his Beagle Boys any distinct personalities
.. all except that one who, in two stories, mentioned liking prunes, and I
would be surprised if he had the same prison number in both stories.
If Barks ever did give special personalities to particular Beagles,
I hope somebody tells of it! It would be something I've completely missed
and I'll wanna go check up on it!

MIKE
"HDL are getting their own personalities with DuckDaze."
Actually, Ron Fernandez and the Blocks are trying to do the
same thing, although they're often stymied by colorists making
mistakes (I've often seen Scott Rockwell mix them up, for example in
the Croesus story, second part -- and of course Egmont and Oberon are
going to have their own colors for these stories when they use them).
I don't mind HDL being individuals in personality, but I do
think it's just too much to make them dress differently and have
different hair (feather?) styles as in DuckDaze. In DuckDaze they
will have different voices from one another, too according to the
press releases I have read. I get the feeling that the only thing
they'll have in common with the old HDL is the names...

AUGIE:
I think one of your letters may be in one of the Gladstone
Gazette issues, but I'll have to go back and check.
I have no news about the letter columns. As you saw, the
editorial pages in the recent DDM were all "The Year That Was"
offerings. I don't have any say in these kinds of decisions.
BTW, I have gotten permission to make my "Current Gladstones"
page into the "official" Gladstone Web-page, which I imagine they may
like to start maintaining if/when they eventually get web access. I
have permission to reprint a few articles from back issues of their
Gazette, as well as the current monthly Cross Talk column.
When I get through you'll be able to order Gladstone back
issues through the page, too. And I'll write some of my own "The Year
That Was" features just for the page.
These changes will probably go into effect when I get back
from Spring Break, about a month from now. I have a lot of work; so
far all I've changed is to add images of the Gladstone logo to the top
of the page.

ALL:
Aside from that lack of a letter-column the new DDM is
absolutely super. The Barks story is one of my favorites, but Byron
and Ferioli's Mickey story is especially enjoyable. Beautiful art;
although the characters aren't drawn in a Gottfredson style, they have
a Gottfredson-like penline to them and similar bounce, enough that the
FG influence is obvious. The story is quite enjoyable too.
And the backup is a Bob Foster "Goofy Look At..." 4-pager,
which proves that there are indeed good Jaime Diaz Goofy stories out
there. (I always liked this series when Disney ran it now and then in
WDC&S. This one is as good as ever. Originally meant for WDC&S 586
when Disney held the license, I think.)
The "Year that Was" features present two exceedingly weird
activity pages from 1950s Disney comics. There is a Goofy flip-book
type thing, as well as a Donald "find what's wrong with this picture"
illustration, both by Strobl (although uncredited). Quite funny text
along with them, pointing out the strangeness.
This is quite possibly the best issue of this title since
Gladstone II began. Just a great comic, period.

PER:
The Disney Comics web-page says now that it has been updated
on March 4 (today), but I see no signs of any changes. In fact only
the central page has the new date.

David Gerstein
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On Mar 4, 10:45pm, Augie De Blieck Jr wrote:
> Subject: Re: Disney comics Digest V96 #49

> Gladstone Comics scheduled to ship in May 1996:
>
> Donald Duck Adventures: "The Treasure of Ringtail Van Dukke"
> by Ben Verhagen
>
Oh yay! I translated and scripted that one -- I'd been
wondering when it would ever show up. That's the one where
I decided the historical background as shown in the art
was _so_ Dutch that there was no point in trying to disguise
it as Olde Englishe, so I made it Old Dutch. Thus Donald's
ancestor is Ringtail van Dukke while the Scrooge prototype
is Uncle Pinchpenny van Dukke. Not to mention Ye van Biegel Lads.
Oh, and a "ringtail" is a kind of sail, so it seemed to fit a
16th Century seafaring yarn like this one. As you can tell,
I had a good time with this story.

--Dwight Decker

David,

> The code is D 10108 and it was in number 21/1990.

Yes, the plot matches with the description.

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