UPC stands for Universal Product Code. It is a series of lines in the lower
corner of magazines in the United States. It is there for light scanners to
"read" information about the magazine.-title,price,etc. Most grocery stores
use this system to scan each item being sold. A UPC code is on most items in
the U.S. On comics sold directly to comic book shops, the 1 inch by 2 inch
rectangle in the lower corner of comic books, previously came with a picture
or drawing in the box, rather than the lines-code. Now most comics even have
the code. Some larger comic stores have scanning equipment.
As for the color at the top of Gladstone's comics, that is a way for
stores to know when to pull old titles. Their are usually 4 colors used for
each week of the month-red,green,blue,and yellow. When the new color for the
week comes into a store, the store can easily look at the tops of the comics
on the rack and pull all the old comics of that color, replacing them with
the new comics of that color, and so on each week. If you have any other
questions concerning this, feel free to write me personally.
--BARRY--
"I don't know about status, but I own the hotel!"
Author
Topic: 199603
(196 messages)
BBranvold
Disney comics Digest V96 #53
Message 76 -
1996-03-10 at 07:25:16
Jyrki Vainio
Disney comics Digest V96 #53
Message 77 -
1996-03-10 at 12:25:52
HENRI:
So do you mean that Wallu has drawn both Winnie the Pooh strips
AND comic book stories?
Now that I think of it, I've actually SEEN this German edition of
Punaniska, called REDNECK.
ALL:
Finnish cartoonist Mauri Kunnas made a DOnald Duck story at some
point in the 70s. He had trained himself for a long time so that
he was able to produce drawings VERY much Barks-like. In fact,
when he offered the pages to the publisher (Egmont, probably)
they refused to publish it because it was TOO MUCH like Barks.
Anyway, they bought the script and someone else re-drew it. Can
anyone tell me, when was this story published in Scandinavia?
Harry, do you find it in your Database?
--- Jyrki Vainio ---
So do you mean that Wallu has drawn both Winnie the Pooh strips
AND comic book stories?
Now that I think of it, I've actually SEEN this German edition of
Punaniska, called REDNECK.
ALL:
Finnish cartoonist Mauri Kunnas made a DOnald Duck story at some
point in the 70s. He had trained himself for a long time so that
he was able to produce drawings VERY much Barks-like. In fact,
when he offered the pages to the publisher (Egmont, probably)
they refused to publish it because it was TOO MUCH like Barks.
Anyway, they bought the script and someone else re-drew it. Can
anyone tell me, when was this story published in Scandinavia?
Harry, do you find it in your Database?
--- Jyrki Vainio ---
Tryg Helseth
Calisota's other Attributes
Message 78 -
1996-03-10 at 14:07:18
ALL:
It was stated that Harry Fluks originally started the idea of a slogan for
the great state of Calisota. With the recent discussions of this I started
to think about the other attributes typically given to states and thought I
would thorw out a starter list that others could improve upon.
CALISOTA:
Nickname: "The Web Foot State" (From Wes)
Motto: "Where all the ducks are strong and the drakes good looking."
Bird: Duck
Animal: Beagle
Fish: Holy mackerel
Insect: Cornelius Cootie
Flower: Daisy
Song: "Calisota Ducks"
Gemstone: Candy-striped ruby
Tryg
"I wish they all could be Calisota Ducks!" --the Beach Drakes
Tryg Helseth <(Email removed)> Minneapolis, MN, USA
or <(Email removed)>
It was stated that Harry Fluks originally started the idea of a slogan for
the great state of Calisota. With the recent discussions of this I started
to think about the other attributes typically given to states and thought I
would thorw out a starter list that others could improve upon.
CALISOTA:
Nickname: "The Web Foot State" (From Wes)
Motto: "Where all the ducks are strong and the drakes good looking."
Bird: Duck
Animal: Beagle
Fish: Holy mackerel
Insect: Cornelius Cootie
Flower: Daisy
Song: "Calisota Ducks"
Gemstone: Candy-striped ruby
Tryg
"I wish they all could be Calisota Ducks!" --the Beach Drakes
Tryg Helseth <(Email removed)> Minneapolis, MN, USA
or <(Email removed)>
TKlein28
Digest 53
Message 79 -
1996-03-10 at 14:23:03
TIGGER:
Have you ever read the original "Winnie the Pooh" stories by A.A. Milne? They
are different from the Disney version, but fun to read.
ARTHUR:
UPC stands for Universal Price Code. On magazines that are sold on
newsstands, in drug stores, supermarkets, or anyplace other than in comics
shops, the box is filled with a computer code that contains the product name
and price. This can be read by scanners that are used by many such
businesses, saving them the time of ringing up each item individually, and
keeping an inventory of what has been sold on their computer system.
The color bars at the top of Gladstone comics indicate to distributors and
retailers (those who care) what shipping week that issue came with. Again,
this was really set up for newsstands, where the owner could pull out older
issues by color, to keep his stock current. Don't know how many actually use
the system, but DC helped to set it up in the early 1980's, and I think all
the companies who sell to places other than comics shops use it.
DAN SHANE:
Still wondering if there is a way to access your home pages directly from
Compuserve.
AUGIE:
Give the shirt thing a try. We have lots of places here along the Jersey
shore that will put almost anything on a shirt. (They may draw the line at
obscenity).
TRYG:
I've been wondering for a long time why no one has thought of having Donald
or the nephews drinking from a bottle of "CaliSoda". Seems like an obvious
one.
Todd
Have you ever read the original "Winnie the Pooh" stories by A.A. Milne? They
are different from the Disney version, but fun to read.
ARTHUR:
UPC stands for Universal Price Code. On magazines that are sold on
newsstands, in drug stores, supermarkets, or anyplace other than in comics
shops, the box is filled with a computer code that contains the product name
and price. This can be read by scanners that are used by many such
businesses, saving them the time of ringing up each item individually, and
keeping an inventory of what has been sold on their computer system.
The color bars at the top of Gladstone comics indicate to distributors and
retailers (those who care) what shipping week that issue came with. Again,
this was really set up for newsstands, where the owner could pull out older
issues by color, to keep his stock current. Don't know how many actually use
the system, but DC helped to set it up in the early 1980's, and I think all
the companies who sell to places other than comics shops use it.
DAN SHANE:
Still wondering if there is a way to access your home pages directly from
Compuserve.
AUGIE:
Give the shirt thing a try. We have lots of places here along the Jersey
shore that will put almost anything on a shirt. (They may draw the line at
obscenity).
TRYG:
I've been wondering for a long time why no one has thought of having Donald
or the nephews drinking from a bottle of "CaliSoda". Seems like an obvious
one.
Todd
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Augie's T-shirt
Message 80 -
1996-03-10 at 16:41:49
AUGIE:
> Well, there's some problems with getting someone to print up a t-shirt.
> One is that they never look professional.
Is that what you think or did you find this out after visiting such
T-shirt shops?
My brother once decided to have a T-shirt made of the CD-booklet(!) of
Nirvana's "In Utero". On the front of the T-shirt he had the front-
cover of that booklet and on the back of the T-shirt he had a
colour-photo of that booklet.
The shop-keeper had to enlarge the format of the CD-booklet a lot to
make it suitable for a T-shirt. The costs of the T-shirt were about $20
and it really looked *very* profesional. Even better than some official
T-shirt with the same front-print.
In my previous post about this subject, I gave the idea of printing an
oil painting by Barks on a T-shirt. If you go to the right shop, it
will look like Barks painted it on the T-shirt himself! ;-)
> Another is that I'm pretty sure many places WOULDN'T do that. Hell, I
> know of copy shops which won't copy newspaper articles for fear of
> infringing on copyrights of the local paper. Imagine what they'd think
> when I showed them a Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck!
I think that this depends on the shop you visit. By the way: Is printing
a Disney-picture on a T-shirt for your own use copyright infringement?
Of course there are a lot rules about copyright, but if one would
follow them all, you are even not allowed to copy a CD on a tape for
someone else. There is a difference in what the copyright law says and
what is accepted.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
> Well, there's some problems with getting someone to print up a t-shirt.
> One is that they never look professional.
Is that what you think or did you find this out after visiting such
T-shirt shops?
My brother once decided to have a T-shirt made of the CD-booklet(!) of
Nirvana's "In Utero". On the front of the T-shirt he had the front-
cover of that booklet and on the back of the T-shirt he had a
colour-photo of that booklet.
The shop-keeper had to enlarge the format of the CD-booklet a lot to
make it suitable for a T-shirt. The costs of the T-shirt were about $20
and it really looked *very* profesional. Even better than some official
T-shirt with the same front-print.
In my previous post about this subject, I gave the idea of printing an
oil painting by Barks on a T-shirt. If you go to the right shop, it
will look like Barks painted it on the T-shirt himself! ;-)
> Another is that I'm pretty sure many places WOULDN'T do that. Hell, I
> know of copy shops which won't copy newspaper articles for fear of
> infringing on copyrights of the local paper. Imagine what they'd think
> when I showed them a Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck!
I think that this depends on the shop you visit. By the way: Is printing
a Disney-picture on a T-shirt for your own use copyright infringement?
Of course there are a lot rules about copyright, but if one would
follow them all, you are even not allowed to copy a CD on a tape for
someone else. There is a difference in what the copyright law says and
what is accepted.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Kunnas' Barks-like story
Message 81 -
1996-03-10 at 16:48:59
JYRKI:
> Finnish cartoonist Mauri Kunnas made a DOnald Duck story at some point
> in the 70s. (...) they refused to publish it because it was TOO MUCH
> like Barks. Anyway, they bought the script and someone else re-drew
> it. Can anyone tell me, when was this story published in Scandinavia?
Interesting. Can someone also tell if the original art still exists and
if it has been published somewhere else? If the story is good, maybe an
attempt could be done to search this original art for a possible
publication in a Gladstone comic?
BTW. Too much like Barks??? Imagine all Jippes' stories being redrawn
for that reason... AARGH! ;-)
Greetings,
--- Daniel
> Finnish cartoonist Mauri Kunnas made a DOnald Duck story at some point
> in the 70s. (...) they refused to publish it because it was TOO MUCH
> like Barks. Anyway, they bought the script and someone else re-drew
> it. Can anyone tell me, when was this story published in Scandinavia?
Interesting. Can someone also tell if the original art still exists and
if it has been published somewhere else? If the story is good, maybe an
attempt could be done to search this original art for a possible
publication in a Gladstone comic?
BTW. Too much like Barks??? Imagine all Jippes' stories being redrawn
for that reason... AARGH! ;-)
Greetings,
--- Daniel
David A Gerstein
Of Winnies and Witches and Wearables (Gladstone can delete that first "and" if they want)
Message 82 -
1996-03-10 at 20:40:33
"TIGGER-N-POOH":
See any Jagulars lately? ;-)
There is an English version of that Dutch DISNEYLAND comic.
It in fact is like the British comic "DISNEY AND ME" -- and indeed
includes short Pooh stories, some with text at the bottom of the
panels, others with normal-styled speech balloons. Also some Chip 'n'
Dale stories which look Italian in origin, although no credits are
given (of course).
You can get DISNEY AND ME from Fleetway in Britain, but we'll
have to have Frank Stajano print the address on the list since I don't
have any of my British Disney comics with me here right now.
Warning: The title of the British edition will cue you into
the juvenile quality of the translation used for the stories. A. A.
Milne would roll over in his grave, poor guy! Fleetway considers its
readers Of Very Little Brain... or Of No Brain At All. ;-)
MICHAEL NAIMAN:
Great to have you on-line! One question which you might be
able to answer on the list, because I think others may wonder about it
too: I haven't seen "Disney's Ousted Ogre" in CBM 29 and suspect this
is an article about how DD 26 ("Trick or Treat") was initially
deprived of its great scene with Smorgie the Bad. Am I right?
BTW, I'll be using Witch Hazel, Beelzebub the live broom, and
Smorgie in a Junior Woodchuck story I plan to do later this year.
We'll get another look at the famed Witches' Moon, mentioned in Barks'
story and first shown by Pat Block (DDA 35), too.
AUGIE:
If I had to choose a Disney cover for a T-shirt, it would
probably be Barks' cover to "Lost in the Andes," Rosa's cover to "Last
Sled to Dawson," or Jippes' cover to the Dutch printing of "Frozen
Gold." (BEAUTIFUL early-style Donald winking out at the viewer as he
stands beside his plane... just BRILLIANT!) I also would like a shirt
with Gottfredson's "Monarch of Medioka" painting on it!
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
See any Jagulars lately? ;-)
There is an English version of that Dutch DISNEYLAND comic.
It in fact is like the British comic "DISNEY AND ME" -- and indeed
includes short Pooh stories, some with text at the bottom of the
panels, others with normal-styled speech balloons. Also some Chip 'n'
Dale stories which look Italian in origin, although no credits are
given (of course).
You can get DISNEY AND ME from Fleetway in Britain, but we'll
have to have Frank Stajano print the address on the list since I don't
have any of my British Disney comics with me here right now.
Warning: The title of the British edition will cue you into
the juvenile quality of the translation used for the stories. A. A.
Milne would roll over in his grave, poor guy! Fleetway considers its
readers Of Very Little Brain... or Of No Brain At All. ;-)
MICHAEL NAIMAN:
Great to have you on-line! One question which you might be
able to answer on the list, because I think others may wonder about it
too: I haven't seen "Disney's Ousted Ogre" in CBM 29 and suspect this
is an article about how DD 26 ("Trick or Treat") was initially
deprived of its great scene with Smorgie the Bad. Am I right?
BTW, I'll be using Witch Hazel, Beelzebub the live broom, and
Smorgie in a Junior Woodchuck story I plan to do later this year.
We'll get another look at the famed Witches' Moon, mentioned in Barks'
story and first shown by Pat Block (DDA 35), too.
AUGIE:
If I had to choose a Disney cover for a T-shirt, it would
probably be Barks' cover to "Lost in the Andes," Rosa's cover to "Last
Sled to Dawson," or Jippes' cover to the Dutch printing of "Frozen
Gold." (BEAUTIFUL early-style Donald winking out at the viewer as he
stands beside his plane... just BRILLIANT!) I also would like a shirt
with Gottfredson's "Monarch of Medioka" painting on it!
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Neal Kinney
Disney comics Digest V96 #53
Message 83 -
1996-03-10 at 21:05:37
TRYG:
The name California was indeed of a fabled island but I always thought it translated to
"hot like a furnace" being derived from the Spanish "caliante" meaning hot and "fornia"
meaning... well, you get the idea. Now if "sota" means "cloud like" we arrive at a
translation of Calisota meaning "Hot Cloud Formations" or, more commonly, "Steam."
Hmmmm... "Calisota, Land of Steam?" Maybe that's why Hispanakota has never caught on as a
viable language? - Neal Kinney
The name California was indeed of a fabled island but I always thought it translated to
"hot like a furnace" being derived from the Spanish "caliante" meaning hot and "fornia"
meaning... well, you get the idea. Now if "sota" means "cloud like" we arrive at a
translation of Calisota meaning "Hot Cloud Formations" or, more commonly, "Steam."
Hmmmm... "Calisota, Land of Steam?" Maybe that's why Hispanakota has never caught on as a
viable language? - Neal Kinney
Arthur De Wolf
UPC
Message 84 -
1996-03-10 at 21:56:53
Hi!
BARRY and TODD:
Thanks for your explanation on the UPC-boxes and colors on top
of every Gladstone comic. But you both said something else about the
meaning of UPC! Barry called it a Universal *Product* Code and Todd
called it a Universal *Price* Code!
So there are actually TWO versions of every comic? One with
a code in the UPC-box, and another with a picture in it?
Bye!
Arthur
BARRY and TODD:
Thanks for your explanation on the UPC-boxes and colors on top
of every Gladstone comic. But you both said something else about the
meaning of UPC! Barry called it a Universal *Product* Code and Todd
called it a Universal *Price* Code!
So there are actually TWO versions of every comic? One with
a code in the UPC-box, and another with a picture in it?
Bye!
Arthur
Harry Fluks
Various replies from the past days
Message 85 -
1996-03-10 at 22:07:58
G. KONGSNES asked:
> Do we agree the BB are six?
and Don Markstein answered:
> I clearly recall a Barks panel that showed eight Beagles simultaneously.
The Barks panel with the most Beagle Boys in it was, as far as I
know, in "The Paul Bunyan Machine". There were 12 (or more?)
Beagles.
MARCO:
> some stories in the 60's -I would say from
> Brazil? Or Disney studios? No, no, that can't be; well, if you know them,
> those terrible stories with (IMH) bad script and worse art, where Magica and
> Madam Mim together try and get $crooge's first coin...
Those (mostly horrible) stories were indeed from the Disney Studios.
I don't know who wrote them, but a lot of them were (horribly) drawn
by Jim Fletcher.
MARANDA:
As Arthur already said, that Disneyland magazine with Winnie the Pooh
stories is in Dutch. That is, the language spoken in the Netherlands,
Europe.
MICHAEL NAIMAN:
Welcome to the List.
Your article "Ducks in Flux" sounds quite interesting... but why spell
it with 'x' in stead of 'ks'? 8-)
JYRKI:
> Finnish cartoonist Mauri Kunnas made a Donald Duck story [...]
> Harry, do you find it in your Database?
No, it's not there. Unfortunately.
I agree the editor must have been Egmont (Gutenberghus at the
time). I expect Kunnas drew his Ducks with long beaks, while
they were redrawing all beaks in their reprints of early Barks
stories, making them shorter.
The Dutch editor would never have rejected a story because
it was "too much Barks"!
TRYG:
> It was stated that Harry Fluks originally started the idea of a slogan for
> the great state of Calisota.
No, I didn't start that. I only mentioned the name "Minnefornia" once.
The slogan discussion was started by Wilmer Rivers ("Who else?" 8-).
DAVID:
> There is an English version of that Dutch DISNEYLAND comic.
> It [..] includes short Pooh stories
Are those stories the same (H-coded) stories?
--Harry Fluks.
> Do we agree the BB are six?
and Don Markstein answered:
> I clearly recall a Barks panel that showed eight Beagles simultaneously.
The Barks panel with the most Beagle Boys in it was, as far as I
know, in "The Paul Bunyan Machine". There were 12 (or more?)
Beagles.
MARCO:
> some stories in the 60's -I would say from
> Brazil? Or Disney studios? No, no, that can't be; well, if you know them,
> those terrible stories with (IMH) bad script and worse art, where Magica and
> Madam Mim together try and get $crooge's first coin...
Those (mostly horrible) stories were indeed from the Disney Studios.
I don't know who wrote them, but a lot of them were (horribly) drawn
by Jim Fletcher.
MARANDA:
As Arthur already said, that Disneyland magazine with Winnie the Pooh
stories is in Dutch. That is, the language spoken in the Netherlands,
Europe.
MICHAEL NAIMAN:
Welcome to the List.
Your article "Ducks in Flux" sounds quite interesting... but why spell
it with 'x' in stead of 'ks'? 8-)
JYRKI:
> Finnish cartoonist Mauri Kunnas made a Donald Duck story [...]
> Harry, do you find it in your Database?
No, it's not there. Unfortunately.
I agree the editor must have been Egmont (Gutenberghus at the
time). I expect Kunnas drew his Ducks with long beaks, while
they were redrawing all beaks in their reprints of early Barks
stories, making them shorter.
The Dutch editor would never have rejected a story because
it was "too much Barks"!
TRYG:
> It was stated that Harry Fluks originally started the idea of a slogan for
> the great state of Calisota.
No, I didn't start that. I only mentioned the name "Minnefornia" once.
The slogan discussion was started by Wilmer Rivers ("Who else?" 8-).
DAVID:
> There is an English version of that Dutch DISNEYLAND comic.
> It [..] includes short Pooh stories
Are those stories the same (H-coded) stories?
--Harry Fluks.
Vidar Svendsen
T-shirts
Message 86 -
1996-03-10 at 23:48:23
Talking about ducky T-shirts. There are some Barks-litographs at
http:///www.ukshops.co.uk:8000/toons/cb1.html.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Vidar
Gentlemen!...
THE world's greatest kite maker -
and he PROVES it by arriving
at the banquet in his car.....
entirely by kite power!
http:///www.ukshops.co.uk:8000/toons/cb1.html.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Vidar
Gentlemen!...
THE world's greatest kite maker -
and he PROVES it by arriving
at the banquet in his car.....
entirely by kite power!
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #52
Message 87 -
1996-03-11 at 01:03:00
Oops -- I'm replying to these Digests in reverse order.
MARCO:
Not being as sharp as all you European fans in being able to read more than
one language... in fact, sometimes a good liguist like Fabio will use an
English word that I need to look up in a dictionary!-- I really can't judge
how good the Italian translations of my stories are. I do know that the
editor herself is taking special interest in my stories and translating them
herself, and boasts to me how careful and thourough she is to not simply
translate the stories, but to make sure her translations are not simply
literal but true to my original meaning... and this would be especially
difficult to do in another language! I hope you're misjudging the text. For
all we know, the letterer may be making the mistakes or changes, not the
translator? But I also hope you're not judging the entire translation on the
simple changing of "Dime" to "Cent". This would seem to me to be an
incredibly trivial change, and only of notice or significance to those
Italian fans who know what it should be in English. In other words, other
than slavish accuracy to the original version (and you should know that *I*
appreciate that), whether it's a dime or a penny has nothing to do with
story content. And mistaking the series title with the dime-novel title of
"Master of the Mississippi" might be an easy mistake for someone to make if
they forgot the tiny detail that that was not simply the title of episode 2,
but the title of the dime-novel mentioned in the story. In what OTHER ways
do you find the translations poor?
WES:
This relates to Marco's comment. The item you mention seeing in the Disney
Catalogue is a typical mindless "collectible" item. It's a bit of silver or
gold that is minted by some ancient coiner (mint) and designed to be sold to
the lucrative Disney collectors' market. And yes, it is ruined by the fact
that it is called "$crooge's First CENT" suggesting that the foreign
designer did not bother to research his topic and didn't realize that the
idea of $crooge's first "cent" has no meaning whatsoever to fans (though we
know these "collectibles" really need not make any sense to sell well). But
it is put out by an ITALIAN mint, so this was the first indication I had
that perhaps what we have always called the First Dime has traditionally
been translated in Italian reprints as the First CENT... which doesn't
really matter as far as the storylines go, and can be a small mistake made
decades ago that is not worth changing now without causing needless
confusion with readers. So, Marco... I assumed that $crooge's first coin has
always been called a "cent" in Italy? Is this not so? Or has it always been
called a "dime" except in the translation of my "Lo$" story? If it's always
been a "cent" in Italy, then they shouldn't change it simply because I call
it a dime, eh?
MARCO:
Not being as sharp as all you European fans in being able to read more than
one language... in fact, sometimes a good liguist like Fabio will use an
English word that I need to look up in a dictionary!-- I really can't judge
how good the Italian translations of my stories are. I do know that the
editor herself is taking special interest in my stories and translating them
herself, and boasts to me how careful and thourough she is to not simply
translate the stories, but to make sure her translations are not simply
literal but true to my original meaning... and this would be especially
difficult to do in another language! I hope you're misjudging the text. For
all we know, the letterer may be making the mistakes or changes, not the
translator? But I also hope you're not judging the entire translation on the
simple changing of "Dime" to "Cent". This would seem to me to be an
incredibly trivial change, and only of notice or significance to those
Italian fans who know what it should be in English. In other words, other
than slavish accuracy to the original version (and you should know that *I*
appreciate that), whether it's a dime or a penny has nothing to do with
story content. And mistaking the series title with the dime-novel title of
"Master of the Mississippi" might be an easy mistake for someone to make if
they forgot the tiny detail that that was not simply the title of episode 2,
but the title of the dime-novel mentioned in the story. In what OTHER ways
do you find the translations poor?
WES:
This relates to Marco's comment. The item you mention seeing in the Disney
Catalogue is a typical mindless "collectible" item. It's a bit of silver or
gold that is minted by some ancient coiner (mint) and designed to be sold to
the lucrative Disney collectors' market. And yes, it is ruined by the fact
that it is called "$crooge's First CENT" suggesting that the foreign
designer did not bother to research his topic and didn't realize that the
idea of $crooge's first "cent" has no meaning whatsoever to fans (though we
know these "collectibles" really need not make any sense to sell well). But
it is put out by an ITALIAN mint, so this was the first indication I had
that perhaps what we have always called the First Dime has traditionally
been translated in Italian reprints as the First CENT... which doesn't
really matter as far as the storylines go, and can be a small mistake made
decades ago that is not worth changing now without causing needless
confusion with readers. So, Marco... I assumed that $crooge's first coin has
always been called a "cent" in Italy? Is this not so? Or has it always been
called a "dime" except in the translation of my "Lo$" story? If it's always
been a "cent" in Italy, then they shouldn't change it simply because I call
it a dime, eh?
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #53
Message 88 -
1996-03-11 at 01:03:00
ARTHUR:
Okay, so what am I working on? Here comes more than you want to know: I
wrote a sequel (finally) to my own "Treasure Under Glass" where $crooge is
put onto the trail of the lost city of Eldorado. My research uncovered
stories involving the search for Eldorado in the years of about 1530-1630
that are FAR more interesting and downright amazing than any Duck story I
could ever hope to build around the subject. As usual, as a result, I ended
up with a very interesting story overloaded with flashbacks and short of
action. I got a go-ahead on it, but I suggested that it could be better, and
SHOULD be better -- Eldorado is probably the single most important legendary
treasure of the Americas. It's the main reason for the exploration of much
of this hemisphere! And I just thought my one n' only story about it should
be a little better. So, we decided to set that script aside for a while
until it was time for me to do another single-part 28-pager, at which time I
can look at my finished script anew and restructure it and add pages of
action. (The problem is that I'll probably be trying to add more pages of
flashbacks to actual history, since I never even used lots of unbelievable
stuff in the first place.)
Of course we all know that Barks did the classic "Gilded Man" story which
had something to do with El Dorado, but that story never mentioned any sort
of city or golden treasure at all. Also, I found an error that Barks might
have made in his research which I can use to help "distance" my Eldorado
story from his, so I won't risk any redundancy. But Barks had placed the
Gilded Man in "Guiana"... so, he said British Guiana... saying Sir Walter
Ralieigh and others had sought him there. This is not exactly true -- they
sought Eldorado in Guiana, okay, but in those days "the Empire of Guiana"
was all of Spain's lands from the east tip of South America all the way west
to the Andes. Venezuela would have made up most of Sir Walter's Guiana. So,
since Eldorado was never supposed to be anywhere as far east as British
Guiana, I can say that the Gilded Man was chased far away by the Spanish,
and have my Eldorado in Colombia where the legends originated.
The next project I started to consider is one they've been asking me for in
Finland... a $crooge story involving the KALEVALA. But I soon realized that
would require me to read a 675 page book of symbolic free-verse poetry about
a subject with which I'm totally unfamiliar! I don't have that time
luxury... so I set that idea aside until I find someone who can supply me
with a long synopis and good analyzation before trying it again. (I asked
about "Cliff Notes" on the book, but no luck.)
So, that pushed me happilly into doing chapter 6B of the "Lo$". I spent
about $170 on refernce books Saturday and brought back another 7 or 8 from
the library, and I'm gonna spend today making notes. This will be a 24-page
western with as much rootin' and tootin' as I can think up. I'm inspired by
my recent trip to Italy! One can easilly lose interest in western stories in
America due to how cool the public is on them now (unless you make a western
movie with enough violence in it that no one notices it's a western). But
westerns are still so popular in Europe that I feel anxious to put $crooge
back in his buckskins.
So... THAT'S what I'm working on now.
AUGIE:
You're wrong on two counts! Those t-shirt people can put color images on
t-shirts that are completely professional looking, since they do it the same
way it's always done. Also, copy stores sometimes refuse to copy copyrighted
material just because the clerk doesn't want to bother with the paperwork.
But if you ask them (and they're a nice place like a Kinko's or something)
they'll bring out the waiver that you can sign that tells that you are only
using the copy for private use, which makes it fine. Barry Branvold who's on
this list (unless he's off busy somewhere lately) can tell you more about
this -- he's always wearing t-shirts at conventions which he's had made up
special.
Okay, so what am I working on? Here comes more than you want to know: I
wrote a sequel (finally) to my own "Treasure Under Glass" where $crooge is
put onto the trail of the lost city of Eldorado. My research uncovered
stories involving the search for Eldorado in the years of about 1530-1630
that are FAR more interesting and downright amazing than any Duck story I
could ever hope to build around the subject. As usual, as a result, I ended
up with a very interesting story overloaded with flashbacks and short of
action. I got a go-ahead on it, but I suggested that it could be better, and
SHOULD be better -- Eldorado is probably the single most important legendary
treasure of the Americas. It's the main reason for the exploration of much
of this hemisphere! And I just thought my one n' only story about it should
be a little better. So, we decided to set that script aside for a while
until it was time for me to do another single-part 28-pager, at which time I
can look at my finished script anew and restructure it and add pages of
action. (The problem is that I'll probably be trying to add more pages of
flashbacks to actual history, since I never even used lots of unbelievable
stuff in the first place.)
Of course we all know that Barks did the classic "Gilded Man" story which
had something to do with El Dorado, but that story never mentioned any sort
of city or golden treasure at all. Also, I found an error that Barks might
have made in his research which I can use to help "distance" my Eldorado
story from his, so I won't risk any redundancy. But Barks had placed the
Gilded Man in "Guiana"... so, he said British Guiana... saying Sir Walter
Ralieigh and others had sought him there. This is not exactly true -- they
sought Eldorado in Guiana, okay, but in those days "the Empire of Guiana"
was all of Spain's lands from the east tip of South America all the way west
to the Andes. Venezuela would have made up most of Sir Walter's Guiana. So,
since Eldorado was never supposed to be anywhere as far east as British
Guiana, I can say that the Gilded Man was chased far away by the Spanish,
and have my Eldorado in Colombia where the legends originated.
The next project I started to consider is one they've been asking me for in
Finland... a $crooge story involving the KALEVALA. But I soon realized that
would require me to read a 675 page book of symbolic free-verse poetry about
a subject with which I'm totally unfamiliar! I don't have that time
luxury... so I set that idea aside until I find someone who can supply me
with a long synopis and good analyzation before trying it again. (I asked
about "Cliff Notes" on the book, but no luck.)
So, that pushed me happilly into doing chapter 6B of the "Lo$". I spent
about $170 on refernce books Saturday and brought back another 7 or 8 from
the library, and I'm gonna spend today making notes. This will be a 24-page
western with as much rootin' and tootin' as I can think up. I'm inspired by
my recent trip to Italy! One can easilly lose interest in western stories in
America due to how cool the public is on them now (unless you make a western
movie with enough violence in it that no one notices it's a western). But
westerns are still so popular in Europe that I feel anxious to put $crooge
back in his buckskins.
So... THAT'S what I'm working on now.
AUGIE:
You're wrong on two counts! Those t-shirt people can put color images on
t-shirts that are completely professional looking, since they do it the same
way it's always done. Also, copy stores sometimes refuse to copy copyrighted
material just because the clerk doesn't want to bother with the paperwork.
But if you ask them (and they're a nice place like a Kinko's or something)
they'll bring out the waiver that you can sign that tells that you are only
using the copy for private use, which makes it fine. Barry Branvold who's on
this list (unless he's off busy somewhere lately) can tell you more about
this -- he's always wearing t-shirts at conventions which he's had made up
special.
Wilmer Rivers
Barks' 95th; Calisota (again)
Message 89 -
1996-03-11 at 02:17:01
It is announced in the March 15 issue of "Comics Buyer's Guide" (CBG #
1165) that Stephen Geppi's Diamond Comics Distributors will host a 95th
birthday celebration for Carl Barks in Timonium, Maryland, on March 27.
The celebration will start with a reception at the Diamond International
Gallery, which will feature an exhibition of Barks' paintings. Then
they will sponsor a dinner in Barks' honor. This will be Barks' first
personal appearance since his European tour (other than the one at the
Oregon state capitol, I assume). I don't know of any other appearance
he has scheduled, so perhaps he will travel from Oregon to Maryland for
the dinner and then return to the West Coast. Admission is $250, with
the proceeds to be donated to the International Museum of Cartoon Art in
Boca Raton, Florida (a museum which is run by Mort Walker, creator of
"Beetle Bailey", America's most widely circulated newspaper comic
strip, and an author of books on comics history). Diamond hopes to get
200 attendees for the celebration, thereby raising $50,000 for the
museum.
(And now for something completely off-topic): Neal Kinney writes
> The name California was indeed of a fabled island but I always thought
> it translated to "hot like a furnace" being derived from the Spanish
> "caliante" meaning hot and "fornia" meaning... well, you get the idea.
Here's an old joke: California does indeed get its name from the Latin
root "calor-", for "heat", but added to "fornic-", as in "fornicate".
Hence the slogan "California: Land of Hot Sex". :)
As for Calisota, if we assume that the "-sota" root actually means
"soda", then "Calisota" really means "baking soda". Of course, that
brings to mind the Barks Story in which Donald sells that super-powerful
baking soda, which eventually destroys Miss Penny Wise's house. And
since we know (by virtue of the Terris and Fermis) that Duckburg has
earthquakes, how about a slogan: "Calisota: Shake and Bake".
Wilmer Rivers
1165) that Stephen Geppi's Diamond Comics Distributors will host a 95th
birthday celebration for Carl Barks in Timonium, Maryland, on March 27.
The celebration will start with a reception at the Diamond International
Gallery, which will feature an exhibition of Barks' paintings. Then
they will sponsor a dinner in Barks' honor. This will be Barks' first
personal appearance since his European tour (other than the one at the
Oregon state capitol, I assume). I don't know of any other appearance
he has scheduled, so perhaps he will travel from Oregon to Maryland for
the dinner and then return to the West Coast. Admission is $250, with
the proceeds to be donated to the International Museum of Cartoon Art in
Boca Raton, Florida (a museum which is run by Mort Walker, creator of
"Beetle Bailey", America's most widely circulated newspaper comic
strip, and an author of books on comics history). Diamond hopes to get
200 attendees for the celebration, thereby raising $50,000 for the
museum.
(And now for something completely off-topic): Neal Kinney writes
> The name California was indeed of a fabled island but I always thought
> it translated to "hot like a furnace" being derived from the Spanish
> "caliante" meaning hot and "fornia" meaning... well, you get the idea.
Here's an old joke: California does indeed get its name from the Latin
root "calor-", for "heat", but added to "fornic-", as in "fornicate".
Hence the slogan "California: Land of Hot Sex". :)
As for Calisota, if we assume that the "-sota" root actually means
"soda", then "Calisota" really means "baking soda". Of course, that
brings to mind the Barks Story in which Donald sells that super-powerful
baking soda, which eventually destroys Miss Penny Wise's house. And
since we know (by virtue of the Terris and Fermis) that Duckburg has
earthquakes, how about a slogan: "Calisota: Shake and Bake".
Wilmer Rivers
H.J.Bjornhaug
Forthcoming Gladstones
Message 90 -
1996-03-11 at 10:54:40
US #297 was Don's "Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies", and David just
told us what will be in #299. But what about #298? Which story will
be printed there?
And is it true that the next issue of USA; #39, is going to be a
reprint of Barks' Tralala-story?
--- Helge
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told us what will be in #299. But what about #298? Which story will
be printed there?
And is it true that the next issue of USA; #39, is going to be a
reprint of Barks' Tralala-story?
--- Helge
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