If anyone is interested in obtaining a set of the lithos that were
available at the Barks Birthday Dinner feel free to contact me.
Also available..."Invasion of Privacy." released in August at Disneyland.
Author
Topic: 199604
(244 messages)
Michael Naiman
Barks lithos
Message 1 -
1996-04-01 at 00:36:49
David A Gerstein
My first Egmont MM story published?!
Message 2 -
1996-04-01 at 06:49:00
RoC:
I've been away for two weeks, during which I got the Egmont
comics sent to my house. Now I get back and find that something WEIRD
is going on. May I quote you? ;-)
"David asked for good Mickey stories, and there have been a couple -
and I don't mean the ZOOM stories - but Ferioli's "Information-Highway-
Robbery" (D 93500, 16 p.), "The Ghost of Gothic Manor" (D 93212, 10 p.),
"Secrets of the Rainforest" (D 94133, 16 p.), "A Goofy Cure for Cold"
(D 93208, 3 p. - who drew this?), Noel Van Horn's "The Gohitherdither
Diggers" (D 93497, 8 p.)"
Fer gosh sakes, that last one is MY FIRST MICKEY STORY! It's
actually called "Digging Up Trouble" and I'm glad you thought it was
one of the good Mickey stories... what did you think of having Horace
as the co-star again?
but WHEN did Egmont print it? How could I have missed it?
"David's own "Abbot 'Moe' McGoon" (95060, 12 p.)"
This is called "Donald Duck's Double-Dealt Deal" in English,
and will get that name when Gladstone prints it.
"then "He Who Digs a Hole for a Wolf..." (D 94110, 10 p.)"
In English, "The Sheepish Rancher". IMHO, "Rancher" is my
favorite among my Duck stories.
I've been away for two weeks, during which I got the Egmont
comics sent to my house. Now I get back and find that something WEIRD
is going on. May I quote you? ;-)
"David asked for good Mickey stories, and there have been a couple -
and I don't mean the ZOOM stories - but Ferioli's "Information-Highway-
Robbery" (D 93500, 16 p.), "The Ghost of Gothic Manor" (D 93212, 10 p.),
"Secrets of the Rainforest" (D 94133, 16 p.), "A Goofy Cure for Cold"
(D 93208, 3 p. - who drew this?), Noel Van Horn's "The Gohitherdither
Diggers" (D 93497, 8 p.)"
Fer gosh sakes, that last one is MY FIRST MICKEY STORY! It's
actually called "Digging Up Trouble" and I'm glad you thought it was
one of the good Mickey stories... what did you think of having Horace
as the co-star again?
but WHEN did Egmont print it? How could I have missed it?
"David's own "Abbot 'Moe' McGoon" (95060, 12 p.)"
This is called "Donald Duck's Double-Dealt Deal" in English,
and will get that name when Gladstone prints it.
"then "He Who Digs a Hole for a Wolf..." (D 94110, 10 p.)"
In English, "The Sheepish Rancher". IMHO, "Rancher" is my
favorite among my Duck stories.
David A Gerstein
USA 40
Message 3 -
1996-04-01 at 07:50:57
The solicitation for USA 40 mentions "The Rarest Dog in the
World"... at last! My translation; the story leads DD and U$ into a
mountain feud in Inner Nomoola, where the villages of Hunkidoria and
Koverdinivi have been feuding ever since a warlord from one city hit
the mayor of the other with a rotten egg, hundreds of years before.
This is the only time I've worked with a story that had completely
imaginary settings... mainly because I can think of no community other
than Bosnia to liken this one to, and Disney would, I wager, quickly
object. Wait 'til you see Grotham Widermiddel, mayor of
Koverdinivi... not a guy you want to fool around with, from his looks
to his love of roast goat.
With a John Lustig/Branca story backing it up, it looks like a
good issue -- but if Gladstone doesn't get their license renewed, we
only have 4 more Gladstones coming, and everything from DDA 39 on are
NOT among them...
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
World"... at last! My translation; the story leads DD and U$ into a
mountain feud in Inner Nomoola, where the villages of Hunkidoria and
Koverdinivi have been feuding ever since a warlord from one city hit
the mayor of the other with a rotten egg, hundreds of years before.
This is the only time I've worked with a story that had completely
imaginary settings... mainly because I can think of no community other
than Bosnia to liken this one to, and Disney would, I wager, quickly
object. Wait 'til you see Grotham Widermiddel, mayor of
Koverdinivi... not a guy you want to fool around with, from his looks
to his love of roast goat.
With a John Lustig/Branca story backing it up, it looks like a
good issue -- but if Gladstone doesn't get their license renewed, we
only have 4 more Gladstones coming, and everything from DDA 39 on are
NOT among them...
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
OG6_STUDENT
Disney comics Digest V96 #67
Message 4 -
1996-04-01 at 11:54:16
Please cancel my subscription. Sending me to much mail .
thankyou!!!!!!!!!
thankyou!!!!!!!!!
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #68
Message 5 -
1996-04-01 at 16:12:00
ARTHUR:
I never meant to suggest that Byron's influence on my stories is slight.
When someone has the ability to nix an entire story or story sequence with
the wave of a tongue, that's a mighty big influence. And I always dutifully
do what Byron suggests, and I think he's virtually always right in his
comments. I think I'm a VERY easy writer/artist to deal with since I still
have the attitude that most anything the editor tells me about the stuff is
right since he's probably made the study of comic-bookery that I never have
(inasmuch as I never intended to do this for anything other than a casual
hobby. But Byron and I don't hash out the details together -- if he tells me
to rewrite something, I'll just go back and rewrite it in accordance to some
general suggestion he makes. His "influence" is great, but very broad.
As near as I can guess, judging by the writings in the CBL and fanzines and
elsewhere, it would seem that Barks' contact with his editors was even less
than that. I don't know how else there could have been all those times that
he sent them completed art for story sequences, or entire short stories,
that they then rejected. Byron always inspects my scripts, then my
pencils... so by the time he gets my finished art, he knows exactly what's
coming. But perhaps Barks' editors simply changed their minds later, or had
space restrictions suddenly imposed. But in my situation, there could never
be rejected finished sequences or stories. (BANNED in America stories,
yes... but no stories that don't appear "on the continent".)
WILMER:
(This is like part 2 of the above). In accordance with Byron's comments, but
even more often due to my rethinking of my own dialogue or staging, I
constantly change my own finished and approved scripts while I draw them.
But it's a simple matter -- I make the changes on my original
storyboard-script pages in RED as I go along, then when I send in the
finished job I also write out a page or two of script changes for Byron to
make to the version he already has so it will all agree with the finished
art. As I said, it's all a very simple process. (But SLOW!)
RICH:
Uh... when was there a picture of my "best friend" (my dog?) in CBG? Are you
thinking of the back cover of one of my CAPTAIN KENTUCKY COLLECTIONS? Or in
TCR? Or am I forgetting something from long ago? (You and I have been around
this hobby for a bone-creaking length of time, y'know, and memories do tend
to fade, Ron... or whatever your name is.
Flintheart wasn't Scotch in my "Lo$" -- he was Dutch. I thought the Duckfans
in the Netherlands might enjoy that, and lighten up on me a lil'. But... in
what stories does Flintheart have a castle in Scotland, or live in Duckburg?
The Danish stories? Or DUCKTALES stories?
Goostetave/Goosetale -- when I was restructuring the Duck Family Tree for my
needs in the "Lo$", I also was confused by the old Barks Tree and Mark
Worden's version. But I was told that Barks said that he liked the name
"Goosetave" since it sounded more like it had European origins.
STEVE:
I have all the old Dell comics. I can help you with questions about specific
issues... but my days of indexing comics and artists are long gone with my
former life as the fandom information man. There's no time for that sorta
thing now. But I constantly am asked to (and am delighted to) help other
indexers with their efforts. I have limitless appreciation for the fact that
there still are a few people left in this hobby who undertake projects
dealing with old comics that are NOT designed to make them a profit, but are
simply meant to benefit their fellow collectors.
HENRI:
I'll check out your Disney websites... but do you include all the
newsgroups? Aside from the
limitless-and-unconditional-admiration-of-everything-Disney groups, there
are also just the opposite. I've come across some interesting ones like
"rec.arts.disney.secrets", "rec.arts.disney.criticism" and
"rec.arts.disney-the-evil-empire".
I never meant to suggest that Byron's influence on my stories is slight.
When someone has the ability to nix an entire story or story sequence with
the wave of a tongue, that's a mighty big influence. And I always dutifully
do what Byron suggests, and I think he's virtually always right in his
comments. I think I'm a VERY easy writer/artist to deal with since I still
have the attitude that most anything the editor tells me about the stuff is
right since he's probably made the study of comic-bookery that I never have
(inasmuch as I never intended to do this for anything other than a casual
hobby. But Byron and I don't hash out the details together -- if he tells me
to rewrite something, I'll just go back and rewrite it in accordance to some
general suggestion he makes. His "influence" is great, but very broad.
As near as I can guess, judging by the writings in the CBL and fanzines and
elsewhere, it would seem that Barks' contact with his editors was even less
than that. I don't know how else there could have been all those times that
he sent them completed art for story sequences, or entire short stories,
that they then rejected. Byron always inspects my scripts, then my
pencils... so by the time he gets my finished art, he knows exactly what's
coming. But perhaps Barks' editors simply changed their minds later, or had
space restrictions suddenly imposed. But in my situation, there could never
be rejected finished sequences or stories. (BANNED in America stories,
yes... but no stories that don't appear "on the continent".)
WILMER:
(This is like part 2 of the above). In accordance with Byron's comments, but
even more often due to my rethinking of my own dialogue or staging, I
constantly change my own finished and approved scripts while I draw them.
But it's a simple matter -- I make the changes on my original
storyboard-script pages in RED as I go along, then when I send in the
finished job I also write out a page or two of script changes for Byron to
make to the version he already has so it will all agree with the finished
art. As I said, it's all a very simple process. (But SLOW!)
RICH:
Uh... when was there a picture of my "best friend" (my dog?) in CBG? Are you
thinking of the back cover of one of my CAPTAIN KENTUCKY COLLECTIONS? Or in
TCR? Or am I forgetting something from long ago? (You and I have been around
this hobby for a bone-creaking length of time, y'know, and memories do tend
to fade, Ron... or whatever your name is.
Flintheart wasn't Scotch in my "Lo$" -- he was Dutch. I thought the Duckfans
in the Netherlands might enjoy that, and lighten up on me a lil'. But... in
what stories does Flintheart have a castle in Scotland, or live in Duckburg?
The Danish stories? Or DUCKTALES stories?
Goostetave/Goosetale -- when I was restructuring the Duck Family Tree for my
needs in the "Lo$", I also was confused by the old Barks Tree and Mark
Worden's version. But I was told that Barks said that he liked the name
"Goosetave" since it sounded more like it had European origins.
STEVE:
I have all the old Dell comics. I can help you with questions about specific
issues... but my days of indexing comics and artists are long gone with my
former life as the fandom information man. There's no time for that sorta
thing now. But I constantly am asked to (and am delighted to) help other
indexers with their efforts. I have limitless appreciation for the fact that
there still are a few people left in this hobby who undertake projects
dealing with old comics that are NOT designed to make them a profit, but are
simply meant to benefit their fellow collectors.
HENRI:
I'll check out your Disney websites... but do you include all the
newsgroups? Aside from the
limitless-and-unconditional-admiration-of-everything-Disney groups, there
are also just the opposite. I've come across some interesting ones like
"rec.arts.disney.secrets", "rec.arts.disney.criticism" and
"rec.arts.disney-the-evil-empire".
Carey Furlong - Tdoc
Duck stuff
Message 6 -
1996-04-01 at 21:54:44
> Scrooge fans will want to get a copy of Superman: The Man of Steel 356 (out
> this week). It has Mr. Mxyzptlk diving in a bin of money. Oddly enough,
> there's no "homage" or "credit" to our favorite duck in the book.
This Superman cover, with its bright colors, is really great!
Mxyzptlk is seen diving through mounds of cash, ala our favorite
richest duck, and in what surely looks to be that same duck's money
bin. There are coins, greenbacks and sacks of cash all over the
place. The coins have the face of Superman and the sacks show
dollar signs inside a Superman logo. There's also a ladder on the
wall entering a cavernous doorway.
This is no veiled reference to Scrooge McDuck: it's an outright
homage. Who else in the world would be seen swimming in a
huge bin full of cash? Who was it who invented this type of
recreation?
Only the cover shows Mxyzptlk swimming in a money bin. The
mundane story inside includes no reference to the activity.
I wonder if this cover would have been done if Don Rosa had not
won an Eisner last year for the "Life and Times of Scrooge
McDuck" series.
- "This fabulous twenty-four carat moon, for a
handful of dirt!... Man! That's the biggest
bargain I ever heard of in all history!"
-------------- Scrooge McDuck (US 24) ------
---- Carey ----
Carey Furlong, Huntington Beach, CA; (Email removed)
Opinions expressed are mine and not those of EDS
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #69
*****************************************
> this week). It has Mr. Mxyzptlk diving in a bin of money. Oddly enough,
> there's no "homage" or "credit" to our favorite duck in the book.
This Superman cover, with its bright colors, is really great!
Mxyzptlk is seen diving through mounds of cash, ala our favorite
richest duck, and in what surely looks to be that same duck's money
bin. There are coins, greenbacks and sacks of cash all over the
place. The coins have the face of Superman and the sacks show
dollar signs inside a Superman logo. There's also a ladder on the
wall entering a cavernous doorway.
This is no veiled reference to Scrooge McDuck: it's an outright
homage. Who else in the world would be seen swimming in a
huge bin full of cash? Who was it who invented this type of
recreation?
Only the cover shows Mxyzptlk swimming in a money bin. The
mundane story inside includes no reference to the activity.
I wonder if this cover would have been done if Don Rosa had not
won an Eisner last year for the "Life and Times of Scrooge
McDuck" series.
- "This fabulous twenty-four carat moon, for a
handful of dirt!... Man! That's the biggest
bargain I ever heard of in all history!"
-------------- Scrooge McDuck (US 24) ------
---- Carey ----
Carey Furlong, Huntington Beach, CA; (Email removed)
Opinions expressed are mine and not those of EDS
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #69
*****************************************
Henri Sivonen
Disney comics Digest V96 #69
Message 7 -
1996-04-02 at 16:57:13
Don Rosa,
>I'll check out your Disney websites... but do you include all the
>newsgroups?
No, I don't. The tour is limited to Web sites (written in English) on
Disney comics only. (for possible fans who are not aware of the sites)
Even now it takes 7 minutes and 50 seconds *if* uninterrupted (people may
want to pause or rewind). It's not too long when considering the download
time, but I let two of my friends try it and their attention didn't quite
last to the end :-(. (even the other one is a fan)
-- ___
Henri Sivonen / \
(Email removed) WWW (renewed): | h_|
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris \__
>I'll check out your Disney websites... but do you include all the
>newsgroups?
No, I don't. The tour is limited to Web sites (written in English) on
Disney comics only. (for possible fans who are not aware of the sites)
Even now it takes 7 minutes and 50 seconds *if* uninterrupted (people may
want to pause or rewind). It's not too long when considering the download
time, but I let two of my friends try it and their attention didn't quite
last to the end :-(. (even the other one is a fan)
-- ___
Henri Sivonen / \
(Email removed) WWW (renewed): | h_|
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris \__
David A Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V96 #69
Message 8 -
1996-04-02 at 17:30:32
DON:
The only problem with groups like alt.disney.secrets (or
whatever they're called) is that they're full of conspiracy buffs who
claim Disney will do ANYTHING. The same kind of buffs who spend hours
discussing how the word "sex" apparently appears in clouds of dirt in
three consecutive frames of LION KING, or some such. The kind who
recently tried to claim that DD swears in 1937's "Clock Cleaners" and
would have had the cartoon banned for a phrase that is quite clearly
"sez you". Thus I find a lot of what's on these groups no more
interesting than someone describing, say, their 97th trip to
Disneyland for folks to exult over.
Some people, I guess, have no life, and must manufacture
one for themselves by creating these "conspiracies"...
Flintheart Glomgold, by the way, has a Scottish accent in
DUCKTALES but there is never any actual reference to his coming from
Scotland; it's only inferred from his appearance/voice. No mention
of his having a castle either. I think DUCKTALES DOES imply that
Flinty lives in Duckburg... and so do dozens of Egmont stories, and so
did Disney Comics Inc. in 1992 when they put Glomgold's house on their
Duckburg Map.
On a related note, how did you get away with using John D.
Rockerduck in your stories -- the LO$ no less? I've just tried to use
him in one of mine, and it was requested that I use Glomgold instead.
I have no objection to using Glomgold, but... why kick poor old John
D. upside the beak? (I suppose other writers may have had this
experience, so that's why I'm mentioning it on the Digest)
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
"Have a chestnut, boys! ... OW!"
The only problem with groups like alt.disney.secrets (or
whatever they're called) is that they're full of conspiracy buffs who
claim Disney will do ANYTHING. The same kind of buffs who spend hours
discussing how the word "sex" apparently appears in clouds of dirt in
three consecutive frames of LION KING, or some such. The kind who
recently tried to claim that DD swears in 1937's "Clock Cleaners" and
would have had the cartoon banned for a phrase that is quite clearly
"sez you". Thus I find a lot of what's on these groups no more
interesting than someone describing, say, their 97th trip to
Disneyland for folks to exult over.
Some people, I guess, have no life, and must manufacture
one for themselves by creating these "conspiracies"...
Flintheart Glomgold, by the way, has a Scottish accent in
DUCKTALES but there is never any actual reference to his coming from
Scotland; it's only inferred from his appearance/voice. No mention
of his having a castle either. I think DUCKTALES DOES imply that
Flinty lives in Duckburg... and so do dozens of Egmont stories, and so
did Disney Comics Inc. in 1992 when they put Glomgold's house on their
Duckburg Map.
On a related note, how did you get away with using John D.
Rockerduck in your stories -- the LO$ no less? I've just tried to use
him in one of mine, and it was requested that I use Glomgold instead.
I have no objection to using Glomgold, but... why kick poor old John
D. upside the beak? (I suppose other writers may have had this
experience, so that's why I'm mentioning it on the Digest)
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
"Have a chestnut, boys! ... OW!"
Deckerd
Disney comics Digest V96 #69
Message 9 -
1996-04-02 at 18:38:35
On Apr 2, 9:30am, David A Gerstein wrote:
> Subject: Re: Disney comics Digest V96 #69
> On a related note, how did you get away with using John D.
> Rockerduck in your stories -- the LO$ no less? I've just tried to
use
> him in one of mine, and it was requested that I use Glomgold instead.
> I have no objection to using Glomgold, but... why kick poor old John
> D. upside the beak?
That's odd. I just read an Italian story that used Rockerduck,
reprinted just a few months ago in an annual Danish Disney-comic
Christmas book. The premise was that every year, Scrooge drives
Rockerduck to near bankruptcy over the course of that year by
sheer business savvy, but at Christmas secretly slips
him a note with information on some deal that saves the Rockerduck
fortune. This has been going on for about ten years, but Rockerduck
finally guesses who's behind the secret note and resents the
implication of charity. It's a nice idea for a story, and says
something about Scrooge's spirit of competition that he won't
wipe out Rockerduck once and for all even though he could. I
just don't think the story was as good as it could have been
(the resolution involves the intervention of Santa Claus when
I think Scrooge should have solved the problem on his own).
Well, this doesn't have anything to do with Egmont's current
policy (and it looks like the Christmas book isn't even
published by Egmont, but by some other company by arrangement
with Egmont), but I just thought I'd mention it as an example
of Rockerduck in current use.
--Dwight Decker
> Subject: Re: Disney comics Digest V96 #69
> On a related note, how did you get away with using John D.
> Rockerduck in your stories -- the LO$ no less? I've just tried to
use
> him in one of mine, and it was requested that I use Glomgold instead.
> I have no objection to using Glomgold, but... why kick poor old John
> D. upside the beak?
That's odd. I just read an Italian story that used Rockerduck,
reprinted just a few months ago in an annual Danish Disney-comic
Christmas book. The premise was that every year, Scrooge drives
Rockerduck to near bankruptcy over the course of that year by
sheer business savvy, but at Christmas secretly slips
him a note with information on some deal that saves the Rockerduck
fortune. This has been going on for about ten years, but Rockerduck
finally guesses who's behind the secret note and resents the
implication of charity. It's a nice idea for a story, and says
something about Scrooge's spirit of competition that he won't
wipe out Rockerduck once and for all even though he could. I
just don't think the story was as good as it could have been
(the resolution involves the intervention of Santa Claus when
I think Scrooge should have solved the problem on his own).
Well, this doesn't have anything to do with Egmont's current
policy (and it looks like the Christmas book isn't even
published by Egmont, but by some other company by arrangement
with Egmont), but I just thought I'd mention it as an example
of Rockerduck in current use.
--Dwight Decker
Michael Naiman
Superman cover
Message 10 -
1996-04-02 at 19:19:05
Point of reference...it is Superman:Man of Steel #56 (someone forgot to
SHIFT when the number 3 was typed!)
SHIFT when the number 3 was typed!)
Michael Naiman
Translation from Dutch
Message 11 -
1996-04-02 at 23:27:00
Would one of the kind members from the Netherlands please translate the
following for me---
Voor Donald Duck Extra
(For Donald Duck Extra?)
Heb Je Geen Vergunning Nodig
Thanks from the "language-challenged" over here in the States!
following for me---
Voor Donald Duck Extra
(For Donald Duck Extra?)
Heb Je Geen Vergunning Nodig
Thanks from the "language-challenged" over here in the States!
Deckerd
Disney comics Digest V96 #67
Message 12 -
1996-04-03 at 00:16:10
> RICH & DWIGHT:
>
> I agree on your comments about the Comics Journal. It seems that
> despite the fact they've grown out of being a mere fanzine (and
> as they have got a wider circulation) they have still the
> attitude of being one. I mean, take a look at some of Gary
> Groth's editorials.
Er, yeah. Groth has made so many enemies in comics that the
magazine isn't taken as seriously as it might be. Many comics
professionals (working in the Marvel/DC sector, that is) that
I've heard mention Groth or the Journal speak of them with
livid hatred. Groth probably prefers it that way, since it means
the magazine is independent of advertising dollars from the big
companies and he's free to speak his mind as he wants. I also feel
that as the magazine has matured/grown/mutated/evolved, it's
lost some of its focus. The Journal still has roots in American
superhero comic book fandom, and no matter how much Groth and his
people want to concentrate on the lesser known avant-garde comics,
they still have to acknowledge the Marvel/DC mainstream in order
to be at least somewhat relevant to what the readers care about.
The latest issue has a long interview with Dave Sim (of Cerebus),
part of a long and pretty old interview with our very own Don Rosa,
RC Harvey's reviews of books about old newspaper strips, and a
long retrospective on the career of Jerry Siegel -- it's a nice
mix of majority and minority interest, but it still seems like
the magazine isn't sure at times what it wants to be.
> If they are "the only magazine of comics
> criticism" as they claim to be, it seems a bit odd that they
> should sometimes present opinions that are _so_ one-sided.
> But then again... do we have anything better? (in English)
>
> --- Jyrki Vainio ---
I'll agree that the Journal has the best news coverage. It
actually investigates stories as opposed to just printing press
releases (as the weekly comics trade paper does). However, it's
hurt by an irregular schedule, so often the news isn't fresh.
As for the reviews and "criticism," those are a matter of taste,
and often not to mine, but the Journal surprises me now and then.
Other comics news and review magazines come and go, most with
much more superficial coverage. Maybe there is something better
in English and I'm just not aware of it, but... The Comics Buyer's
Guide is useful because it is weekly, so that's where you find
the latest news (sadly, lately it's been to find out who died
this week), but as far as any-depth coverage, forget it.
--Dwight Decker
>
> I agree on your comments about the Comics Journal. It seems that
> despite the fact they've grown out of being a mere fanzine (and
> as they have got a wider circulation) they have still the
> attitude of being one. I mean, take a look at some of Gary
> Groth's editorials.
Er, yeah. Groth has made so many enemies in comics that the
magazine isn't taken as seriously as it might be. Many comics
professionals (working in the Marvel/DC sector, that is) that
I've heard mention Groth or the Journal speak of them with
livid hatred. Groth probably prefers it that way, since it means
the magazine is independent of advertising dollars from the big
companies and he's free to speak his mind as he wants. I also feel
that as the magazine has matured/grown/mutated/evolved, it's
lost some of its focus. The Journal still has roots in American
superhero comic book fandom, and no matter how much Groth and his
people want to concentrate on the lesser known avant-garde comics,
they still have to acknowledge the Marvel/DC mainstream in order
to be at least somewhat relevant to what the readers care about.
The latest issue has a long interview with Dave Sim (of Cerebus),
part of a long and pretty old interview with our very own Don Rosa,
RC Harvey's reviews of books about old newspaper strips, and a
long retrospective on the career of Jerry Siegel -- it's a nice
mix of majority and minority interest, but it still seems like
the magazine isn't sure at times what it wants to be.
> If they are "the only magazine of comics
> criticism" as they claim to be, it seems a bit odd that they
> should sometimes present opinions that are _so_ one-sided.
> But then again... do we have anything better? (in English)
>
> --- Jyrki Vainio ---
I'll agree that the Journal has the best news coverage. It
actually investigates stories as opposed to just printing press
releases (as the weekly comics trade paper does). However, it's
hurt by an irregular schedule, so often the news isn't fresh.
As for the reviews and "criticism," those are a matter of taste,
and often not to mine, but the Journal surprises me now and then.
Other comics news and review magazines come and go, most with
much more superficial coverage. Maybe there is something better
in English and I'm just not aware of it, but... The Comics Buyer's
Guide is useful because it is weekly, so that's where you find
the latest news (sadly, lately it's been to find out who died
this week), but as far as any-depth coverage, forget it.
--Dwight Decker
A8201960
First Post
Message 13 -
1996-04-03 at 15:08:30
Hi,
this is my first post in this forum, and I hope I'm doing things
right...
I'm a Disney-reader as well as a comics-journalist and (moost of the
time non-fiction)book-author. I just finished the main-body of a biography
about three important Disney-artists, roughly translated as "Signed: Disney
- Taliaferro, Gottfredson, Barks - three fathers for Mickey and Donald",
which will be out in Germany/Austria about in june. I will post further
information (size, price, address) if there is interest and as soon
as I know the details myself.
For the completion of the book I'm still interested in some details I
couldn't find reference for (I have exquisite data only on early
Disney-Comics-info and Bulls Germany ignored my faxes):
1. When, if ever, did the Donald Duck daily and/or Sunday stop?
2. When, if ever, did the Mickey Mouse daily and/or Sunday stop?
3. The Mickey Mouse daily seemed to have returned to a kind of
continuity sometime, end of the 80ies or so. Who has details, as how
long did this last etc.
I'd appreciate any help here in the forum or via e-mail:
(Email removed) or (Email removed)
Thanks
Harald
---Harald Havas (Email removed)
this is my first post in this forum, and I hope I'm doing things
right...
I'm a Disney-reader as well as a comics-journalist and (moost of the
time non-fiction)book-author. I just finished the main-body of a biography
about three important Disney-artists, roughly translated as "Signed: Disney
- Taliaferro, Gottfredson, Barks - three fathers for Mickey and Donald",
which will be out in Germany/Austria about in june. I will post further
information (size, price, address) if there is interest and as soon
as I know the details myself.
For the completion of the book I'm still interested in some details I
couldn't find reference for (I have exquisite data only on early
Disney-Comics-info and Bulls Germany ignored my faxes):
1. When, if ever, did the Donald Duck daily and/or Sunday stop?
2. When, if ever, did the Mickey Mouse daily and/or Sunday stop?
3. The Mickey Mouse daily seemed to have returned to a kind of
continuity sometime, end of the 80ies or so. Who has details, as how
long did this last etc.
I'd appreciate any help here in the forum or via e-mail:
(Email removed) or (Email removed)
Thanks
Harald
---Harald Havas (Email removed)
David A Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V96 #70
Message 14 -
1996-04-03 at 18:02:27
HARALD:
The Mickey strip began using continuity again in 1990, but
they went back to "gag"-a-day in early 1995, I believe. The
continuities that were done included some Gottfredson characters who
hadn't appeared in a while (such as Profs. Ecks and Doublex), but were
usually very simple stories.
BTW, does anyone have access to the Mickey strip? I wrote a
story for it in 1994 and was told it had been rejected as too
sophisticated, but later learned that someone at King Features had
actually seen it drawn and published (in newspapers that he later
discarded, so he couldn't give me a date)! I'd like to establish any
truth behind this rumor... e-mail me privately if you can help.
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
The Mickey strip began using continuity again in 1990, but
they went back to "gag"-a-day in early 1995, I believe. The
continuities that were done included some Gottfredson characters who
hadn't appeared in a while (such as Profs. Ecks and Doublex), but were
usually very simple stories.
BTW, does anyone have access to the Mickey strip? I wrote a
story for it in 1994 and was told it had been rejected as too
sophisticated, but later learned that someone at King Features had
actually seen it drawn and published (in newspapers that he later
discarded, so he couldn't give me a date)! I'd like to establish any
truth behind this rumor... e-mail me privately if you can help.
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
Student
(No subject)
Message 15 -
1996-04-03 at 18:16:39
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