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DON R.

Harald wrote:
>Just for completion: Al Taliaferro used Ludwig van Drake too.

Lugwig is still used in Italian stories.

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While passing a comic rack today, a cover with a cartoon figure diving
through a money bin caught my eye. The scene was familiar, but somehow
alien. It was actually Mr. Mxyzptlk in the Superman #56 (May'96) issue.
I actually purchased it as a curiousity for my meager collection. I find
it ironic because the DC buyers probably won't "get it". In the future,
I'll stick to the real McCoy,er,McDuck.(Did I see D.U.C.K. on that cover?)

It is doubly ironic because the original Rosa cover for Giant #3
(DD-Super Snooper/Gladstone-Jan'96) was a take-off on the Superman #1
cover, but it was turned down because duck fans might not "get it".

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A new topic...

I dont know if it's me, or the way the letters are arranged on computers
and writing machines: I seem to be unable to write the name "Barks"
without misspelling it 2 out of 3 times...
Most of the time it comes out "Barls" but there have been
variations...
There are at least two other occasions I know of, where people
misspelled "Barks": on the cover of COMIC FORUM 42, a fanzine I edited
for 7 years, the guy doing the cover (a comic artist himself) type-set,
concernig an article in the mag, "Interview: PARKS and Gottfredson"
(being a fan as well as an artist he later made a hilarious comic page
explainig how the mistake came to be...)
The second occasion was, when we produced brass plates for a trophy.
COMIC FORUM handed out a prize every year called the "Prix Vienne",
which was, as a commemoration to George Herriman, a real brick with a
plate on it. So this year (1994 I believe) the "Braks (- Hell! it
happaned again! Just now! Cross my heart! -) RAAAAAAAHH!
Okay, cool now: this particular year the German "BARKS-Library"
won the prize, and what did we get, one day prior to the ceremony,
out of this stamp/print-shop where the plates were produced?
"Prix Vienne 1994 - Bestes Comic Album - BARICS LIBRARY"...
We corrected the mistake later, but the wrong plate remains with the
head of the Ehapa Comic Collection department to this day... (There
is a famous soccer trainer called Otto Barics in Austria, but I
believe the mistake came from my bad handwriting, where a capital K
looked like a capital I and C).
Well, did anybody else have this problem? Is it a (world-)wide-spread
mysterium or is it just me (there is the obvious connection between
the events...), and if it's just me, is there a cure?

RICH
I promised you another reason why Marvel never had a successful
movie, here it is: their characters dont fit the medium (action-fantasy-
adventures): DC-characters are HEROES with problems
and private lives, Marvel characters are people with PROBLEMS and
PRIVATE LIVES, who are heroes in their spare time...

Harald

"Der Ingenioer hat's schwoer" Daniel Duesentrieb
(anybody interested in a translation?)

---Harald Havas (Email removed)

HARALD:

I have typed in the word "Barks" so many times, that it's
out of my fingers before I realise it...
There were some articles in Dutch newspapers (and on TV-teletext)
where the famous artist Carl Banks was mentioned. You could
call this the "Ronald Dunk" effect. 8-)

> "Der Ingenioer hat's schwoer" Daniel Duesentrieb
> (anybody interested in a translation?)

"The engineer is having a hard time", but that doesn't rhyme...
I'm more interested in the *source* of your quote.

GAUTE:

> Takk for Klodrik informasjonen

This may be an attempt to hide that this is actually about Fethry
(to avoid that people like Wes Andersen unsubscribe...8-)
but could you please send messages to the List in English only?

HENRI:

About "The Rain God of Uxmal" and other "Schatztruhe" stories:
> Do you know if they are also drawn by Adolf Kabatek? (I need that
> information when indexing the stories.) Were there more than seven > stories?

Those stories are already in the Database. The artist is someone
from the Comicup studio, but we haven't identified his or her name
yet.
In fact, we only have SIX stories. The Database lists the following:

--start--
GA = Abenteuer aus Onkel Dagoberts Schatztruhe
(Adventures from Uncle Scrooge's Treasure Chest)

This was a special album series in a lot of European languages:
Danish, German, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish.

The stories were written by Adolf Kabatek, and drawn by a South-European
"Comicup" studio artist. The 6th story has a D-code, indicating it was
edited by Egmont in Denmark.

GA 1 44 AKa US O:The Rain God of Uxmal
GA 2 44 AKa US O:White Gold of the Matterhorn
GA 3 44 AKa US O:Pirates on Key West [1984]
GA 4 44 AKa US O:The Picasso Robbery in Barcelona [1985]
GA 5 44 AKa US O:Five times Grand Canyon and back
D 88067 44 AKa US O:The Tartan of the McDuck Family

--end--

So there's a seventh story?

--Harry.

DAVID --
"it's always weird how casually Li'l Wolf enjoys the company of Br'er Fox and
Br'er Bear when they visit his home, even though these two would murder Br'er
Rabbit in cold blood, and even though Li'l Wolf is friends with Br'er Rabbit..."
Well, what the heck, his BEST friends are the Pigs, and his FATHER is
always trying to murder them. I've always loved the character for the complexity
of his relations with those around him.

DON R. --
"there was no real reason to bring Gladstone into more direct relation to
$crooge. Whether he's a close relative or a distant cousin or no relation at all
doesn't make any difference to the character."
Then why would Scrooge even consider making Gladstone his heir? He's done
so in at least one Barks story that I can think of offhand, and I believe you
used this theme once yourself.

Quack,
Don Markstein

Since nobody has yet reviewed the Finnish Barks interview video,
I might as well get around to it.
The video was released by Finnish comic store Good Fellows around
Barks' birthday. There were two editions of it, a regular edition
of sixty minutes and a deluxe edition with thirty minutes of extra
material and including a signed print of a Barks self-caricature,
which can be seen in the logo of the Carl Barks Studio. The deluxe
edition was numbered and limited to 150 copies.
In the video Barks is interviewed in his home by Bill Grandey. As
the video tries to find as wide a following as possible,
unfortunately most of the questions handle very "basic" kind of
things - how he came to create all the characters he did, how he
understands their relationships and how certain story elements
came to be. Ofcourse there are many questions concerning his life,
as well.
Although mostly concentrating on subjects that are already known
to many fans, here they at least are from the mouth of the man
himself. And I believe that at least on the level of details there
something new to be found every time these same things are gone
over again.
What I found most disturbing in the video was the technical
quality. It seems that the guy recording the speech wasn't awake
all the time, for sound is not the best possible. Although Barks
speaks clearly and slowly so that his speech can be easily
understood by foreigners also, the tape makes his voice blur so
that the listener has to be following real carefully (well, that's
ofcourse what all _real_ fans do anyways!)
Also the shooting could have been done better. Certainly, this is
an _interview_ and not a documentary, so the main focus is on the
man speaking, but at least I would've enjoyed seeing more of Barks'
house and studio - all the paintings seen only in the background,
etc. Now the camera literally sticks in it's place. Only variety
comes from few family photographs shown to the camera. In fact, in
the additional part of the video this comes even more irritating.
The location is switched from Barks' living room (?) to his studio.
In one point he reaches out of the picture to pick some drawing
which he's talking about and - all but disappears from the scene!
Now, a slight turn of the camera wouldn't hurt too much, would it?
Also I thought maybe a bit too great deal of the extra material
was devoted to one subject, when Barks spoke quite a bit about one
particular painting of his (with a Wild West theme). This was
ofcourse interesting, but in a general approach like this it was
going a bit too much into detail with one thing. I would've much
rather had Barks showing his studio a bit more.
Also featured in the film are Barks' managers who discuss about
their work in the end of the extra material, and this guy-who-was-
the-first-fan-to-meet-Barks-and-who-owns-a-book-store-in-Hollywood
-but-whose-name-I-can't-remember in the main part of the video.

So, in summing up, I don't want to make any comment whether or not
to buy this video. I personally enjoyed the Norwegian tv-
documentary more, but that's just my opinion. It has to be
remembered that this is the first video made by Good Fellows and
maybe if they have succes with this one they will make others,
which can be of better quality.
For those who are interested, the deluxe edition has already sold
out (I heard that one guy from Germany bought 26 of them... just
makes me wonder whether he put them _all_ into plastic bags or did
he watch one of them), but the regular edition is still available
both in original English and with Finnish subtitles!

OBS! ALL YOU SWEDES OUT THERE!!

Could you e-mail me in private and suggest a good comics store in
Stockholm?

--- Jyrki Vainio ---

HARALD:
I have seen references to Carl (or Karl) Barx in various
rather ignorant texts on comics, (sigh) Gladstone ads occasionally
peg him as Cark Barks, a typo I myself have also made.
Poor old guy... (does HE ever see these bloopers?)

HENRI:
I don't know who drew those stories ("Onkel Dagoberts
Schatztruhe"), but again, whoever did them has also done a lot of
stories for the Italians. GREAT art. But I find that the Schatztruhe
stories often just feel too long and over-extended, and now and then
there's just a mysterious lack of logic. In my acknowledged favorite
"White Gold on the Matterhorn," Scrooge's cheese company in the Alps
has to send its cheese, in melted form, through an an enormous pipe
down to the bottom of a mountain. The pipe goes through a hotel.
When something goes wrong, suddenly the cheese begins oozing out of
all the normal pipes in the hotel -- faucets, showers, etc. I can
envision the cheese flowing through the hallways when Scrooge's pipe
leaked -- but the pipe is not connected to the rest of the building's
plumbing in any way, nor is any sabotage implied, so the gag (while it
looks funny) is illogical.
When Disney took over from Gladstone, they engineered a
distribution deal whereby a British edition of this story was sold for
a little while in the U. S. (as was "The Rain god of Uxmal"). Maybe
the oddness was due to the British translation?

David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>

Harry,

>GA 1 44 AKa US O:The Rain God of Uxmal
>GA 2 44 AKa US O:White Gold of the Matterhorn
>GA 3 44 AKa US O:Pirates on Key West [1984]
>GA 4 44 AKa US O:The Picasso Robbery in Barcelona
>[1985]
>GA 5 44 AKa US O:Five times Grand Canyon and back
>D 88067 44 AKa US O:The Tartan of the McDuck Family

>So there's a seventh story?

Yes. About $crooge trying to claim ownership to Manhattan. The first five
stories seem to be by the same artist and the Tartan and Manhattan stories
by another (another style anyway).

Jyrki,

>It has to be remembered that this is the first video made by Good Fellows...

Actually they have done videos before. For example, when Good Fellows
displayed art by Jukka Murtosaari in their gallery, they had an interview
with him on video. The Barks video is the first one for sale. So they have
done interview videos before, but how about the Carl Barks studio?

>(I heard that one guy from Germany bought 26 of them... just makes me wonder
>whether he put them _all_ into plastic bags or did he watch one of them)

If he wants to make money, he should buy comic books. Videos have much
shorter "shelf life".

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