The Eisner Awards nominations are out. I think this is news. Anyway,
I'm including the listings for relevant awards. Though you all might be
interested.
-Augie
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"And this year, season three ends on something really honking big." -JMS
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From: (Email removed) (Geoffrey R Mason)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,rec.arts.comics.alternative
Subject: INFO: 1996 EISNER AWARD NOMINATIONS
Date: 30 Apr 1996 21:29:25 GMT
Here are the 1996 Eisner Award Nominations for the best of 1995 work.
The awards will be given at the Comic-Con International in San Diego
this summer.
[...]
Best Short Story
"Caricature" by Dan Clowes, in Eightball #15 (Fantagraphics)
"Horsing Around with History," by Carl Barks and William Van
Horn, in Uncle Scrooge Adventures #33 (Gladstone)
"Jimmy Corrigan," by Chris Ware, in Blab #8 (Kitchen Sink)
"Klingon Battle Helmet," by Rob Maisch and Scott Hampton,
in Confessions of a Cereal Eater (NBM)
"Pink Frosting," by Adrian Tomine, in Optic Nerve #2 (Drawn
& Quarterly)
"The Eltingville Comic-Book, Science-Fiction, Fantasy, Horror,
and Role-Playing Club in Bring Me the Head of Boba
Fett" by Evan Dorkin, in Instant Piano #3 (Dark Horse)
[...]
Best Title for Younger Readers
Akiko on the Planet Smoo, by Mark Crilley (Sirius)
Batman & Robin Adventures, by Paul Dini, Ty Templeton, and
Rick Burchett (DC)
Bone, by Jeff Smith (Cartoon Books/Image)
Lisa Comics #1, by Mary Trainor, Mili Smythe, Stephanie Gladden,
Bill Morrison, and Chris Clements (Bongo)
Uncle Scrooge, by Don Rosa (Gladstone)
Walt Disney's Comics & Stories, by William Van Horn and others
(Gladstone)
[...]
Best Coloring
George Freeman, The X-Files (Topps)
Claude Legris, The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (Dark Horse/
Legend)
Angus McKie, Neil Gaiman's Teknophage (Big Entertainment);
Martha Washington: Stranded in Space (Dark Horse/Legend)
Maurice Vellekoop, stories in Drawn & Quarterly (Drawn &
Quarterly)
Chris Ware, The Acme Novelty Library (Fantagraphics)
[Susan Diagle-Leach is getting robbed here. -Augie]
[...]
Hall of Fame
(Past winners: Carl Barks, C. C. Beck, Milton Caniff, R. Crumb,
Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Frank Frazetta, William Gaines, Walt
Kelly, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Jerry Siegel, Joe
Schuster, Alex Toth, Wally Wood)
Jack Cole
Bill Finger
Hal Foster
Gardner Fox
Chester Gould
Harold Gray
George Herriman
Bob Kane
Sheldon Mayer
Winsor McCay
Alex Raymond
Alex Schomburg
Julius Schwartz
E. C. Segar
art spiegelman
Dick Sprang
John Stanley
Basil Wolverton
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Augie De Blieck Jr.
Don does it again
Message 1 -
1996-05-01 at 06:19:57
Michael Naiman
The Barks Collector
Message 2 -
1996-05-01 at 07:36:53
I need issues #1-6 of John Nichols' Barks Collector..will trade/purchase
Augie De Blieck Jr.
Gladstone PREVIEWS for July
Message 3 -
1996-05-02 at 02:51:31
The new catalog is out, which means it is that time again:
* Donald Duck Adventures #40: "Treasure Hunt at Sea" by Marco Rota
"Donald Duck, Circus Clown" by Denmark
$1.50
* Uncle $crooge #300: "The Sunken Yacht" by Carl Barks
"Coin of the Realm" by WVH
"Go Slowly Sands of Time" by Barks/Vicar
"Nobody's Business" by Don Rosa
$2.25
* WDC&S #605: "The Universal Solvent" Part 2 by Don Rosa
"Sleepless in Duckburg" by WVH (doing the sleepless gags again, eh?)
"The Phantom Blot!" Part One by Floyd Gottfredson
Cover by Walt Kelly - last seen in 1945 when it was originall published
$5.95
* The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck by Don Rosa #4 (1902-1947)
which is actually
Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge Adventures in Color 1902-1947
Reprinting "Invader of Fort Duckburg" through the ending
This one is 60 pages for $10.95
* Uncle $crooge Adventures in Color #6
"Tralla La" This strikes me as amazingly curious timing, seeing as how
it was just reprinted this week in $1.50 format. SIGH
$8.95
* Donald Duck Adventures #40: "Treasure Hunt at Sea" by Marco Rota
"Donald Duck, Circus Clown" by Denmark
$1.50
* Uncle $crooge #300: "The Sunken Yacht" by Carl Barks
"Coin of the Realm" by WVH
"Go Slowly Sands of Time" by Barks/Vicar
"Nobody's Business" by Don Rosa
$2.25
* WDC&S #605: "The Universal Solvent" Part 2 by Don Rosa
"Sleepless in Duckburg" by WVH (doing the sleepless gags again, eh?)
"The Phantom Blot!" Part One by Floyd Gottfredson
Cover by Walt Kelly - last seen in 1945 when it was originall published
$5.95
* The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck by Don Rosa #4 (1902-1947)
which is actually
Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge Adventures in Color 1902-1947
Reprinting "Invader of Fort Duckburg" through the ending
This one is 60 pages for $10.95
* Uncle $crooge Adventures in Color #6
"Tralla La" This strikes me as amazingly curious timing, seeing as how
it was just reprinted this week in $1.50 format. SIGH
$8.95
David A Gerstein
Disney comics Digest V96 #92
Message 4 -
1996-05-02 at 05:36:14
DIAMOND PREVIEWS
wasn't complete when it came to the new WDC&S. There will
also be a complete reprint of Walt Kelly's entire series of "Gremlins"
gags from WDC&S 34-41 -- and the very first one by Vivie Risto from
WDC&S 33. These pantomime strips contain some of Walt Kelly's most
animated art... good stuff. (Gladstone printed, I believe, three of
them between 1987-1989, but now they'll all be available again, with
their brethren, in one place.)
WDC&S will also contain some other things, but they weren't
finalized when the issue was solicited.
DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES, meanwhile, has... er... fairly literal
titles. Anyone have any ideas which stories are referred to here?
Something someone recalls from a foreign edition? Good to sea a "new"
Rota story, anyway.
HENRI:
"When Good Fellows displayed art by Jukka Murtosaari in their
gallery, they had an interview with him on video."
Jukka Murtosaari! Now THERE'S a name I haven't heard in a
while. Jukka lived in the U. S. for a year, about 1991, I think, and
drew what were no-holds-barred some of the best covers Disney Comics
ever printed. Do you know more about him, what duck stories he has
drawn before and since, and where he is now? If I knew of any actual
stories he had drawn, I'd see if Gladstone was interested in printing
them. Good artist, that Jukka.
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
"Have a day? Good! Jumping megabytes and forsooth!"
wasn't complete when it came to the new WDC&S. There will
also be a complete reprint of Walt Kelly's entire series of "Gremlins"
gags from WDC&S 34-41 -- and the very first one by Vivie Risto from
WDC&S 33. These pantomime strips contain some of Walt Kelly's most
animated art... good stuff. (Gladstone printed, I believe, three of
them between 1987-1989, but now they'll all be available again, with
their brethren, in one place.)
WDC&S will also contain some other things, but they weren't
finalized when the issue was solicited.
DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES, meanwhile, has... er... fairly literal
titles. Anyone have any ideas which stories are referred to here?
Something someone recalls from a foreign edition? Good to sea a "new"
Rota story, anyway.
HENRI:
"When Good Fellows displayed art by Jukka Murtosaari in their
gallery, they had an interview with him on video."
Jukka Murtosaari! Now THERE'S a name I haven't heard in a
while. Jukka lived in the U. S. for a year, about 1991, I think, and
drew what were no-holds-barred some of the best covers Disney Comics
ever printed. Do you know more about him, what duck stories he has
drawn before and since, and where he is now? If I knew of any actual
stories he had drawn, I'd see if Gladstone was interested in printing
them. Good artist, that Jukka.
David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>
"Have a day? Good! Jumping megabytes and forsooth!"
Frank Stajano
Disney comics Digest V96 88 & 89
Message 5 -
1996-05-02 at 12:31:37
Hi all, sorry for being such an irregular contributor...
DON:
>By the way, I just received an English language booklet describing, in
>loving detail, the complete history and story of the Italian Duck Family
>Tree, as depicted in the many decades of Italian Duck stories, the only Duck
>world where the Barks Universe is merely a part, rather than the entirety.
Could you post a full bibliographical reference to this please?
MARCO:
>And, last, a call to Italian stuff experts: has the "McDuck Foundation"
>story ever been reprinted in Italy? When and where, if so?
Yes, at least once on one of the large-format ones -- either Super
Almanacco Paperino or Paperino Mese. I have this reprint (not the
original) at home, I'll check and let you know the exact issue.
BTW Marco-- we should go on with our little project, which reminds me: I
still haven't phoned Corel for their blasted OCR...
Frank (Filologo Disneyano) http://www.cam-orl.co.uk/~fms
DON:
>By the way, I just received an English language booklet describing, in
>loving detail, the complete history and story of the Italian Duck Family
>Tree, as depicted in the many decades of Italian Duck stories, the only Duck
>world where the Barks Universe is merely a part, rather than the entirety.
Could you post a full bibliographical reference to this please?
MARCO:
>And, last, a call to Italian stuff experts: has the "McDuck Foundation"
>story ever been reprinted in Italy? When and where, if so?
Yes, at least once on one of the large-format ones -- either Super
Almanacco Paperino or Paperino Mese. I have this reprint (not the
original) at home, I'll check and let you know the exact issue.
BTW Marco-- we should go on with our little project, which reminds me: I
still haven't phoned Corel for their blasted OCR...
Frank (Filologo Disneyano) http://www.cam-orl.co.uk/~fms
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #92
Message 6 -
1996-05-02 at 15:04:00
AUGIE:
"Don does it again"? What did I do? There wasn't much I *could* do with the
"Lo$" being ineligible to win an Eisner this time around, since it's
regarded as all one looong story by the "Best Serialized Story" catagory.
I was still bothered, like you, by the fact that Susan D-L didn't get
another nomination as best colorist. I guess they would explain that there
was more competition last year? But TODD KLEIN wasn't even nominated! How is
this explained? He wins every year, then suddenly isn't even nominated?
I assume you're referring to that nomination of "UNCLE $CROOGE by Don Rosa"
in that surprize new category, "Best Series for Younger Readers". That is
surely meant to read "by Don Rosa and others" since the award is to the
title and I don't do the entire story-contents of U$, even while the "Lo$"
was appearing. But I'm rather unhappy with the creation of that category. It
would appear that this takes any Gladstone comic automatically out of
competition for the "Best Continuing Series" category, and also helps
reaffirm the American notion, merely by inference, that all Disney comics
are strictly for "younger readers". Does this suggest that the super-hero
comics are for mature readers? Of course, the super-hero comics go virtually
unmentioned in the Eisners or Harveys, so what they do deal with are comics
that are geared to the most sophisticated readers... maybe the super-hero
titles, if they were nominated, would be in the "for Younger Readers"
category? I'm sure this new category was meant to try to emphasize that
there are still comics for a general readership that are not violent,
over-sexed super-hero slugfests, and give them special mention. If so, maybe
they should change it to "Best Series for Normal Readers"?
It's wonderful that Disney comics are enjoyed by younger readers. It's
wonderful that my stories might be enjoyed by some younger readers. But
that's not who I'm specifically aiming them at when I write them; I'm just
aiming them at...readers. In fact, they have reader polls in Europe that
indicate that the youngest readers hate my stories because of all my
needless and irritating complexities of art and story. But I wonder how they
define "younger"? Pre-schoolers? Grade schoolers? High schoolers? (At my
age, I can't help but think of the readers in their 20s as young, young, young!)
But whatever the case, should UNCLE $CROOGE win that category, the award
would belong in the Gladstone offices, since, even if the omission of "and
others" from the by-line was not an oversight, only the comic title name
would be on the actual award anyhoo. I took home the plaque last year... it
would be Gladstone's turn to take it home this year for their wall.
"Don does it again"? What did I do? There wasn't much I *could* do with the
"Lo$" being ineligible to win an Eisner this time around, since it's
regarded as all one looong story by the "Best Serialized Story" catagory.
I was still bothered, like you, by the fact that Susan D-L didn't get
another nomination as best colorist. I guess they would explain that there
was more competition last year? But TODD KLEIN wasn't even nominated! How is
this explained? He wins every year, then suddenly isn't even nominated?
I assume you're referring to that nomination of "UNCLE $CROOGE by Don Rosa"
in that surprize new category, "Best Series for Younger Readers". That is
surely meant to read "by Don Rosa and others" since the award is to the
title and I don't do the entire story-contents of U$, even while the "Lo$"
was appearing. But I'm rather unhappy with the creation of that category. It
would appear that this takes any Gladstone comic automatically out of
competition for the "Best Continuing Series" category, and also helps
reaffirm the American notion, merely by inference, that all Disney comics
are strictly for "younger readers". Does this suggest that the super-hero
comics are for mature readers? Of course, the super-hero comics go virtually
unmentioned in the Eisners or Harveys, so what they do deal with are comics
that are geared to the most sophisticated readers... maybe the super-hero
titles, if they were nominated, would be in the "for Younger Readers"
category? I'm sure this new category was meant to try to emphasize that
there are still comics for a general readership that are not violent,
over-sexed super-hero slugfests, and give them special mention. If so, maybe
they should change it to "Best Series for Normal Readers"?
It's wonderful that Disney comics are enjoyed by younger readers. It's
wonderful that my stories might be enjoyed by some younger readers. But
that's not who I'm specifically aiming them at when I write them; I'm just
aiming them at...readers. In fact, they have reader polls in Europe that
indicate that the youngest readers hate my stories because of all my
needless and irritating complexities of art and story. But I wonder how they
define "younger"? Pre-schoolers? Grade schoolers? High schoolers? (At my
age, I can't help but think of the readers in their 20s as young, young, young!)
But whatever the case, should UNCLE $CROOGE win that category, the award
would belong in the Gladstone offices, since, even if the omission of "and
others" from the by-line was not an oversight, only the comic title name
would be on the actual award anyhoo. I took home the plaque last year... it
would be Gladstone's turn to take it home this year for their wall.
Harald Havas
Vienna-Auction
Message 7 -
1996-05-02 at 15:21:17
At the DOROTHEUM in Vienna (Austria's equivalent for Sothebys's) they
have a comic-auction (the third in their history) on the 11th of
may. Among lots of old German comic-books and lithos and stuff the
catalogue features a Don Rosa original!
It only says it's "for Uncle Scrooge, b/w, ink on drawing paper, 27x40
cm, framed". The first-call-prize (or whatever the English word is for the
prize given by the auctioneer before the auction) is Austrian
Schilling 5.000,- which is more or less exactly U$ 500,-
I wonder how this page found it's way to Vienna, and will comment
further on what it is (and which prize it reached) if someone is
interested.
By the way: phone and letter-bids are accepted - so if somebody's
interested I will post the address...
(They also have [10 AS = 1 US]: Cel 131/500 "Lady and the Tramp", AS 25.000,-; Cel
174/500 "The Junglebook", AS 25.000,-; Barks-lithos: "Mickey Mouse"
2/999, AS 3.200, "Caliph of Bagdad" 2/550, AS 2.000 , "The Nude with
the Hat" 2/550, AS 2.000, "Donald Duck" 2/999, AS 3.200, all signed;
Comic-Pages of The New York Herald 14th April 1907, incl. Little
Nemo, AS 700; all in all thge catalogue has 40 pages, but that should
be all of international interest)
RE: Typos
Wheeew! What a relief! Others can't spell
Braks-Barx-Parks-Barls-Barls too... I feel much better now!
---Harald Havas (Email removed)
have a comic-auction (the third in their history) on the 11th of
may. Among lots of old German comic-books and lithos and stuff the
catalogue features a Don Rosa original!
It only says it's "for Uncle Scrooge, b/w, ink on drawing paper, 27x40
cm, framed". The first-call-prize (or whatever the English word is for the
prize given by the auctioneer before the auction) is Austrian
Schilling 5.000,- which is more or less exactly U$ 500,-
I wonder how this page found it's way to Vienna, and will comment
further on what it is (and which prize it reached) if someone is
interested.
By the way: phone and letter-bids are accepted - so if somebody's
interested I will post the address...
(They also have [10 AS = 1 US]: Cel 131/500 "Lady and the Tramp", AS 25.000,-; Cel
174/500 "The Junglebook", AS 25.000,-; Barks-lithos: "Mickey Mouse"
2/999, AS 3.200, "Caliph of Bagdad" 2/550, AS 2.000 , "The Nude with
the Hat" 2/550, AS 2.000, "Donald Duck" 2/999, AS 3.200, all signed;
Comic-Pages of The New York Herald 14th April 1907, incl. Little
Nemo, AS 700; all in all thge catalogue has 40 pages, but that should
be all of international interest)
RE: Typos
Wheeew! What a relief! Others can't spell
Braks-Barx-Parks-Barls-Barls too... I feel much better now!
---Harald Havas (Email removed)
Arthur De Wolf
Harald, Augie, Don and All ...
Message 8 -
1996-05-02 at 19:07:33
Hi!
HARALD HAVAS:
You said: "By the way: are you people interested in other
fakes? E.g. there has been a German fake called "Donald Punk"..."
Do you, or anyone else, know about more countries making
those fake Disney comics? I have a 'bootleg' comic from China
which looks like a photocopied little comicbook with Disney-comic-
stories drawn by a child! Do more countries in the Far East (like
China and Burma) have those counterfeit Disney comics?
AUGIE DE BLIECK:
You said: "Uncle $crooge #300: [...] Nobody's Business".
Hasn't that story already been printed in the U.S.A.?
Is that the first time a Rosa-story is printed for the
second time in an American Disney comic?
DON ROSA:
You said: "What am I working on now? You don't realize how
SLOOOWWW I am! That's what all the needless-and-irritating-detail ..."
Sorry to have bothered you! I'll ask you again in a couple of
months. I just finished reading the Norwegian versions
of your "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad" and "The Universal
Solvent" (Thanks Gaute!). Very cool stories. They look great! I didn't
understand ALL of the Norwegian dialogues, but I still liked them.
Although "TUS" is much more simplified, it's still very much like
the Pertwillaby-story! I liked comparing them with eachother!
The Barks-story, to which "TiST" is kind of a sequel, has always
been in my top-ten favorite Barks-stories. Some things in "TiST"
were VERY well found! And I especially liked the ending! :-)
ALL:
I'm now almost finished with the "Europe"-section of my
Disney comics of the World-website. The only countries I don't have
information about are the following: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Sebia & Montenegro, Slovenia and Ukraine.
Can anyone help me with these countries?
Have a nice day!
Arthur de "L'il Bad" Wolf --- Roosendaal, the Netherlands
email: <(Email removed)> or <(Email removed)>
homepage: http://www.pi.net/~wolfman/disney (still under construction)
"The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake those, you've got it made."
HARALD HAVAS:
You said: "By the way: are you people interested in other
fakes? E.g. there has been a German fake called "Donald Punk"..."
Do you, or anyone else, know about more countries making
those fake Disney comics? I have a 'bootleg' comic from China
which looks like a photocopied little comicbook with Disney-comic-
stories drawn by a child! Do more countries in the Far East (like
China and Burma) have those counterfeit Disney comics?
AUGIE DE BLIECK:
You said: "Uncle $crooge #300: [...] Nobody's Business".
Hasn't that story already been printed in the U.S.A.?
Is that the first time a Rosa-story is printed for the
second time in an American Disney comic?
DON ROSA:
You said: "What am I working on now? You don't realize how
SLOOOWWW I am! That's what all the needless-and-irritating-detail ..."
Sorry to have bothered you! I'll ask you again in a couple of
months. I just finished reading the Norwegian versions
of your "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad" and "The Universal
Solvent" (Thanks Gaute!). Very cool stories. They look great! I didn't
understand ALL of the Norwegian dialogues, but I still liked them.
Although "TUS" is much more simplified, it's still very much like
the Pertwillaby-story! I liked comparing them with eachother!
The Barks-story, to which "TiST" is kind of a sequel, has always
been in my top-ten favorite Barks-stories. Some things in "TiST"
were VERY well found! And I especially liked the ending! :-)
ALL:
I'm now almost finished with the "Europe"-section of my
Disney comics of the World-website. The only countries I don't have
information about are the following: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Sebia & Montenegro, Slovenia and Ukraine.
Can anyone help me with these countries?
Have a nice day!
Arthur de "L'il Bad" Wolf --- Roosendaal, the Netherlands
email: <(Email removed)> or <(Email removed)>
homepage: http://www.pi.net/~wolfman/disney (still under construction)
"The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake those, you've got it made."
Carey Furlong - Tdoc
Walt Disney Giant #6
Message 9 -
1996-05-02 at 19:41:23
Hi Everybody,
I picked up Gladstone's Walt Disney Giant #6 last night, which is
billed as an all Woodchuck issue. There are two Woodchuck stories
written and laid out by Carl Barks around 1969 and redrawn for
Gladstone, and a third Woodchuck story by Vic Lockman.
I'm puzzled a bit by the fourth story, a Barks reprint from Comics and
Stories 226, "The Floating Island" from 1959 (the title is probably
unofficial but that is how it appears in the database).
I've always loved this particular story, since it began with a live TV
show that viewed the Earth from an orbiting satelite, with the Ducks
making the comment that they were lucky indeed to see such wonders and
to be living in 1959. Today such TV programs are in high resolution
color, and are considered by many to be mundane (but not by me!).
Susan Daigle-Leach's coloring is beautiful, although I do wish she had
made the island sands lighter, and the sea surfaces more often blue
instead of always green. Same goes for The Horseradish Story in Uncle
Scrooge Adventures Album #3; needs bluer seas instead of always green
and dark green (I'm not criticizing, as I love Susan's work. I'm just
commenting.)
But why is the "Floating Island" treated like a Woodchuck story and
included in a supposedly all Woodchuck collection? The word Woodchuck
never appears in the story, the Woodchuck manual is not used, and H, D,
and L do not appear as Woodchucks and do not wear their Woodchuck
hats. Indeed, the story isn't even about H, D and L explicitly, but
more about Scrooge's efforts to lay claim to an undiscovered island.
Sorry. I know I'm making too much of all this. I think we can just
regard The Floating Island as a bonus story in an excellent collection
of Woodchuck stories.
"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 (US24) -----------
---- Carey ----
Carey Furlong, Huntington Beach, CA; (Email removed); Secondary
mail: (Email removed); Opinions expressed are mine and not
those of EDS
I picked up Gladstone's Walt Disney Giant #6 last night, which is
billed as an all Woodchuck issue. There are two Woodchuck stories
written and laid out by Carl Barks around 1969 and redrawn for
Gladstone, and a third Woodchuck story by Vic Lockman.
I'm puzzled a bit by the fourth story, a Barks reprint from Comics and
Stories 226, "The Floating Island" from 1959 (the title is probably
unofficial but that is how it appears in the database).
I've always loved this particular story, since it began with a live TV
show that viewed the Earth from an orbiting satelite, with the Ducks
making the comment that they were lucky indeed to see such wonders and
to be living in 1959. Today such TV programs are in high resolution
color, and are considered by many to be mundane (but not by me!).
Susan Daigle-Leach's coloring is beautiful, although I do wish she had
made the island sands lighter, and the sea surfaces more often blue
instead of always green. Same goes for The Horseradish Story in Uncle
Scrooge Adventures Album #3; needs bluer seas instead of always green
and dark green (I'm not criticizing, as I love Susan's work. I'm just
commenting.)
But why is the "Floating Island" treated like a Woodchuck story and
included in a supposedly all Woodchuck collection? The word Woodchuck
never appears in the story, the Woodchuck manual is not used, and H, D,
and L do not appear as Woodchucks and do not wear their Woodchuck
hats. Indeed, the story isn't even about H, D and L explicitly, but
more about Scrooge's efforts to lay claim to an undiscovered island.
Sorry. I know I'm making too much of all this. I think we can just
regard The Floating Island as a bonus story in an excellent collection
of Woodchuck stories.
"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 (US24) -----------
---- Carey ----
Carey Furlong, Huntington Beach, CA; (Email removed); Secondary
mail: (Email removed); Opinions expressed are mine and not
those of EDS
Henri Sivonen
Disney comics Digest V96 #92
Message 10 -
1996-05-02 at 20:12:42
Now that there's some discussion on fake "Disneys"...
Charlie Christensen has written and drawn albums called "The Alexander
Barks & Charlie Christensen Productions Proudly Presents Arne Anka".
Arne Anka (in Swedish, Arne And in Danish) is a Donald look-alike without
any taste or censorship. In the magazine of Finnish Comics Society someone
wrote that Disney threaded to sue Charlie Christensen and the magazines
publishing the comic and the look of Arne was changed to less Donald.
Has there been any new lawsuits afterwards and is Arne Anka still published?
David,
> 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.
Yes, the art in the first five stories is GREAT. The art in the last two is
good, but not as great as the another style, IMHO.
-- ___
Henri Sivonen / \
(Email removed) WWW (renewed): | h_|
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris \__
Charlie Christensen has written and drawn albums called "The Alexander
Barks & Charlie Christensen Productions Proudly Presents Arne Anka".
Arne Anka (in Swedish, Arne And in Danish) is a Donald look-alike without
any taste or censorship. In the magazine of Finnish Comics Society someone
wrote that Disney threaded to sue Charlie Christensen and the magazines
publishing the comic and the look of Arne was changed to less Donald.
Has there been any new lawsuits afterwards and is Arne Anka still published?
David,
> 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.
Yes, the art in the first five stories is GREAT. The art in the last two is
good, but not as great as the another style, IMHO.
-- ___
Henri Sivonen / \
(Email removed) WWW (renewed): | h_|
Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris \__
Borrelli
Disney comics Digest V96 #92
Message 11 -
1996-05-02 at 20:30:18
Hi,
I'm new in this list (4 days old :) ) and I have just seen
Don Rosa is on the list too. Now here in Italy we are reading
his story of U. Scrooge.. this month Donald's parents met.
Just wanted to tell him he is great (probably he already
know it but anyway...).
Antonella
I'm new in this list (4 days old :) ) and I have just seen
Don Rosa is on the list too. Now here in Italy we are reading
his story of U. Scrooge.. this month Donald's parents met.
Just wanted to tell him he is great (probably he already
know it but anyway...).
Antonella
JALustig
Phooey to Both Names
Message 12 -
1996-05-02 at 21:25:18
In regards to all the discussion about the naming of "the fourth nephew" and
as to whether there's some kind of conspiracy going on:
I talked to Bill Grandey of the Barks Studio and he says that Lena Balleby,
vice president of information for Egmont, told him that people were calling
the fourth nephew "Barks." He thought it was kind of funny and so he
submitted it to Maggie at Comics Buyer's Guide. Bill hadn't heard of the the
"Phooey" name until I mentioned it to him. I think "Phooey" is a great name
and Bill agreed. He did point out, however, that Phooey probably wouldn't
work in any language besides English. Huey, Dewey and Louie have different
names in each language so Phooey wouldn't rhyme.
I really don't think there's much of a conspiracy here. The person that Bill
talked to apparently calls the fourth nephew "Barks." Apparently some other
people at Egmont are calling him "Phooey." Is one of these names "official?"
Beats me. Frankly I don't really care. I mean it's not like we're going to
ever actually use the name in a story!
(Although it might be a pretty interesting story if we did suddennly and
deliberately introduce a fourth nephew. I wonder if maybe we could...naaah!)
--John Lustig
as to whether there's some kind of conspiracy going on:
I talked to Bill Grandey of the Barks Studio and he says that Lena Balleby,
vice president of information for Egmont, told him that people were calling
the fourth nephew "Barks." He thought it was kind of funny and so he
submitted it to Maggie at Comics Buyer's Guide. Bill hadn't heard of the the
"Phooey" name until I mentioned it to him. I think "Phooey" is a great name
and Bill agreed. He did point out, however, that Phooey probably wouldn't
work in any language besides English. Huey, Dewey and Louie have different
names in each language so Phooey wouldn't rhyme.
I really don't think there's much of a conspiracy here. The person that Bill
talked to apparently calls the fourth nephew "Barks." Apparently some other
people at Egmont are calling him "Phooey." Is one of these names "official?"
Beats me. Frankly I don't really care. I mean it's not like we're going to
ever actually use the name in a story!
(Although it might be a pretty interesting story if we did suddennly and
deliberately introduce a fourth nephew. I wonder if maybe we could...naaah!)
--John Lustig
JALustig
Too-Real-To-Be TRUE ROMANCES!
Message 13 -
1996-05-02 at 21:25:21
As long as I'm posting mail about Comics Buyer's Guide I might as well
mention that I have a semi-regular feature running in CBG. A few weeks ago
the newspaper (Or is it considered a magazine now?) began printing my
"To-Real-To-Be TRUE ROMANCES!" series. It's a little hard to describe, but
here goes:
A few years ago when Charleton Comics was selling off it's line I bought the
right to an old romance series called "First Kiss." My idea--which I've
finally put into practise--was to to throw out all the old dialogue and put
new dialogue on the artwork. I wanted to make these sappy old comics funny.
(Well, actually theye were often pretty funny to be begin with--although not
intentionally).
Since I have most of the stats for the 40 issues of the series, I've been
scanning the art into a computer and then manipulating the artwork
electronically--deleting and adding things as needed.
(I know this is all off topic, but I figure since I write Disney comics it
still might be of interest to a few people on the list.)
I was going to to print some of the dialogue here, but frankly I don't think
it works without the pictures. It's not high art. It's just silly, goofy
stuff and I'm having a lot of fun writing them. Anyway, folks, check it out
if you have access to CBG. Thanks.
--John Lustig
mention that I have a semi-regular feature running in CBG. A few weeks ago
the newspaper (Or is it considered a magazine now?) began printing my
"To-Real-To-Be TRUE ROMANCES!" series. It's a little hard to describe, but
here goes:
A few years ago when Charleton Comics was selling off it's line I bought the
right to an old romance series called "First Kiss." My idea--which I've
finally put into practise--was to to throw out all the old dialogue and put
new dialogue on the artwork. I wanted to make these sappy old comics funny.
(Well, actually theye were often pretty funny to be begin with--although not
intentionally).
Since I have most of the stats for the 40 issues of the series, I've been
scanning the art into a computer and then manipulating the artwork
electronically--deleting and adding things as needed.
(I know this is all off topic, but I figure since I write Disney comics it
still might be of interest to a few people on the list.)
I was going to to print some of the dialogue here, but frankly I don't think
it works without the pictures. It's not high art. It's just silly, goofy
stuff and I'm having a lot of fun writing them. Anyway, folks, check it out
if you have access to CBG. Thanks.
--John Lustig
Nils
Donaldus Anas and Mikki Maus
Message 14 -
1996-05-02 at 23:38:22
Hi all, I'm new to this list, but an old friend of
Disney comics in general and perhaps a fan of Barks and
Rosa stories in particular. I've been browsing through
various recent and semi-recent messages to the list
and would like to remark on/supplement a couple of these.
1. Ole R Nielsen wrote,
on the Donald and Mickey stories that have been published in Latin:
``Both are credited in the Barks Friends catalogue I'm
paraphrasing here to Marco Rota, whom they also claim did
the Uxmaal story... ("Objection your honor, that's *hearsay*!")''
Agreed, objection sustained, I admit to hearsay here
(I wrote those lines 10 years ago). Ask Adolf Kabatek.
I now regret not obtaining "Donaldus Anas atque nox Saraceni"
(DD in the Night of the Saracenes) and "Michael Musculus et
Lapis Sapientiae" (MM and the Philosopher's Stone) for myself
when I had the chance. These were printed in Italy in 1984,
I think. I would be interested in trade/purchase [as in "generous"]
for these. Ecce, tibi do decem denarium.
2. Harald Havas wrote,
on the very different number of Disney comics being sold in different
locations on our planet:
``(and by the way, it just depends: weekly German "Micky Maus"
sells 1 Million copies, and I'm sure the Russian and Chinese
edition are doing at least as well)''
The last time I looked (last year) the Russian Mikki Maus edition
said it had a _tirazh_ of 250 000 ekzemplyarov. They also publish
"Utinye Istorii", Duck Tales, with a run of 200 000 copies.
(These contain material obtained via Egmont-Gutenberghus in Denmark.
WvHorn came out quite nicely in Russian!)
------------------------
Professor Nils Lid Hjort
Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo
Disney comics in general and perhaps a fan of Barks and
Rosa stories in particular. I've been browsing through
various recent and semi-recent messages to the list
and would like to remark on/supplement a couple of these.
1. Ole R Nielsen wrote,
on the Donald and Mickey stories that have been published in Latin:
``Both are credited in the Barks Friends catalogue I'm
paraphrasing here to Marco Rota, whom they also claim did
the Uxmaal story... ("Objection your honor, that's *hearsay*!")''
Agreed, objection sustained, I admit to hearsay here
(I wrote those lines 10 years ago). Ask Adolf Kabatek.
I now regret not obtaining "Donaldus Anas atque nox Saraceni"
(DD in the Night of the Saracenes) and "Michael Musculus et
Lapis Sapientiae" (MM and the Philosopher's Stone) for myself
when I had the chance. These were printed in Italy in 1984,
I think. I would be interested in trade/purchase [as in "generous"]
for these. Ecce, tibi do decem denarium.
2. Harald Havas wrote,
on the very different number of Disney comics being sold in different
locations on our planet:
``(and by the way, it just depends: weekly German "Micky Maus"
sells 1 Million copies, and I'm sure the Russian and Chinese
edition are doing at least as well)''
The last time I looked (last year) the Russian Mikki Maus edition
said it had a _tirazh_ of 250 000 ekzemplyarov. They also publish
"Utinye Istorii", Duck Tales, with a run of 200 000 copies.
(These contain material obtained via Egmont-Gutenberghus in Denmark.
WvHorn came out quite nicely in Russian!)
------------------------
Professor Nils Lid Hjort
Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo
Nils
CB & WvH win award...
Message 15 -
1996-05-02 at 23:40:19
Another note/opinion:
I saw that CB & W van Horn won one of the Eisner
awards for the best comic book work 1995, recently
announced, for their joint 24-page work "Horsing
around with History" [USAdventures 33].
[The message I was able to glimpse about this, via
netscape-lurking on fa.disney-comics, mysteriously
disappeared under my fingers, so I can't (now) quote
the relevant category in which they "competed".]
Well, two reactions:
1. Congratulations.
2. But... was this a good enough entry?
Not quite so, imvho. My guess is that most of us could
come up with more than two dozens of CB stories that would
out-rank and out-horse and out-history this one, with
respect to both story-telling and art execution. One
cannot but help feeling that this is intended as One More
Deserved Tribute to our Indeed Unique Nonagintarian,
rather than an award for the specific USAdv 33 story in question.
In other words, the award has been won by CB's general
reputation and through respect and recognition of that man's
long life's work -- which is fine, but is contradictory
to what the annual Eisner citation presumably proclaims.
This is not an attempt to downplay van Horn's work,
which is good and has great charm at its best.
I simply venture that the Horsing Around story wasn't
particularly successful; I choose not to elaborate here.
And _if_ this was the best comic book story [in the
appropriate category] last year, then standards are down.
Nils Lid Hjort
I saw that CB & W van Horn won one of the Eisner
awards for the best comic book work 1995, recently
announced, for their joint 24-page work "Horsing
around with History" [USAdventures 33].
[The message I was able to glimpse about this, via
netscape-lurking on fa.disney-comics, mysteriously
disappeared under my fingers, so I can't (now) quote
the relevant category in which they "competed".]
Well, two reactions:
1. Congratulations.
2. But... was this a good enough entry?
Not quite so, imvho. My guess is that most of us could
come up with more than two dozens of CB stories that would
out-rank and out-horse and out-history this one, with
respect to both story-telling and art execution. One
cannot but help feeling that this is intended as One More
Deserved Tribute to our Indeed Unique Nonagintarian,
rather than an award for the specific USAdv 33 story in question.
In other words, the award has been won by CB's general
reputation and through respect and recognition of that man's
long life's work -- which is fine, but is contradictory
to what the annual Eisner citation presumably proclaims.
This is not an attempt to downplay van Horn's work,
which is good and has great charm at its best.
I simply venture that the Horsing Around story wasn't
particularly successful; I choose not to elaborate here.
And _if_ this was the best comic book story [in the
appropriate category] last year, then standards are down.
Nils Lid Hjort