Don:
Good to have you back on the list. I'm always looking forward
to your 'travel reports,' so don't hold back!
All:
Finnish weekly has featured lots of good stuff recently.
Here's quick rant about some of the stories:
D95079 'The Once and Future Duck' by Don Rosa
This was just as good a story you might (and should) expect from
Don. I've always liked time-travel stories and this was no exception.
Great use of Gyro and Little Helper.
(BTW, check out also 'The Universal Solvent' - which is currently
serialized in WDC&S - and the sub-scene where Little Helper
dresses a mechanical mouse as Mickey. That's one of my favourites
by Don Rosa.
D95139 Great short (14 pages) Donald adventure-story by Marco Rota.
Check out his signatures on first page: panels 1 and 4. One of
the things I like about Rota's art is his supporting characters,
they look as closely human as Disney allows. (The Image bad-girl-art
artist should take a look at 'babes' drawn by Rota too. They
look a lot more attractive than their 'bad girls.')
D95087 'The Icy Touch' by Janet Gilbert and Noel Van Horn.
Noel just keeps getting better. Like Egmont's Mickey stories
in general, thanks to good writers and artists.
This is a really funny ten-pager where Mickey gets Iceman-like
superpowers and problems follow with it. (As we know, with
great powers comes also great...merchandising...or something.)
D95082 A new ten-pager by William Van Horn where Donald
and Boys have fun with a treasure-chest. They just can't open it up!
Not among WVH's best, but pretty good story anyway.
D95138 A Mickey Mouse adventure story drawn (maybe written too?) by
Egmont editors
:: drumroll :: take a note:
Let's already
Marco Rota! get in
60s/70s in
'duckburg' too.
The creators
deserve a credit
for their work!
This really blew me away! And as far as I can tell it's really
drawn by Marco Rota, altough he's using a bit moore cartoony approach
than in his Duck-stories. Marco also drew a Mickey in D95139's
(see above) splash panel and I immediately thought: I want
to see a Mickey story by him.
In this story Mickey is wearing the 'two-button shorts' with
NO T-shirt, that alone makes half the atmosphere. Black Pete
is the main villain operating in secret Antarctica base.
David, I hope Gladstone will print this soon!
/Mikko
Author
Topic: 199606
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Mikko Aittola
Disney comics Digest V96 #133
Message 136 -
1996-06-23 at 21:44:57
Michael Naiman
Macintosh users
Message 137 -
1996-06-24 at 18:43:28
Help! I'm having extreme difficulty downloading images from Dan Shane's
Scrooge homepage. Can anyone with Macintosh equipment out there give me a
hand?!
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Scrooge homepage. Can anyone with Macintosh equipment out there give me a
hand?!
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Markoff
Obsolete names
Message 138 -
1996-06-24 at 19:56:14
Another set of "prehistoric" European Disney names: In Mickey Mouse Magazine
1 (first series, 1933), reproduced in in WDC&S 601, was an article about the
foreign names of MM, containing the following info:
Spanish in Spain: Miguel Ratonocito
French: Michel Souris
German: Michael Maus
Italian: Michele Jopolini
Greek: Mikel Mus
Japanese: Miki Kuchi
The Gladstone editor comments about Michele Jopolini: "That may have been
true in the early cartoon shorts, but we believe his publications name was
always Topolino in Italy."
1 (first series, 1933), reproduced in in WDC&S 601, was an article about the
foreign names of MM, containing the following info:
Spanish in Spain: Miguel Ratonocito
French: Michel Souris
German: Michael Maus
Italian: Michele Jopolini
Greek: Mikel Mus
Japanese: Miki Kuchi
The Gladstone editor comments about Michele Jopolini: "That may have been
true in the early cartoon shorts, but we believe his publications name was
always Topolino in Italy."
Marc Chapman
Digest #133
Message 139 -
1996-06-24 at 20:11:00
DON:
It was great to hear about your trip to Germany. I've always found it
very interesting that you get swarms of people in Europe and only a few here
in the states. It's also disappointing, but I guess I won't have to wait in
line as long to talk to you. I'm truly disappointed that you won't make the
CenterCon this year, but can wait until next year. Are you planning
any shows in nearby areas, like maybe Portland? If so, drop a note.
On another subject, I went to a comics/collectables place and found a small
display of $crooge items (a rare sight). There were many crude plastic
statues that didn't look very good, but there was two things that may be of
(mild) interest. There was a small statue, about 3 or so inches in height,
made by a company named Shmidt or Schmit. Also there was a $crooge patch
made by a company called Streamline. Both products claimed to be authentic
Disney licensed products. Do you have these, or are they interesting?
Thought I'd as.
Lastly, does your "Avatars" story come out here in the states soon (if so,
which issue #)? Thanks!
Marc Chapman
It was great to hear about your trip to Germany. I've always found it
very interesting that you get swarms of people in Europe and only a few here
in the states. It's also disappointing, but I guess I won't have to wait in
line as long to talk to you. I'm truly disappointed that you won't make the
CenterCon this year, but can wait until next year. Are you planning
any shows in nearby areas, like maybe Portland? If so, drop a note.
On another subject, I went to a comics/collectables place and found a small
display of $crooge items (a rare sight). There were many crude plastic
statues that didn't look very good, but there was two things that may be of
(mild) interest. There was a small statue, about 3 or so inches in height,
made by a company named Shmidt or Schmit. Also there was a $crooge patch
made by a company called Streamline. Both products claimed to be authentic
Disney licensed products. Do you have these, or are they interesting?
Thought I'd as.
Lastly, does your "Avatars" story come out here in the states soon (if so,
which issue #)? Thanks!
Marc Chapman
Carey Furlong - Tdoc
Disney comics Digest V96 #131
Message 140 -
1996-06-24 at 21:09:51
TO ALL:
First off I would like to thank Harry Fluks for reformatting the
Disney database to 80 columns. The new format looks great and is much
easier to read and import to text. Thanks, Harry!
Torsten Adair wrote:
> Okay, for all people attending San Diego, I've now rescheduled the breakfast
> for the Fifth, since some people won't be arriving until later.
> Anyone have a problem with this day?
My girlfriend and I will be at the convention beginning around 1 pm on
the 4th, so this should be just dandy.
Don Rosa wrote:
> CAREY:
> Tell me about the SF stories that involved a trip to the center of the Earth
> which involved a mini-Black Hole!!! The reason I'm curious is "The Universal
> Solvent" story you're now seeing is my updated, Duckified version of my
> 20-25 year old original "Pertwillaby Papers" story. I used the universal
> solvent idea alone because I thought the original version was too SFy for a
> Duck comic -- that original idea being that it was a mini-Black-Hole! At the
> time I wrote that story, I had never seen anything similar in any story
> before... I'd never even seen Black Holes mentioned in fiction before I
> wrote my tale (though I don't follow SF and they might have had such tales
> since the 20s for all I know). My original strip was even several years
> before Disney's oddball BLACK HOLE movie. But tell me what SF stories dealt
> with that idea so I can find them... I still plan to use my old Black Hole
> plot in a Duck story, and I'd like to check up on any other such stories,
> either to avoid being too similar or to sorta swipe a few more nifty angles.
>
Part 1 of The Universal Solvent shows it to be a great story, and I am
having a wonderful time with it. At this point, however, I must
apologize to one and all, because I am about to go off the deep end.
Sorry...
Since black holes (or singularities) were first postulated in the 60s
or 70s, science fiction has been replete with stories about them.
Two recent books about mini black holes escaping into the depths of
the Earth come to mind. One is "Artifact" by Gregory Benford, in
which a mini black hole is discovered encased inside an ancient device
by archeologists excavating a site in present day Greece. The device
is eventually opened and the mini black hole accidentally falls
towards the center of the Earth, leading to all sorts of
complications.
The other book is "Earth" by David Brin. This story tells of a mini
black hole that was deliberately allowed to fall within the Earth by
an alien civilization with the intent of eventually destroying the
planet. In this book, the aliens regretfully succeed in their plan.
In both books, neither of the mini black holes actually passed through
the center of the Earth, but tended to travel endlessly through the
planet in huge arcing orbits, sometimes emerging from the surface and
plunging back in. Apparently, dropping something into a gravity well
seldom results in a passage directly through its center. At times in
both books the protagonists attempted to intercept the mini black
holes during their brief appearances at the points of emergence and
remergence.
Brin's book takes place in the near future, and came with a richer
plot than Benford's, although the latter was more scholarly. I'll
never forget how Brin described the breakup of the Earth from various
places on its surface. One striking sequence involved the huge
granite shield of Yosemite in California thrusting into the sky and
breaking slowly apart as witnessed by hikers perched on the lip of its
valley.
I've read other stories in which mini black holes were used in space
to both power and disrupt spacecraft.
The gist of all of these stories leads me to understand that the
theory of mini black holes, if they exist at all, makes them to be
very small, probably invisible to the naked eye, but comprising
powerful gravitational fields within their event horizons. An event
horizon for one could be a few inches or a few feet from their
surface. And if a mini black hole were immersed in a planet it may
eventually consume it. (Or if it were small enough, it could just
evaporate.)
Greg Benford is both a science fiction writer and a renowned
physicist, and presently teaches at the University of California at
Irvine. Although his book "Artifact" was slower than Brin's "Earth,"
his science was impeccable. Brin's book was also no slouch in the
science department, and it held together well as a story.
I like a quote I heard a few years back that typifies this genre of
story-telling: "Science fiction represents the fairy tales of the
20th Century." This is an interesting observation, and I wonder if
old world fairy tales were regarded by the general reading public then
the same way science fiction stories are regarded now.
Sorry for going on so long about this, folks. As I said earlier, I'm
really enjoying Don's, The Universal Solvent. It's very thought
provoking!
-
"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
First off I would like to thank Harry Fluks for reformatting the
Disney database to 80 columns. The new format looks great and is much
easier to read and import to text. Thanks, Harry!
Torsten Adair wrote:
> Okay, for all people attending San Diego, I've now rescheduled the breakfast
> for the Fifth, since some people won't be arriving until later.
> Anyone have a problem with this day?
My girlfriend and I will be at the convention beginning around 1 pm on
the 4th, so this should be just dandy.
Don Rosa wrote:
> CAREY:
> Tell me about the SF stories that involved a trip to the center of the Earth
> which involved a mini-Black Hole!!! The reason I'm curious is "The Universal
> Solvent" story you're now seeing is my updated, Duckified version of my
> 20-25 year old original "Pertwillaby Papers" story. I used the universal
> solvent idea alone because I thought the original version was too SFy for a
> Duck comic -- that original idea being that it was a mini-Black-Hole! At the
> time I wrote that story, I had never seen anything similar in any story
> before... I'd never even seen Black Holes mentioned in fiction before I
> wrote my tale (though I don't follow SF and they might have had such tales
> since the 20s for all I know). My original strip was even several years
> before Disney's oddball BLACK HOLE movie. But tell me what SF stories dealt
> with that idea so I can find them... I still plan to use my old Black Hole
> plot in a Duck story, and I'd like to check up on any other such stories,
> either to avoid being too similar or to sorta swipe a few more nifty angles.
>
Part 1 of The Universal Solvent shows it to be a great story, and I am
having a wonderful time with it. At this point, however, I must
apologize to one and all, because I am about to go off the deep end.
Sorry...
Since black holes (or singularities) were first postulated in the 60s
or 70s, science fiction has been replete with stories about them.
Two recent books about mini black holes escaping into the depths of
the Earth come to mind. One is "Artifact" by Gregory Benford, in
which a mini black hole is discovered encased inside an ancient device
by archeologists excavating a site in present day Greece. The device
is eventually opened and the mini black hole accidentally falls
towards the center of the Earth, leading to all sorts of
complications.
The other book is "Earth" by David Brin. This story tells of a mini
black hole that was deliberately allowed to fall within the Earth by
an alien civilization with the intent of eventually destroying the
planet. In this book, the aliens regretfully succeed in their plan.
In both books, neither of the mini black holes actually passed through
the center of the Earth, but tended to travel endlessly through the
planet in huge arcing orbits, sometimes emerging from the surface and
plunging back in. Apparently, dropping something into a gravity well
seldom results in a passage directly through its center. At times in
both books the protagonists attempted to intercept the mini black
holes during their brief appearances at the points of emergence and
remergence.
Brin's book takes place in the near future, and came with a richer
plot than Benford's, although the latter was more scholarly. I'll
never forget how Brin described the breakup of the Earth from various
places on its surface. One striking sequence involved the huge
granite shield of Yosemite in California thrusting into the sky and
breaking slowly apart as witnessed by hikers perched on the lip of its
valley.
I've read other stories in which mini black holes were used in space
to both power and disrupt spacecraft.
The gist of all of these stories leads me to understand that the
theory of mini black holes, if they exist at all, makes them to be
very small, probably invisible to the naked eye, but comprising
powerful gravitational fields within their event horizons. An event
horizon for one could be a few inches or a few feet from their
surface. And if a mini black hole were immersed in a planet it may
eventually consume it. (Or if it were small enough, it could just
evaporate.)
Greg Benford is both a science fiction writer and a renowned
physicist, and presently teaches at the University of California at
Irvine. Although his book "Artifact" was slower than Brin's "Earth,"
his science was impeccable. Brin's book was also no slouch in the
science department, and it held together well as a story.
I like a quote I heard a few years back that typifies this genre of
story-telling: "Science fiction represents the fairy tales of the
20th Century." This is an interesting observation, and I wonder if
old world fairy tales were regarded by the general reading public then
the same way science fiction stories are regarded now.
Sorry for going on so long about this, folks. As I said earlier, I'm
really enjoying Don's, The Universal Solvent. It's very thought
provoking!
-
"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
Mike Pohjola
Disney comics Digest V96 #134
Message 141 -
1996-06-24 at 21:12:39
DON:
I believe they won't print your Treasure of the Ten Avatars in
Finland. At least not in a one issue. There's a list of special issues
this year in the homepage of Aku Ankka and they had Once and Future Duck
there even if it was in three parts. The list didn't contain TotTA. But
I don't see why they couldn't print it in four parts in all the Egmont
countries. Why can't they?
And before your trip you asked me if there was any clear reason
for mentioning the cows in the Finnish version of OaFD. Well, there wasn't.
But the translator Jukka Lindfors, whom I suspect translated this story, too,
says he tries to change your stories as little as possible - certainly not
as much as the others'. And I was rather proud to notice that I noticed the
'corny pun' about "The Round Stable" from the Finnish text, although the
pun didn't work in Finnish. (table = po"yta", stable = talli)
DAN:
Scrooge's homepage is getting better and better all the time. But if
I may suggest an improvement, it would be handy to see a list of recent
changes to the page. This way I could just look what has been changed and
go look those parts instead of rambling through it all with my slow modem.
And you could have more scetches of the unseen parts. Especially the Seven
Missing Pages of The Last of the Clan McDuck would be a real treat. And you
could add the dialoque to the finished pages. If not to the balloons, then
to perhaps below the pages or somewhere to be seen. Are you, btw, going to
add other stories than Lo$ to the page anytime in the future?
--
Mike - The Finnish Trekkie
I believe they won't print your Treasure of the Ten Avatars in
Finland. At least not in a one issue. There's a list of special issues
this year in the homepage of Aku Ankka and they had Once and Future Duck
there even if it was in three parts. The list didn't contain TotTA. But
I don't see why they couldn't print it in four parts in all the Egmont
countries. Why can't they?
And before your trip you asked me if there was any clear reason
for mentioning the cows in the Finnish version of OaFD. Well, there wasn't.
But the translator Jukka Lindfors, whom I suspect translated this story, too,
says he tries to change your stories as little as possible - certainly not
as much as the others'. And I was rather proud to notice that I noticed the
'corny pun' about "The Round Stable" from the Finnish text, although the
pun didn't work in Finnish. (table = po"yta", stable = talli)
DAN:
Scrooge's homepage is getting better and better all the time. But if
I may suggest an improvement, it would be handy to see a list of recent
changes to the page. This way I could just look what has been changed and
go look those parts instead of rambling through it all with my slow modem.
And you could have more scetches of the unseen parts. Especially the Seven
Missing Pages of The Last of the Clan McDuck would be a real treat. And you
could add the dialoque to the finished pages. If not to the balloons, then
to perhaps below the pages or somewhere to be seen. Are you, btw, going to
add other stories than Lo$ to the page anytime in the future?
--
Mike - The Finnish Trekkie
Jyrki Vainio
Women & Ducks again
Message 142 -
1996-06-24 at 22:09:10
OLE:
Well, I might just add that when the editor-in-chief of the paper
saw the title I had given to my article (that of women been
overrun by ducks) he had this idea for the layout of the text,
that drawings from both Don Rosa and Roberta Gregory were to be
included. Following the title's suggestion, the Scrooge drawing
was shown slightly bigger than the Bitchy Bitch one - and he
was also higher up on the page than she was. Incidentally, the
Scrooge drawing showed him posing with his stick and made him
look very important and powerful...
--- Jyrki Vainio ---
Well, I might just add that when the editor-in-chief of the paper
saw the title I had given to my article (that of women been
overrun by ducks) he had this idea for the layout of the text,
that drawings from both Don Rosa and Roberta Gregory were to be
included. Following the title's suggestion, the Scrooge drawing
was shown slightly bigger than the Bitchy Bitch one - and he
was also higher up on the page than she was. Incidentally, the
Scrooge drawing showed him posing with his stick and made him
look very important and powerful...
--- Jyrki Vainio ---
Harry Fluks
Rosa stories in Holland
Message 143 -
1996-06-24 at 22:39:59
ARTHUR:
> About those reprints of Don's "Life of Scrooge" in albums, the very
> first Dutch reprint of "Life of Scrooge" in album-form is about to be re-
> leased one of these days.
And the second one is announced for week 37, so 11 weeks from now.
That seems faster than usual.
> This is the FIRST time they ever reprint a Rosa story in Holland. This
> is also the first time they print a Rosa story in an album AND it's the
> very first time they print a Rosa-COVER in Holland.
Well, not if you call "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" a Rosa story. After
all, only 3 pages are derived from Barks pencils.
This story was *reprinted* in the *album* Oom Dagobert 50.
And they *almost* had a Rosa cover, once. The Dutch cover for
"His Majesty, McDuck" was basically Don's, though re-inked and
with a few positions changed.
Enough nit-picking today.
--Harry.
> About those reprints of Don's "Life of Scrooge" in albums, the very
> first Dutch reprint of "Life of Scrooge" in album-form is about to be re-
> leased one of these days.
And the second one is announced for week 37, so 11 weeks from now.
That seems faster than usual.
> This is the FIRST time they ever reprint a Rosa story in Holland. This
> is also the first time they print a Rosa story in an album AND it's the
> very first time they print a Rosa-COVER in Holland.
Well, not if you call "The Pied Piper of Duckburg" a Rosa story. After
all, only 3 pages are derived from Barks pencils.
This story was *reprinted* in the *album* Oom Dagobert 50.
And they *almost* had a Rosa cover, once. The Dutch cover for
"His Majesty, McDuck" was basically Don's, though re-inked and
with a few positions changed.
Enough nit-picking today.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Mikko, Marco, Markstein and Mickey
Message 144 -
1996-06-24 at 22:40:04
Mikko wrote:
> Finnish weekly has featured lots of good stuff recently.
> Here's quick rant about some of the stories:
I happen to have a recent Swedish issue with most of the mentioned
stories. (Thanks, Ole, for sending it!)
> D95139 Great short (14 pages) Donald adventure-story by Marco Rota.
It indeed looks great. But I'm not very good in Swedish...
> Check out his signatures on first page: panels 1 and 4.
"NIMARCORAI AIROTAMOR" upside-down. I wonder how the editors
could let that slip through... 8-)
By the way, on page 3 is a picture of Scrooge on the wall, with a
text "To Donald MARKS". Is there a "TEIN" missing?
Don Markstein, do you have any connections with Rota?
> D95138 A Mickey Mouse adventure story drawn (maybe written too?) by
> Marco Rota! [...] And as far as I can tell it's really
> drawn by Marco Rota
David told us some time ago that Byron Erickson told him Rota was working
on a Mickey story. So this must be it.
--Harry.
"France - Netherlands: (mumble mumble)"
> Finnish weekly has featured lots of good stuff recently.
> Here's quick rant about some of the stories:
I happen to have a recent Swedish issue with most of the mentioned
stories. (Thanks, Ole, for sending it!)
> D95139 Great short (14 pages) Donald adventure-story by Marco Rota.
It indeed looks great. But I'm not very good in Swedish...
> Check out his signatures on first page: panels 1 and 4.
"NIMARCORAI AIROTAMOR" upside-down. I wonder how the editors
could let that slip through... 8-)
By the way, on page 3 is a picture of Scrooge on the wall, with a
text "To Donald MARKS". Is there a "TEIN" missing?
Don Markstein, do you have any connections with Rota?
> D95138 A Mickey Mouse adventure story drawn (maybe written too?) by
> Marco Rota! [...] And as far as I can tell it's really
> drawn by Marco Rota
David told us some time ago that Byron Erickson told him Rota was working
on a Mickey story. So this must be it.
--Harry.
"France - Netherlands: (mumble mumble)"
Harry Fluks
Looking for JW 21
Message 145 -
1996-06-24 at 22:40:24
As reported a while ago, Dutch artist Mau Heymans redrew Barks' script
for HDL Junior Woodchucks #21, "Music Hath Charms". He worked from the
sketches as published in the Carl Barks Library.
Heymans has never seen the original publication (drawn by Kay Wright).
He would love to compare that version to his own! So he asked me to
ask you: does anyone have a copy of the original JW 21 story?
(The reprint in Gladstone's Donald Duck Digest #3 is OK too, or any
reprint in a different country.)
Thanks,
--Harry.
for HDL Junior Woodchucks #21, "Music Hath Charms". He worked from the
sketches as published in the Carl Barks Library.
Heymans has never seen the original publication (drawn by Kay Wright).
He would love to compare that version to his own! So he asked me to
ask you: does anyone have a copy of the original JW 21 story?
(The reprint in Gladstone's Donald Duck Digest #3 is OK too, or any
reprint in a different country.)
Thanks,
--Harry.
RMorris306
Distinguishing the Ducklings
Message 146 -
1996-06-25 at 04:46:51
Hi again!
I don't know how many of you picked up the new incarnation of Disney
Magazine, but it has some interesting stuff in it. One of the most
fascinating being a column by Disney archivist David Smith, who I was in very
brief contact with (and much more with his assistant Paula Sigman...now Paula
Sigman-Lowery...who was in Apanage for a long time at the same time I was).
But one of the questions he was asked is one I'm sure has been discussed
before, and I was in the rare position of knowing more than he did! When
asked how to distinguish Huey, Dewey and Louie (and, for that matter, Morty
and Ferdie) his reply was that there was no way...they were simply identical.
That's true, but they never dressed identically in the comics...their
baseball caps were different colors. And, at least for the most part at
Western (I don't know if it was Barks' idea, or Taliaferro's, or some
anonymous editor or colorist's), Huey's cap was red, Dewey's was blue, and
Louie's was green.
Not everyone picked up on that...even Gladstone, in its earliest issues,
often showed one of the Ducks with a yellow cap. (Phooey? Barks???) Later on,
apparently at the advice of the DuckTales animators (of all people), they
usually followed the H=Red, D=Blue, L=Green caps the old Western line had,
and I think someone quoted a verse I currently forget... As much as I regret
the "New Look" of the upcoming cartoon, I'd forgive a bit if those backwards
caps still were in their traditional colors...
Morty and Ferdie...hm. I didn't read as many stories with them (and
remember at least one book that called one of the nephews Monty...or was he
Minnie's nephew?) But I remember Floyd Gottfredson himself said he'd meant to
give them different outfits and personalities at one time, only to end up (at
the insistence of new boss Frank Reilly) dropping Ferdie altogether. And when
the comics use him, he's still impossible to distinguish from Morty, without
even a different colored cap in his case.
Oh yes...I'll be at San Diego, so I want to meet everyone for breakfast
whenever it is! And welcome back to Don Rosa...I can hardly wait to finish
your story! (Add my voice to those that want to see his long stories in
single issues rather than serialized.)
I don't know how many of you picked up the new incarnation of Disney
Magazine, but it has some interesting stuff in it. One of the most
fascinating being a column by Disney archivist David Smith, who I was in very
brief contact with (and much more with his assistant Paula Sigman...now Paula
Sigman-Lowery...who was in Apanage for a long time at the same time I was).
But one of the questions he was asked is one I'm sure has been discussed
before, and I was in the rare position of knowing more than he did! When
asked how to distinguish Huey, Dewey and Louie (and, for that matter, Morty
and Ferdie) his reply was that there was no way...they were simply identical.
That's true, but they never dressed identically in the comics...their
baseball caps were different colors. And, at least for the most part at
Western (I don't know if it was Barks' idea, or Taliaferro's, or some
anonymous editor or colorist's), Huey's cap was red, Dewey's was blue, and
Louie's was green.
Not everyone picked up on that...even Gladstone, in its earliest issues,
often showed one of the Ducks with a yellow cap. (Phooey? Barks???) Later on,
apparently at the advice of the DuckTales animators (of all people), they
usually followed the H=Red, D=Blue, L=Green caps the old Western line had,
and I think someone quoted a verse I currently forget... As much as I regret
the "New Look" of the upcoming cartoon, I'd forgive a bit if those backwards
caps still were in their traditional colors...
Morty and Ferdie...hm. I didn't read as many stories with them (and
remember at least one book that called one of the nephews Monty...or was he
Minnie's nephew?) But I remember Floyd Gottfredson himself said he'd meant to
give them different outfits and personalities at one time, only to end up (at
the insistence of new boss Frank Reilly) dropping Ferdie altogether. And when
the comics use him, he's still impossible to distinguish from Morty, without
even a different colored cap in his case.
Oh yes...I'll be at San Diego, so I want to meet everyone for breakfast
whenever it is! And welcome back to Don Rosa...I can hardly wait to finish
your story! (Add my voice to those that want to see his long stories in
single issues rather than serialized.)
Eric Chun
Disney comics Digest V96 #132
Message 147 -
1996-06-25 at 05:05:40
> From: (Email removed) (Don Rosa)
> It's very flattering, on one hand, to hear people proudly (never
> irritably) telling me they've waited 4 or 5 hours to get to the front of the
> line, but it's also very disturbing for me to think I'm responsible for such
> a terrible waste of half-a-day, and then I can only do a scribble for them,
> rather than some full-color illustration that I think their time and
> Duckloyalty deserves
> There's just no way to be
> fair to every single Duckfan when there are so MANY of them -- perhaps it's
> just my frustration in being used to America where there are so FEW Duckfans
> at a convention that I can do each one a full-color drawing
I first saw Don drawing U$ sketches at Wondercon '94 in Oakland, California.
My reaction was something like "Wow!" His list was filled that day, so I
couldn't get a sketch.
So the next year, at Wondercon '95, I tried to get in line at the door at
8:00 a.m. (Wondercon opened at 10:00 a.m.) The line at the door was al-
ready over a block long. After getting in the door and making a mad dash
to find Don's table, I finally got on his list of sketches to be done. I
was the sixth or seventh (?) person on the list. Don did a great U$ color
sketch with U$ as a banker. That was worth waiting for!
Actually, I'm planning on asking Don to do another sketch for me at SDCC
this year. (If you don't mind, Don.) I'll get in line to get in the door
really early at SDCC, if necessary.
Eric :D
> It's very flattering, on one hand, to hear people proudly (never
> irritably) telling me they've waited 4 or 5 hours to get to the front of the
> line, but it's also very disturbing for me to think I'm responsible for such
> a terrible waste of half-a-day, and then I can only do a scribble for them,
> rather than some full-color illustration that I think their time and
> Duckloyalty deserves
> There's just no way to be
> fair to every single Duckfan when there are so MANY of them -- perhaps it's
> just my frustration in being used to America where there are so FEW Duckfans
> at a convention that I can do each one a full-color drawing
I first saw Don drawing U$ sketches at Wondercon '94 in Oakland, California.
My reaction was something like "Wow!" His list was filled that day, so I
couldn't get a sketch.
So the next year, at Wondercon '95, I tried to get in line at the door at
8:00 a.m. (Wondercon opened at 10:00 a.m.) The line at the door was al-
ready over a block long. After getting in the door and making a mad dash
to find Don's table, I finally got on his list of sketches to be done. I
was the sixth or seventh (?) person on the list. Don did a great U$ color
sketch with U$ as a banker. That was worth waiting for!
Actually, I'm planning on asking Don to do another sketch for me at SDCC
this year. (If you don't mind, Don.) I'll get in line to get in the door
really early at SDCC, if necessary.
Eric :D
Alipio D'Oliveira Coelho
Disney comics Digest V96 #132
Message 148 -
1996-06-25 at 22:59:03
>Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:34:58 +0200
>From: Marco Barlotti <(Email removed)>
>To: (Email removed)
>Subject: Brazil Disney stories
>I am glad to learn that someone from Brazil is willing to give informations.
Marco/Arthur/Harry and all others:
I just received the following informations of ABRIL JOVEM:
" The story was writed by Kaled Kalil Kanbour and drawed by Carlos
Edgard Herrero. It was published in "PATO DONALD", # 1983,1984,1985 and
1986. It was not a continuation of the Strobl'stories but a brazilian
project. The year of publication (here in Brazil) was 1992.
Most of the stories from Brazil are with ZE' CARIOCA (This is the
real name of the comics; Ze' is a nickname for Jose' ) who is considered
the most brazilian Disney character.
In Portugal, the ABRIL/CONTROLJORNAL published Disney comics and the
super-heroes. In Argentina the GRUPO ABRIL published comics(?) thru EDITORA
PRIMAVERA, and distributed to Argentina, Uruguay and Chile."
From the brazilian Disney comics (BDC), ZE' CARIOCA have most of the
brazilian stories(the last # - 2051 - have the following codes: B900236,
B951005, B950214, B950192, B950198, B960056 and short stories * 1 page *
from France - F/JM95322G, F/JM95331G, F/JM95321G, F/JM95330G).
The others BDC: "PATO DONALD" (# 2086) and "MICKEY" (# 559), have
most of the codes from I and D and a few F/JM.No one are from Brazil.
HARRY: The best friend of ZE' CARIOCA is NESTOR (a crow), his
girl-friend is ROSINHA (a female parrot), he have two nephews ZICO and ZECA
(two little parrots) and a rival, ZE' GALO (a cock that loves ROSINHA). If
anyone want some BDC, send me a e-mail with the address and I will send them.
Another curiosity: here in Brazil, Gyro Gearloose has the name of
PROFESSOR PARDAL (Professor Sparrow), so everybody thinks he is a sparrow
and not a cock! This is a big metamorphosis!
ARTHUR: ABRIL JOVEM told me that at the moment, the artists of BDC
are: ATILA DE CARVALHO, GUSTAVO MACHADO, PAULO BORGES, APARECIDO NORBERTO,
ELI LEON and LUIZ PODAVIN. The writers are: ARTHUR FARIA JR., GENIVAL DE
SOUZA and GERSON LUIZ TEIXEIRA. I don't know how many stories they do. Maybe
later I can discover... I hope you have already received the BDC I send.
There are two comics that are not from Disney. They are from MAURICIO DE
SOUZA, and the characters are real from Brazil. These comics sold 3 times
more than BDC!
BDW, I am looking for a special Disney comics, published in Latin at
Italy. I used to study Latin at Hihg School. Could anyone help me found it?
Well, that's enough! I am sorry my rusty English and if I bored you
all. Alipio
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End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #135
******************************************
>From: Marco Barlotti <(Email removed)>
>To: (Email removed)
>Subject: Brazil Disney stories
>I am glad to learn that someone from Brazil is willing to give informations.
Marco/Arthur/Harry and all others:
I just received the following informations of ABRIL JOVEM:
" The story was writed by Kaled Kalil Kanbour and drawed by Carlos
Edgard Herrero. It was published in "PATO DONALD", # 1983,1984,1985 and
1986. It was not a continuation of the Strobl'stories but a brazilian
project. The year of publication (here in Brazil) was 1992.
Most of the stories from Brazil are with ZE' CARIOCA (This is the
real name of the comics; Ze' is a nickname for Jose' ) who is considered
the most brazilian Disney character.
In Portugal, the ABRIL/CONTROLJORNAL published Disney comics and the
super-heroes. In Argentina the GRUPO ABRIL published comics(?) thru EDITORA
PRIMAVERA, and distributed to Argentina, Uruguay and Chile."
From the brazilian Disney comics (BDC), ZE' CARIOCA have most of the
brazilian stories(the last # - 2051 - have the following codes: B900236,
B951005, B950214, B950192, B950198, B960056 and short stories * 1 page *
from France - F/JM95322G, F/JM95331G, F/JM95321G, F/JM95330G).
The others BDC: "PATO DONALD" (# 2086) and "MICKEY" (# 559), have
most of the codes from I and D and a few F/JM.No one are from Brazil.
HARRY: The best friend of ZE' CARIOCA is NESTOR (a crow), his
girl-friend is ROSINHA (a female parrot), he have two nephews ZICO and ZECA
(two little parrots) and a rival, ZE' GALO (a cock that loves ROSINHA). If
anyone want some BDC, send me a e-mail with the address and I will send them.
Another curiosity: here in Brazil, Gyro Gearloose has the name of
PROFESSOR PARDAL (Professor Sparrow), so everybody thinks he is a sparrow
and not a cock! This is a big metamorphosis!
ARTHUR: ABRIL JOVEM told me that at the moment, the artists of BDC
are: ATILA DE CARVALHO, GUSTAVO MACHADO, PAULO BORGES, APARECIDO NORBERTO,
ELI LEON and LUIZ PODAVIN. The writers are: ARTHUR FARIA JR., GENIVAL DE
SOUZA and GERSON LUIZ TEIXEIRA. I don't know how many stories they do. Maybe
later I can discover... I hope you have already received the BDC I send.
There are two comics that are not from Disney. They are from MAURICIO DE
SOUZA, and the characters are real from Brazil. These comics sold 3 times
more than BDC!
BDW, I am looking for a special Disney comics, published in Latin at
Italy. I used to study Latin at Hihg School. Could anyone help me found it?
Well, that's enough! I am sorry my rusty English and if I bored you
all. Alipio
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End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #135
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Stefan Printz-Pahlson
EPS in San Diego
Message 149 -
1996-06-26 at 00:56:20
EPS IN SAN DIEGO
Yes, there's certainly going to be an EPS presence at this year's San Diego
Comic Convention. Editor in Chief Byron Erickson is attending the show, as
well as Stefan Printz-Pahlson, long time story and script editor in
Copenhagen. The dynamic duo (?) will check in at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at
One Market Plaza on Wednesday the 3rd, and will be staying until Sunday the
7th. If you want to contact them, please do so through the hotel's
reception, or by sending an e-mail directly to the address below.
All the best
(Email removed)
Yes, there's certainly going to be an EPS presence at this year's San Diego
Comic Convention. Editor in Chief Byron Erickson is attending the show, as
well as Stefan Printz-Pahlson, long time story and script editor in
Copenhagen. The dynamic duo (?) will check in at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at
One Market Plaza on Wednesday the 3rd, and will be staying until Sunday the
7th. If you want to contact them, please do so through the hotel's
reception, or by sending an e-mail directly to the address below.
All the best
(Email removed)
SRoweCanoe
Coming in Auust from Capitol
Message 150 -
1996-06-26 at 05:53:03
Sorry for the long delay... When I recieved my Advance Comics, I also
recieved notification that the place I was buying my comics from, for the
last ten to fifteen years, was going out of buisness. Also gone was my 40%
discount. They (sold?) my name to M&M, but if anyone has a better mail
order dealer, please e-mail me to let me know.
Also coming in August:
Disney Adventures Volume 6 #12 interview with Robin Williams; comes
polybagged with comic book of Alladdin and the King of Thieves
Any Southern Baptists here? If so, I'll be glad to tke your Disney comics to
help you out/ Just being helpful.
(Southern Baptist, one of the largest religious demoniations in
the USA are plnning to boycott all Disney items. to protest Disney allowing
it's employes to get health insurance fot their same-sex partners),.
Best Steven Rowe
recieved notification that the place I was buying my comics from, for the
last ten to fifteen years, was going out of buisness. Also gone was my 40%
discount. They (sold?) my name to M&M, but if anyone has a better mail
order dealer, please e-mail me to let me know.
Also coming in August:
Disney Adventures Volume 6 #12 interview with Robin Williams; comes
polybagged with comic book of Alladdin and the King of Thieves
Any Southern Baptists here? If so, I'll be glad to tke your Disney comics to
help you out/ Just being helpful.
(Southern Baptist, one of the largest religious demoniations in
the USA are plnning to boycott all Disney items. to protest Disney allowing
it's employes to get health insurance fot their same-sex partners),.
Best Steven Rowe