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HELGE:

> Thanks for your report from the Prewiews magazine on Gladstone comics
> But what about the June and July releases? I don't think you've given
> any report om those. I'm especially interested in the stories/artists
> in U$A #40 and U$ #299.

I probably did. I tend to post those religiously. Quite often they are
the only input I give to the list. I've been rather quiet in that regard
this year. ;-)

They are probably still in my SENT-MAIL files, which I hold on to for
months at a time. I'll take a look and maybe re-post them to the list to
remind everyone.

-Augie
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Harald wrote:
>Rebel-Micky? I should see that!

The code of the story is D92176. Publication listed in the database are:
Denmark JB 158 and Germany LT 199. In Finland the issue is 173.

BTW, Is it always possible figure out the German issue by adding 26 to the
number of Finnish issue (since the Finnish one went monthly)?

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Henri Sivonen / \
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Hi!

ALL:
Is there no episode 66 of the Pertwillaby Papers?!? Why not?

DON ROSA:
You said: "So, perhaps it's only the Disney artists there that
resent me? That would be nice."
Ofcourse it's only the Disney artists that resent you! I bet
a LOT of Dutch people like your stories! (At least three: Harry, Daniel
and me ;-) With all the comic albums like Tintin, Asterix and Bob and
Bobette being produced and sold in Holland with thousands at once, I
bet a lot of people like your long adventure stories with penetrating
storylines. That's exactly what they like! Compared to the terrible Dutch
stories being produced (well, 99.999999% (and maybe even more) of them
are terrible) by those artists that resent, your stories are 313 times
better! The Disney artists don't like you, because they have formed a
wrong notion of you! Their image of you is totally wrong. They're still
talking about that Grandey-thing, and being REAL Barks-fans, they just
resent you, because they think you're making money of Barks. They don't
know you're just a fan like THEY are!
BTW: How was your trip to Europe? (As you will only read this
after you've returned?) ;-)

Bye!

Arthur de Wolf -- Roosendaal, The Netherlands
email: (Email removed)
homepage: http://www.pi.net/~wolfman/disney (under construction)
"A census taker is a man who goes from house to house
increasing the population."

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Hi!

It's very quiet at the list today, so let me tell something! ;-)

On my way to school, I met Frank Jonker in the train today! Frank is
the most important script writer of Dutch stories. Actually, he is almost
the ONLY script writer of Dutch stories at the moment! I had a little talk
with him in the train.
Frank told me that he usually makes around 50 to 60 stories every
year. (!) Those are short stories of 4 or 10 pages most of the time. When I
met him today, he had just finished a long 24-page adventure story, which
he was about to bring to Frans Hasselaar of the editorial staff of the
Dutch Donald Duck weekly in Amsterdam, who is the first person to check and
examine new stories.
Normally, Frank makes his stories all on his own. He's a FULL-TIME
scenario-writer of Dutch stories, which means that he's sitting in his
office every day, thinking of new stories. As I said, he makes about 50 to 60
stories a year! That's more than one story every week! He said that usually
one or sometimes even TWO of his stories are published in each issue of
the weekly!

The story he was about to bring to Frans was a Scrooge-adventure
story. I read it while talking to him and it was nice. Scrooge had a
disease for which he and his nephews go to the Andes to find a cure. On his
way he is troubled by the Beagle Boys and that fat pig-guy, what's his name
again? In Dutch he's always called McSnekke. By the way, that PIG also
appeared as a TURKISH person in Rosa's Croesus-story! Oops!
Anyway, this story was two years in the making. Frank made it with three
other guys, who used to write Dutch scripts, but don't do it anymore. Two
of the other three guys are too busy with their work and school. And the
third one is now only writing stories for another (non-disney) Dutch
weekly, called "Sjosji". Frank also writes stories for other comics, like
"Tina", but most of his stories are those for the Donald Duck weekly!
The story took so long to develop, because there were a lot of disagree-
ments and quarrels between the four people who made it! Frank is used to
make the stories all by himself, so this was quite difficult.
Now that he has given it to Frans Hasselaar, it will still take about
one-and-a-half year before it is eventually published in the weekly! First
the story is put on a large pile of scripts. After a while it is checked
by various people (like Thom Roep himself). After three months it is sent
back to Frank for changes. Three months later (after long discussions and
disagreements again), Frank sends it back to Frans, where the story ends up
on that large pile again. Eventually it is drawn. (Probably by Bas Heymans,
as he does most of the adventure stories lately). And when it is finally
published in the weekly, it's 18 months later!!!
The story will get it's code when the story is passed by all the
people who checked it! It still could take one or two (or even more) years
before the story is drawn and published, but the story will always keep the
code (H-96...) of the time it was approved of!

I thought 50 to 60 stories a year is very much! How many stories do
the script-writers on this list (like David Gerstein) make every year?
Almost all of Frank's stories are eventually drawn and published!

Have a nice day!

Arthur de Wolf -- Roosendaal, the Netherlands
email: <(Email removed)> or <(Email removed)>
homepage: www.pi.net/~wolfman/disney (Still under construction)
"Imagine Bill Gates trademarked the word 'the', like he did with
bookshelf(tm) and bob(tm)!!"

There's a new Disney Magazine out in the USA: DISNEY MAGAZINE from disney
publications. Currently it's a quarterly magazine. there are no comics or
comic related articles in the first issue. (nasty remark: Of course, that
shouldn't stop Bob Overstreet from adding it to his Comic Book Price Guide
with the other Disney non-comics there).

While I enjoy Augie's listing of Gladstone's comics, I hope that he won't
mind if I add some of the other Disney material to be sold by Diamond and
Capitol. this would consist mainly of Disney Adventures, and a few of the
Disney film books (The recent Good Housekeeping reprint book is certainly
comics-like ((nasty remark #2: Certainly more comics-like than many of the
Disney non-comics that Bob Overstreet lists ...))) I don't won't to look
like I'm stepping on Augie's toes though. I generally don't get my lists
till the middle of the month.

I've had several interesting e-mails from members about old American Popular
Songs. Mostly from foreign members... which I thought interesting. I'm no
expert though, but I enjoy researching them (even at my small rural library).

I accidently deleted some of the Disney Digests, is there a FTP or somewhere
to find them?

Rich M:
The rights to Tom & Jerry, are currently owned by TED Turner; but this is
still a seperate division of the company. Come to think of it since Dark
Horse is doing Droopy material, maybe they have the rights to Tom & Jerry as
well.

Steven Rowe

On Jun 7, 12:08am, (Email removed) wrote:

> Harald Havas writes:
>
> <<Another observation: in a humorous article I read recently, it was
stated that in the movie Bambi endures a mutation (and I dont mean that
a lot of
> children think Bambi to be female):>>

> I suspect many American kids are confused about Bambi's
> name because nicknames ending in "i," though common for
> both sexes in German, are largely used only for females
> in English. (Why isn't Dwight Decker writing this sentence?)
>
Well, for one thing, I've been sick and away from the list for
a while. I had a cat character in my series Rhudiprrt named
"Pfitzi," and even though it was a male, nobody seemed to
mind. The fact that he was a juvenile may have made the
difference, as it does for Bambi. I recall as a little kid
being puzzled by Bambi's name, since it just seemed uncompromisingly
female to me. (Anybody remember the James Bond movie Diamonds Are
Forever, with two wicked henchwomen named Bambi and Thumper? It
seems that today, nobody would name a male character Bambi, and
the only reason it sticks to the deer is because it comes from
some foreign book written in a country where the intuitive laws
of what sounds right are different. If you run into somebody
named or nicknamed Bambi, I'd guess the odds are that said person
will be female and named after the Disney movie. Anyway, Bambi
may have seemed reasonable as a name for a cute li'l fawn, but
by the time he grew into the mighty monarch of the forest, perhaps
a name change would have been in order. (I still wonder what the
job of being king of the forest entails besides standing on a
rock, striking a pose, and looking cool. At least Simba could
be said to deserve the role of king because he's on top of the
food chain, but an herbivore...?)

I read Bambi as a kid, of course, but re-read it as an adult many
years later and noticed a lot of things I'd missed the first time
around. The English translation was done by Whittaker Chambers
(quite famous in this country for other reasons), but it struck
me that the text could have used at least one more draft to
untangle the convoluted sentence construction. German word order
is different from English, and I found I could mentally reconstruct
the original German as I read because Chambers didn't polish the
rough draft enough. I also noticed that author Felix Salten was
presenting a very bleak, even harsh picture of life in the wild,
where Nature is without pity and violent death waits behind every
thicket. The later chapters seemed to be almost Nietzchean in
their emphasis on standing alone. Pretty heavy stuf' for what's
sold as a kiddie book in this country.

Finally...I was a bit impatient with The Lion King when I first
saw it because it seemed to be a retread of Bambi. I still think
that much of what was said in Lion King was better said in Bambi.

--Dwight Decker

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Hello all! I finally saved up enough money, and I am on my way to San
Diego! As a comics collector since 1984, I am extremely excited! I met Don
back in 1994 in Erlangen (Gute Fahrt, Keno!), and I hope to meet more Disney
people in San Diego! Once again, I'll be the guy wearing Disney ties,
sporting long brown hair, a beard, glasses, and walking two inches off the
ground! I'll also be helping the Friends of Lulu, so stop by their table;
they are trying to get more people reading comics, especially children, and
the more children reading comics, the more children reading Disney comics!
(Sorry about the exclamation points, too many Uncle Scrooge comics!) Oh,
yeah, I'll also be celebrating my birthday the sunday of the con, so if
anyone wants to bring a cake, I won't object! See you all soon!

Torsten Adair! (Email removed) Washington, DC, USA!