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MIKE SCHNEIDERATH:

Welcome to the un-lurking part of the list!
Your English is quite OK. I've seen a lot worse, mostly written
by Americans... 8-)

Thanks for telling us the contents of the German Rosa album.
I'll add the data to our Database.
Like Michael already said, the cover is (probably) the original
cover meant for U$ 219. This version *was* printed later on a
Gladstone album that reprinted the "Son of the Sun" story.

--Harry.
Harry Fluks, Leidschendam, The Netherlands
"Wie ben ik? Wat doe ik hier? Waar is mijn Roddelflop?"

RICH (and AUGIE):
> I miss the lettercols in the comics even more! As long
> as there's a text page anyway (though apparently whatever postal
> regulations required a page of text were rescinded long ago), why
> don't we ever see letters any more?

I've thought of another reason: maybe Gladstone is hoping for
more advertisements in their comics? They could easily postpone
a "The Year That Was" page to a future issue, if an ad is to
be placed at last notice. The letters pages would have to be more
regular, and are more bound to a specific issue.

--Harry.

hello everyone... i havent been making myself very prominent lately, but
it's been fun lurking and hearing of things from the duck fans in
scandinavia...(^_^)

thanks to a friend at a comic distributor, i've been amassing a large
collection of the gladstone color library albums at about 1/3 price...
both WDC&S and DDA... i just started getting back into disney comics a
few months ago, but the more i read, the more i WANT to read ^_^ I am
becoming a bit addicted, and fear for my wallet!

excuse me if these have been covered before, but i did have some
questions/comments--

1) Don-- i just finally read part 3 of the comic journal interview...
whew! it was a great read... hopefully such an in-depth study will
broaden the disney/gladstone comics readership a bit more.... and
speaking of your work, do you know when your stuff is going to appear in
the U.S.? or does it come as a surprise?

2) Re: the U$A albums... i love them, but... compared to the DDA and
WDC$S volumes, yoiks, how skinny! (^_^;;)

3) does anyone know exactly what all is going to appear in the limited
art book opffered by diamond this month, _Animal Quackers_? It's so
limited i probably could never get one anyway, but...

4) at a used book store today i saw a book titled simply _Donald Duck_,
which had the familiar opening shot from the cartoon shorts ((blue
background, donald's smiling face)). But anyway, it was mostly about the
animated appearances, but did have a small section on Barks and showed
some of his oil paintings... i would have got it, but it was priced at
$40...

and finally--

5) I saw a copy of the new issue of Toon magazine today-- it had a cover
story on the new disney afternoon show "Duck Daze"! I know this is off
topic, but has anyone talked about this already? It looks rather
disturbing-- its a hipster donald with teenage HD&L <<ugh>>... my head
hurts just thinking about it...

ok, thanks for puting up with me.. i know i ramble, but i truly want to
participate in the mailing list! with time i might actually have
something INTERESTING to say... (^_^;;)

-matt-

Matt Sommer asks:
> does anyone know exactly what all is going to appear in the limited
> art book opffered by diamond this month, _Animal Quackers_? It's so
> limited i probably could never get one anyway, but...

They were selling advanced copies of these at the Carl Barks birthday
party at Diamond Galleries. Actually, the book that they had on display
was blank - just the cover, with white pages inside. However, everyone
was buying them then, because they gave you the fronticepiece, and Barks
would autograph it for you. We'll be mailed the books themselves this
month. The contents will be Barks's non-Disney waterfowl pictures,
such as a duck as the Pied Piper of Hamlin. I couldn't resist the
temptation to get a personalized Barks autograph, and I would like to
own the pictures anyway, so I added my name to the list, gave them my
credit card, and got my copy of the fronticepiece. I took this into
the library, and after standing there in total awe for who knows how
long, staring at Steve Geppi's collection of thousands upon thousands
of **bound** copies of just about every comic book ever, I got in line
for a signature. Although it was irrelevant to Animal Quackers, I asked
him to sign it "To Wilmer, in Terri Fermi". (Hey, since the frontice-
piece that they gave us was separate from the book, I don't even have to
put it into the book when it arrives - I can frame the dedication sepa-
rately, and put it next to the seismograph or something.) Barks duti-
fully copied down the dedication, and as he wrote it he grinned from
ear to ear and emitted a sort of squeal - I think it must have brought
back memories of some roly-poly characters whom he hadn't thought about
in a long time. Anyway, they had a number of the non-Disney paintings
on display in the Gallery, along with the Disney-oriented ones, and they
are very nice. I'm looking forward to owning the reproduc(k)tions in
the book, when they ship it out.

Wilmer Rivers

Helge had asked Augie about June and July releases from Gladstone,
and Augie offered to send them again.

No need, I would say. Augie's posts for July and August can now be
found under "July" and "August" in the WWW page

http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/disney-comics/upcoming.html

The June data were already there when Helge asked.
--
Per

(Yesterday it was Donald's birthday by the way.)

Arthur:
> In the latest French "Journal de Mickey" (issue 2294), I saw a story
> coded H5954. Is that possible, or is it a typing error?

Probably a typo. If you give me a bit more information, maybe I recognise
the story. Could it be H 8954, for example?

--Harry.
Netherlands - Scotland: 0-0 (at the moment)

The San Diego comics convention is coming up fast,
and I have to ask -- Is ANYTHING happening Disney-comics
wise at the con? I talked to David Gerstein a couple
of days ago, and he said he wasn't going to do his
usual panel, which in past years has served as
the usual rendezvous point for me to meet up with
other fans. I also talked to Dana Gabbard last night,
and he didn't seem to know of any activities. Worse,
he thought attendance might be down (of the Gladstone
Lettercolumn Regulars, anyway) because of the inconvenient
date of this year's SD con. Gladstone/Hamilton/Another
Rainbow may not have a table or booth (they didn't last
year). I did hear that Byron Erickson of Egmont and at
least one of the Egmont editors will be at the con, so
maybe there will be a get-together for the US-based Egmont
freelancers...if Byron can find them...but I have no idea
what's being planned in that regard, if anything.

So...anybody know anything about what's going on at SD?

--Dwight Decker

ARTHUR AND DANIEL:
As a fan of both Barks and Rosa I step gingerly into the
following quagmire (quackmire?):
Some Barks fans seem to dislike the Rosa Life of Scrooge
because it enmeshes Barks "facts" in a story not actually created by
Barks. These are same kinds of fans to whom Rosa suggests (in a text
article in US #285) that they not read the series, for it would just
bother them. Why risk bothering them, of course? That's the question
that comes up. Well, "certain international Disney-licensee politics"
required that the LO$ be produced immediately.
To be a little more complete, I know what this was about.
Apparently the Jaime Diaz Studio and the team that was then doing the
DUCKTALES comic was going to do their own LO$, mixing Barks material
with DuckTales characters and fictional place-names ("Uppa Creek,"
etc.) and so on. Egmont learned of the project and decided they
wanted to make a more "authentic" Life of Scrooge than the
DUCKTALES-based version. The Egmont staff decided Rosa should get to
do the project, because he'd already shown an ability to make stories
that referenced Barks with accuracy. IMHO they made the right choice,
of course.
I personally enjoy the LO$ tremendously. But those who don't
should stop and think: even if they don't personally care for the
work of Rosa, would they rather a version was done that was much less
respectful to Barks? I'm personally very pleased with what came out.

David Gerstein
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