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Stalking Don has not been hardin Oslo the last few days ,
even if as luck would have it its not been possible for me to
do som personally due to family matters. However, its really
been a big Rosa weekend! Friday 28th at 1600 he opened a
"Don Rosa Exhibition" at the New "Comic Book House" in
Oslo. Later the same evening he was present in a popular
TV-show for youths at Norwegian TV2, drawing ducks (or his
favorite of the species) and commenting on the "Ten
Avatars", $crooge's feelings about communists and about
wishing he had been born 11 years earlier to get to read the
Barks stories earlier. I taped about 7:40 minutes Rosa from
the show, even if he didn't really get very intereresting
questionst.

And Saturday 29th he was present at a big Disney show at
"Tusenfryd", the Oslo tivoli, again drawing ducks and talking
to journalists and others. So todays largest Norwegian
papers had Don on the front page and articles inside,
showing the show and some few sentences on "the
Disney artist of today".

Re: "Ten Avatars"

Having read this new story I found it as usual great
entertainment, though rather far from your best. It seemed so
heavily packed (cramped?) with so much forced into so few
pages that I really felt you this time should have had 48 and
not 28 pages, just like a Tintin or Asterix story, Don! Will we
ever come to see you do a story in the "traditional"
European comics format?

Bjo/rn Are

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Hi again!

Arthur deWolf wrote:

<< <Oberon seems to exist in some sort of a time warp -- they
run new stories about characters that disappeared in the U.S. long before
most readers -- or their parents, for that matter -- were born.>
And there're a LOT of Dutch Little Hiawatha stories! Hundreds of them!
Harry, can you look up in your database-program, how many Dutch Hiawatha
stories there are? By the way, it isn't Oberon anymore, that's publishing the
Dutch comics. It's now "De Geillustreerde Pers".>>

I suspect it's due to the fact that, paradoxically, Westerns are much
more popular in Europe and the rest of the world than they are in America.
(Or maybe not so paradoxical. To Europeans, cowboys and Indians seem much
more exotic in a country where they still exist, even if most of the former
are on mechanized farms and many of the latter are (due to a quirk in the
tribal contracts) running tax-free gambling casinos. (And, as Don and others
have noted, they're also a powerful enough pressure group so even a harmless
caricature like Little Hiawatha is seen as objectionable.)

Nils Lid Hjort wrote:

<<Thanks for the interesting piece of curiosa news, that about the Southern
Baptists boycotting all Disney items, because the Disney Corporation appears
to accept same-sex living partners
(if I understood this correctly). And an interesting Freudian
slip-of-the-typing-finger; "one of the largest religious demoniations in the
USA". >>

Alas, that's very typical of the Southern Baptists, or more accurately of
their extreme political wing, who for some reason seem to expect a large
company like Disney to cater to their peculiar sexual obsessions. While it's
true Walt Disney himself was a conservative Republican (who, in the last
Presidential election of his life, was a strong supporter of Barry
Goldwater), he was a more traditional one who would most likely have been
revolted by such types (who, during his lifetime, were mostly Democrats
anyway) in his party. He was mainly, like most traditional Republicans, a
supporter of the free market (let's face it, the free market was *very* good
to Walt) and not interested in invading people's bedrooms. Neither, for the
record, was or is Barry Goldwater...

A final thought on my last letter...does anyone else want to see more
*stories* of the Disney characters in WDC&S? There are a lot of them, by such
luminaries as Norman McCabe, Helen Palmer Geisel (a vastly underrated
Disney/Gold Key scribe who also happened to be married to Theodor Seuss
Geisel, a/k/a Dr. Seuss), and...oh, yes...Carl Barks!

Rich Morrissey

Nils Lid Hjort

> "Might I suggest breakfast at the Marriott (next door to the convention
> center) they have a fabulous buffet...this way everyone could park
> conveniently at the center and walk next door! I've eaten there many
> times...highly recommend it."

In the latest issue of the Comic Buyer's Guide, there's an ad from the
Carl Bark's Studio (I think) saying that a limited number of Carl Bark's
Library volumes (signed by Carl Barks) will be available at 10:30 a.m.
at their booth on July 5.

Should we all head on over there after breakfast? There'll probably be
a line for this.

Eric =)

PLEASE STOP SENDING YOUR DIGEST

Mike Pohjola asks:
> What is it about William Van Horn that you people find so
> fascinating about?

Although some of Van Horn's full-length gag stories perhaps fail on the
whole **as stories**, many of the individual gags within them are
undeniably funny. Of course, this is a common situation with extended
gag stories in general, and not just those written by Van Horn. As for
his art, I think the last 2 or 3 stories published by Gladstone show a
significant improvement. I really liked the backgrounds in the swamp
and in the cave. Certainly a highlight of Barks's art was the magnifi-
cent backgrounds that he drew based on photographs from National Geo-
graphic magazine, etc., and it seems that Van Horn has been studying
how that's done! To my eye, his Ducks look better in those stories than
in the previous ones, too.

Wilmer Rivers

About DDMM's cancellation, *I* think that if Gladstone's sales are low,
Donald Duck should be their main concern. I don't think they should
necessarily drop it, but that they should redo its outlook. Al Taliaferro's
gags are okay as fillers, but they become annoying and repetitive when
printed at 14-or-so pages every two months for three years. I think that
instead, they should print lesser-known but more worthwhile stories, such as
Tony Strobl.

AUGIE (AND OTHERS):

You want letter columns back in the comic books? I'm with you all the way!
But little titles aside, the main gripe I have is Walt Disney Giant. If they
can print "The Cold-Blooded Penguin" in issue 2, and *FIVE* Year-That-Was
pages in issue 6, prove it to me that they can't fit in letters.

--Jonathan Markoff

Were the total **number** of votes announced? Although the Comics
Buyers Guide has a lot of readers, maybe most of them don't bother
to mail in the ballot that's published there. If so, then an
organized campaign could in fact put Duck stories into the winner's
circle, even though there are so few Duckfans out there. I do
recall reading Bill Grandey's letter in CBG, urging people to vote
for Barks, "Horsing", and Huey Duck, but I figured no one would pay
special attention to that suggestion. Still, if only a few people
bothered to vote, than that letter and a few others like it could
be sufficient to organize a block (or "Block" :) ) vote of Duckfans.
So how many votes did the winners get, and how many votes were cast
in all? Does anyone know?

Wilmer Rivers

Just wanted to send you all a brief note to let you know I got my issue
of CBG in the mail today which announces the winners - including all the
Duck votes. They explain why this happened.

I also got the new issue of PREVIEWS for books solicited to come out in
September.

Expect everything in the e-mail later tonight. (I have to go to work in
about 15 minutes and just don't have the time right now.)

-Augie
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