Keskustelujen arkisto

Michael Naiman did a list of scarce and Rare Disney comics. I have / had
none. Not being a completist (with an unlimited bank account), I hope to get
the more recent and cheaper ones. I was surprised to see the 3 pack Donald
and Scrooge comics. Which I may or may not have. I saw some just a few
months ago. Natch, I ran down to see if any were still there, and they were
not.
Steven Rowe

Oh, is there any easy way for USAmericans to subscribe to any foreign Disney
publications?

MICHAEL:

>Chapter #2 of Universal Solvent is out this week in the US; it's pretty
>amazing how this story moves right along even though most of the "action"
>(so far) takes place on the platform.

I just finished reading that episode and it really does move along! I was
wondering, though, that when the super compacted walls start to melt from
the surrounding magma, do they resume their normal volume? That is, do
they decompress, or do they become a superconcentrated/super heavy liquid?
And if it is a solvent, why isn't the rock disolved in it as a solution?
I guess only Don knows... ;)

BTW, I enjoyed the little demo in episode one where the liquid penetrated
all sorts of materials including Impervium and the Queen Mother of
inpenetratable substances, the Disney Contract. (How did you get that one
past the censors, Don?)

BILL W: (On US $300)

>issue - everything else is reprint! A Barks, a Van Horn, a Rosa,
>and a Bark's plot. Good stuff, but still I've seen it all before.

Yeah, but it is important to reprint the "true" origin of Gladstone comics
now and then... ;)

Tryg

"I wish they all could be Calisota Ducks!" --the Beach Drakes

Tryg Helseth <(Email removed)> Minneapolis, MN, USA
or <(Email removed)>

AUGIE:

> HARRY:
>
> > > * DONALD DUCK #300
> > > "Disco Ducks" (!) by Fred Milton and Daan Jippes (10-pages)
> >
> > Why is there a "(!)" behind "Disco Ducks"?
>
> It's an interesting title which sends certain pictures into my mind
> which send several chills down my back. Disco is dead, folks. =)
> Actually, it also reminds me of that album from my childhood - was it
> "Disco Duck"? Or "Disco Mickey" or something close to that.

"Disco Duck" was a monstrously big hit single for one Dick Rees in 1976 or
1977. It also happens to be one of the cheesiest pieces of music from one of
the cheesiest time periods ever, pop culturally speaking. However, it *is*
rather amusing with a reference to contemporary (OK, *then*-contemporary)
pop culture like this...

---
Anders Engwall

"Alle man står still som en stum fisk, tills vi hittar den knyckta stångkorven!"

Hi!

What? Pieter van Cleef AND Jos Beekman joined the list? That is
just GREAT! Welcome you both! I hope you'll enjoy your stay here!
This mailing list is really great! I bet you'll like it! It's SO cool
that more and more Disney comics pros come to this list. And now there
are even two more DUTCH ones! Just perfect! Harry, Daniel and I are the
only three Dutch members of this list (and two more lurkers who never
write anything to the list). Harry Fluks usually got information from
Frank Jonker about what stories were to be published in Dutch Disney
comics. I hope we can now get the info straight from you guys! I have
plenty of questions to ask you both, so maybe I'll just start with
a few:

1. Can you both tell something about what you exactly do at
the Donald Duck Weekly?
2. Why are Don Rosa's stories not printed in the weekly?
3. What will happen with the "Oom Dagobert"-series after the
12 chapters of the "Life of Scrooge" are all printed?
4. Will there be another story by Sander Gulien printed in
the weekly soon? I really like his artwork.
5. I've heard that Daan Jippes is still working on Barks
Junior Woodchucks-scripts. What's the status? And will
Mau Heymans make more?

That's all for now! Oh yeah ... one suggestion: Please print Rosa's
latest story "A matter of some Gravity" (D96001) as soon as possible in
the Extra. It's one of the best and most funny Duck-story I've ever read
since Barks. It's brilliant!

Bye!

Arthur de Wolf -- Roosendaal, the Netherlands
email: (Email removed)
homepage: www.pi.net/~wolfman/disney

To all:

Ah, I'm back! And better than ever!

Well, older and wiser, maybe. Definitely older. Anyway, here's to all of
you who've kept going on this, while I sputtered out a while back. You guys
got stamina!

Thanks for all the warm greetings, too.

While taking a break from my fierce napping (I'm way behind - hi!
backatcha, By!), I thought I might fill everyone in on the new Gladstone
web site. It came about because, quite to my surprise, Bruce Hamilton (the
head man, the top banana, the big cheese) hit the door last May, after an
around-the-world vacation, all fired up at the idea of Gladstone getting
"on the Web." Now, Bruce will be the first to admit that he only has the
sketchiest idea of what the Internet is all about, but there I was, newly
web-savvy (my wife and I had set up our personal ISP account just two
months prior), and ready to put the idea into action. Or almost ready; I
had to learn HTML first, but that proved relatively painless (and kinda
fun!). Content proved to be more daunting, but as I was also working on our
latest product catalog at the time, my brain was in the proper gear. The
site's now up, and the rest will be history.

I would like at this point to say a special thanks to Dave Rawson. The
present version of the site owes a great deal to his feedback on the very
first version.

The "voice" of Gladstone on the site will, in the main, be mine, though
others - including Bruce Hamilton, John Clark, Geoffrey Blum, and Gary
Gabner - will be contributing. I certainly don't hope - or intend - to do
everything!

Moving on, Byron Erickson wrote:

>I really like Disney comics, but since I spend
>my days working on them, I'd really rather spend my mythical freetime on
>other interests.

Nicely put. It could be our joint epitaph. For my part, I rejoined the
mailing list to read what everyone else has to say, not what I might babble
on about.

Night, all!
Gary

STEVEN ROWE:
> Since it is apparently my lot in life to document Disney Adventures; let me
> do so (...)
> Anybody want me to continue mentioning these as I read them?

I'm always interested in contents of Disney comics (past, present and future),
for our Disney comics Database. I'd also like to know though, if the story you
mentioned was the only story in the comic, and whether it had a code.

--Harry.

ERIC:
??? Why would you ask me if there was ever a Captain Kentucky unless you
already knew there was? You must know I did a "Captain Kentucky" half-page
comic strip in the local major newspaper in 1979-81, right.
"The Son of the Sun" was the first professional comic work I'd ever done.
I'd done stuff for my school papers and stuff for fanzines for decades, but
that was all for free, just as a hobby. I was paid for "Captain Kentucky"
but it was still just a hobby since the pay was neglible -- it was $25 per
week, and that would average out to about $2 per hour just for the drawing
(not counting the writing which I'd do in my head during the day at the
construction company). And that first professional job I'd ever done ("The
Son of the Sun") was nominated for a Harvey Award -- I was rawthuh stunned
and proud of that.

I'll fire this at you since you've been the one mentioning it: times are
being set for my visit to the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco on Sept.
28. There will first be a signing at Joe Field's "Flying Colors" comic store
in the suburbs at 11 Am - 2 PM, then a signing at the Museum at 3-5 PM then
their reception at 6:30-8:30. I don't know who comes to the reception,
whether it's open to everyone or you need to make a donation to the
museum... I'm assuming they'll let me in, no questions asked.

And I've been very remiss in posting the particulars of my trip to Niagara
Falls this weekend. I will be at the 2-day comic show at the American Legion
Post, 136 Veteran's Dr., Aug. 17 & 18. Other guests include Roger Stern and
Peter David, last I heard, and others.

TRYG:
As to that gag about Omnisolve penetrating a "Disney contract" in my story
-- it's not at all a matter of what *I* can get past any censors. What I put
in my scripts is my business... what the editor chooses to tell the
letterers to put into the story is up to him. The editor is the person to be
held responsible for something like that... I put all sorts of stuff in my
scripts sometimes, just to amuse Byron... but if he includes some of those
secret jokes in his "official" script transcription, woe be to him, not me.
But I doubt if Disney minded that joke at all. Don't you think they might
LIKE people to get the idea that a Disney contract is harder than Impervium
or Forbidium? They probably endorsed that gag.

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