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MARKOFF:
Why don't I do 2-part stories at 12 pages per part, instead of 3 8-page
chapters? I agree that 2-parters of the same length would be better... these
8-page chapters are difficult to get moving before it's time to start ending
them. But I am not given a choice in these matters. It's 3-parts at 8 pages
each, or I don't get to do long stories, period. They don't even let anyone
else do more than 2-parters at 7 pages each, as a matter of policy. It has
something to do with how the verious Egmont publishers are set up to handle
different sorts of stories in their weeklies -- that's not my department, I
just do what they tell me to do.

And why don't I send in xeroxes of the art? How could anyone not be able to
tell the difference between a xerox and original art??? (I wish!!!)

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JOACHIM:
Now, that`s great that there`s two of us on this
list now. Two times five is 10, another proof for
the natural superiority of the decimal system :-)
Anyways, I concidered writing an article for the DD
(Der Donaldist) about this list and other interesting
stuff about Stella Anatium (the planet that the Ducks
live on according to most Donaldists), but I decided=20
not to. We`d probably get too many discussions that=20
would seem really weird or even sick for the others
on here. And I am still a little bit unhappy about the=20
fact that nobody, except a hand full of members knew=20
about the meeting with Carl Barks. Anyway, I haven`t=20
been very active in the D.O.N.A.L.D. yet, actually
I haven`t paid for this year`s membership until today,
since I was gone so long. I didn`t get any Mif=FCMi
(News for Members, NefoMe) since January, and I didn`t
get DD 96 yet. Do you know if it is out already?
What translations are concerned: I did lots of them
for Don already, and if he wants me to, I`ll try my=20
hardest to translate the stuff out of Der Donaldist
that concerns him. (Tell me, if you want me to, Don.)
Anyway, I am very happy about the fact that other artists
seem to be more accepted. Of course Carl Barks is the only
"real" reporter of what really happened in Duckburgh, but
as long as other artists do a good job and don`t mess=20
things up too much, I tolerate them, and I actually like=20
many of the D-coded stories by other artists. I really don`t
care too much for Italian comics any more, altough I have 118
Lustige Taschenb=FCcher, that I mainly bought years ago. I=20
think they change the Duck`s personalities too much, they
are not as mature and well-drawn. But that is just my=20
opinion, I am still jealous of those people who actually can
draw these Ducks accurately.
It would be great to send me a xerox of that Tempo onepager.
I`d appreciate that very much.=20

DON:
Last year in Cologne you signed my German Don Rosa albums
that I had at the time (Vol. 1 through 5). Now, the last
part of the LoS (Vol. 6) is still missing your signature.
Would you be so kind and sign it for me if I mailed it to
you, or will I have to wait until you come to a place
nearby in Germany again?=20
How much fan mail do you get per day?
Have you ever given any thoughts about what the last story
you are going to do will be? I hope that`ll be far in the
future, but I was just wondering...
Now, that Joachim told me that you are getting the Der=20
Donaldist, how did you like the Duckburgh map in #95?
I thought it was extremely well done.

ALL:
Here they are, the official goals of the D.O.N.A.L.D.,=20
but first of all I need to explain some things. Almost
always we take the translations by Dr. Erika Fuchs as
accurate. When Dr. Fuchs started to translate comics,=20
they were known to be a bad influence on children, and
more or less all the bad things in the world were the
comics fault... So she used very great language to=20
give the comic books a better image. Especially=20
Donald often recites classics like Goethe and Schiller.
and the language is full of alliterations and many
other intersting constructions, that give the stories
a slightly different sound from everyday language. But
some mottos and words invented by Dr. Fuchs are a part
of the standard German language today, although most
people don`t know that it was the Disney translations
that introduced these things. We use her language in
our Donaldistic life wherever we can, but it is=20
impossible to translate the way it was written, so
it loses something.
So, I guess I`ll wait for some feedback before I=20
translate. So if you care, tell me!

Danny Coenen
-"Donaldistic wishes to you all!"
Danny Coenen =09
Kopernikusstr. 18 Tel. :=20
(049)2461/56129 =20
D-52428 Juelich =20
Germany EU e-mail :=20
(Email removed) =09

>* WDC&S #607 "Now monthly!"
> "Number 401" by WVH (Donald 10-pager)
> "Stranded in Time" by Don Rosa (part 1/3)
> "The Phantom Blot" by Floyd Gottfredson (final installment)
> "Maple Sugar Time" Daan Jippes redraws Barks' JW story
> Cover is a wrap-around "Cave of Ali Babe" painting by Carl Barks

It looks like Gladstone's WDC&S (which should be a "showcase" title) is
falling back into the old rut of being "just another Duck book but with a
little bit of MM." Sigh...

Hi, Group!

Still busy with the puppies, so this will have to be a brief posting. I
suspect the disdain of many American children and teenagers toward the Disney
comics long predates WIZARD...dating back at least to the 1950's, when
cartoons and their characters, hitherto (as in much of Europe to this day)
additions to movie programs, were relegated to the children's hours on TV.
Various comics publishers have successfully marketed their material as
suitable for those who've "outgrown" other comics, notably EC in the '50's
and Marvel in the '60's. (This approach rarely worked for me, and to this
day, though I appreciate the abilities of Stan Lee and espeically Jack Kirby,
I never warmed to Marvel as so many of my contemporaries did. Aside from the
Disney characters, my favorite comic book characters remain those Golden Age
legends, Superman and Batman...though the flip side is that the "Eighties"
approaches to those characters of writers like the highly overrated John
Byrne, who made names working on very different Marvel characters, don't do
much for me.)
Speaking of WIZARD, Pat O'Neill's approach to the Grandey "Duck Party"
vote reminds me of Kenneth Starr's in the Whitewater affair. (Do I need to
explain the reference to the European members, or is our politics, as I've
heard, covered in great detail over there as yours isn't? I confess I haven't
the slightest idea even who the leaders of Denmark are) What may be a decent
case is ruined by a weak personal agenda, and reliance on very dubious
sources...
Coincidentally, I was cleaning my house today and found my earliest
comic books (my mother really DIDN'T throw them away!) including my very
first, WALT DISNEY'S COMICS & STORIES #222. I still remembered the stories
after so many years, especially Donald's ("The Master Mover," as Gladstone
called it on reprinting) and Mickey's ("The Monster of Sawtooth Mountain").
Of course, I know now that Fallberg and Murry did the Mouse story (Gladstone
reprinted that one, too), and anyone who doesn't know Barks wouldn't be on
this Digest, but I still wonder who did Scamp, and Chip 'n' Dale. Would
anyone here know? (Also some other nice stuff like a late THREE
MOUSEKETEERS--no relation to Annette and Darlene!--by DC's late, great
Sheldon Mayer.)
Even though Marvel's supposedly giving up its share of the Disney
rights, it seems to have the contract for the next couple of years. Despite
its origins as a cartoon (well, Dodie Smith's novel before that), 101
DALMATIANS may be the first Marvel adaptation of a LIVE Disney movie in I
don't know how long (though they've had a few individual Disney contracts
like ZORRO over the last couple of decades), and the first NEW live Disney
movie adapted to comic books (though Gladstone ran some old ones like THE
ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR) since HERBIE GOES TO MONTE CARLO. Hope someone will
do more...why can't Gladstone do comic books about Aladdin or the Gargoyles
if Marvel won't?

Rich Morrissey

The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad in Danish:

If it is published as the - longer - one part version, perhaps someone could
send me a copy of this issue?
Or

DON:

is The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad scheduled by Gladstone in the near future?

I wrote:
> By the way, this is one of the stories by Milton/Jippes
> that Gladstone didn't print in their first run (though the
> story was available then: it's from 1979).

Dwight:
> What's more, as I found out when I translated it for Gladstone
> a while back, an English script already existed for it. Freddy
> Milton even sent me a copy of that English script

This is probably the "original" script, the one that was sent by mail
several times from Daan Jippes (in Holland) to Freddy Milton (in
Denmark) and vice versa. Daan doesn't know Danish, and Freddy
not enough Dutch, so English was the language they used.

> I have no idea why Gladstone #I didn't print the story. Perhaps
> they intended to, but Disney yanked the license before they
> could get around to it?

That seems improbable, since they "ran out" of Jippes/Milton
stories long before Gladstone's 1st run ended. They even asked
Jippes to make new stories, because they were so successful.

And there are even two more 10-pagers that have not been used
by Gladstone. But at least one of them should be reprinted soon.

--Harry.
(Not a member of the winning Dutch Volleyball team...)

MIKE:
The Aracuan Bird ("Papadiya") is indeed the character I saw in the
Brazilian stories I referred to. The problem in my analysis came when I
mistakenly referred to him as a red bird -- he's actually a pink bird in
the film, just with a red mop of hair/feathers on top of his head.
I believe all Papadiya wears is a shirt in the film (as opposed to
Panchito, who wears a hat too).
Some time ago someone mentioned a Dick Moores story in which Donald
was a can-opener salesman and the Aracuan Bird appeared with him. I have
never seen this particular story, but it's the only time I've ever heard of
the Aracuan appearing in an American Duck story.

David Gerstein
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RICH:
Yes... Gladstone decided not to print a Micro-Ducks sequel that
didn't include HDL, back around 1989. The fact that the current sequel
("Return of the Micro-Ducks," WDG 7) includes them suggests that there may
be more than one Egmont Micro-Ducks story.
Which brings me to the fact that I think I may have seen another
one, published in Germany in the mid-1980s (as opposed to the one reprinted
in WDG 7, which seems to date from the 1970s). I think it may have been by
Daniel Branca. Maybe this is the story Gladstone chose not to print in
1989? Or maybe I'm wrong, and the Germans actually printed the 1970s story
in the 1980s.

David Gerstein
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