OLE:
Speaking of old Mickey's I'll try to smoothtalk a friend into letting me
borrow his copies of "The Uncensored Mouse" for archival purposes - i.e.
xeroxes. :)
Yep, I like "SuperDuck" a lot. Especially the ones printed in the older (pre
issue 100) Jumbo's. Reading those stories as a child made a profound impression
on me. Heck, I even had my own version of Superducks secret hideout in my
closet. :) Thinking about it nowadays I suppose the reason for my fascination
with this character was that he was the lonesome cowboy. By day people yelled
at poor Donald, but by night Superduck ruled the city of Duckburg. Being sort
of a bullied loner by day I found great comfort in a strong character like
Superduck.
> As you know, I don't worry a bit about these trivialities. :)
>But 'a friend of mine' is _very_ disappointed you've removed the indexer
>credits from the ftp site. He would also like to be abbreviated JLT. :)
I only said that I loved to look at the version history of the Don Rosa index
back in the old days. Especially since I happened to be one of the
contributors. :)
JACOB:
Jumbo's mostly sold in bookstores? That might be the case in Copenhagen, but
I've *never* seen a Jumbo in any of the Bookstores in Aarhus.
>Have you played with your LEGO today?
Years ago I read a Mickey Mouse story in which the villains used a helicopter
disguised as a huge bird. Being a kid at that time I was well impressed by it,
and immediately built me a Lego version. Anyone remember the title/artists?
--- Jan
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C64/RPG/INWO/Warner Bros/Disney/Anthro/Comics-addict and all-around nice guy.
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Jan Lund Thomsen
Disney comics Digest V96 #196
Message 166 -
1996-09-14 at 02:26:16
Byron Erickson
More vanity.
Message 167 -
1996-09-14 at 02:28:27
MIKE J. POHLJOLA
No, I haven't forgotten. Sorry, but I will get to it real-soon-now.
JAKI ELLENBY AND PER STARBACK
Actually, I don't really have to answer this because Per already
mentioned that the Mickey story you asked about was one of um... mine!
(And thanks, Per--it always looks better if someone else does the horn
blowing).
Fact is, I just saw the French edition today, and I couldn't resist
wondering what's with those crazy Frenchmen anyway? Is there something
wrong with the printing of that issue of Le Journal de Big Ears, or does
every issue look like it's got a bad case of yellow jaundice (and pink
eye, too boot!)? Or is it just a trendy new style of coloring I'm too
set in my ways to appreciate?
I'm sorry I haven't been answering a few reasonable questions lately,
but I've been horrendously busy trying to get enough done so I can go on
vacation next week (to the south of France--although I'm thinking I
should get some glasses with yellow filters first). If I don't discover
that the indolent life is for me after all, I'll be back in two weeks.
By the way (or as I mentioned to Don Rosa once, the grumpy old man in me
refuses to use netspeak abbreviations like BTW. What are we--*lazy*?!),
I'd like to add to my caveat on reasonable questions, just in case a
couple of people on this list think I've been horribly rude. I ignore
any questions that have to do with official Egmont policy. Partly
because no matter what I answer, someone would just argue a point I'm
not prepared to argue; partly because even if I was prepared to argue
about it, it's a never-ending story (as our friends from GP have no
doubt discovered); but mostly because such discussions don't interest
me. I only want to talk about the stories and the guys who create
them--the other stuff, to quote my favorite expression, don't mean shit
to a tree. (And a special "you're-older-than-you-look" award to the
person who can identify the source of that phrase. But, no, sillies,
it's obviously *not* from a Disney comic (or any other comic, for that
matter)).
See ya all in 16 days!
[Gosh, I wish I had a pithy quote to put down here like the rest of you
guys. Anyone care to donate a left-over to a poor quoteless wretch like
me?]
No, I haven't forgotten. Sorry, but I will get to it real-soon-now.
JAKI ELLENBY AND PER STARBACK
Actually, I don't really have to answer this because Per already
mentioned that the Mickey story you asked about was one of um... mine!
(And thanks, Per--it always looks better if someone else does the horn
blowing).
Fact is, I just saw the French edition today, and I couldn't resist
wondering what's with those crazy Frenchmen anyway? Is there something
wrong with the printing of that issue of Le Journal de Big Ears, or does
every issue look like it's got a bad case of yellow jaundice (and pink
eye, too boot!)? Or is it just a trendy new style of coloring I'm too
set in my ways to appreciate?
I'm sorry I haven't been answering a few reasonable questions lately,
but I've been horrendously busy trying to get enough done so I can go on
vacation next week (to the south of France--although I'm thinking I
should get some glasses with yellow filters first). If I don't discover
that the indolent life is for me after all, I'll be back in two weeks.
By the way (or as I mentioned to Don Rosa once, the grumpy old man in me
refuses to use netspeak abbreviations like BTW. What are we--*lazy*?!),
I'd like to add to my caveat on reasonable questions, just in case a
couple of people on this list think I've been horribly rude. I ignore
any questions that have to do with official Egmont policy. Partly
because no matter what I answer, someone would just argue a point I'm
not prepared to argue; partly because even if I was prepared to argue
about it, it's a never-ending story (as our friends from GP have no
doubt discovered); but mostly because such discussions don't interest
me. I only want to talk about the stories and the guys who create
them--the other stuff, to quote my favorite expression, don't mean shit
to a tree. (And a special "you're-older-than-you-look" award to the
person who can identify the source of that phrase. But, no, sillies,
it's obviously *not* from a Disney comic (or any other comic, for that
matter)).
See ya all in 16 days!
[Gosh, I wish I had a pithy quote to put down here like the rest of you
guys. Anyone care to donate a left-over to a poor quoteless wretch like
me?]
Mike Pohjola
Don?
Message 168 -
1996-09-14 at 13:55:04
DON:
Did you miss my mail about The Treasure of the Ten Avatars sent about
a week ago or why haven't you answered to the thousands of questions it
contained?
--
Mike - The Finnish Trekkie
Did you miss my mail about The Treasure of the Ten Avatars sent about
a week ago or why haven't you answered to the thousands of questions it
contained?
--
Mike - The Finnish Trekkie
Kriton Kyrimis
The Secret [...]
Message 169 -
1996-09-14 at 14:59:15
> > I rushed out and bought "Komix"
> And? Do you like it? It's good, isn't it?
The printing quality is fantastic: glossy paper, excellent computer color
(comparing the greek and US versions of the story I mentioned before, the
color in the greek version is much better), and fairly good translations.
One reservation I have is that, by looking at the lead stories in their back
issue catalogue, it appears that they mainly (or perhaps exclusively) print
stories that have been published by Gladstone/Disney. If this is true, then
there is little point in getting "Komix" if one is subscribing to Gladstone.
(So WHY will I be buying the next 12 issues, which will print the Life
and Times of Scrooge, even though I already have both the comic book and
album versions published by Gladstone?)
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
-----
"When everything is new, can anything be a surprise?"
-----
> And? Do you like it? It's good, isn't it?
The printing quality is fantastic: glossy paper, excellent computer color
(comparing the greek and US versions of the story I mentioned before, the
color in the greek version is much better), and fairly good translations.
One reservation I have is that, by looking at the lead stories in their back
issue catalogue, it appears that they mainly (or perhaps exclusively) print
stories that have been published by Gladstone/Disney. If this is true, then
there is little point in getting "Komix" if one is subscribing to Gladstone.
(So WHY will I be buying the next 12 issues, which will print the Life
and Times of Scrooge, even though I already have both the comic book and
album versions published by Gladstone?)
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
-----
"When everything is new, can anything be a surprise?"
-----
Procm
Disney comics Digest V96 #198
Message 170 -
1996-09-14 at 17:07:14
Mike Prochaska
3331 elmdale rd.
glneview, il 60025
or
Mike Prochaska
loras college
P.O. box 1167
dubuque, Iowa 620004
3331 elmdale rd.
glneview, il 60025
or
Mike Prochaska
loras college
P.O. box 1167
dubuque, Iowa 620004
Harald Havas
Disney comics Digest V96 #198
Message 171 -
1996-09-14 at 17:15:35
BENT
Regarding Daisy as "Phantomime" (what's her Italien and English name
BTW?) I frankly dont know: she was on the cover of a "Lustiges
Taschenbuch", that featured a (the?) story with her. But I'm sure
somebody around here knows more of further appearances...
(PS: Is "Bent" the same as German "Bernd"?)
MM-WEEKLY
Before joining this list I didn't really follow the current newsstand
editions of Egmont/Ehapa, only the BL, Rosa, special editions... But
now I bought recent "Micky Maus"es and found surprisingly
entertaining and well drawn stories! (Most of them...) Some of them
have been discussed here, so it was really a pleasure reading them for
myself. I particularily enjoyed a Mouse(!)-story (D94107) where Mickey
tries to solve a mystery around three heirs of a novelity-tycoon. Nice
details and good artwork (a nice looking woman too...)
LAUNCHPAD
I also found this story about Launchpad thinking to be an eagle and
landing on a tree. Which made me wonder: is he "canon" by now? I mean
it was a Launchpad/Gyro story with no mentioning of "DuckTales" in
the title. Is he (and others from the series) now an accepted member
of the Duckburgh comics world?
BTW, his German name is "Quack", whichs sound very unenlightened, but
indeed is a very funny and subtile pun: "Quax, der Bruchpilot" ("Q. the
crash-pilot") is the title of a very old (1941!) and very famous German movie
with the last old superstar of German movies, Heinz Ruhmann (two dots on
the u), who died last year. I doubt that many kids will get it, but
nevertheless it's a funny and intelligent joke...
Bye from wintery Vienna (brrrr!)
Harald
--- (Harald Havas) (Email removed)
Regarding Daisy as "Phantomime" (what's her Italien and English name
BTW?) I frankly dont know: she was on the cover of a "Lustiges
Taschenbuch", that featured a (the?) story with her. But I'm sure
somebody around here knows more of further appearances...
(PS: Is "Bent" the same as German "Bernd"?)
MM-WEEKLY
Before joining this list I didn't really follow the current newsstand
editions of Egmont/Ehapa, only the BL, Rosa, special editions... But
now I bought recent "Micky Maus"es and found surprisingly
entertaining and well drawn stories! (Most of them...) Some of them
have been discussed here, so it was really a pleasure reading them for
myself. I particularily enjoyed a Mouse(!)-story (D94107) where Mickey
tries to solve a mystery around three heirs of a novelity-tycoon. Nice
details and good artwork (a nice looking woman too...)
LAUNCHPAD
I also found this story about Launchpad thinking to be an eagle and
landing on a tree. Which made me wonder: is he "canon" by now? I mean
it was a Launchpad/Gyro story with no mentioning of "DuckTales" in
the title. Is he (and others from the series) now an accepted member
of the Duckburgh comics world?
BTW, his German name is "Quack", whichs sound very unenlightened, but
indeed is a very funny and subtile pun: "Quax, der Bruchpilot" ("Q. the
crash-pilot") is the title of a very old (1941!) and very famous German movie
with the last old superstar of German movies, Heinz Ruhmann (two dots on
the u), who died last year. I doubt that many kids will get it, but
nevertheless it's a funny and intelligent joke...
Bye from wintery Vienna (brrrr!)
Harald
--- (Harald Havas) (Email removed)
Jakob Söderbaum
Disney comics Digest V96 #197
Message 172 -
1996-09-14 at 20:03:12
Howdy, folks!
ARTHUR:
> Subject: Err ...
You seem to be confused, my friend?
> JAKOB SOEDERBAUM:
> > Do you have a homepage?? Why didn't you tell me??!
> Err ... ofcourse I have!
"Of course you have".... *I* don't have a homepage (yet)!
"It is obvious...." (boring song from the 60s by Syd Barrett (Hi Daniel!))
;-)
> I mention it almost every time in all
> the letters I write to this list.
Not during the time I was on the list (last time, that is)... ;-)
> And you actually gave me Swedish
> Disney comics so I could use them for my database.
Yes, but you also mentioned me as "Jacob Soederbaum" in your "List of
contributors to these pages". My name is still *Jakob*, if you please! ;-)
> AND I mention the
> address in every signature in almost all my messages!
They must've been flipped out from the messages you (ir)regularly send to
me... (since I never saw any signatyre but "Arthur")
But nevermind that, now I've seen it. And I also filled out that formula
you have there.
HARRY:
> Per has put the new database files on ftp (I'm sure he'll tell us
> exctly where 8-).
I don't know about others, but at least *I* have trouble connecting to the
FTP-sites... Sometimes it works, but mostly it doesn't. :(
Just for your knowledge.
> Jakob to "ARTHUR deWOLF":
>> Hiya, Wolfie! I'm glad to see that at least *you're* around of the
>> Dutchmen!
>
> Hey! Who says *we're* not around?
Of course *you're* around too (most days, still not *that* day). But that
other lazy one.. what was his name again? I don't seem to remember. It was
so long ago I heard from him... Denial? No *Daniel* it is! Oh yes... ;-)
>>> "Stranded in Time" by Don Rosa (part 2 of 3)
>> This must be a new story, right? I don't seem to it's "happened" yet in
>> Europe? Or has it, but under some other strange title?
>
> It's the King Arthur story.
Oh! Strange title! I would *never* have guessed that (honestly)! Maybe they
*were* tranded in time? Yes, but that's not what (*I* think) the story is
about, it's about King Arthur and the Ducks. Therefore I (for this *one*
time) prefer the Swedish title "En anka vid kung Arthurs hov", meaning
"A Duck in the Court of King Arthur" better.
> It *has* been published in Sweden.
Shut up! ;-)
>>> "Christmas on Bear Mountain" by Carl Barks
>> Is there any particular reason for including this story in this issue?
>
> Maybe because it's Christmas by the time the comic is in the shops? 8-)
Great Goodness! Already??! And I never even noticed that the summer ended!!!
Maybe that's because the summer never *was* in Sweden this year, but that's
irrelevant. ;-)
HARALD:
> SUPERDUCK
> Or "Phantomias" as he's called around here (Daisy being "Phantomime")
It couldn't be a coincidence, Phantomime *must* be a wordplay for pantomimes,
right? How come? Because they're pretending to be somebody they aren't?
> Short description: Donald wears a mask, a black costume and a (red)
> cape.
More: He has a pair of yellow (rubber?)boots, which has soles he can bounce
over fences and such with.
> He has no super-powers but uses gadgets thought up by Gyro, the
> only one (?) who knows his identity.
What about the alien guy that live off of bubble gums? ;-) (I don't know
if he has an English name, in Sweden he's called Lille Gummi, and he's
appeared some times in Kalle Ankas Pocket in made-to-look-like-3D stories.)
> I liked these stories as a kid
> but was bothered by the fact, that Donald was so much more clever and
> _acitive_ than usual...
I really didn't care, because I thought those stories were very exotic, and
I liked them because of that reason. For example most stories took place at
late night, and I don't seem to recall any other story that has done that
before...
> Speaking of Gyro - dont you all agree that Doc Brown in "Back to the
> Future" was heavily based on him?
No. Maybe a *little*, but he's just the "Mad Scientist" we all love to see
in movies.
FREDRIK:
> I took over the [Disney characters] list from Per and I have now
> handed it back. Scores of other list members have contributed over
> time.
Even *I* held it for a little while... ;-)
DON R.:
> [...]
> So I got out my original script, and compared -- and my
> dialogue had been changed. Here's the original version:
You're really doing us orthodox Rosa-fans a big favour when you post these
kind of things to the list, Don! Thanks a lot!!!!
> You'd need the
> Gladstone issue to compare the differences, and if you didn't have it, you
> wouldn't care about the discrepancy...
Even if I *didn't* have that issue I *would*...
> and chances are the only people who
> DO care are me and one guy in Greece.
You're wrong with that. However, I hope you sent this original dialogue to
the Greece guy too?
That's all for now. See ya 'round!
---
Greetings from J a k o b
ARTHUR:
> Subject: Err ...
You seem to be confused, my friend?
> JAKOB SOEDERBAUM:
> > Do you have a homepage?? Why didn't you tell me??!
> Err ... ofcourse I have!
"Of course you have".... *I* don't have a homepage (yet)!
"It is obvious...." (boring song from the 60s by Syd Barrett (Hi Daniel!))
;-)
> I mention it almost every time in all
> the letters I write to this list.
Not during the time I was on the list (last time, that is)... ;-)
> And you actually gave me Swedish
> Disney comics so I could use them for my database.
Yes, but you also mentioned me as "Jacob Soederbaum" in your "List of
contributors to these pages". My name is still *Jakob*, if you please! ;-)
> AND I mention the
> address in every signature in almost all my messages!
They must've been flipped out from the messages you (ir)regularly send to
me... (since I never saw any signatyre but "Arthur")
But nevermind that, now I've seen it. And I also filled out that formula
you have there.
HARRY:
> Per has put the new database files on ftp (I'm sure he'll tell us
> exctly where 8-).
I don't know about others, but at least *I* have trouble connecting to the
FTP-sites... Sometimes it works, but mostly it doesn't. :(
Just for your knowledge.
> Jakob to "ARTHUR deWOLF":
>> Hiya, Wolfie! I'm glad to see that at least *you're* around of the
>> Dutchmen!
>
> Hey! Who says *we're* not around?
Of course *you're* around too (most days, still not *that* day). But that
other lazy one.. what was his name again? I don't seem to remember. It was
so long ago I heard from him... Denial? No *Daniel* it is! Oh yes... ;-)
>>> "Stranded in Time" by Don Rosa (part 2 of 3)
>> This must be a new story, right? I don't seem to it's "happened" yet in
>> Europe? Or has it, but under some other strange title?
>
> It's the King Arthur story.
Oh! Strange title! I would *never* have guessed that (honestly)! Maybe they
*were* tranded in time? Yes, but that's not what (*I* think) the story is
about, it's about King Arthur and the Ducks. Therefore I (for this *one*
time) prefer the Swedish title "En anka vid kung Arthurs hov", meaning
"A Duck in the Court of King Arthur" better.
> It *has* been published in Sweden.
Shut up! ;-)
>>> "Christmas on Bear Mountain" by Carl Barks
>> Is there any particular reason for including this story in this issue?
>
> Maybe because it's Christmas by the time the comic is in the shops? 8-)
Great Goodness! Already??! And I never even noticed that the summer ended!!!
Maybe that's because the summer never *was* in Sweden this year, but that's
irrelevant. ;-)
HARALD:
> SUPERDUCK
> Or "Phantomias" as he's called around here (Daisy being "Phantomime")
It couldn't be a coincidence, Phantomime *must* be a wordplay for pantomimes,
right? How come? Because they're pretending to be somebody they aren't?
> Short description: Donald wears a mask, a black costume and a (red)
> cape.
More: He has a pair of yellow (rubber?)boots, which has soles he can bounce
over fences and such with.
> He has no super-powers but uses gadgets thought up by Gyro, the
> only one (?) who knows his identity.
What about the alien guy that live off of bubble gums? ;-) (I don't know
if he has an English name, in Sweden he's called Lille Gummi, and he's
appeared some times in Kalle Ankas Pocket in made-to-look-like-3D stories.)
> I liked these stories as a kid
> but was bothered by the fact, that Donald was so much more clever and
> _acitive_ than usual...
I really didn't care, because I thought those stories were very exotic, and
I liked them because of that reason. For example most stories took place at
late night, and I don't seem to recall any other story that has done that
before...
> Speaking of Gyro - dont you all agree that Doc Brown in "Back to the
> Future" was heavily based on him?
No. Maybe a *little*, but he's just the "Mad Scientist" we all love to see
in movies.
FREDRIK:
> I took over the [Disney characters] list from Per and I have now
> handed it back. Scores of other list members have contributed over
> time.
Even *I* held it for a little while... ;-)
DON R.:
> [...]
> So I got out my original script, and compared -- and my
> dialogue had been changed. Here's the original version:
You're really doing us orthodox Rosa-fans a big favour when you post these
kind of things to the list, Don! Thanks a lot!!!!
> You'd need the
> Gladstone issue to compare the differences, and if you didn't have it, you
> wouldn't care about the discrepancy...
Even if I *didn't* have that issue I *would*...
> and chances are the only people who
> DO care are me and one guy in Greece.
You're wrong with that. However, I hope you sent this original dialogue to
the Greece guy too?
That's all for now. See ya 'round!
---
Greetings from J a k o b
Michael Naiman
Medal identification
Message 173 -
1996-09-14 at 20:29:28
ALL:
Can someone help me identify an item please?
It is a gold colored medal 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
On one side is an embossed figure of Uncle Scrooge lifting a barbell. On
the weight of the barbell is a "$" sign.
On the reverse there is written "Operazione Olimpiadi" and "Monaco 1972"
In the center is three flags on three separate poles with the Olympic rings
in the background.
At the top of the medal there is a small "U" shaped attachment for a ribbon.
Was this some type of comic book giveaway? Any help from across the pond?
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #199
******************************************
Can someone help me identify an item please?
It is a gold colored medal 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
On one side is an embossed figure of Uncle Scrooge lifting a barbell. On
the weight of the barbell is a "$" sign.
On the reverse there is written "Operazione Olimpiadi" and "Monaco 1972"
In the center is three flags on three separate poles with the Olympic rings
in the background.
At the top of the medal there is a small "U" shaped attachment for a ribbon.
Was this some type of comic book giveaway? Any help from across the pond?
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #199
******************************************
Markoff
Digest V96 #198/Xiaogan
Message 174 -
1996-09-15 at 07:05:56
KRITON:
>BTW, all the natives in this story are little short people that look the
>same! Since this story has been published by Disney themselves, could this
>be used as an argument in favor of publishing Don Rosa's pygmy indian story?
Lookalike underground elves won't draw nasty letters from offended
underground elves. But offended Native Americans writing in is a whole
'nuther can of oxide-of-strombolium. Has that really happened? I don't know,
but Disney definitely thinks it could. Your above-mentioned wish does make
one hope, though... For that matter, another good argument in favor of the
Peeweegahs, IMHO, is that they themselves are simply another type of
non-human elf, not REAL Native American PEOPLE (whereas the
non-stereotypical, full-sized Kickmiquicks [OS 263], for example, are real
people).
GARY, DAVID, ANYONE:
Pretty soon will be the month when the original Barks Peeweegah story would
have been reprinted in the U$A in Color albums. Will it be skipped,
"censored," or what?
--Jonathan Markoff
>BTW, all the natives in this story are little short people that look the
>same! Since this story has been published by Disney themselves, could this
>be used as an argument in favor of publishing Don Rosa's pygmy indian story?
Lookalike underground elves won't draw nasty letters from offended
underground elves. But offended Native Americans writing in is a whole
'nuther can of oxide-of-strombolium. Has that really happened? I don't know,
but Disney definitely thinks it could. Your above-mentioned wish does make
one hope, though... For that matter, another good argument in favor of the
Peeweegahs, IMHO, is that they themselves are simply another type of
non-human elf, not REAL Native American PEOPLE (whereas the
non-stereotypical, full-sized Kickmiquicks [OS 263], for example, are real
people).
GARY, DAVID, ANYONE:
Pretty soon will be the month when the original Barks Peeweegah story would
have been reprinted in the U$A in Color albums. Will it be skipped,
"censored," or what?
--Jonathan Markoff
Markoff
Digest V96 #199/Don and Kriton
Message 175 -
1996-09-15 at 07:34:30
DON:
>-- Disney does not excercise that sort of control over what KOMIX prints.
>What KOMIX prints cannot be used as an "argument" to lift the burden of
>political-correctitude off Gladstone.
That's not what he (Kriton) is getting at--the story in question HAS been
printed in the USA--by Disney themselves in fact, in 1992.
>-- Disney does not excercise that sort of control over what KOMIX prints.
>What KOMIX prints cannot be used as an "argument" to lift the burden of
>political-correctitude off Gladstone.
That's not what he (Kriton) is getting at--the story in question HAS been
printed in the USA--by Disney themselves in fact, in 1992.
Joachim Butz
Rosa as non-"pro-fesh-unnel" / Spirit jam / Kesidis
Message 176 -
1996-09-15 at 23:06:31
To the winner of The Fanny Award '78 (TCJ) in category
Most over-talented and under-rated artist, writer, and all-around good guy
Award to
KENO DON ROSA
(things had changed a little meanwhile, eh? - mean this under-rated)
I know that you're had been a very active man in comic fandom for a long
time. But again and again, I am astonished at the mass you've done. E.g.
maintainig this Information Center or doing stuff for the university paper.
And till people know about my enthusiasm about your work, they show me
things they know about you. So one person showed me RBBC # 136. As I saw
the photos I know the origin of the ray guns in Cash Flow . :-))
BTW: What was this Phalanx story and why didn't you finish it? Very funny
story (episode 9 - 10). Where had episode 1-8 been published?
Even here in Germany there are people knowing Don Rosa as an active guy in
comic fandom doing infos and stories for a long time and having been
surprised some years ago if they noticed a $crooge story done by this well
known Don Rosa (it had been the Berlin editors of the Donaldist you've met
in Erlangen - remember the Beatles HELP!).
BTW (because his Berlin guy said, he believes you are member the APA-I). Are
member of the APA-I?
TO ALL:
If there is someone who knows more of Don's former activities or of
appearences as comic guest, please tell me (or us?)
HARALD (RE: Don in Spirit-Jam-Story)
You are right! I know about Don having participated on that page with the
art as well, but I forgot to mention. Sorry -- and thanks for the additional
information. And in addition I will do some more:
This jam story had been done by 50! (fifty) contributers including Eisner
himself, great Milt Caniff (sigh), mad Harvey Kurtzman, bat and devilish
Frank Miller, Richard Corben and a lot more. 50 contributers - that's jam!
Could this duck dragging Don being an omen? -:)
DUCKBURGH MAP:
I noticed that there is a discussion about a Duckburgh map I didn't followed
yet. And I don't know the actual map because I buy the German weekly only if
there's a Rosa in it. I don't know all been said about the topic till now.
So the information could have been here already.
Some years ago there had been a map of Duckburgh too in the German Micky
Maus. There had been several parts you had to collect from different issues.
I will look for it and tell you, when they had been published (will be easy,
because it had been in an issue containing a Rosa story - else I would have
noticed it)
GEORGE KESIDIS:
>Will Gladstone be reprinting the entire Treasury of Croesus story in an
>album (or single comic) in the near future?
I hope so. And the remaining Rosa's too!!!!!!!!
Most over-talented and under-rated artist, writer, and all-around good guy
Award to
KENO DON ROSA
(things had changed a little meanwhile, eh? - mean this under-rated)
I know that you're had been a very active man in comic fandom for a long
time. But again and again, I am astonished at the mass you've done. E.g.
maintainig this Information Center or doing stuff for the university paper.
And till people know about my enthusiasm about your work, they show me
things they know about you. So one person showed me RBBC # 136. As I saw
the photos I know the origin of the ray guns in Cash Flow . :-))
BTW: What was this Phalanx story and why didn't you finish it? Very funny
story (episode 9 - 10). Where had episode 1-8 been published?
Even here in Germany there are people knowing Don Rosa as an active guy in
comic fandom doing infos and stories for a long time and having been
surprised some years ago if they noticed a $crooge story done by this well
known Don Rosa (it had been the Berlin editors of the Donaldist you've met
in Erlangen - remember the Beatles HELP!).
BTW (because his Berlin guy said, he believes you are member the APA-I). Are
member of the APA-I?
TO ALL:
If there is someone who knows more of Don's former activities or of
appearences as comic guest, please tell me (or us?)
HARALD (RE: Don in Spirit-Jam-Story)
You are right! I know about Don having participated on that page with the
art as well, but I forgot to mention. Sorry -- and thanks for the additional
information. And in addition I will do some more:
This jam story had been done by 50! (fifty) contributers including Eisner
himself, great Milt Caniff (sigh), mad Harvey Kurtzman, bat and devilish
Frank Miller, Richard Corben and a lot more. 50 contributers - that's jam!
Could this duck dragging Don being an omen? -:)
DUCKBURGH MAP:
I noticed that there is a discussion about a Duckburgh map I didn't followed
yet. And I don't know the actual map because I buy the German weekly only if
there's a Rosa in it. I don't know all been said about the topic till now.
So the information could have been here already.
Some years ago there had been a map of Duckburgh too in the German Micky
Maus. There had been several parts you had to collect from different issues.
I will look for it and tell you, when they had been published (will be easy,
because it had been in an issue containing a Rosa story - else I would have
noticed it)
GEORGE KESIDIS:
>Will Gladstone be reprinting the entire Treasury of Croesus story in an
>album (or single comic) in the near future?
I hope so. And the remaining Rosa's too!!!!!!!!
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #199
Message 177 -
1996-09-16 at 00:31:21
MIKE the-Finnish-Trekkie:
Hm... if I didn't reply to your message with questions about the "Avatar"
story, either I didn't receive it, or I might have accidentally deleted it
in the mass-purges of answered e-mail that I perform twice a day. I answer
every message I get within a day or two, except for a few that I want to
spend more time on (as with Jakob's long letter to me about "A Matter of
Some Gravity"... yes, Jakob, I still have that in my "IN" bin)... but I see
no message from you (Mike) anywhere in my mail bins. I hope you can send it
again...?
Speaking of lost messages, there seem to have been two empty-messages in the
last Digest... one from Stefan and one from Mike Prochaska (unless Mike's
was just to answer my question of where he was located in the mid-west).
HARRY:
Oh -- was it Arthur who said he was going to send me the albums? Sorry. If I
confuse you, it's not just because you're both Dutch, but because you're
both so generous to me with your time and postal-fees. Thanks.
JONATHAN:
Actually, the first story I recall seeing $crooge's First Dime referred to
as his "Lucky" Dime was in a Barks (!) story, that later one about the
aliens who had a space-ship repair factory under the sea, whatever the title
was (I don't know those mid-60s stories as well as the first 20 years of
Barks). But I still regard that as something I think needs to be corrected
back to its earlier concept. As I've said, to say that $crooge's success is
based on anything at all other than HARD WORK and SAVVY is to completely
misinterpret his whole character. (I repeat that for new List members since
I think it's an important idea and a pet-peeve of mine.) I look upon
$crooge's Dime as his symbol of inspiration, and he doesn't want to lose it
due to his attachment to him and his fear that he might lose his inspiration
(which he, therefore, WOULD if he fears it so much). So we can write the
same sorts of stories and treat the Dime virtually the same, but with a much
more logical true-to-$crooge reason.
JAKOB:
Of course I sent that answer to the Greek fan! In fact, if you thought I
mighta spent too much time explaining it here, my answer to him was three
full type-written (single-spaced) pages.
Hm... if I didn't reply to your message with questions about the "Avatar"
story, either I didn't receive it, or I might have accidentally deleted it
in the mass-purges of answered e-mail that I perform twice a day. I answer
every message I get within a day or two, except for a few that I want to
spend more time on (as with Jakob's long letter to me about "A Matter of
Some Gravity"... yes, Jakob, I still have that in my "IN" bin)... but I see
no message from you (Mike) anywhere in my mail bins. I hope you can send it
again...?
Speaking of lost messages, there seem to have been two empty-messages in the
last Digest... one from Stefan and one from Mike Prochaska (unless Mike's
was just to answer my question of where he was located in the mid-west).
HARRY:
Oh -- was it Arthur who said he was going to send me the albums? Sorry. If I
confuse you, it's not just because you're both Dutch, but because you're
both so generous to me with your time and postal-fees. Thanks.
JONATHAN:
Actually, the first story I recall seeing $crooge's First Dime referred to
as his "Lucky" Dime was in a Barks (!) story, that later one about the
aliens who had a space-ship repair factory under the sea, whatever the title
was (I don't know those mid-60s stories as well as the first 20 years of
Barks). But I still regard that as something I think needs to be corrected
back to its earlier concept. As I've said, to say that $crooge's success is
based on anything at all other than HARD WORK and SAVVY is to completely
misinterpret his whole character. (I repeat that for new List members since
I think it's an important idea and a pet-peeve of mine.) I look upon
$crooge's Dime as his symbol of inspiration, and he doesn't want to lose it
due to his attachment to him and his fear that he might lose his inspiration
(which he, therefore, WOULD if he fears it so much). So we can write the
same sorts of stories and treat the Dime virtually the same, but with a much
more logical true-to-$crooge reason.
JAKOB:
Of course I sent that answer to the Greek fan! In fact, if you thought I
mighta spent too much time explaining it here, my answer to him was three
full type-written (single-spaced) pages.
GaryB98294
Disney comics Digest V96 #199
Message 178 -
1996-09-16 at 03:20:04
A little help, folks. I got U$ Adventures #41, Donald Duck #299 and the two
U$ Adventures albums (#7, 8) in August from Gladtone. Was that their only
releases? Trouble is, I never got the July Previews and can't refer to
anything.
U$ Adventures albums (#7, 8) in August from Gladtone. Was that their only
releases? Trouble is, I never got the July Previews and can't refer to
anything.
Jaki Ellenby
Book about Don Rosa
Message 179 -
1996-09-16 at 10:31:49
Hi !
ALL:
I have had during the past few weeks some correspondence by snail-mail and
private e-mail with a few members of this list, who when I discovered it were
kind enough to help me become a virtual member (before I got my e-mail account -
or rather my boss' right now).
Those members who include Harry, Arthur, Joachim and Don are already aware of a
project I started working on at the same time, as they have already helped me a
lot with it. I thought it was time to seek help of all members of the list now.
To make it simple, I am preparing a book about Don Rosa. To be more precise, the
project started as a planned special issue of the American magazine Persistence
of Vision about Don Rosa, that I wanted to complete for 1997, to commemorate
both $crooge 50th birthday and Don's 10th anniversary as a Duck artist. Then I
became aware of the Mailing List and I realized there was enough material in its
archive to write not simply a book-like special issue of POV but an actual book.
So, for some months now I have started gathering info and illustrations about
Don's work. I plan to start writting the book (in English, of course) by the end
of the year and to complete it around the first three months of 1997. Whether I
will get an editor at that point remains to be seen, but if it is not the case,
the POV option would still be there.
This project has still a bit of time to evolve as I am in the info gathering
phase.
You might help me today by suggesting the things one might like to see in that
book (even though most of you, as Don Rosa super experts, probably won't learn
much from it, which is far from surprising as Don is here everyday to answer all
of our questions).
I am also looking for copies of all of Don non-gladstone covers and art
(including all of his non Disney covers, illustrations, etc.) Arthur has already
taken 2 hours to copy for me all of the CK and PP comics and Joachim has already
sent me some very interesting documents but I still need much more.
Also, I would be glad to find a photocopy of the Ducktales story published in
the Spring 1990 issue of Ducktales magazine, "Back in Time for a Dime" that Don
scripted and of the story he did for the German magazine Tempo.
Finally, I would be interested in receiving copies of the fan drawings that Don
did for some of you (I would promise never to show them to anybody else or to
copy them, of course).
Can anybody help ? Thanks in advance !
JACOB:
I was catching up with my reading this weekend and I realised that you had
offered to help me with the book. As you can see I am more interested than ever
by your offer :-))
Didier Ghez
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #200
******************************************
ALL:
I have had during the past few weeks some correspondence by snail-mail and
private e-mail with a few members of this list, who when I discovered it were
kind enough to help me become a virtual member (before I got my e-mail account -
or rather my boss' right now).
Those members who include Harry, Arthur, Joachim and Don are already aware of a
project I started working on at the same time, as they have already helped me a
lot with it. I thought it was time to seek help of all members of the list now.
To make it simple, I am preparing a book about Don Rosa. To be more precise, the
project started as a planned special issue of the American magazine Persistence
of Vision about Don Rosa, that I wanted to complete for 1997, to commemorate
both $crooge 50th birthday and Don's 10th anniversary as a Duck artist. Then I
became aware of the Mailing List and I realized there was enough material in its
archive to write not simply a book-like special issue of POV but an actual book.
So, for some months now I have started gathering info and illustrations about
Don's work. I plan to start writting the book (in English, of course) by the end
of the year and to complete it around the first three months of 1997. Whether I
will get an editor at that point remains to be seen, but if it is not the case,
the POV option would still be there.
This project has still a bit of time to evolve as I am in the info gathering
phase.
You might help me today by suggesting the things one might like to see in that
book (even though most of you, as Don Rosa super experts, probably won't learn
much from it, which is far from surprising as Don is here everyday to answer all
of our questions).
I am also looking for copies of all of Don non-gladstone covers and art
(including all of his non Disney covers, illustrations, etc.) Arthur has already
taken 2 hours to copy for me all of the CK and PP comics and Joachim has already
sent me some very interesting documents but I still need much more.
Also, I would be glad to find a photocopy of the Ducktales story published in
the Spring 1990 issue of Ducktales magazine, "Back in Time for a Dime" that Don
scripted and of the story he did for the German magazine Tempo.
Finally, I would be interested in receiving copies of the fan drawings that Don
did for some of you (I would promise never to show them to anybody else or to
copy them, of course).
Can anybody help ? Thanks in advance !
JACOB:
I was catching up with my reading this weekend and I realised that you had
offered to help me with the book. As you can see I am more interested than ever
by your offer :-))
Didier Ghez
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #200
******************************************
Jaki Ellenby
Disneyland Paris CompuServe site
Message 180 -
1996-09-16 at 10:33:19
Hi !
This will probably be considered (correctly) as off topic, so please excuse me
in advance.
I have been hired 3 weeks ago by Disneyland Paris to manage the French part and
the promotion of their CompuServe official site as well as their Web site.
The CompuServe site was launched on Friday September 6 and the Web site will be
launched on October 23. This explains why I have not had time to contribute a
lot to the list recently.
What I would like to ask you, at least those of you who have a CompuServe
account, would be to give me their feedback about the site (Go DLP). I realize
it is still far from perfect as we barely reached our deadline and are still
working on fixing the bugs but this is one more reason to try and improve it.
What would you do to better it, if you were in my position ?
I will ask you the same question, if you don't mind, when the Web site is
launched on October 23.
Again, thanks a lot for your help to come.
Didier Ghez
This will probably be considered (correctly) as off topic, so please excuse me
in advance.
I have been hired 3 weeks ago by Disneyland Paris to manage the French part and
the promotion of their CompuServe official site as well as their Web site.
The CompuServe site was launched on Friday September 6 and the Web site will be
launched on October 23. This explains why I have not had time to contribute a
lot to the list recently.
What I would like to ask you, at least those of you who have a CompuServe
account, would be to give me their feedback about the site (Go DLP). I realize
it is still far from perfect as we barely reached our deadline and are still
working on fixing the bugs but this is one more reason to try and improve it.
What would you do to better it, if you were in my position ?
I will ask you the same question, if you don't mind, when the Web site is
launched on October 23.
Again, thanks a lot for your help to come.
Didier Ghez