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On Sep 18, 8:27pm, Joachim Butz wrote:
> Subject: Rosa's TCJ award / Sven-Oliver / Soederbaum video

> What's 'Fanny'? - I don't find it in my dictionary.

This is bringing back memories that are awfully old. "Fanny"
was Marilyn Bethke's play on words. Start with the word "fan."
Add to it the fact that "Fanny" is a girl's name (though now
somewhat old-fashioned). Plus the fact that many awards in
the entertainment business have names like "Tony" and "Emmy."
And finally the fact that "fanny" is a slang term for the
human hindquarters ("Popo" to you). The final result is a name
for a comics industry award that plays on the word "fan" while
being silly, satiric, and somewhat insulting.

Alles klar?

--Dwight Decker

Dwight Decker said:

> (One thing I've learned after all these years of knocking around
>in funnybooks -- art sells comics, not writing.)

I've been a convention promoter (Center Con in Seattle) for quite a
number of years, and as far as attendance goes, writers don't draw.

Okay, okay, I hear all the groans on my horrible pun! But I
couldn't resist. :)

Don R - my partners and I are having a meeting this coming weekend
regarding our show plans for next year. Probably be contacting you
next week with what's up.

Bill Wormstedt
(Email removed)

GARY LEACH/anyone else who knows:

Why don't Gladstone's colorists color in the Ducks' mouths and
feet-bottoms inside the comic like they do on the covers? I think it
brings a very nice look to the book of the coloring is more detailed.
Disney comics used to do this, exept they used a darker shade of orange,
but I prefer the shade of brown used on Gladstone covers.

-Shaun

"They're certainly more sophisticated than any of the other stuff we have
in here." -Ron, the manager of my local comic store, speaking of Duck
comics.

I'm reading on the digest my last posting on WoW, and my usual complaints
about the translation. But this time I forgot to quote a very good pun which
is surely to be credited to the translator. When (at the bottom of page
three) the chief of the factory (whose name sounds like Iravage Theforests)
misquotes the name of the JW, he calls them "Giovani Marmitte" (Junior
Mufflers) instead of "Giovani Marmotte" ("Junior Groundhogs", which has
always been the official italian translation of "Junior Woodchucks"). That's
really nice.
(I wonder what it was in the original: Junior Woodchicks, maybe? And how did
they render it in other languages?)
Marco

Didier:
In an issue of the Danish fanzine "Carl Barks & Co." from October last
year it was mentioned that you were planning a fanzine in English about
the Disney comicdom. This was an a propos to an interview by you with
Andreas Deja, animator on "Runaway Brain" and recent Disney features.
I assume this project is on hold, if not cancelled, with your current
obligations in mind. Or was it the beginning of the Don Rosa project?

Don:
Forgive me if you've already mentioned it, but now that the Pizen Bluff
story is finished and scheduled for print, what are you working on now?

Gary:
The upcoming collecting card game expansion for Magic, Mirage, has
introduced another batch of new artists. I recognized the names of
John Bolton - he did some fillers for Classic X-Men - and Gary Leach!
Presumably this is you, especially since all 5 I know of are _black_
cards, and most un-Disney in theme. In your occupation you have to
let the dark side out once in a while...
I haven't yet seen your illustrations, but hope to draw some in the
preview tournament on Sunday. Everybody X your fingers, please.

Harald:
> REPEAT QUESTION
> Still no answer as to if I should index my single foreign DCs.
Harry:
> Personally, I don't see the use of indexing only a few comics of a country.
> But [...] So it's up to you (or others) to decide...

Go ahead with it, Harald, and I too will send Harry some indexes I've
been threatening him with for some time. _I_ find it interesting with
even a single issue of a title, just to give an idea of the format and
scope of it. Like if it's 5-6 D codes in a row, like "Mukku Mayc" (no
need to YELL just to speak Russian ;), or "I" codes like most digests.

How about a good, German index? I know 'the organization' has lots of
them, and probably many in electronic form too. Could you inquire to
whereas they would allow us to use them, like for instance the index
from Sonderheft #28 by Otto Burzlaff? We could improve them too.

JaKob:
> 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 call him Li'l Gum, but I don't know if that's official. The stories
are drawn by Giulio Chierchini, who has improved over the years:
I really didn't like the psychotic facial expressions in earlier stories.

Sven:
> If anybody is interested I could
> offer an index of all Super-Duck stories which have been pub-
> lished in Germany (at least as far as I know). Somebody would
> only have to tell me where to send it.

Hi, you _must_ be new on the list: everybody knows that indexes go
straight to Harry <(Email removed)>! :)
You are welcome to send it to me too. Jacob Sparre has a Danish index
for the Super Duck stories, and since I'm about to cross check it with
my own _and_ can rely on the assistance of Jan, Super Expert Extra-
ordinary, I may as well 'double cross check' with yours.

Dwight:
> "Do you know why the Dane took a piece of sandpaper out into
> the desert? 'It was the only map of the place I could find.'"
> Uh oh! Trouble ahead! The Scandihoovians are telling insulting
> ethnic jokes about each other!

Don't worry. There's hardly any danger the conflict will escalate
unless the Norwegians get involved: they can be _really_ funny! :)
Nice translations by the way, Dwight. You are wasting your talent!

As it was a casual remark from me that started off this 'debate', I'll
just confirm that the 1932 Mickey sunday _wasn't_ in the Danish edition
but two other, much later ones, were. I wish we hadn't only got a new
Swedish soccer coach recently, but also a Swedish editor of the weekly.

Just this morning I learned that the next issue will contain no less
but "Blaggard Castle" as a supplementary issue. So please disregard
my critical comments of Danish editorial policy - they really are
trying to improve on past sins.

-- Ole 'RoC' Reichstein Nielsen <(Email removed)>
"Volvo: Jah! Printz-Paahlson: Jah! Anders And: Fy fan!"

MARCO:
You betcha you life that my dialogue in my Peeweegah story "rhymed". Well,
it didn't rhyme, but it followed the Longfellowian rhythm of 4 (was it?)
lines per stanza and 8 beats per line, with poetic phraseology. And it took
me extra days or weeks of writing that story to make sure all the Peeweegah
dialogue was just right, even though I knew all that work would be useless
until the story was used by Gladstone. (I knew there was an Egmont branch in
the UK, but I knew that they rewrote their dialogue to be very infantile).
So, that's why I am especially distressed that that's the ONE story I've
done that's banned in America. But, no, certainly not so distressed that I'd
turn all the Peeweegahs into Smurfs -- besides, in such a case the dialogue
would be rewritten and there'd be no need of the strange poetry... which
would defeat the whole purpose of wanting the story seen in English! So, we
will sell no "War of the Wendigo" in America before its time.

DWIGHT:
Yes, in case you didn't know it, that was ONE of Disney's creator-credit
policies as given to Bruce Hamilton years ago when he insisted on printing
full credits in the Gladstone comics. They said he could do so, but not ON
the pages where the stories appeared. I guess they figure the simple people
won't read the text pages, so they won't be driven insane by the idea that
Walt Himself Disney didn't write and draw and letter and color the entire
contents of each issue. And I say "one" of the credit policies since I
gather that all such policies depend on who you talk to on which day during
which boss's brief turn at the mini-helm. That's why Gary says it's all some
sort of chaos to know what is allowed or not.

ALL:
Okay, remember some months ago when I asked anyone out there who cared to
help me, to send me ideas for any sort of old $crooge items of no particular
value used in old stories? Not treasures he'd found, but junk that he might
be saving in some old closet? And I used some of those suggestions in the
backgrounds of panels in "The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad"...?
Now I'm hoping people will send me ideas for the background scenes in
another story. This time I'm looking for Duckburg landmarks that you might
see in or from the city, besides, of course, the Money Bin. For instance, my
main choice would be the giant Cornelius Coot statue (I envision one of the
moderate-sized ones wasn't torn down as an aviation hazard). Or Mount
DemonTooth. Or that other needle rock in that story about the mattress
factory. I wouldn't count background gags that Barks put in single panels,
like in (I think) the "Titanic Ant" story, with that "Limpspire State
Building" in panel one (that was too silly). There may not be many other
landmarks... but send me any you can think of.
Also, a question for the Europeans (since my editor is on vacation for 2
weeks)... is Ludwig Von Drake a regular character in the Egmont
(non-Italian) stories?

DWIGHT DECKER
For the most part, people don't care who wrote or drew a particular comic
book story. I've never managed to impress any of my friends with the
knowledge that I knew a particular person who wrote or drew a comic book. In
fact (true story, as Dave Barry would say), I once was in a bookstore with a
girlfriend many years ago and came on a Perry Rhodan book you translated. I
walked the book over to her and showed her your name. "I know the guy who
translated this." She looked at the name, then at me and said, "So."
(Maybe had it been Don Rosa, she would have reacted differently -- but I
haven't met Don yet, so I would have had to stretch the truth some.)

GARY LEACH
A small thing, but I was pleased the size of the print on the spines of the
Uncle $crooge Adventures album was bumped up. Obviously, the books are
thinner and there's not much room to work with, but the bigger size helps.
(Geeze, we sometimes get soooo picky, don't we?)

Can you explain the different cover stocks on your books (or some of them)?
I've noticed in some book stores Gladstones have a sturdier stock (but not
quite the glossy stock most comics have). Is this a test; a request or
requirement by a distributor; or something else I can't think of? I don't
notice them with all titles.

Gary Brown
Bradenton, Fla.

RAUL:

>Do any of you know any other number for Gladstone than the one they
>usually list on their subscription forms. I haven't gotten my Uncle
>$crooge Adventures for quite a while now, and every time I call that
>number, it rings busy.

>(Email removed)
http://www.middlebury.edu/~raul

I don't have another number for them (as a matter of fact, could you email
me the number you have - I couldn't find one to call), but I haven't
received my U$ in a long time either. I'm thinking of not renewing my
subscription and just getting it from the local comic store - I seem to be
able to get there faster that Gladstone can send it. Do you find the same
slow mailing is true for you?

Marcus Chapman
(Email removed)