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MIKE POHJOLA:

It seems Don is a great and longtime fan of Asterix. I know a sketch full of
feeling Don had done when Goscinny died. It had been published in The Comics
Journal #38.

And for me, Merlin in the Once and Future Duck is a hommage on Troubadix
(look at the panel with Merlin's second appearance). Don?

Joachim

The latest Bud Plant Illustrated Books Catalog has the
CBL available...#1 & #2 $135 each; #4 $200; #6 $150; #7 $210; #8 $135; #9
$157; #10 $200. That pesky #5 is still the most difficult to find!

DON:
I haven't read the Avatar story yet, but I'm looking
forward to doing so and I wanted to ask you if and how
you documented yourself on the subject of
India and Hinduism etc. It doesn't happen often (enough)
that Indian mythology is used in fiction, although
it can be an inspiring source.

About the knowledge of hydraulics and mechanics in ancient India:
There is probably no real proof of this, but on the other hand,
the Bhagavad Gita, a clasic Vedic scripture on war etc. contains
references to things that seem very much like airplanes, flying
saucers and atomic power! So go figure :)

Avatars, by the way, are reincarnations of Vishnu. The myth goes
that he started out like a fish (making for a mysterious early parallel
to evolution theory) and , in subsequent reincarnations,
became among other things <...err..My memory is vague about this>
a 'higher animal', a farmer, a warrior, a demi-god and finally a godly
being. If I'm not mistaken, there are originally nine avatars so
the title of Dons story is intriguing...

(Some of you are probably wondering: 'Who IS this guy ?' I'll
tell more about me in a follow-up mail. Gotta go now...

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PER:
H> (The threshold of 10 is introduced to have not too many
H> [conflicting] abbreviations in the database.)
> How many creators are there in the Database that are listed with fewer
> stories than that?

In my current version, there are 602 creators. 390 of them have 10 or less
occurrences in the database. I have the impression that the percentage
will remain the same, even if we include more (French, Brazilian)
sources.
If I remember well, you were the one that suggested having a threshold.. 8-)
Anyway, I changed my database program: the name of a creator need not
be one word in order to make a listing of his/her works.

> Currently there are only WWW
> creator pages for the creators with their own abbreviations, but
> that's my fault.

I hope you were using my program for that, making it MY fault. 8-)

H> if the surname has more than one capital, the 1st two capitals are used
> Suggestion: Use the capitals for two *first* names as well (so
> Michael T. Gilbert -> MTG, not MGi).

Are all people using their middle letter in a consistent way? Will we need
"KDR" for Don Rosa? I didn't know the answer, and I thought it was best
to ignore it. But yes, there is the problem of John Blair Moore. (Is Blair
a middle name? Fortunately, he only wrote 3 stories that we know of. 8-)

H> but Ed van Schuijlenburg -> ESc [because lowercase 'v'])
> Why not "EvS" as it is now?

To make the abbreviations look a bit consistent. 2 capitals and a lower
case letter -> that's a creator. I have not seen more clashes (or less)
because of this change. Should I leave the EvS, JvH (and other Dutchmen)?

> Isn't Vicar really VR's studio, and he is personally involved in only
> some of the stories?

I think Vicar most of the time at least pencils the stories that are credited to
him. His style is very recognisable. He may use various inkers, but so
does e.g. Heymans (and Ferioli, apparently).
BTW, I'm not sure Jaime Diaz ever drew anything by himself. Gladstone
usually just lists "Jiame Diaz", meaning his studio.

> Get rid of the special codes for some sets of two
> creators collaborating if you haven't already done so.

Yes, they are gone already (Milton+Jippes etc. were gone long ago, but
now also "Gezellig+Leuk", "Nolan+Beaumont" and "Friewald+Schaeffer"
will go, because we have less than 10 stories by them). In stead, the
abbrevs or full names are listed, separated by commas.

Thanks for your reply, Per!
--Harry.

I'm catching up the digests. I hope this isn't too late.

>I'm in Berlin next week for a conference
>and will look around. (And where can I expect to find "Don Rosa Alben",
>around the Unter den Linden area?)

I don't know about Unter den Linden area, but KaDeWe had good selection of
the albums. They are located at the back of the book department. You'll
have to walk though the whole department if you approach from the other
end.

-- ___
Henri Sivonen / \
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Fax: +358-0-479387 http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/ \__

Arthur quotes Didier:
> "He (the editor of Picsou) first has to know about the existence of the
> story. For this he relies on reports sent by Egmont listing
> all the stories published in Denmark with
> their DANISH code (this is very important to notice since he therefore
> does not know the code that would give him access to the one-parter
> art but only to the multi-parter art!)".

And then asks:
> What did you exactly mean by this last sentence?

What I read from it, the 1-part version has a different code. That code is
not in the Egmont listing, since the version as published in Denmark
was the 3-part version.

But does the 3-part version really have a different code? Could it be that
you simply have to add an 'A' or so to get the code of the 1-part version?
(Any Egmont official who can answer this?)

--Harry.

ALL:
Por que no aceptan el castellano?
Eso es lo que me han comentado que se dice.

OLE:
"of whom I make fun", eh? I guess I'll just have to keep this xerox of
Andelogien to myself then, shall I? ;) Besides, I'm not really new to the list
- I've just been on (a rather long) vacation. :)

As for the Taliaferro strips I might be able to smooth talk Virpi (Tak for
sidst, btw, Virpi) into getting hold of the Finnish versions for me - in fact I
prefer versions in a language totally alien to me rather than German versions
(I'm seriously contemplating getting the original Japanese version of 'Lone
Wolf and Cub'). But that's just my personal opinion. As for my refusal to read
German I can only say that I've had some particulary harrowing experiences in
the past and even though I used to be rather capable at the language I prefer
to let sleeping dogs lie and forget all about it these days. 'Nuff said.

On the general subject of languages I do think it is a pity that something
as polished as "Der Donaldist" is only published in German. The magazine
deserves a much wider audience. At the same time I do realize the significance
of having a fanzine published in ones mother tongue - and I consider myself
very lucky to have a thing like the Danish "Carl Barks & Co."

You are of course right about not having to _read_ Taliaferro. One of the
strips major strengths is that it is universally understandable. This is
something I've only encountered *once* besides the Duck dailies: in the Japanse
manga "Gon" by Mashashi Tanaka. Tanaka's creation is funny, exiting and
emotional - without ever using one single word. Highly recommended.

NILS:
Thanks for the information on the "Duckmobiles" albums. If any of the rest
of you Danes want a copy of this let me know and we can do a collected order.

"Fra dag til dag" WAS published in Denmark. The publisher abandoned the
project after the 4th collection. Unfortunately this is far from the first time
Danish publishers have abandoned very promising projects - sadly it seems to be
the rule rather than the exeption as it has happened to Barney Bear & Benny
Burro, Lone Wolf & Cub, the Taliaferro dailies and Krazy Kat.

Any idea on how/where to get the Norwegian Taliaferro collections? So far I
haven't seen them in any of the Norwegian second-hand or comic shops I've
visited.

--- Jan

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