Keskustelujen arkisto

BYRON:
Glad to see that the danish/british style of humour seems to have rubbed off
on you. :) As for the physical existence of the list-contributors Ole and I
have a theory that very few of the people actually exists in real life. Some of
them are obviously brainchildren of psychologically unstable entities such as
yourself while the rest seem to be by-products of an non optimized piece of AI
programming on a machine by the name of Joshua.

>Say goodnight, Gracie.

"Goodnight Gracie"

NILS:
Jon Gisle's "Donaldismen" did reach Denmark. Published by now extinct
Runepres under the title of "Andelogien". I have a copy of it right here.
Literally speaking, even - I have to make do with xeroxes (as a law-abiding
citizen my moral ethics prohibit me from keeping the local library edition for
myself :)) As for impact I don't know how much it made here in Denmark but as
for my own personal opinion it has to be the best piece of literature ever
written on *any* comic book. Who needs Scott McLoud(sp?) when you can have
this?

--- Jan

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Hi Arthur,
I looked up those stories. There are indeed two earlier stories, the first
(beginning) one about Vikings, drawn by Marco Rota, the second one about the
Stone Age, drawn by (what looks to me like) Vicar. Both stories have 43
pages plus a cover; in Germany, they were published as supplements to the
Micky Maus weeklies 4/1989 and 14/1990, respectively. The story codes are D
9434 (Vikings) and D 9576 (Stone Age).
I also just read your request concerning subscribing to the Donaldist. You
should contact Johnny Grote in Cologne, who handles these things.
Subscription price is - I think - DM 7,- per issue for non-members of
D.O.N.A.L.D. Unfortunately, I don't have Johnny's correct address here (the
street is something like Belvederestrasse in Cologne, but I can't remember
the house number and post code), but I'll let you know, provided noone else
is faster.
Best regards, Frank
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Wuerttembergische Landesbibliothek Frank Fabian
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Abt. Katalogisierung Periodika (KaP) Fax.: 49-711-212 4437
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Hi Arthur,

why didn't Didier gave you the adress? Well, nevertheless, you (and any
other interested) can get our Magazin via

Johnny A. Grote
Belvederestr. 24
50933 Köln
Germany

Fon 0221/9472194

or via e-mail

(Email removed)

Some older issues are availible yet. (For Rosa fans #93 is recommended. BTW:
there you can see Dons Asterix sketch).

CREDITS:

>I think that's also VERY impossible, and credits would use even lesser space
>when you do it 'The French way'!

Or if they do it the Gladstone way!!

Joachim

GARY:
As regards Gladstone doing posters of any of my covers, I thought the deal
was that you just plain COULDN'T because you don't have a license to produce
Disney posters. The only way you can do so under your license is to fold
them up in wads and give them as a free insert in a comic. And the companies
who DO have Disney-poster licenses are busy churning out billions of Aladdin
or Little Mermaid posters, and very likely have never heard of "Uncle
$crooge" and aren't aware of the existance of Disney comic books.

JOACHIM:
Who was the "Merlin" character in my "Once and Future Duck"... Myrdin or
something? (It's been over a year, so I don't recall.) He wasn't intended as
a "tribute" to Troubadix (or as I know him, Cacofonix)... I gave him that
lute because the original "Merlin" was supposed to have been a travelling
bard (as in my story) and he would have therefore played a lute. Having
decided on that, when I showed him playing and showed "Arthur" cringing at
the sound, SURE, I was thinking of Cacofonix.

DINESH MUNGRA:
What a cool name! That sounds Hindu. Do we now have a member in India?! (Be
careful around here! Disney considers Indians to be politically-incorrect,
and you might disappear. Hm? Oh, that's a different sorta Indian? How
confusing.)(And pointless.)
How did I do the research on the "Ten Avatars" story? Research is both
simple and hard. It's simple because the knowledge of the world is right
there in the library -- all you need is the desire to hunt it down and the
ability to love doing it. But the research is hard in the sense that it's
all extra work -- a "gag" story like that "A Matter of Some Gravity" story
requires NO research, yet pays the same per page. So when I want to do the
sort of historical-adventures I prefer, I try to spend as much as one week
on reserach, but then I have no feasible choice than to figure that's all
the extra time I can afford to waste, and go with what I have, complete or
not. So, I enjoy the research and I'm very proud of the many authentic and
interesting facts I turn up, but I know that my research can't ever be
infallible since I can't take the time to be as thorough as I'd like. If I
can't find the info in the library, sometimes I make long-distance calls to
universities. I recall a few years ago when I was trying to research
Aboriginie folklore for that "Dreamtime Duck of the Never Never", I was
quizing a college professor about the absolute authenticity of some tiny
detail in my Australian folklore, and he sorta exasperatedly told me that it
might not be absolutely correct, but only about 7 people in the world would
know it!
As for the 10 Avatars, yes, there were 10. The tenth is the Avatar who is
yet to visit the earth as he will bring the end of the world, and that's
what the story hangs on. In fact, when Gladstone uses it, I'm hoping they'll
use the title :The Tenth Avatar", which sounds less hokey than "The Treasure
of the Ten Avatars".

PIETER:
I don't care much for my art myself... but I'm sorta offended to hear you
say my Ducks look like they're "carved out of wood". As a former
civil-engineer, I prefer to think my Ducks look like they're forged out of
structural steel.
I'm also disturbed to see you getting an early idea that there's a lot of
verbal abuse going on in this List. This is the most polite and respectful
bunch of people I've ever seen in an Internet group, most of which are
populated by zanies and weirdos trying to pick fights. This is a swell bunch
of folks here! Maybe you're just getting some quick shots about very
unpopular policies that people have been steamed about and puzzled about for
years.

Hi everbody! I was wondering how popular disney comic books are in
Europe.. More or less then here in the USA.
Mike Prochaska

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I mentioned putting a new version of the Database on-line last Tuesday, and
today I got EIGHT messages with updates!

Thanks, Anders, Byron, Dave, Dwight, Frank, Gilbert, Lars, and Per!
Naturally, this means the database has a slight delay... I won't be able
to work on it in the weekend, so expect the new Database somewhere
next week!

--Harry.

HARRY FLUKS

> 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?)
>

As Egmont's Official-Giver-Of-The-D-Numbers (it don't pay no extra,
folks), I can categorically state that the non-continued versions of
Rosa's continued stories do NOT have a separate D-number. Maybe they
should, but they don't.

However, if anyone wants to order the non-continued version, I suggest
they just order the story by the one-an-only D-number and add "We'd like
the non-continued version, please." I know, I know -- this is something
so totally loony that no one would have thought of it in a bazillion
years, but sometimes the crazy solutions work.

ARTHUR DE WOLF

> BYRON ERICKSON:
> Isn't there anything you could do about this problem?!?

You mean like offering a blood sacrifice? I guess so, but I usually
reserve those for really serious problems like no cream for my morning
coffee. Any volunteers? Oh, wait--never mind. I just remembered that
David Gerstein is coming for a visit next week.

JAN LUND THOMSEN

> Glad to see that the danish/british style of humour seems to have rubbed off
> on you. :)

Hey! I'll have you know that my alleged humor is 100% AMERICAN!

FABIAN

There are five of those time machine stories (first published in
albums). I give you all the information of them, but I've already asked
Egmont Editor Stefan Printz-Paahlson to do it. Days and days ago. Total
silence since then. Obviously he never does what I tell him, so I'm
taking this opportunity to publically embarrass him.

I suggest all you list contributors yell "SHAME ON YOU, STEFAN" in
unison. Maybe *then* he'll answer.

OLE R. NIELSEN

> In that same book is a Mickey Mystery, "The Lady in Blue" (D 94021) in which
> Mickey gets poisoned and tries to find out by what and who, before he dies(!)
> Reminds me of a favorite 'film noir' of mine, "D.O.A."

--snip--

> Anyway, Dave, I know you've written some of these mysteries, but this isn't
> one of them - the pagecount doesn't match any of yours from that period.
> Would the real perpetrator then give a bow to the audience, please?

The real English title is "The Woman in Lavender" (obviously a color
unheard of in Denmark since the Danish translation of the title is "The
Woman In Blue"), and the author is Bob Langhans.

HOT NEWS!

I just got back from a visit to Ehapa (Egmont's German publisher) in
Stuttgart, and we talked about a lot of really cool things you're all
just dying to know about.

Gotta run now,
Byron

A much belated Hi! Howawya! to Todd Klein. You posted to me a while back, I
flatly glossed over it. I shall now have John Clark pelt me with half-empty
Rapidograph ink cartidges at five paces.

HARRY:
Peeweegahs looking alike was not the issue on this art; what Disney had the
fundamental problem with was that there were any Peeweegahs at all.

DON:
Licenses are negotiable. What I cite are the two factors that kill the idea
of a poster of your original US #300 cover art before we even get to the
licensing aspect of it. After all, we could do a poster as a premium, a
giveaway, under the sort of arrangement we have to do the trading cards in
the albums. What still stands in the way is (#1) Disney's approval, and
(#2) justifying it in terms of the marketplace. None of which changes the
fact that it is a dirty shame we can't do it.