Keskustelujen arkisto

Hi!

ALL:
I noticed in that list of members Per sent about a week ago, that this
list has several members of Indonesia, Singapore and South Africa! Could you
please contact me in private email, because I need your help! Thanks in advance!

KRITON:
> Does this mean that his stories are being published in Greece?
Here I go again:
What you should do is take a look at my website and go to the Europe section and
then choose Greece. There you'll see what Disney comics there are currently
available in Greece. (my site is on www.pi.net/~wolfman/disney)
I guess you haven't seen any Greek Disney comics since Geniki Ekotiki
Attikis began publishing! Well, they really have some very high quality Disney
comics. Especially "Komix", which is (in my opinion) one of Europe's best Disney
comics! They often have articles about Don Rosa and Carl Barks. All of Rosa's
stories are printed in "Komix". GEA started publishing in 1988 and Ekdoseis
Aktina started in 1966. These two are still making Disney comics. They each have
several titles.
"Komix" will celebrate its 100th issue next month (october) and if I
remeber well (Michael Scaramagas, of GEA company told me that) they'll start
publishing Don's "Life of Scrooge" from that issue and forward! So I think you
are right on time in starting to buy those Greek Disney comics again!!

Bye!

Arthur

GARY LEACH:

Any idea when us back-woods, country-cousin Norte Americanos will see the
following stories?...
An Eye for Detail
The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad
The Treasure of the Ten Avatar
A Matter of Some Gravity
The Lost Charts of Columbus

We're about 102 pages behind the rest of humanity.

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End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #193
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ARTHUR DE WOLF said:
" One of the most flourishing publications markets is in fact Europe...
Italy's weekly "Topolino" sometimes sells over one million
copies per WEEK, in summer periods. Usually it is less than that, say 600-800
thousand, but it has passed the 1 million mark a few times! "

Well, sorry but it's not exact... Disney publishes 1.000.000 copies in
summer, and about 600.000 in all other weeks, but it does not sell them all!
Yes, Topolino is always one of the most read weekly magazines for boys in
Italy (but you must remember that Disney monopolized the Italian market with
its products - thanks, maybe, also to its financial power - destroying all
other Italian and European characters in Italy; so there is no competition:
it's a little more easy to sell more than others... if there are no others),
and it's true that in Italy we do love Disney characters (even if people
doesn't know that they are not "Disney" characters, but, in truth, Barks
characters, Gottfredson characters, Iwerks characters, Scarpa's,
Cavazzano's, Carpi's and so on), but Topolino now is not so good (really NOT
so good) and Disney sells less and less, it seems...
Obviously Disney will not so easily admit it, because of the advertising
market: if you publish 600.000 copies you can ask some money for a page, but
if you tell me that you sell only half, I would like to pay only half... So.
May be you have to cut half: 300.000 copies are sold, this could be more exact.
Just to make clear. It's always a good number.
But they are no more so able to do a good work (too much "marketing &
merchandising" takes the place of creativity in Italian Disney managers
minds!) and too often they use "little tricks" (like making stories using
the names of VIPs as script writers - a football player, a TV journalist, a
singer - only the name indeed...) to build a "scoop", hoping that people
will buy that issue...
It's so sad for us who love those beautiful characters...
Gianfranco Goria, cartoonist and comics divulger: (Email removed)
president of Anonima Fumetti - Italian cartoonists society: (Email removed)
http://www.alpcom.it/fumetti/

Hi again! A bit more time this weekend, so to answer a couple of threads...

David Gerstein wrote:

Most American Asterix editions are identical to their British
counterparts, but a few are not. Around 1978 (?) certain Asterix stories
were serialized in American Sunday newspaper comics, and got new translations
for those appearances. Until recently, two of the American
albums used those translations instead of the British ones. Recently, a
third album switched to the American translation. It wouldn't be so bad
EXCEPT that the name of every main character besides Asterix and Obelix is
DIFFERENT in these things!>>

I first discovered Asterix while I was an exchange student in London in
1973, at the recommendation of British fan Martin Lock. The books were then
almost unknown in America, and many people say they're better in French, but
I wouldn't know that, having already admitted my complete illiteracy (shared
by all too many Americans) in any language besides English. But the British
translations are fine, unmarred by the overdone political correctness of some
American translators...although at other times they make the same mistake
they try to correct. They're understandably concerned about drugs, so changed
the name of the druid (originally called Panoramix, I believe) from Getafix
to Readymix...yet they also changed another character, a Roman named Caius
Fatuous, to... Ropus Dopus??!!

<<I'd like to introduce a major new character to Mickey's world, but I feel
I need to practice developing a pre-existing character before I can leap out
and try something completely unknown.
So I took Butch, a character who I thought showed a lot of promise in
his handful of 1930-31 appearances, but who never got to be "fully"
developed. I'm trying to take Butch farther than he ever got in his old
stories, and in the process I'm learning some things about character
development.>>

Great job with Butch! Other supporting characters from Mickey's strip I'd
love to see again include Captain Churchmouse, Captain Doberman, and
especially Eega Beeva. Maybe a story where Mickey goes to visit Eega in his
underground society?

Does anyone know anything about a Disney series featuring Donald Duck as
a super-hero? I've heard it mentioned that there is such a series, but
nobody's told me anything more about it. Who were the writers and artists,
and were the stories any good?

Jonathan Markoff wrote:

<<I doubt it's possible at all to make an "accurate" map of Duckburg. Things
are constantly changing there! For example, Donald alone never seems to live
in the same house in any two consecutive stories.>>

Well, people are trying to change that (without going to the ridiculous
extremes of the post-Marvel superheroes, with recurring plotlines and
multi-chapter "epics"...was everyone else as embarrassed by Marvel/DC veteran
Marv Wolfman's "Scrooge's Quest" as I was?). It doesn't hurt to remember what
Donald's house (and his neighbor Jones' house) looks like, after all.

Rich Morrissey

Hi, does anybody know were I can buy foreign Disney comics her in
america.. Will any one send me One? Just asking becuase you guys have
told me they are 1000 times more popular there then here....

Hi, I'm looking for two stories that I've read when I was a kid.
I am pretty sure that both are by C. Barks.

In one of them Scrooge went to the amazon forest I think, and there was
some kind of valuable nut...

In the other there was some sort of musical machine with movable colored
balls that, when put in the right order, would make the machine sing or
say something...

I know these are bad descriptions, but they were great stories and a part
of my childhood. Does somebody know the name of these stories?

Thanks!
Jose Antonio Amaral
Sao Paulo, Brazil
e-mail: (Email removed)

ARTHUR:

Thanks for the information on the Greek "Komix"!

I saw a couple of copies of this comic book a few years ago, and was under
the impression that it had been discontinued. Printing quality was fantastic
(glossy paper, like Gladstone's new WDC&S, but with soft covers). However,
the stories appeared to have been translated from Gladstone's first run,
of which I have a complete set, so I didn't keep up. It appears I should
have stuck a little longer with them.

Thanks again,
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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>Jonathan:
>> How do you pronounce the name Daan Jippes?
>
>(Done Yippuzz?)
>
>This is his Dutch pronunciation. I don't know how he pronounces
>his name himself; he has been living in the USA for years (and I think
>he's still of the American nationality).

Is Daan quite a common Dutch name?