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Hi!

DON ROSA:
> What German comic store did you see that door-drawing?
It was in Recklinghausen! What was the name of the comicshop again, Mike?

> That cover for the German Christmas album is new and will probably
> only appear on that one publication.
Oh, that's great! (Cause I have it! ;-)

I also found a German album about Donald's 60th birthday and it featured
a drawing by you in the back, where everyone is celebrating Donald's
birthday. Has THAT cover been published anywhere else? I hope not ... cause
I have it! ;-)

> Did you think it was okay for such a jolly Christmas book
Yeah ... I like the cover. Scrooge looking so happy, thinking that he is
being generous for a time. But ... what did the blue nephew get? What
is that thing?
And you're right. It is a great Christmas book! Don't you just love
the quality of it, with the great paper and the wonderful colors?

> a poster for the French PICSOU (which won't appear anywhere else)
Yeah ... I knew that already! But what about the other thing you wanted
to do for Picsou?

HARRY FLUKS:
> I don't know whether the Dutch invented this translation
> theirselves, or they got it from the German version.
I always think that the Dutch are very original and very good with their
translations. Ofcourse, there are a lot of exceptions like the Italian
stories, but that's because the translators have to adapt their dialogues
to the balloons and not vice-versa. The Rosa-stories are usually VERY good
translated and there are lots of self-made jokes in it too, which is great!

Bye!

Arthur de Wolf -- Roosendaal, the Netherlands
email: (Email removed)
homepage: www.pi.net/~wolfman

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Hi!

JONATHAN MARKOFF:
> Boers: If you're there, do you want to show yourselves?
Yeah ... and if you're there, do you want to give me information on
the Disney comics you have in your country? ;-)

KRITON KYRIMIS:
> Why was there a need for a translation for "Hero 300"?
> Is William Van Horn's English so bad?
Only the cover for that story was drawn by Van Horn! The story itself
was drawn by Mau Heymans and written by Evert Geradts. They are both
Dutch so that's why there was a translation needed.

Bye!

Arthur de Wolf -- Roosendaal, the Netherlands
email: (Email removed)
homepage: www.pi.net/~wolfman

--- (Harald Havas) (Email removed)

Sorry about the above post - it was sent by accident.
This is the real thing:

HARRY
>Dutch "jij/u" is a bit different from the German "du/Sie". The Nephews
>say "u" to almost everyone else. Donald says "u" to Scrooge, Scrooge says
>"jij" to Donald and the Nephews.
>I think everyone says "jij" to Gyro. Gyro says "mr. McDuck" or "Uncle
>Scrooge", and says "jij" to Donald.

So what you actually mean is that "jij" is formal AND plural? 'Caus I
cant see Scrooge being formal to his nephews..

>>"eine Billion" - that's 100 billions(!) for you
>Wouldn't that be 1000 billion?

You're right - my mistake...

This concludes my right posting - not a lot of difference, huh?

Harald
--- (Harald Havas) (Email removed)

I haven't seen this myself, but I have been told that the latest mini
series with Indiana Jones by Karl Kesel (published by Dark Horse)
starts with Indy on the ship "Black Pete" looking for an iceberg in
the Arctic Ocean. The captain of the ship is a big mean character
with a wooden leg, and the iceberg contains a (surprise!) frozen
viking ship!

There are also references to Captain Easy, Johnny Hazard, and Terry
and the Pirates, but according to my source none of the letter writers
commenting on the story even mentioned Barks.

ARTHUR:

>It was in Recklinghausen! What was the name of the comicshop again, Mike?

Recklinghausen? Was I ever in a place called that? Wasn't that a suburb of
some big city, like Koeln or such?

>I also found a German album about Donald's 60th birthday and it featured
>a drawing by you in the back, where everyone is celebrating Donald's
>birthday. Has THAT cover been published anywhere else? I hope not ... cause
>I have it! ;-)

Nope. And that was an example of them asking me to do a cover for a "jolly"
album, and then getting my finished cover and I suspect thinking "whew...
this is WEIRD looking"... that's why there seems to be a "cover" at the end
of the album. But they gave me another chance with that Xmas dealie.

>>Yeah ... I like the cover. Scrooge looking so happy, thinking that he is
>being generous for a time. But ... what did the blue nephew get? What
>is that thing?

Oops. I guess that was a bad choice for a worthless gift if you can't tell
what it was. I don't have anything to do with the coloring so I don't know
which they made into a blue nephew, but the gifts were a candle-in-a-bottle,
a fork, and a doorknob. I suspect the doorknob is what you couldn't
identify. It was a GOOD drawing of a loose doorknob, but maybe you've never
seen one except on a door. Still, looks like I should have drawn something
else since everyone else was prolly puzzled if you were.
That was a question I might have posed to the list. I had to think of 3
items that $crooge would give as presents -- they would have to be useless
but not trash. An old tin can would be trash. An old doorknob or a fork
would be potentially useful, but would make a useless Xmas gift.

> And you're right. It is a great Christmas book! Don't you just love
>the quality of it, with the great paper and the wonderful colors?

I don't know. They don't send me copies. Maybe I can find one on my next trip.

>
> > a poster for the French PICSOU (which won't appear anywhere else)
>Yeah ... I knew that already! But what about the other thing you wanted
>to do for Picsou?

We never got around to anything else for the 300th issue, but starting soon
I might have a page of art in each monthly PICSOU... maybe a gag page or a
mini-poster. It will supposedly be art that will appear nowhere else, but
that is not really an enforceable idea since it immediately becomes Disney
property and Disney can sell the use of it to all its other licensees
whether PICSOU wants it to be "exclusive" or not. But we'll see how that
turns out.

PER:
To settle whether Grandma Duck's first name, Elvira, appeared in
WDC&S 121 or 122, I've got the issues beside me here for an investigation.
And...
The name is given as "Elviry" on page 7, panel 2, of WDC&S 121.
(It's of course a nickname for Elvira, just as "Ezry" and "Sairy" in "Old
California" are nicknames for Ezra and Sarah.)
The name is not mentioned in the feature in WDC&S 122, so the
"characters" page on our website can now list 121 with certainty.

David Gerstein

<(Email removed)>

SOEREN:
> I remember a story published in Germany's Micky Maus...
> I think the German title was "Unser (Or Der?) Zoo darf nicht sterben!"
> I guess it was drawn by some Italian?

Our database lists:

81-17 D 5568 7 VR HDL Der Zoo darf nicht sterben
| de : TGDD 144

This means it was published in Micky Maus #17, 1981, and in Die
Tollsten Geschichten #144. The story was drawn by Vicar
(for Egmont in Denmark).

--Harry.

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