Hiya friends:
After being away for almost a year, I am returning to the mailing list
(please note my new email address; it is no longer (Email removed) It is
now (Email removed)). The highlight of the past year for me -- at least
in the Disney Comics realm -- was seeing Don Rosa again at the opening night
of his exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, which, sadly, I
believe closes this week.
Hopefully, others in the group were able to see the exhibit and have
described it already; I'll check the archives. But it was terrific to see
Rosa originals hanging on a wall where they belong. Anyway, I just wanted to
say hi, wish you all a happy new year, and say how much I look forward to
reading your comments here.
-- Wes Andersen
"But Mickey, It's SUICIDE! We'll be KILLED! How'll we land without wheels?"
-- Captain Doberman
Author
Topic: 199701
(301 messages)
Wandersen2
Returning to the list
Message 1 -
1997-01-01 at 00:25:09
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #289
Message 2 -
1997-01-01 at 00:25:57
Will I have the first message in volume 97 #1? Or the last in V96 #290?
Well, Happy New Year, one way or t'other.
VILLE:
THANK you for answering the question about Chang and Eng! I decided that
showing them joined at the chest would cause someone to censor the depiction
as suggestive of something else altogether(!). Disney surely would have (and
still might) when it gets to a Gladstone reprinting.) But you didn't know
the elephant with the "J" initial was Barnum's Jumbo? I would have thought
Jumbo was much more famous than Chang & Eng.
Also, did some European here say he didn't know who P.T.Barnum was? I would
have thought that the Ringling Bros. - Barnum and Bailey Circus tours Europe
even more than the USA these days. But maybe Barnum's name is buried too
deeply in there for easy recognition.
MARK:
Who the heck is Lester Lightbulb?
Well, Happy New Year, one way or t'other.
VILLE:
THANK you for answering the question about Chang and Eng! I decided that
showing them joined at the chest would cause someone to censor the depiction
as suggestive of something else altogether(!). Disney surely would have (and
still might) when it gets to a Gladstone reprinting.) But you didn't know
the elephant with the "J" initial was Barnum's Jumbo? I would have thought
Jumbo was much more famous than Chang & Eng.
Also, did some European here say he didn't know who P.T.Barnum was? I would
have thought that the Ringling Bros. - Barnum and Bailey Circus tours Europe
even more than the USA these days. But maybe Barnum's name is buried too
deeply in there for easy recognition.
MARK:
Who the heck is Lester Lightbulb?
Arthur De Wolf
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Message 3 -
1997-01-01 at 02:47:59
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* * * It's 1997!!! * *
* * * *
* * HAPPY NEW YEAR * *
* * * * * *
* * * *
* * * *
* * * *
* These greetings were brought to you by Arthur de Wolf
* (And I made all the graphics in this email myself!)
(Impressive, he?)
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
* * * It's 1997!!! * *
* * * *
* * HAPPY NEW YEAR * *
* * * * * *
* * * *
* * * *
* * * *
* These greetings were brought to you by Arthur de Wolf
* (And I made all the graphics in this email myself!)
(Impressive, he?)
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Leinonen Jussi
VAST:Disney comics Digest V96 #289
Message 4 -
1997-01-01 at 13:02:27
unsubscribe Jussi Leinonen
James E. Smith III
Disney comics Digest V96 #272
Message 5 -
1997-01-01 at 20:49:55
Dear DON:
Recently, I've been listening to some Jack Benny audiotapes. Listening
to one of radio's tightest misers made me think of our beloved Scrooge.
In your life of Scrooge, did you ever consider having the two "meet"?
Perhaps Scrooge gave Benny some lessons on saving money. That would have
been great. Imagine two of the greatest misers in history meeting each
other face to face (outside of Dicken's Scrooge, of course). Hey, I know
I'm being silly, but the idea just struck me.
James Smith III
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End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #290
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Recently, I've been listening to some Jack Benny audiotapes. Listening
to one of radio's tightest misers made me think of our beloved Scrooge.
In your life of Scrooge, did you ever consider having the two "meet"?
Perhaps Scrooge gave Benny some lessons on saving money. That would have
been great. Imagine two of the greatest misers in history meeting each
other face to face (outside of Dicken's Scrooge, of course). Hey, I know
I'm being silly, but the idea just struck me.
James Smith III
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End of Disney comics Digest V96 Issue #290
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Shaun M. Knowler
?
Message 6 -
1997-01-02 at 19:59:48
ANY EDITORS (Most likely Byron) OR ANYBODY ELSE THAT MIGHT KNOW:
When I was a kid, reading Duck comics, I couldn't for the life of me
understand why Donald's jacket and HD&L's shirts were inked black. Later
I learned that it was because it was to add contrast to the B&W newspaper
strips. Today, in the comics, their clothing is still inked in black, and
I was wondering if there's any kind of official/unofficial "rule" or
"policy" that says their clothes have to be inked in? Or is it just a
well-favored tradition?
Happy 1997...
-Shaun
When I was a kid, reading Duck comics, I couldn't for the life of me
understand why Donald's jacket and HD&L's shirts were inked black. Later
I learned that it was because it was to add contrast to the B&W newspaper
strips. Today, in the comics, their clothing is still inked in black, and
I was wondering if there's any kind of official/unofficial "rule" or
"policy" that says their clothes have to be inked in? Or is it just a
well-favored tradition?
Happy 1997...
-Shaun
Per Starback
[postmaster@bluemountain.com: Animated greeting card arrived!]
Message 7 -
1997-01-02 at 21:28:52
Here's a Christmas card to the list that was sent earlier. For
several reasons only list members can post to the list, so it got
stuck, but I'll forward this anyway -- after all, it is (was)
Christmas! :-)
(I let Gyro's/Scrooge's message through, though none of them
are members of the list.)
[This is also one reason not to crosspost between this mailing list
and any other, such as the recent crossposting regarding Gyro's
helper. Members of the other mailing list who aren't members of this
one might reply and then try to send a reply to both lists.]
------- Start of forwarded message -------
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 00:59:06 +0100
From: "HTML User http://www.bluemountain.com "<(Email removed)>
To: <(Email removed)>
Subject: Animated greeting card arrived!
Guess what!! Someone has sent you an animated electronic greeting card.
You can pick up your personal greeting card by connecting to the following Web address:
http://www.bluemountain.com/mailbox353/strindbe43080270.html
_______________________________________________________________________
You can CONNECT THROUGH A BROWSER (such as Netscape 3.0 or IE) to the
WEB (World Wide Web) and simply copy and paste the exact
WEB address above into
the "Location" or "Address" space in your BROWSER
This service is FREE! :) HAVE a good day and have fun!
_______________________________________________________________________
Accessing your card indicates your agreement with our Website Rules
posted at the bottom of the following Web location: (You're welcome to send a
free card to someone at this location) http://www.bluemountain.com
------- End of forwarded message -------
several reasons only list members can post to the list, so it got
stuck, but I'll forward this anyway -- after all, it is (was)
Christmas! :-)
(I let Gyro's/Scrooge's message through, though none of them
are members of the list.)
[This is also one reason not to crosspost between this mailing list
and any other, such as the recent crossposting regarding Gyro's
helper. Members of the other mailing list who aren't members of this
one might reply and then try to send a reply to both lists.]
------- Start of forwarded message -------
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 00:59:06 +0100
From: "HTML User http://www.bluemountain.com "<(Email removed)>
To: <(Email removed)>
Subject: Animated greeting card arrived!
Guess what!! Someone has sent you an animated electronic greeting card.
You can pick up your personal greeting card by connecting to the following Web address:
http://www.bluemountain.com/mailbox353/strindbe43080270.html
_______________________________________________________________________
You can CONNECT THROUGH A BROWSER (such as Netscape 3.0 or IE) to the
WEB (World Wide Web) and simply copy and paste the exact
WEB address above into
the "Location" or "Address" space in your BROWSER
This service is FREE! :) HAVE a good day and have fun!
_______________________________________________________________________
Accessing your card indicates your agreement with our Website Rules
posted at the bottom of the following Web location: (You're welcome to send a
free card to someone at this location) http://www.bluemountain.com
------- End of forwarded message -------
Carsten Pedersen
Snow White + 7
Message 8 -
1997-01-02 at 23:47:52
Hey
I've just jointed this list, and I can see, that what it needs is a fine
old-fashion question.
I have just found an interesting "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" book. It
is a 9-1/2x13" hardcover book with the subtitles
"An Authorized Book of the Walt Disney Film" and "Illustrated with original
drawings from the Walt Disney Picture". The book
is printed in London and published by Collins. No further informations are
available inside or outside the book, - no informations
about year or edition.
My guess is, that it is from around the late 30' or early 40'. I believe,
that I have, many years ago, seen a similar book from
the film "Fantasia", but I am not sure.
If anyone have some informations about this book or series of books, I
would be very interested.
Carsten
I've just jointed this list, and I can see, that what it needs is a fine
old-fashion question.
I have just found an interesting "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" book. It
is a 9-1/2x13" hardcover book with the subtitles
"An Authorized Book of the Walt Disney Film" and "Illustrated with original
drawings from the Walt Disney Picture". The book
is printed in London and published by Collins. No further informations are
available inside or outside the book, - no informations
about year or edition.
My guess is, that it is from around the late 30' or early 40'. I believe,
that I have, many years ago, seen a similar book from
the film "Fantasia", but I am not sure.
If anyone have some informations about this book or series of books, I
would be very interested.
Carsten
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V96 #290
Message 9 -
1997-01-03 at 06:28:18
I'd like to mention that I received a package from (I assume) Pieter van
Cleef at GP which contained the new third Dutch "Lo$" album and the #11 & 12
DONALD DUCK monthly which also contained some of my stories. The album
looked nice, the story in #11 looked nice... but the story in #12 was my
"Last Sled to Dawson" which somehow looked VERY nice. It had some *special*
quality about it, and it took me a few moments to realize what that was. It
was simply that the album and the #11 utilized the Egmont coloring since
those were reprints of stories I'd done for Egmont in the past few years and
GP was able to simply order the nice-but-uninspired Egmont coloring films
with the art images. But since "Last Sled" was an old Gladstone story, GP
had to color it themselves, and it was beautiful! Every single panel had
some sort of half-tone or fancy lil' color gradation, and the whole job had
a realistic muted effect -- not the garish bright colors that have plagued
comics, especially American, for the past 10 years. What a cryin' shame GP
doesn't do ALL of its own coloring!!! What an excellent job!
Cleef at GP which contained the new third Dutch "Lo$" album and the #11 & 12
DONALD DUCK monthly which also contained some of my stories. The album
looked nice, the story in #11 looked nice... but the story in #12 was my
"Last Sled to Dawson" which somehow looked VERY nice. It had some *special*
quality about it, and it took me a few moments to realize what that was. It
was simply that the album and the #11 utilized the Egmont coloring since
those were reprints of stories I'd done for Egmont in the past few years and
GP was able to simply order the nice-but-uninspired Egmont coloring films
with the art images. But since "Last Sled" was an old Gladstone story, GP
had to color it themselves, and it was beautiful! Every single panel had
some sort of half-tone or fancy lil' color gradation, and the whole job had
a realistic muted effect -- not the garish bright colors that have plagued
comics, especially American, for the past 10 years. What a cryin' shame GP
doesn't do ALL of its own coloring!!! What an excellent job!
Harry Fluks
WWW; photograph
Message 10 -
1997-01-03 at 21:06:19
PER:
> From: (Email removed): Animated greeting card arrived!
> I'll forward this anyway -- after all, it is (was) Christmas! :-)
It would have been more appropriate if the message came from
BEARmountain.com! 8-)
> This is also one reason not to crosspost between this mailing list
> and any other, such as the recent crossposting regarding Gyro's
> helper.
Sorry. I didn't realise that when I posted the request.
ALL:
If you want to see what I look like: a photograph of me is on
http://www.pi.net/~fluks4/introduc.htm
You'll also find some other stuff there, like my "introducktion", information
about various Barks stories, and a list of countries that *produced* Disney
comics.
(PER: this used to be the file "story-codes". I saw you copied some
information from that file to the Disney-comics website. I'd like to know how
much information now overlaps. Then we can decide which files can be removed.)
--Harry.
http://www.pi.net/~fluks4/disney.htm
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End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #1
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> From: (Email removed): Animated greeting card arrived!
> I'll forward this anyway -- after all, it is (was) Christmas! :-)
It would have been more appropriate if the message came from
BEARmountain.com! 8-)
> This is also one reason not to crosspost between this mailing list
> and any other, such as the recent crossposting regarding Gyro's
> helper.
Sorry. I didn't realise that when I posted the request.
ALL:
If you want to see what I look like: a photograph of me is on
http://www.pi.net/~fluks4/introduc.htm
You'll also find some other stuff there, like my "introducktion", information
about various Barks stories, and a list of countries that *produced* Disney
comics.
(PER: this used to be the file "story-codes". I saw you copied some
information from that file to the Disney-comics website. I'd like to know how
much information now overlaps. Then we can decide which files can be removed.)
--Harry.
http://www.pi.net/~fluks4/disney.htm
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #1
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Arthur De Wolf
Famous?!? Me?!?!?
Message 11 -
1997-01-03 at 23:40:02
Hi!
I'M FAMOUS:
Wow! First I have my letter published in WDC&S, then I am able
to write a long article for this American magazine about European Disney
comics, THEN Pieter van Cleef says that he likes the stories I sent him
VERY much and that Michel Nadorp has complimented me on one of them
and NOW my name is even mentioned in a Greek Disney comic! The only
thing I need now is a fan-club and everything is complete! In fact, everyone
who wants a photo of me with a signature can write, fax, email or phone
on the addresses at the end of my message! My agents will try to handle
your requests as soon as possible! ;-)
Just kidding, but this article in that Greek magazine is just
amazing! Kriton just sent me an English translation of the article in
"Komix #103", but I'm so proud of it that I will show something here! :-D
"The one-hundredth anniversary issue of _Comics_ evoked various
flattering comments that, in the form of letters and electronic messages
through the Internet have not stopped arriving to our offices! It is
not, of course, possible to publish all the, admittedly very pleasant and
interesting, messages that you sent us. We will, however, try to answer to
most of them. Meanwhile, as you may have observed while thumbing through
the first issue of _Comics_ for 1997, the letters column has expanded to
two pages, to host the Famous Congratulations of our readers and _Comics_
friends, Don Rosa and Arthur de Wolf. The famous artist of the epic story
*the*Life*and*Times*of*Scrooge*McDuck* is, more or less, known to all
readers. However, for the Dutch Arthur de Wolf we must say that he is the
man who has dedicated himself to recording in the electronic pages of the
Internet, all the editions of Disney comics from all over the world and, of
course, _Comics_!" (Translated by "Kriton Kyrimis-Translations Inc"; for
all your translations)
Hahaha ... FAMOUS congratulations of Don Rosa and ME?!?!?!? Me?
Famous? Hahaha! This is great! I am the man, who dedicated myself to
recording etcetera, etcetera. I sure like it, but isn't it a 'LITTLE'
exaggerated?!?!
But ... it goes on ... and not so well, unfortunately:
"You can find Arthur's Internet pages in the electronic address
tarback/disney-comics/publishing-list.com, and himself at the e-mail address
(Email removed)!" (Translated by "Kriton Kyrimis-Translations Inc"; for
all your translations)
Boy, did they get THAT wrong. The url looks NOTHING like the correct
one, which is ofcourse, as we all know: "www.pi.net/~wolfman". But my
email-address is also wrong ((Email removed)), so people won't be able to
ask me for the correct url. Damn! But on the other hand, it is kind of
fun, cause when I send them a note to correct this, they'll have to print my
name and addresses AGAIN in the next issue, to correct it! :-D
Kriton, could you PLEEEEEAAASSEEE send me a copy of that "Komix #103"?
It'll be fun to see my name in between all those Greek letters! :-D
I'll send you the remaining Perwillaby Stories and some other goodies in
return, okay? Thanks a lot in advance!
DON ROSA:
"But the story in #12 was my "Last Sled to Dawson" which somehow
looked VERY nice."
You're DEFINETELY right! The coloring in #12 is GREAT! I've never
seen anything like it, in Dutch Disney comics. Just look at the beautifully
colored splash-panel on page 18! Wow! Unbelievable! That sure proofs that
GP likes your stories more and more. I REALLY hope they're going to
publish this story in an "Oom Dagobert"-album, after the "Life of Scrooge"
is completed. These colors will probably even look MORE amazing in an
album, don't you think?
They did so much effort in making #12 look best, that they
accidentely switched the covers of #13 of 1996 and #1 of 1997! ;-) Naaahh,
that's not true! It's not because of the effort put into #12, but it
was a stupid mistake of the Italian company in Italy, that prints them!
But it is kind of fun, to see a cover that has completely NOTHING to do
with the story inside. Haha! (Just kidding, Pieter! ;-)
You said that you also received the third album of your "Life
of Scrooge" in Dutch? Have you noticed the awkward greyish border around
the cover, compared to the yellow one on the first two albums? That's
also a misprint, cause the printer accidentely left out the yellow-color on
the entire cover! Terrible, he?
> But since "Last Sled" was an old Gladstone story, GP had to color it
> themselves, and it was beautiful.
I believe that GP had the story specially colored by a company in France!
Isn't that true, Pieter?
PIETER VAN CLEEF:
Would GP be capable of coloring stories like that
beautiful themselves?
WES ANDERSON:
Welcome back!! I thought you had left this mailing list because
you didn't like the discussing anymore? What did you decide to come back?
I'll never forget that you were the one who told me of this
mailing list, two years ago! You're the reason that all the readers of this
mailing list now have to read this long and annoying letter of me! ;-)
Bye!
Arthur de Wolf
The official Arthur de Wolf FANCLUB can be found at:
www.arthur-de-wolf.com
Join the Arthur de Wolf MAILING LIST by sending an email to:
(Email removed)
Get your own signed photograph of Arthur de Wolf, the official
Arthur de Wolf baseballcap and/or Arthur de Wolf-stickers by
contacting: phone: 1-800-313-ADW
fax: 1-800-314-ADW
email: (Email removed)
mail: The Arthur de Wolf-fanclub
Jadedijk 52
4706 KN Roosendaal
The Netherlands
I'M FAMOUS:
Wow! First I have my letter published in WDC&S, then I am able
to write a long article for this American magazine about European Disney
comics, THEN Pieter van Cleef says that he likes the stories I sent him
VERY much and that Michel Nadorp has complimented me on one of them
and NOW my name is even mentioned in a Greek Disney comic! The only
thing I need now is a fan-club and everything is complete! In fact, everyone
who wants a photo of me with a signature can write, fax, email or phone
on the addresses at the end of my message! My agents will try to handle
your requests as soon as possible! ;-)
Just kidding, but this article in that Greek magazine is just
amazing! Kriton just sent me an English translation of the article in
"Komix #103", but I'm so proud of it that I will show something here! :-D
"The one-hundredth anniversary issue of _Comics_ evoked various
flattering comments that, in the form of letters and electronic messages
through the Internet have not stopped arriving to our offices! It is
not, of course, possible to publish all the, admittedly very pleasant and
interesting, messages that you sent us. We will, however, try to answer to
most of them. Meanwhile, as you may have observed while thumbing through
the first issue of _Comics_ for 1997, the letters column has expanded to
two pages, to host the Famous Congratulations of our readers and _Comics_
friends, Don Rosa and Arthur de Wolf. The famous artist of the epic story
*the*Life*and*Times*of*Scrooge*McDuck* is, more or less, known to all
readers. However, for the Dutch Arthur de Wolf we must say that he is the
man who has dedicated himself to recording in the electronic pages of the
Internet, all the editions of Disney comics from all over the world and, of
course, _Comics_!" (Translated by "Kriton Kyrimis-Translations Inc"; for
all your translations)
Hahaha ... FAMOUS congratulations of Don Rosa and ME?!?!?!? Me?
Famous? Hahaha! This is great! I am the man, who dedicated myself to
recording etcetera, etcetera. I sure like it, but isn't it a 'LITTLE'
exaggerated?!?!
But ... it goes on ... and not so well, unfortunately:
"You can find Arthur's Internet pages in the electronic address
tarback/disney-comics/publishing-list.com, and himself at the e-mail address
(Email removed)!" (Translated by "Kriton Kyrimis-Translations Inc"; for
all your translations)
Boy, did they get THAT wrong. The url looks NOTHING like the correct
one, which is ofcourse, as we all know: "www.pi.net/~wolfman". But my
email-address is also wrong ((Email removed)), so people won't be able to
ask me for the correct url. Damn! But on the other hand, it is kind of
fun, cause when I send them a note to correct this, they'll have to print my
name and addresses AGAIN in the next issue, to correct it! :-D
Kriton, could you PLEEEEEAAASSEEE send me a copy of that "Komix #103"?
It'll be fun to see my name in between all those Greek letters! :-D
I'll send you the remaining Perwillaby Stories and some other goodies in
return, okay? Thanks a lot in advance!
DON ROSA:
"But the story in #12 was my "Last Sled to Dawson" which somehow
looked VERY nice."
You're DEFINETELY right! The coloring in #12 is GREAT! I've never
seen anything like it, in Dutch Disney comics. Just look at the beautifully
colored splash-panel on page 18! Wow! Unbelievable! That sure proofs that
GP likes your stories more and more. I REALLY hope they're going to
publish this story in an "Oom Dagobert"-album, after the "Life of Scrooge"
is completed. These colors will probably even look MORE amazing in an
album, don't you think?
They did so much effort in making #12 look best, that they
accidentely switched the covers of #13 of 1996 and #1 of 1997! ;-) Naaahh,
that's not true! It's not because of the effort put into #12, but it
was a stupid mistake of the Italian company in Italy, that prints them!
But it is kind of fun, to see a cover that has completely NOTHING to do
with the story inside. Haha! (Just kidding, Pieter! ;-)
You said that you also received the third album of your "Life
of Scrooge" in Dutch? Have you noticed the awkward greyish border around
the cover, compared to the yellow one on the first two albums? That's
also a misprint, cause the printer accidentely left out the yellow-color on
the entire cover! Terrible, he?
> But since "Last Sled" was an old Gladstone story, GP had to color it
> themselves, and it was beautiful.
I believe that GP had the story specially colored by a company in France!
Isn't that true, Pieter?
PIETER VAN CLEEF:
Would GP be capable of coloring stories like that
beautiful themselves?
WES ANDERSON:
Welcome back!! I thought you had left this mailing list because
you didn't like the discussing anymore? What did you decide to come back?
I'll never forget that you were the one who told me of this
mailing list, two years ago! You're the reason that all the readers of this
mailing list now have to read this long and annoying letter of me! ;-)
Bye!
Arthur de Wolf
The official Arthur de Wolf FANCLUB can be found at:
www.arthur-de-wolf.com
Join the Arthur de Wolf MAILING LIST by sending an email to:
(Email removed)
Get your own signed photograph of Arthur de Wolf, the official
Arthur de Wolf baseballcap and/or Arthur de Wolf-stickers by
contacting: phone: 1-800-313-ADW
fax: 1-800-314-ADW
email: (Email removed)
mail: The Arthur de Wolf-fanclub
Jadedijk 52
4706 KN Roosendaal
The Netherlands
Cristian Lucas
Wrong address
Message 12 -
1997-01-04 at 15:38:53
Hi!
> my email-address is also wrong ((Email removed))
Ok, now hurry! Go open an account as published: (Email removed)!! :)
> albums? That's also a misprint, cause the printer accidentely left
> out the yellow-color on the entire cover! Terrible, he?
Agh! And the ducks' beaks? They must look kind of grey too...
> Get your own signed photograph of Arthur de Wolf, the official
> Arthur de Wolf baseballcap and/or Arthur de Wolf-stickers by
Rush me 20 of each! :^)
# Cristian Lucas
# From Buenos Aires, Argentina
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> my email-address is also wrong ((Email removed))
Ok, now hurry! Go open an account as published: (Email removed)!! :)
> albums? That's also a misprint, cause the printer accidentely left
> out the yellow-color on the entire cover! Terrible, he?
Agh! And the ducks' beaks? They must look kind of grey too...
> Get your own signed photograph of Arthur de Wolf, the official
> Arthur de Wolf baseballcap and/or Arthur de Wolf-stickers by
Rush me 20 of each! :^)
# Cristian Lucas
# From Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Marco Barlotti
Egyptian Disney Comics
Message 13 -
1997-01-05 at 17:39:57
Hello everybody!
I'm back from a short vacation visiting the "Colossus of Nile". I'll
answer in due times the digests which have been piling up in these ten days;
but right now I am writing to wish all of you a happy new year, and to
report about the two Disney Comics I found in Egypt.
(By the way, I have a couple of spare copies of these. Any collector
interested? Arthur?).
One of the two comics (issue # 1863 of <Mikey>) is "Gladstone format" and
has one-pagers from France's "Journal de Mickey", an H-coded 2-pager and two
longer stories from Egmont. Content: FJM 96406G (a Disney Baby one-pager);
FJM 96005D (this one is by an Italian artist, Gian Piero Ubezio!); D 93414
(14 pages); D 92276 (one page); H 87146 (2 pages); D 94110 (10 pages); FJM
95349 G (one page).
The other comic book (issue # 246 of <Mickey Guaib>) is very small (11.5 x
13.5 cm.) and has "classic" US stories: Barks' ten-pager "Knights of the
flying sleds" from WDCS 233 (February 1960); another Barks' ten-pager I
couldn't trace; a story (drawn by Kay Wright?) featuring Emil Eagle and a
sun-powered car; a Mickey Mouse story by Bill Wright and a longer Duck story
drawn by Tony Strobl. All stories seem to date frome the late 50's to the
early 60's.
Peculiar features: The small comic book is constructed with a cut-and-paste
technique, so the panels are re-modeled to fit both the "almost square"
format AND the right-to-left reading attitude; while the bigger one is
obtaind simply by REVERSING (as in a mirror) the original pages. Result: all
characters are LEFT-HANDED in the larger comic book, while they aren't in
the small one!
So that's all for now. Best wishes again,
Marco
I'm back from a short vacation visiting the "Colossus of Nile". I'll
answer in due times the digests which have been piling up in these ten days;
but right now I am writing to wish all of you a happy new year, and to
report about the two Disney Comics I found in Egypt.
(By the way, I have a couple of spare copies of these. Any collector
interested? Arthur?).
One of the two comics (issue # 1863 of <Mikey>) is "Gladstone format" and
has one-pagers from France's "Journal de Mickey", an H-coded 2-pager and two
longer stories from Egmont. Content: FJM 96406G (a Disney Baby one-pager);
FJM 96005D (this one is by an Italian artist, Gian Piero Ubezio!); D 93414
(14 pages); D 92276 (one page); H 87146 (2 pages); D 94110 (10 pages); FJM
95349 G (one page).
The other comic book (issue # 246 of <Mickey Guaib>) is very small (11.5 x
13.5 cm.) and has "classic" US stories: Barks' ten-pager "Knights of the
flying sleds" from WDCS 233 (February 1960); another Barks' ten-pager I
couldn't trace; a story (drawn by Kay Wright?) featuring Emil Eagle and a
sun-powered car; a Mickey Mouse story by Bill Wright and a longer Duck story
drawn by Tony Strobl. All stories seem to date frome the late 50's to the
early 60's.
Peculiar features: The small comic book is constructed with a cut-and-paste
technique, so the panels are re-modeled to fit both the "almost square"
format AND the right-to-left reading attitude; while the bigger one is
obtaind simply by REVERSING (as in a mirror) the original pages. Result: all
characters are LEFT-HANDED in the larger comic book, while they aren't in
the small one!
So that's all for now. Best wishes again,
Marco
Christer Hanssen
Disney comics Digest V96 #288
Message 14 -
1997-01-05 at 21:13:40
DON ROSA:
>re: "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff" -- sorry that the nephews looked blank to
>you in the splash. They were staring and smiling at $crooge, listening
>eagerly... I don't know how else to draw such an expression. Maybe I made
>their eyeballs too tiny or something so they looked hyp-mo-tized?
I'm no expert in how to express their eager listening, but something with
the eyes of the two on top make this look, but not on the lower one.
>I agree that it's uncharacteristic that $crooge would throw away an alleged
>treasure map, but that was based on Barks' "Lost Pegleg Mine" story that was
>one of the only Barks-references to $crooge's early life that a few readers
>said I should have included in the "Lo$", so I used this new chapter to add
>it. And that story, if you can't refer to it, had $crooge saying that an old
>prospector had once told him of the route to the Lost Pegleg Mine (an actual
>lost mine in southern California), but that $crooge thought the old guy was
>balmy.
OK, that explains.
>I won't tell you where the "D.U.C.K." is in the splash-panel. I haven't seen
>the foreign editions but I sincerely doubt they would have removed it, and
>it's in a very easy to spot place. Look again.
Maybe it is my eyes, but after reading this I once again looked over it and
I can't find it. I would have thought it'd be place either on the chest or
in the book. There are something on the top of the right page in the book
that maybe can be the D.U.C.K., but it looks more like just scrible. There
is a triangle sticker to the chest-top with nothing on it and none of the
money has anything on them. So have I mentioned the place?
BTW: Just right above Scrooge's peek there is something that looks like
"Don" written on the (or as) the coins in the bin. I guess this is just
something that looks like it, but not really is something, since you don't
make self-references in your stories. But it was quite funny to see.
>Yes, of course that gag about Pothole saying that he'd continue one of his
>serialized stories at that point (the same point I continued the actual
>story) was built in. All my 24-page stories are designed as 3-parters or
>1-parters. At least they were then -- from now on they are 2-parters, 12+12,
>and 1-parters. But the added half-page that you won't see except in America
>had a great gag sequence that I'm sorry you'll miss.
Well, I'm subscribing to all Gladstone's so don't be sorry I'll see it. But
will the "to be continued"-gag be in the one-parter?
>Finally, back to that Olympics story, the story opened not at some hotel
>with a silly name like "Whatsthename", but at a mountain resort above
>Duckburg that had appeared in an old Barks story. (I'd hafta dig out my old
>script to check the name.)
The norwegian version says at a hotel in the mountains above Duckburg, so
maybe they goofed or maybe the Barks story resort was, in the norwegian
version, called a hotel and to be consistent they also called yours a hotel?
>re: "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff" -- sorry that the nephews looked blank to
>you in the splash. They were staring and smiling at $crooge, listening
>eagerly... I don't know how else to draw such an expression. Maybe I made
>their eyeballs too tiny or something so they looked hyp-mo-tized?
I'm no expert in how to express their eager listening, but something with
the eyes of the two on top make this look, but not on the lower one.
>I agree that it's uncharacteristic that $crooge would throw away an alleged
>treasure map, but that was based on Barks' "Lost Pegleg Mine" story that was
>one of the only Barks-references to $crooge's early life that a few readers
>said I should have included in the "Lo$", so I used this new chapter to add
>it. And that story, if you can't refer to it, had $crooge saying that an old
>prospector had once told him of the route to the Lost Pegleg Mine (an actual
>lost mine in southern California), but that $crooge thought the old guy was
>balmy.
OK, that explains.
>I won't tell you where the "D.U.C.K." is in the splash-panel. I haven't seen
>the foreign editions but I sincerely doubt they would have removed it, and
>it's in a very easy to spot place. Look again.
Maybe it is my eyes, but after reading this I once again looked over it and
I can't find it. I would have thought it'd be place either on the chest or
in the book. There are something on the top of the right page in the book
that maybe can be the D.U.C.K., but it looks more like just scrible. There
is a triangle sticker to the chest-top with nothing on it and none of the
money has anything on them. So have I mentioned the place?
BTW: Just right above Scrooge's peek there is something that looks like
"Don" written on the (or as) the coins in the bin. I guess this is just
something that looks like it, but not really is something, since you don't
make self-references in your stories. But it was quite funny to see.
>Yes, of course that gag about Pothole saying that he'd continue one of his
>serialized stories at that point (the same point I continued the actual
>story) was built in. All my 24-page stories are designed as 3-parters or
>1-parters. At least they were then -- from now on they are 2-parters, 12+12,
>and 1-parters. But the added half-page that you won't see except in America
>had a great gag sequence that I'm sorry you'll miss.
Well, I'm subscribing to all Gladstone's so don't be sorry I'll see it. But
will the "to be continued"-gag be in the one-parter?
>Finally, back to that Olympics story, the story opened not at some hotel
>with a silly name like "Whatsthename", but at a mountain resort above
>Duckburg that had appeared in an old Barks story. (I'd hafta dig out my old
>script to check the name.)
The norwegian version says at a hotel in the mountains above Duckburg, so
maybe they goofed or maybe the Barks story resort was, in the norwegian
version, called a hotel and to be consistent they also called yours a hotel?
Sschridde
Comics for David
Message 15 -
1997-01-05 at 22:24:00
Sorry to abuse all your bandwidth, but I didn't get any response from David on
recent mails, so I'm sending a short message to him via the list!
DAVID GERSTEIN:
Yesterday I received a parcel with the German "Schatztruhe"-comic you
requested... so I've got both the mentioned and the Micky-Special together and
ready for shipping to you... please mail me your snailmail-address and contact
me about the Uncle $crooge-comics I asked you to keep for me... how to exchange
them, value etc...
Hope to hear from you soon, Soeren Schridde
1st mail:<(Email removed)>
2nd mail in case of problems: <(Email removed)>
recent mails, so I'm sending a short message to him via the list!
DAVID GERSTEIN:
Yesterday I received a parcel with the German "Schatztruhe"-comic you
requested... so I've got both the mentioned and the Micky-Special together and
ready for shipping to you... please mail me your snailmail-address and contact
me about the Uncle $crooge-comics I asked you to keep for me... how to exchange
them, value etc...
Hope to hear from you soon, Soeren Schridde
1st mail:<(Email removed)>
2nd mail in case of problems: <(Email removed)>