Keskustelujen arkisto

I know this is hardly Disney, but since there has been some talk about Asterix
on this list: a new version of the Asterix Annotations file is now available at

http://home.netscape.com/people/thaths/asterix/index.html

Comments, additions, criticisms can be directed to (Email removed)
(David, will you adjust the link on your web page?)

--Harry.
P.S. thanks everyone for the information about iglou and strindberg!

Oops...

One of my other interests is Japanese animation, and I
occasionally write reviews for the magazine Animerica.
In the latest issue (Vol. 5, No. 1), I took part in a
round-robin review thingie, and a little blurb about me
was included. I did not write the blurb; the editor wrote
it based on odd bits and pieces of what she already knew
about me. The relevant portion is this sentence:

"In his day job, he's a freelance editor for Egmont, the
Danish licensee of the Disney Donald Duck franchise."

I really wish she had checked with me first... What I do
for Egmont is very much a part-time, now-and-then sort of
thing (my "day job" is technical writer and editor in the
electronics industry -- telephone switching systems, to
be precise). I suppose "freelance editor" describes my
Egmont function reasonably well, since I'm not on staff
and it's sort of editing, but "translator" is probably
the better word. I'm not an editor in the sense that
Byron and Stefan and Lars are.

This reminds me of how I got to be rather reluctant to wear
my "Disney Comics" polo shirt at comics conventions. During
the glory days of Disney Comics, somebody had the idea of
having shirts and jackets made with the Disney Comics logo
for staffers and freelancers. When I wore it at conventions,
I discovered to my consternation that people tended to assume
I was a staffer at Disney Comics, maybe even Somebody Important
at Disney itself, when all I really was was a name on a Rolodex
card the editors occasionally called for translation work. No,
I _don't_ have a corner office in the main Disney building in
Burbank next to the freezer room where they keep Walt! Just
to avoid that sort of misunderstanding, I stopped wearing the
shirt at cons until after Disney Comics was defunct (and I've
been offered $40 for it by at least one dealer who saw me wearing
it!). The problem now is wearing it on the street; now civilians
assume I work for "Disney Comics," vaguely aware that there are
Disney comics somewhere but unaware of the history of the thing.
To keep things simple, I just tell people I bought the shirt at
the Disney Store. (I got that idea when I unthinkingly wore the
shirt into a Disney Store and the clerk asked in some surprise if
it was something I got at some other Disney Store.)

The bottom line is, I don't want to pretend to be more important
than I am. I'm not officially on any company's staff, either Disney
or any of its licensees, and don't speak for any of them.

--Dwight Decker

SHAUN & MIKE P.:

Then'kyo. You aw veddy kind.

EVERYONE ELSE:
Well, I just saw the level to which I over-write everything. Aaron took 8
lines to explain Cinerama, Dan (who knows more than I do about it) took 6,
and I said essentially the same thing (in my "own way") in a mere 36. Per,
after you take care of "Christy Padgett", maybe I should be next!

Laurent

There was between 1976 and 1980 some Mickey Mouse comics put out by IPC,
roughly twice a year , but I don't remember seeing much in the way of
ducks in them . Some copies of Walt Disneys' Comics and stories did mange
to make it across here , but that IIRC is all we had .

Best Wishes
Colin

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Hi everyone!

Concerning the shirt: If someone with some graphical abilities has an original
idea, I'd be interested! If it was just a kind of logo or tm on it, I don
t know... in addition to all of the work, the transport to the far flung list
members would result in some extra work and costs, so the result shoul be worth
the fuss... But I suppose the comic-writers on the list won't be allowed to make
any drawing of disney characters in order to print it on shirts and distribute
it privately... :( (I'd be glad if I were wrong!)

By the way... is anyone interested in a trade?
I've accidently got a spare copy of the X-Mas HC album German Ehapa brought to
the shops last year... with stories of Rosa, Barks, and others... If anyone got
something foreign to trade, or for more infos on the Ehapa album, please mail me
privately...

Soeren
(Email removed)

ALL:
A short digest for a change, a one I actually bother to reply.
This isn't a reply, though, but writing "(Email removed)"
to the To: prompt is just too much for me some times (now I've written
even more just to lengthen this digest :).

Anyway, the idea about Disney Comics Mailing List t-shirt (a good
idea, btw) brought back to my mind a suggestion I've been about to make for
a looong time. Could we, the list members, combine our abilities and potentia
and create some sort of a Duck story where the ducks visit us trying to
accomplish their goal?
First we'd make a list of all of the amateur and/or professional
writers who're interested in the project and write the story. Then we'd
make the am./pro artists to draw the story (the writer and the artist would
work together, so that for instance the Dutch people could combine their
efforts).
The story I was thinking about is that Donald has, for some reason,
to find the lost pages of Carl Barks' duck stories (which weren't burned
but stored to some obscure place) and he has to travel around the world
after them, and visit the list members (and possibly other people who're
interested) gathering the information about the whereabouts of the pages.
Something like Guardians of the Lost Library. The "Lost Pages" don't
have to be Barks', they could be of Rosa's first, now long lost Duck story,
as well. And I wuz kinda thinking it'd be nice to include Barks, too, in the
story.
So. What do you think? Is this a total sucker idea?

--

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

In a message dated 97-01-25 15:50:39 EST, you write:

<< This isn't dumb -- it's a good statement of the problem with
American comic books these days. Where you get 'em!? Well, let's
start with the basics. As a general rule on this ML, "Disney
Comics" (with the "comics" capitalized) refers to the line of
comic books published by Disney itself in the early '90s.
"Disney comics" (with the "comics" not capitalized) refers
to any comic books published anywhere by anybody featuring
Disney characters. So you could say Disney Comics published
Disney comics. Anyway, Disney Comics is defunct. Disney comics
are currently being published in the US by a company called
Gladstone. Distribution being as spotty as it is, Gladstone's
Disney comics may be hard to find in some areas. You might try
supermarkets and drugstores or even 7-11s, but your best bet is
probably a specialized comics shop. Hope this helps...

Come to think of it...the latest issue of Walt Disney's Comics
& Stories ran a photo of a reader holding a copy of a Disney
Comics comic book as she stood on the Great Wall of China. If
I remember the text that ran with it, she had sent the picture
to Disney apparently unaware that Gladstone had the license back.
Maybe the passing of Disney Comics and the Gladstone restart
hasn't really sunk in on a lot of casual readers outside the
inner circle of fanatics (like us)...?

--Dwight Decker
>>

Thank you for the info. There is a place I could look, now that I think about
it.
Well, thanks again for replying.

According to "The Comics Buyers Guide", a usually reliable source,
today (Sunday, January 26) is Dwight Decker's birthday. Have a
good one! And if everyone on the List wants to find out how old
Dwight really is, it's in the Jan. 31 issue (CBG # 1211). Hope
someone gives you a birthday present consisting of the vintage
comics you want, Dwight.

Wilmer Rivers

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