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Hi!

If you're interested in Barks' paintings and you want to see a nice
related page, then take a look at John Garvin's pages on:

www.cyberhighway.net/~jgarvin

Here you can see a lot of John's paintings, as well as a nice article
about his meetings with his big inspirer: Carl Barks. There is also a
page with covers made by John for "The Barks Collector". Enjoy!

(Maybe a link can be made to this page?)

Greetings,

--- Daniel

"Hooray! I'm cured! My mind doesn't hurt anymore!"
The Mad Musician, OG 11 --- Carl Barks

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ARTHUR:
Harry was looking for lost "D.U.C.K."s, and you told him:

>> Uncle Scrooge Adventures 27 (July 1994; Guardians of the Lost Library)
>
>There's no DUCK in here, cuase I can't find it! ;-) It is clearly
>visible on the Aku Ankka comic of the same story, but
>I can't find it on USA27!

You'll confuse folks. I did, indeed, fail to put the dedication onto that
"GotLL" cover. But the cover I think you are referring to was the cover to
that hardback collection of my stories that Helsinki Media published. The
dedication was on that cover, but that was not an AKU ANKKA cover, nor was
that actually a "GotLL" cover -- the cover referred to ALL the stories in
that book, though admittedly the cover theme was the Ducks finding those
stories behind a vault door with the Guardian symbol.
Also, another clarification for us archivists -- that cover was only
reprinted on U$A #27 -- it was originally a European cover (as opposed to
most of my covers you see on Gladstone issues).

Don:

Of course I didn't imply you had swiped anything from Orson
Scott Card's novel "Pastwatch - the Redemption of Christopher Columbus"!
Basically because it's only been a year since it was first published.
So it's another case of the same idea popping up simultaneously in the
minds of inventive writers. Probably sometime around October '92.
If Card hadn't spent too much time playing "Civilization" he might even
have finished his book for the autumn of '95 to coincide with the first
(European) publishing of your tale. Okay?

Card is BTW most known for his award-winning "Ender's Game" books, and
the dialogue for computer games like "Monkey Island II" and "The Dig".
All titles in quotes above come greatly recommended, not least for the
sharp and witty dialogue.

Back on topic: When do you think it's time for more chapters of
Lo$ and LoC (Life of Columbus)? Personally I don't see any reason to
wait two or three years to follow up on a story, unless you need the
change yourself. Hopefully you haven't been tied up on too many anni-
versary stories to have time for your own picks. With Donald, Scrooge
and now HDL, there's still Gyro, Gladstone, the Beagles, and Magica?

You asked about photos of Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro. There's
a photo of Taliaferro from the Duckster-Award ceremony in 1963 (just
about the right vintage), but my version is not very good. But if you
can't find better, I'll find a way to put it on-line somewhere for you.

David:

There was a discussion about how to fit Scarpa's long stories
into American issues, and I support Kriton's suggestion to publish them
sideways, like the Gottfredson strips, since it eliminates the need for
costly and disruptive editing. Also it would be closer to the intended
size of the published art. I've already been into this, and just want to
add that, if possible, it would be great material for Penny Pincher
(which I still haven't seen). Especially if the format of that title
could be changed to half size, with twice the pages, making the book
look less 'cheap' and endure better, than it must do with so few pages.
Yes, it would probably cost a nickle more to produce, but the result
would be so much better, and give the title a more unique profile.
Sort of like the digests, only right this time.

Guido (welcome, and no need for excuses):

So Pat Block is the artist for the next Barks story? Good pick,
if you ask me; his art reminds me much of the 'dark' period of Barks'
style and fits much better for an adventure than Van Horn's loose art.
If it's scheduled for July, it must be pretty much finished by now.
We haven't talked much about Block here, and it is a funny coincidence
that he is another not-quite-young guy, actually the same age as Don.
As I told Kristian, our local hero, he would probably get really good
in some twenty years' time, when he has reached the age and maturity,
that seems so typical for our favorite story-tellers.

Arthur:

February 15.th was William Van Horn's birthday. You didn't get
the invitation? We all wondered if you just didn't like lemonade! :-)

Marco:

Would you please mail me your (physical) address, or can you
pick up a parcel at the little shop on mount Vesuvio?

-- Ole R.O.C. Reichstein Nielsen <(Email removed)>

> By January 1.st, 1997 the figures looked something like this:
> 785 'points': Harry Fluks

So you are saying that sending many small mails is better than

Steve:

> Disney Adventures
> Somehow I started doing these things for the mailing list: comics in Disney
> Adventures volume 7 #6 March 1987 [1997 actually]. Does anyone really care?

I do! If not to the whole mailing list, could you keep sending these to me?
They will be part of the Disney comics Database.

--Harry.

Vidar S.:

>The Strobl version has been printed in Norway:
>Hakkespettenes sirupshoest Walt Disneys Maanedshefte 4/74 (3 pages missing).

Has it been printed in any other norwegian issue or is that the only time?
~Christer