Jakob Soederbaum wrote [quoting me]:
>> (Bill Grandey is the person who spent Barks' European
>> visit giving away "background material" about
>> Don Rosa for the European press.
>
> Who proved it was him giving information for "War in Duckburg"? I
> thought people could only speculate in whether he did it or not...
When Barks was here a magazine called 'Apu' (very big weekly
magazine in Finland) did an interview with him.
Barks didn't want to comment questions regarding Don Rosa and
his stories like Lo$, but Bill "the manager" Grandey gave them
"background material" (that's a direct translation) that they
then quoted.
I have the interview and if somebody doesn't believe me, I guess
I could send copies.
I can't imagine what kind of people these managers are. Think about it.
You are touring with Barks and (supposedly) promoting
Disney comics. Now, what good it would do to anybody to spread
pathetic lies about some other cartoonist. I can't figure
it out. I sure as hell can never trust or even listen
that kind of people. I know this was a long tome ago and some
issues have been dealt with in American court of law, but I sort
of never can forget what happened.
/Mikko
Author
Topic: 199704
(187 messages)
Mikko Aittola
Grandey's background material
Message 151 -
1997-04-28 at 08:53:22
Marc-Antoine
Disney comics Digest V97 #87
Message 152 -
1997-04-28 at 14:52:55
I'll be using Marc-Antoine instead of Buzzmark from now on, so
sorry to anyone who got confused.
DON ROSA :
Believe it or not, this is my real name! Kudos on that be-autiful
scene of the valley in Return to Xanadu, it's fantastic art.
DANIEL :
If I remember well, Gladstone ( or whoever was publishing Barks'
art at the time) did not allow the publication of snakes. But,
according to greek mag Comix, his were so cute that they got through
into "No such Varmint".
sorry to anyone who got confused.
DON ROSA :
Believe it or not, this is my real name! Kudos on that be-autiful
scene of the valley in Return to Xanadu, it's fantastic art.
DANIEL :
If I remember well, Gladstone ( or whoever was publishing Barks'
art at the time) did not allow the publication of snakes. But,
according to greek mag Comix, his were so cute that they got through
into "No such Varmint".
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V97 #86
Message 153 -
1997-04-28 at 15:46:36
Hello! I just returned from "WonderCon" in Oakland... time for another of my
looooong messages!
MARCO:
As I think someone else was pointing out, the reason I have the motion-lines
in that fashion in the scene discussed is that I had to show what it was
that Flintheart was stuffing back in his purse. The colorist should have not
colored the image of the coin-and-arm, and the translator should not have
messed up the dialogue, otherwise the meaning would have been clear. But
you're right -- it's partly my fault since I need to always have in my mind
the many different ways that the meaning of a scene might be misunderstood
by hurried, overworked or (?) colorists and translators. But it's a big
chore to think of the 10,000 ways everything can be misinterpreted, and I
probably fail often. If I could read all the foreign editions of my work,
there's no telling how horrified I might be by how stuff is sometimes
mis-translated (due often, I'm sure, to my own fault).
The mistake in perspective in the view of Plain Awful in "Lost in the Andes"
-- this is something Barks spoke of in some of those Another Rainbow
interviews in the CBL and elsewhere. But if you look, especially in the
lower parts of the panel, you'll see the perspective begin to twist so that
square items start to become diamond-shaped instead of more square as you
look directly down on them. Or... well, it's hard to describe in words...
take another look.
"BUZZMARK":
Put your actual name on your message and I'll be delighted to answer your
question. Thanks.
SHAUN:
Relax -- there is no censorship being done to "Ten Avatars" or "Vigilante of
Pizen Bluff". "VoPB" was delayed because they forgot to tell me when they
needed the cover for the issue, and "Avatars" was delayed because
editor-in-chief John Clark decided to letter the story himself (!) which
delighted me since John is one of the best letterers of all, and because
this definitely precludes any of the computer-letter problems such as
spoiled "Lost Charts of Columbus". (Todd Klein, as we know, lettered "VoPB".)
JAKOB:
I'm rather certain that Euro-Disneyland could NOT have used the copywrited
term of "Cinerama" unless Disney has bought that name and decided to
eradicate its true meaning.
It's funny that you are just now commenting on that old story of the time I
found the KALLE ANKA #2-10 at that Dallas convention. The same thing
happened in Oakland this past weekend! I found, in a dealer's "junk" box,
over 50 file-copy mint unopened issues of the German MICKY MAUS from around
1955-57. We'll never know how these came to be in America, or where these
file-copies escaped from. But, as with the mint KALLE ANKAs, I could not
tolerate the idea that these issues should lay about in a dealer's junk box
in America... so I bought them and I plan on returning them to Germany when
I visit there this October. I would be very interested in any suggestions
from the German members of this group (of which there unfortunately seem to
be very few) as to what I should do with these issues. Another museum
donation might be okay, but these are not the earliest issues of MM as was
the case with the Swedish KAs, so they are special only because they are 40
years old and in perfect shape, though not of any historic note. I'm not
sure what I'll do with them, but I do know they obviously belong somewhere
in Germany!
JAMES:
...was asking about list-member Barry Branvold. I don't know if this is the
reason you were asking, but Barry owns a comic store in downtown Grand
Forks, ND. And anyone who watches the news knows that means that Barry is
now out of business because Grand Forks suffered a disaster unlike anything
that I can think of in modern times. The entire city of 50,000 people was
evacuated when the dikes and pump stations failed to contain the current
flood of the northern American Great Plains... and when you live in a state
that is just about FLAT, when there's a flood it covers purt' near
everything. The river flooded areas up to 4 miles from its banks with water
up to 7-15 feet deep. Barry's store is under at least 5 feet of water.
What makes this so much worse than a "normal flood" is that the people of
Grand Forks knew high water was coming but were assured that the dikes would
easilly contain it. Barry could have saved his 300,000 comics and most
everything else in his store, and the rest of the city could have similarly
made ready, but everyone went home that day thinking all was safe. Then came
a public order to evacuate the city in 30 minutes! Imagine what that's
like!!! And consider that people have flood insurance, but flood insurance
never covers stuff like small items or store stock or any other portable
items, since insurance companies rightly consider that people always have
plenty of warning of floods and can save most anything that they can carry
to a higher floor or spot. But this is not possible when everyone is told by
the city officials that they have nothing to fear, and then are told to
evacuate in 30 minutes. What a $#%& deal!
Anyway, Barry is one of the absolutely nicest people I have ever met. He was
in Oakland with us -- after all, he and his wife are living with relatives
now and can't get back to his home or store in GF yet, so he doesn't have
much else to do right now. But talking to him, he's just as jolly as ever
and you'd never know he just lost his business and complete stock and may
not be able to collect any insurance. His stock of 300,000 comics certainly
contained thousands of "golden age" Disney and other classics. I'll let you
know how he's doing in the future... obviously it will be a long time before
he can be back on-line with us here since his computer and his phone are
currently underwater and may never be replaced.
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #87
*****************************************
looooong messages!
MARCO:
As I think someone else was pointing out, the reason I have the motion-lines
in that fashion in the scene discussed is that I had to show what it was
that Flintheart was stuffing back in his purse. The colorist should have not
colored the image of the coin-and-arm, and the translator should not have
messed up the dialogue, otherwise the meaning would have been clear. But
you're right -- it's partly my fault since I need to always have in my mind
the many different ways that the meaning of a scene might be misunderstood
by hurried, overworked or (?) colorists and translators. But it's a big
chore to think of the 10,000 ways everything can be misinterpreted, and I
probably fail often. If I could read all the foreign editions of my work,
there's no telling how horrified I might be by how stuff is sometimes
mis-translated (due often, I'm sure, to my own fault).
The mistake in perspective in the view of Plain Awful in "Lost in the Andes"
-- this is something Barks spoke of in some of those Another Rainbow
interviews in the CBL and elsewhere. But if you look, especially in the
lower parts of the panel, you'll see the perspective begin to twist so that
square items start to become diamond-shaped instead of more square as you
look directly down on them. Or... well, it's hard to describe in words...
take another look.
"BUZZMARK":
Put your actual name on your message and I'll be delighted to answer your
question. Thanks.
SHAUN:
Relax -- there is no censorship being done to "Ten Avatars" or "Vigilante of
Pizen Bluff". "VoPB" was delayed because they forgot to tell me when they
needed the cover for the issue, and "Avatars" was delayed because
editor-in-chief John Clark decided to letter the story himself (!) which
delighted me since John is one of the best letterers of all, and because
this definitely precludes any of the computer-letter problems such as
spoiled "Lost Charts of Columbus". (Todd Klein, as we know, lettered "VoPB".)
JAKOB:
I'm rather certain that Euro-Disneyland could NOT have used the copywrited
term of "Cinerama" unless Disney has bought that name and decided to
eradicate its true meaning.
It's funny that you are just now commenting on that old story of the time I
found the KALLE ANKA #2-10 at that Dallas convention. The same thing
happened in Oakland this past weekend! I found, in a dealer's "junk" box,
over 50 file-copy mint unopened issues of the German MICKY MAUS from around
1955-57. We'll never know how these came to be in America, or where these
file-copies escaped from. But, as with the mint KALLE ANKAs, I could not
tolerate the idea that these issues should lay about in a dealer's junk box
in America... so I bought them and I plan on returning them to Germany when
I visit there this October. I would be very interested in any suggestions
from the German members of this group (of which there unfortunately seem to
be very few) as to what I should do with these issues. Another museum
donation might be okay, but these are not the earliest issues of MM as was
the case with the Swedish KAs, so they are special only because they are 40
years old and in perfect shape, though not of any historic note. I'm not
sure what I'll do with them, but I do know they obviously belong somewhere
in Germany!
JAMES:
...was asking about list-member Barry Branvold. I don't know if this is the
reason you were asking, but Barry owns a comic store in downtown Grand
Forks, ND. And anyone who watches the news knows that means that Barry is
now out of business because Grand Forks suffered a disaster unlike anything
that I can think of in modern times. The entire city of 50,000 people was
evacuated when the dikes and pump stations failed to contain the current
flood of the northern American Great Plains... and when you live in a state
that is just about FLAT, when there's a flood it covers purt' near
everything. The river flooded areas up to 4 miles from its banks with water
up to 7-15 feet deep. Barry's store is under at least 5 feet of water.
What makes this so much worse than a "normal flood" is that the people of
Grand Forks knew high water was coming but were assured that the dikes would
easilly contain it. Barry could have saved his 300,000 comics and most
everything else in his store, and the rest of the city could have similarly
made ready, but everyone went home that day thinking all was safe. Then came
a public order to evacuate the city in 30 minutes! Imagine what that's
like!!! And consider that people have flood insurance, but flood insurance
never covers stuff like small items or store stock or any other portable
items, since insurance companies rightly consider that people always have
plenty of warning of floods and can save most anything that they can carry
to a higher floor or spot. But this is not possible when everyone is told by
the city officials that they have nothing to fear, and then are told to
evacuate in 30 minutes. What a $#%& deal!
Anyway, Barry is one of the absolutely nicest people I have ever met. He was
in Oakland with us -- after all, he and his wife are living with relatives
now and can't get back to his home or store in GF yet, so he doesn't have
much else to do right now. But talking to him, he's just as jolly as ever
and you'd never know he just lost his business and complete stock and may
not be able to collect any insurance. His stock of 300,000 comics certainly
contained thousands of "golden age" Disney and other classics. I'll let you
know how he's doing in the future... obviously it will be a long time before
he can be back on-line with us here since his computer and his phone are
currently underwater and may never be replaced.
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #87
*****************************************
Per Starback
Quackmore Duck
Message 154 -
1997-04-28 at 17:02:41
Fredrik Sandstrom quoted me on Quackmore Duck:
> He is the father of Donald Duck and the mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Hrlzm. What about
He is the father of Donald Duck and of Huey, Dewey, and Louie's mother.
Nah, not good. Huey and Dewey aren't uncles of Louie. Next try:
He is the father of Donald Duck and of his sister who is the mother
of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
No, Quackmore isn't the father of his sister! It seems like however I
try to put it I open up a new can of worms. For now I've written
He is the father of Donald Duck and of the mother of Huey, Dewey,
and Louie.
That shouldn't be ambiguous, but it sounds awkward to me.
Please someone tell me how I should phrase it! (Perhaps preferrably
in private mail.)
> He is the father of Donald Duck and the mother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Hrlzm. What about
He is the father of Donald Duck and of Huey, Dewey, and Louie's mother.
Nah, not good. Huey and Dewey aren't uncles of Louie. Next try:
He is the father of Donald Duck and of his sister who is the mother
of Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
No, Quackmore isn't the father of his sister! It seems like however I
try to put it I open up a new can of worms. For now I've written
He is the father of Donald Duck and of the mother of Huey, Dewey,
and Louie.
That shouldn't be ambiguous, but it sounds awkward to me.
Please someone tell me how I should phrase it! (Perhaps preferrably
in private mail.)
Harry Fluks
A fairy tale about managers
Message 155 -
1997-04-28 at 19:14:04
Mikko:
> I can't imagine what kind of people these managers are. Think about it.
> You are touring with Barks and (supposedly) promoting
> Disney comics. Now, what good it would do to anybody to spread
> pathetic lies about some other cartoonist.
Let me try to think like a manager. What would I have done if I
were the manager of Barks?
Barks means big money. Barks is the most famous Duck artist.
But then there's a guy who writes and draws Duck comics, which
are considered very good. People call him The New Barks. To some
amount, he is more famous than Barks himself, because he makes
new stories. He even traveled to Europe several times to promote
his stories. His stories are clearly based on Barks' work, and I am
not getting a penny for it. Even worse: my Barks merchandise is
selling worse because that other guy is doing so good. And he
won't become a member of my agency, for some reason.
So let me think of a strategy. Ah, I've got it. Let's do the following:
1. send Barks to Europe, so those Europeans know the difference
between the *real* Barks and that other "new Barks" guy.
2. have Barks make a new story. That shows Barks is still active,
and so people will buy my Barks merchandise again.
3. have everyone I know spread around that the work of the other
guy stinks. Possibly some people will believe that (aw, that artwork
just looks awful, so that shouldn't be a big problem) and they
will return to buy Barks.
4. let Barks win an award. The other guy won an Eisner award, but
people shouldn't think he is better, so Barks *has* to win something
too. Hm... I think I know a way to win an award...
The above is PURE FICTION, and has not necessarily a connection
to things in real life. I just considered myself a manager with a few
premisses. The rest is consistent reasoning.
Let's just say you should be lucky that *I*'m not the manager of Barks.
--Harry.
> I can't imagine what kind of people these managers are. Think about it.
> You are touring with Barks and (supposedly) promoting
> Disney comics. Now, what good it would do to anybody to spread
> pathetic lies about some other cartoonist.
Let me try to think like a manager. What would I have done if I
were the manager of Barks?
Barks means big money. Barks is the most famous Duck artist.
But then there's a guy who writes and draws Duck comics, which
are considered very good. People call him The New Barks. To some
amount, he is more famous than Barks himself, because he makes
new stories. He even traveled to Europe several times to promote
his stories. His stories are clearly based on Barks' work, and I am
not getting a penny for it. Even worse: my Barks merchandise is
selling worse because that other guy is doing so good. And he
won't become a member of my agency, for some reason.
So let me think of a strategy. Ah, I've got it. Let's do the following:
1. send Barks to Europe, so those Europeans know the difference
between the *real* Barks and that other "new Barks" guy.
2. have Barks make a new story. That shows Barks is still active,
and so people will buy my Barks merchandise again.
3. have everyone I know spread around that the work of the other
guy stinks. Possibly some people will believe that (aw, that artwork
just looks awful, so that shouldn't be a big problem) and they
will return to buy Barks.
4. let Barks win an award. The other guy won an Eisner award, but
people shouldn't think he is better, so Barks *has* to win something
too. Hm... I think I know a way to win an award...
The above is PURE FICTION, and has not necessarily a connection
to things in real life. I just considered myself a manager with a few
premisses. The rest is consistent reasoning.
Let's just say you should be lucky that *I*'m not the manager of Barks.
--Harry.
Gary Leach
Disney comics Digest V97 #86
Message 156 -
1997-04-28 at 21:05:49
SHAUN:
That was a nice story. Gives one hope. It's just a pity the lad couldn't
get his Sonic the Hedgehog, too.
JAKOB:
>I thought there were a law saying that noone can be judged for something
>he's done wrong *before* the law/rule has been made up (?).
There are such laws, but they don't really apply. There's nothing that can
legally be defined as criminal in the owner of a property making
retroactive rules concerning that property, so long as such rules don't
violate the terms of a contract. Even in the event of a contract violation,
that's a civil matter, not a criminal one, which means you can't call in
the cops - only the lawyers.
Gary
****************************
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you
think it means."
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Gladstone on the Web: http://www.hamlco.com/bhc/
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That was a nice story. Gives one hope. It's just a pity the lad couldn't
get his Sonic the Hedgehog, too.
JAKOB:
>I thought there were a law saying that noone can be judged for something
>he's done wrong *before* the law/rule has been made up (?).
There are such laws, but they don't really apply. There's nothing that can
legally be defined as criminal in the owner of a property making
retroactive rules concerning that property, so long as such rules don't
violate the terms of a contract. Even in the event of a contract violation,
that's a civil matter, not a criminal one, which means you can't call in
the cops - only the lawyers.
Gary
****************************
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you
think it means."
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Gladstone on the Web: http://www.hamlco.com/bhc/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fredrik Sandstrom
Donald in DuckTales & Old KAs
Message 157 -
1997-04-28 at 21:36:51
Jakob Soederbaum wrote:
>And I'm certain I've seen a couple of DuckTales episodes that had *Donald*
>in it! Can someone explain why? Before I had seen those episodes I thought
>DuckTales was made up to show that there were other Ducks than Donald in
>Duckburg (or something like that).
Are you talking about DuckTales _TV_ episodes? And you're saying
Donald has appeared in them??? Now I'm really curious; WHAT did he
SOUND LIKE? I have seen Donald in some DuckTales comic stories, but
never in the TV show!
By the way, was Donald's absence and HDL living with Scrooge ever
explained in any way? That's what bothers me most about DuckTales...
The mention of early Kalle Ankas reminded me of the facsimile print of
KA #2 -48 published together with KA #3 -85, and that's the only one of
of the early KAs that I've read; have any other facsimile prints been
made?
In #2 -48 there is a two-page Goofy story called "Stortvätt" that is
obviously based on the Goofy cartoon "The Big Wash" from 1948. It's
the kind of comic story that doesn't have any balloons; instead it's a
poem with one stanza in each panel (you know what I mean...) Who
wrote/drew this story and were there other similar comic stories based
on cartoons?
----------------------* *----------------------
| Fredrik Sandstrom |
| (Email removed) |
|__________________________|
>And I'm certain I've seen a couple of DuckTales episodes that had *Donald*
>in it! Can someone explain why? Before I had seen those episodes I thought
>DuckTales was made up to show that there were other Ducks than Donald in
>Duckburg (or something like that).
Are you talking about DuckTales _TV_ episodes? And you're saying
Donald has appeared in them??? Now I'm really curious; WHAT did he
SOUND LIKE? I have seen Donald in some DuckTales comic stories, but
never in the TV show!
By the way, was Donald's absence and HDL living with Scrooge ever
explained in any way? That's what bothers me most about DuckTales...
The mention of early Kalle Ankas reminded me of the facsimile print of
KA #2 -48 published together with KA #3 -85, and that's the only one of
of the early KAs that I've read; have any other facsimile prints been
made?
In #2 -48 there is a two-page Goofy story called "Stortvätt" that is
obviously based on the Goofy cartoon "The Big Wash" from 1948. It's
the kind of comic story that doesn't have any balloons; instead it's a
poem with one stanza in each panel (you know what I mean...) Who
wrote/drew this story and were there other similar comic stories based
on cartoons?
----------------------* *----------------------
| Fredrik Sandstrom |
| (Email removed) |
|__________________________|
Soeren Schridde
Rosa
Message 158 -
1997-04-28 at 22:48:08
Don ROSA wrote:
>over 50 file-copy mint unopened issues of the German MICKY MAUS from
>around 1955-57. We'll never know how these came to be in America, or
>where these file-copies escaped from. But, as with the mint KALLE
>ANKAs, I could not tolerate the idea that these issues should lay
>about in a dealer's junk box in America... so I bought them and I plan
>on returning them to Germany when I visit there this October. I would
>be very interested in any suggestions from the German members of this
>group (of which there unfortunately seem to be very few) as to what I
>should do with these issues.
Donate them to *me*!
As a glad and proud collector, I'd show them to everyone who's
interested, when I have them ;-)))
*dream mode off*
hm, no idea... I agree that a museum would be the best (at least I
can think of), but haven't heard of a Disney-museum in Germany so
far. Or is there one I haven't heard of and that doesn't move???
Soeren Schridde
<(Email removed)>
>over 50 file-copy mint unopened issues of the German MICKY MAUS from
>around 1955-57. We'll never know how these came to be in America, or
>where these file-copies escaped from. But, as with the mint KALLE
>ANKAs, I could not tolerate the idea that these issues should lay
>about in a dealer's junk box in America... so I bought them and I plan
>on returning them to Germany when I visit there this October. I would
>be very interested in any suggestions from the German members of this
>group (of which there unfortunately seem to be very few) as to what I
>should do with these issues.
Donate them to *me*!
As a glad and proud collector, I'd show them to everyone who's
interested, when I have them ;-)))
*dream mode off*
hm, no idea... I agree that a museum would be the best (at least I
can think of), but haven't heard of a Disney-museum in Germany so
far. Or is there one I haven't heard of and that doesn't move???
Soeren Schridde
<(Email removed)>
Eric Chun
(No subject)
Message 159 -
1997-04-28 at 23:38:20
Nils wrote:
> Could you educate the ignoramuses amongst us, in a couple
> of sentences: who is Jeff Smith, and what does he produce?
Jeff Smith writes and draws a very popular (in the USA)
comic book called "Bone".
James wrote:
> Hi! If anyone heard from Barry Branvold (who shows up
> sometime on this list), please let me know.
Just saw Barry yesterday at the Wondercon comic book con-
vention. He's fine. Unfortunately, his comic book store
isn't. It was a victim of the latest North Dakota flood.
The town was evacuated, so he doesn't have access to his
store phone or his email. He thinks his email will be wait-
ing for him on his AOL account.
Eric
> Could you educate the ignoramuses amongst us, in a couple
> of sentences: who is Jeff Smith, and what does he produce?
Jeff Smith writes and draws a very popular (in the USA)
comic book called "Bone".
James wrote:
> Hi! If anyone heard from Barry Branvold (who shows up
> sometime on this list), please let me know.
Just saw Barry yesterday at the Wondercon comic book con-
vention. He's fine. Unfortunately, his comic book store
isn't. It was a victim of the latest North Dakota flood.
The town was evacuated, so he doesn't have access to his
store phone or his email. He thinks his email will be wait-
ing for him on his AOL account.
Eric
Eric Chun
(No subject)
Message 160 -
1997-04-28 at 23:48:08
Hi!
Just received this message from Anna-Li. List member Orjan Berglund un-
fortunately has an injured back. If you'd like to send him a "get-well"
message, his email address is: (Email removed)
Thank you.
Eric
>Dear Mr Eric Chun.
>I am writing on my fathers (Orjan) behalf. Since more than a week he has
>been in hospital with an injured back. He can neither sit nor standing
>up. He can only lay down. He will contact you as soon as he gets home.
>Your parcel with Colorcopy and fine Rosa drawings has arrived.
>Best whishes
>Anna-Li Berglund
Just received this message from Anna-Li. List member Orjan Berglund un-
fortunately has an injured back. If you'd like to send him a "get-well"
message, his email address is: (Email removed)
Thank you.
Eric
>Dear Mr Eric Chun.
>I am writing on my fathers (Orjan) behalf. Since more than a week he has
>been in hospital with an injured back. He can neither sit nor standing
>up. He can only lay down. He will contact you as soon as he gets home.
>Your parcel with Colorcopy and fine Rosa drawings has arrived.
>Best whishes
>Anna-Li Berglund
Marco Barlotti
JW comics
Message 161 -
1997-04-29 at 00:08:10
BENT:
>This month gave us issue #1 of GP - Gr=F8nsp=E6tte-patruljen (Junior
>Woodchucks).
>This issues starts with a two-page presentation of the JW's: HDL, General
>Snif (the JW dog), The General, Theo, Chips, Basse, Alvin and Lille Edison.
>the first story begins with the words: "After an exciting adventure on the
>North Pole...", and then a two-page "picture-resume" of the "exciting
>adventure". This is especially bad because this story continues in the next
>issue.
I can imagine that you have a translation of issue #16 of the Italian
umptieth Disney Comic "GM" (=3DJW). Does the story have a code I.G.M.16 in=
the
first page of the two-page "picture resume" of the "exciting adventure"? And
does the story end with general Hewey saying <What are we waiting for? Let's
go back to HQ in Duckburg!> and the G.R.E.A.T.L.E.A.D.E.R. saying <With a
plane, of course!>?
I am a little curious. Does your JW comic end with a US story about a
biggest-than-ever medal?
Marco
http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it
>This month gave us issue #1 of GP - Gr=F8nsp=E6tte-patruljen (Junior
>Woodchucks).
>This issues starts with a two-page presentation of the JW's: HDL, General
>Snif (the JW dog), The General, Theo, Chips, Basse, Alvin and Lille Edison.
>the first story begins with the words: "After an exciting adventure on the
>North Pole...", and then a two-page "picture-resume" of the "exciting
>adventure". This is especially bad because this story continues in the next
>issue.
I can imagine that you have a translation of issue #16 of the Italian
umptieth Disney Comic "GM" (=3DJW). Does the story have a code I.G.M.16 in=
the
first page of the two-page "picture resume" of the "exciting adventure"? And
does the story end with general Hewey saying <What are we waiting for? Let's
go back to HQ in Duckburg!> and the G.R.E.A.T.L.E.A.D.E.R. saying <With a
plane, of course!>?
I am a little curious. Does your JW comic end with a US story about a
biggest-than-ever medal?
Marco
http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it
Eric Chun
(No subject)
Message 162 -
1997-04-29 at 03:22:01
>JAMES:
>...was asking about list-member Barry Branvold.
Yesterday, Barry said that he had boxes of items at his
store for mail order customers. (He has advertisements
on America Online.) If the items ordered were damaged,
he said he'll send out refunds to the customers.
Unfortunately, you might have to wait a little while
(until they allow the residents back into Grand Forks,
North Dakota) to find out the status of the items.
Eric
>...was asking about list-member Barry Branvold.
Yesterday, Barry said that he had boxes of items at his
store for mail order customers. (He has advertisements
on America Online.) If the items ordered were damaged,
he said he'll send out refunds to the customers.
Unfortunately, you might have to wait a little while
(until they allow the residents back into Grand Forks,
North Dakota) to find out the status of the items.
Eric
James E. Smith III
Disney comics Digest V97 #87
Message 163 -
1997-04-29 at 07:21:09
Dear Duck People:
Thanks for all the news on Barry. I'm really grateful, I haven't heard
from his since the flood, and I was wondering what was going on. Thank you
Don, especially.
If anyone can contact Barry, please ask him to contact James Smith in
Williston if he can.
James Smith III
(Email removed)
Thanks for all the news on Barry. I'm really grateful, I haven't heard
from his since the flood, and I was wondering what was going on. Thank you
Don, especially.
If anyone can contact Barry, please ask him to contact James Smith in
Williston if he can.
James Smith III
(Email removed)
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V97 #87
Message 164 -
1997-04-29 at 08:24:28
DANNY:
I will be in Germany during the last week of October, but where and when
Ehapa will send me is up to them. I don't really need to know until I'm
there. But perhaps I'll get some sort of schedule from them later this year
so that I can post it here for anyone interested. Another meeting with Der
Donaldists would suit me fine, but I'll let them decide for themselves if
they desire such a thing.
As for the order that I percieve my $crooge-Yukon stories fitting into
Barks' Back to the klondike" & "north of the Yukon", I picture it thus:
"The King of the Klondike" (Lo$ 8) (1896 - early 1897)
"Back to the Klondike" flashback sequence (1897)
"Hearts of the Yukon" (early 1898)
"North of the Yukon" flashback sequence (1898)
"The Last Sled to Dawson" flashback sequence (early 1899)
"The Billionaire of Dismal Downs" opening sequence (Lo$ 9)(1898-1902)
I will be in Germany during the last week of October, but where and when
Ehapa will send me is up to them. I don't really need to know until I'm
there. But perhaps I'll get some sort of schedule from them later this year
so that I can post it here for anyone interested. Another meeting with Der
Donaldists would suit me fine, but I'll let them decide for themselves if
they desire such a thing.
As for the order that I percieve my $crooge-Yukon stories fitting into
Barks' Back to the klondike" & "north of the Yukon", I picture it thus:
"The King of the Klondike" (Lo$ 8) (1896 - early 1897)
"Back to the Klondike" flashback sequence (1897)
"Hearts of the Yukon" (early 1898)
"North of the Yukon" flashback sequence (1898)
"The Last Sled to Dawson" flashback sequence (early 1899)
"The Billionaire of Dismal Downs" opening sequence (Lo$ 9)(1898-1902)
Ole R. Nielsen
Digest #86
Message 165 -
1997-04-29 at 12:34:27
Jakob:
Sorry to hear of your lost mails, but if you sent them more often
the risk would me smaller, and the topics would be more at the top
of our heads - replies to 4 months' old mails?!
But I didn't mind a little refresher course, and new facts and
opinions usually accompany a re-emergence of an old topic.
Your suggestion about using some of Marco Rota's art for covers
is a good one: the few issues I have of Italian Topolino weeklies
all have covers by him, and IMHO his 'static' style shines out in
single illustrations, even more than in the stories he's done -
maybe except "The Night of the Saracen".
> OLE
> wrote about Der Donaldist #98, is it still possible to get a copy?
Such a recent issues should still be available. Contact Johnny Grote
<(Email removed)> with your request. That's what I did and he
sent me 50 D-marks worth of requested issues to pay at my leisure.
> It's high time someone mentions that there were only 4 issues of KA
> published in 1948 (starting in September). The others are from 1949.
Maybe Don remembered wrong, and they were really Danish Anders And
& Co. from 1949; there were 10 of those.
> [Don Rosa as a legend:] But as a comiccreator since the mid
> 50s (hee hee!), you're by all means "legendary"! For example, the PP
> stories are almost considered as *cult* nowadays...
These days the word 'cult' has entirely replaced the longer and somewhat
outdated word 'culture' and defines an ironic, yet reverent, attitude to
the life and times before the end of civilization, which apparently was
just a few years ago in case you missed it. We might like to think it's
being going downhill ever since 1955. :-)
If you translate 'cult' 10 or 20 years back in time, you invariably get
'kitch'; even further it's 'pop(ular) culture'.
Same thing, different attitude, new word.
Shaun:
> Why the heck aren't "The Tenth Avatar" and "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff"
> being printed as solicited!?
If I understand this right Uncle $crooge Adv. #48 won't have "The Tenth
Avatar" (or is it "The Treasure of the Ten Avatars"?) after all,
and Uncle $crooge #305 won't have "The Vigilante..." either?
I already expressed my doubts about "The Vigilante..." being OK'ed
by the nitpickers at Disney, but just 3 weeks ago Don said it had
made it, and was ready to run. I'm impressed with how fast Gladstone
gets these books out BTW, as it was only in late January Todd Klein
said he had finished lettering that story.
Steven:
> I don't think that you're an ignormases - heck I can even spell the
> singular form of that word. ;)
I'll accept "ignore-maus(mouse)" as an improvement :-). However, the
word being Latin, it's "ignoramus" in singular, "ignorami" in plural -
if it is a noun in the first place?
"Ignoramus, ignorabimus et ignorentes simus" ->
"We don't know, we won't know, and we don't give a damn!"
Oops, sorry, I hit the reply button by mistake! Back to lurking!
Ole 'RoC' Reichstein Nielsen oLe
<(Email removed)> U
Sorry to hear of your lost mails, but if you sent them more often
the risk would me smaller, and the topics would be more at the top
of our heads - replies to 4 months' old mails?!
But I didn't mind a little refresher course, and new facts and
opinions usually accompany a re-emergence of an old topic.
Your suggestion about using some of Marco Rota's art for covers
is a good one: the few issues I have of Italian Topolino weeklies
all have covers by him, and IMHO his 'static' style shines out in
single illustrations, even more than in the stories he's done -
maybe except "The Night of the Saracen".
> OLE
> wrote about Der Donaldist #98, is it still possible to get a copy?
Such a recent issues should still be available. Contact Johnny Grote
<(Email removed)> with your request. That's what I did and he
sent me 50 D-marks worth of requested issues to pay at my leisure.
> It's high time someone mentions that there were only 4 issues of KA
> published in 1948 (starting in September). The others are from 1949.
Maybe Don remembered wrong, and they were really Danish Anders And
& Co. from 1949; there were 10 of those.
> [Don Rosa as a legend:] But as a comiccreator since the mid
> 50s (hee hee!), you're by all means "legendary"! For example, the PP
> stories are almost considered as *cult* nowadays...
These days the word 'cult' has entirely replaced the longer and somewhat
outdated word 'culture' and defines an ironic, yet reverent, attitude to
the life and times before the end of civilization, which apparently was
just a few years ago in case you missed it. We might like to think it's
being going downhill ever since 1955. :-)
If you translate 'cult' 10 or 20 years back in time, you invariably get
'kitch'; even further it's 'pop(ular) culture'.
Same thing, different attitude, new word.
Shaun:
> Why the heck aren't "The Tenth Avatar" and "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff"
> being printed as solicited!?
If I understand this right Uncle $crooge Adv. #48 won't have "The Tenth
Avatar" (or is it "The Treasure of the Ten Avatars"?) after all,
and Uncle $crooge #305 won't have "The Vigilante..." either?
I already expressed my doubts about "The Vigilante..." being OK'ed
by the nitpickers at Disney, but just 3 weeks ago Don said it had
made it, and was ready to run. I'm impressed with how fast Gladstone
gets these books out BTW, as it was only in late January Todd Klein
said he had finished lettering that story.
Steven:
> I don't think that you're an ignormases - heck I can even spell the
> singular form of that word. ;)
I'll accept "ignore-maus(mouse)" as an improvement :-). However, the
word being Latin, it's "ignoramus" in singular, "ignorami" in plural -
if it is a noun in the first place?
"Ignoramus, ignorabimus et ignorentes simus" ->
"We don't know, we won't know, and we don't give a damn!"
Oops, sorry, I hit the reply button by mistake! Back to lurking!
Ole 'RoC' Reichstein Nielsen oLe
<(Email removed)> U