Keskustelujen arkisto

Hello to you all.
First of all, sorry about my little mistake a few days ago.
I think I posted my address in the mailinglist. Wrong way to
subscribe!!!

Ok. Now my problem. I fixed it to your mailinglist a few weeks
ago and I became no reply. So I'll try it again:

I'm searching for a special Disney character. A little bee.
In many of the older Disney comic strips are little bees. I remember
one story f.e. with Donald Duck in his house on the roof of a
skyscraper. He has a greenhouse up there and is breeding flowers.
The little bee wants to get the farina of Donalds' flowers and of
course he gets angry about that. The result is a jolly fight between
both of them. Finally Donald gets stiched in his bottom...

Is there anyone who has some pictures off those Disney-bees???

I would be so happy to get some of you.
I'm already searching for so long!!!

Thank you in advance,
Tobse.
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Tobias Welz
Fachhochschule Konstanz, Braueggerstrasse 55, 78462 Konstanz, Germany
eMail: (Email removed) www: http://www.fh-konstanz.de
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MARCO:

>>This month gave us issue #1 of GP - Gr=F8nsp=E6tte-patruljen (Junior
>>Woodchucks).

>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!>?

Yes.. there is a code in the lower right corner, but it is very hard to
read. The letters GM and 6 stand out... The dialog matches perfectly, so I
guess you're right! IGM 16 it is!

>I am a little curious. Does your JW comic end with a US story
>about a biggest-than-ever medal?

No. Here's the content:

1. "Truslen fra universet - Nordtrekanten", IGM 16, 26 pages (of which 2
are a resume)
2. "Det store kapløb", IGM 8, 28 pages
3. "Sporet fra fortiden", IGM 17(?), 31 pages

The last story is about a frozen mammoth. The story codes are very hard to
read, except IGM 8.

/Bent Pedersen

-- It's a Bentriloquist thing...

-- Aarhus, Denmark
-- http://home4.inet.tele.dk/bp

As noone made more detailed comments on Bone, perhaps I'm allowed to add
just a bit:
Personally, I think Bone is perhaps the best comic currently appearing. I
also think that if you are a fan of Disney comics you most certainly
should take a look at this one. It's a humor-adventure-fantasy type "all
family comic" (my favourite comic genre) and Jeff Smith really uses comic
book storytelling beautifully. He has acknowledged his debt to such
masters as Barks, Charles M. Schulz and Walt Kelly.
One more good point about Bone: you don't have to wait infinity to see
where the story is going: it's one great story arch which, when finished
will consist of three trilogies - each TPB being one part of such trilogy
(gee, doesn't that sound somehow familiar, you all recent moviegoers?).
The first trilogy is already out and the first part of second trilogy is
gonna be collected this spring (or is it out already?).

Unfortunately, Jeff Smith didn't pay me for this announcement.
Back to Disney.

--- Jyrki Vainio ---

Er. Whoops. . .Sorry to intrude back there. As for who I am, well, just a
lousy amatuer musician with a tendedncy to be irritating. Ignore that trait,
if you will; it's hard to help.

-- Aderack

FREDRIK SANDSTROM:
>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...
In the first episode, it was explained that Donald had joined the
Navy for a couple of years and was leaving the boys with U$ during that
time. When Donald starred in an episode (and there were about six such
episodes, I think), it was explained that he was "on leave" from the Navy.
In tune with this, he wore a different, more modern white sailor's hat.
But he acted the way he was supposed to, and he talked in the traditional
voice. His relationship with Uncle Scrooge was also handled well.
One of the episodes in which Donald appeared ("Spies in Their
Eyes") pitted him against the Barks pig villain, called "Victor Luzer"
there. Another involved the Phantom Blot, for the only time in DUCKTALES.
The Donald episodes generally mark some of the series' finest hours.

>In #2 -48 there is a two-page Goofy story called "Stortv=94tt" 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?
According to Alberto Becattini, "The Big Wash" was drawn by
longtime Bugs Bunny comic artist Tom McKimson (who drew only a couple of
Disney comic stories during his years in the business). Tom's brother Bob
McKimson directed Bugs and other WB theatrical cartoons, and was the usual
director of Foghorn Leghorn and the Tasmanian Devil.
There were many of these one- to three-page adaptations of Disney
short cartoons, beginning with DOG WATCH in #50 (1944) and going on until
late in 1948. Actually, before #50, the two- to four-page text stories in
many issues were often adaptations of cartoons. Early issues of WDC&S
often have up to fifteen pages of such stories, and it's actually one such
story ("The Robber Kitten"), not a comic, that is the opening feature in
WDC&S 1!!

TOBIAS:
>I'm searching for a special Disney character. A little bee.
>In many of the older Disney comic strips are little bees. I remember
>one story f.e. with Donald Duck in his house on the roof of a
>skyscraper. He has a greenhouse up there and is breeding flowers.
>The little bee wants to get the farina of Donalds' flowers and of
>course he gets angry about that. The result is a jolly fight between
>both of them. Finally Donald gets stiched in his bottom...
The cartoon is HONEY HARVESTER (1949, I think), and the bee is
"officially" called Buzz-Buzz -- although he was called Spike about as
often. I think the comic stories in which the bee appeared were
adaptations of his cartoon appearances: the exact type of one- and
two-page Disney shorts adaptations I was just discussing with Fredrik
above.
I don't have pictures of that bee -- yet. But I can perhaps make
one, if I can get one of the cartoons on tape. I no doubt have some... I
just have to search them out.

David Gerstein

<(Email removed)>
Also <(Email removed)>

Several people reacted (in private mail) to my message about
"what I would do if I were Barks' manager".

Let me make clear that the message was meant ironic. The things
I wrote are *not* the things *I* would do myself, let alone *any* normal
person.

I wrote:
> I just considered myself a manager with a few premisses.

The premisses being:
1. I'm greedy. I want to make as much money as possible in a short time.
2. I know nothing about Disney comics.

I hope it is clear that neither 1 nor 2 applies to me!

--Harry.

Don Rosa's "An eye for detail" comes out here next week (I've already got
it since I subscribe, but I haven't read it yet due to my home eksam:-((
I kind of have the feeling that I've promissed someone to send the Rosa
issues when they came out here, but I can't remember who. So make a sound
and I'll ship it next week when it comes in the stores.

~Christer

>>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...

i'm sure a million opther people will reply to this already, but YES,
Donald appeared in several DuckTales TV episodes... most notably the
very first one. Yes, there is a reason for why HD&L stay with Scrooge--
Donald decides <for some bizarre reason> to join the navy! So off the
boys go to Scrooge while Donald's at sea. He's mostly only in episode
one for a plot device, but did also return in a few other episodes...
the next one i can think of is still part of the same first 5 parter--
"3 ducks of the condor", Scrooge recruits Donald to help him get a
golden sun coin from a Pizarro-like baddie.

Thru all these eps Donald talks just like he does in all the disney
cartoons <i.e. barely intelligible!>, and several jokes are made about
how hard he is to understand... i dont think he shows up again for a
while, untill the "firefly fruit contest" storyline, where a giant
mechanical whale hijacks Scrooge's shipments of cash.... umm, i dont
think he shows up again till much later, in "spies in their eyes", where
he gets hipnotised to steal some high tech military stuff by a femme
fatale type.

as to why they didnt have donald in them always-- who knows?? I credit
it to Disney's desire to not want to put their "A-list" characters into
shows... i guess the reasoning is not to over expose the character or to
not have the character be set in stone too deeply... same reason why
they dont give mickey any personality-- they want the characters to be
universal. It's a crying shame though that they left Donald out of a
great show like DuckTales and instead had him star in the rather lame
looking "quack pack" last year... BTW, anyone know whatever happened to
that show? i never got to see an ep!

a pleasant surprise was that ABC played a DT episode last saturday
morning!! nice way to start the day!!!

*most of this info came from issue 24/25 of the DUCKBURG TIMES, which
has a really great episode guide to the show's first 3 seasons.