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MATT asks:
>DON-- I know you only do a very few cons per year, but i dont suppose
>you are coming to Chicago this year?

Hm...I thought I went to LOTS of shows. Well, it's plenty to suit me, since
I don't "live" comics... or perhaps I do, but I also need time for 1000
other interests and hobbies, not to mention grass cutting.
No, I won't go to ChicagoCon this year for two reasons. #1) - it's right
after I get back from another long trip, and that was the reason that I
skipped SanDiego last year. And B) - the ChicagoCon has been taken over from
my old friend Larry Charet by WIZARD magazine, a magazine that is in the
forefront of perpetuating American super-hero zombie-ism, and who have
seldom, if ever, even acknowledged the existance of Donald Duck or Mickey
Mouse comics, regardless of the fact that those are the world's most popular
(everywhere outside of WIZARD's realm of young readers). They don't even
list Dell or Gold Key or Gladstone Disney's in their "price guides". Anyway,
I attended the Chicago Con every year for a good 20 years, but I doubt if
I'll ever again go to there as long as it operates under the WIZARD banner.

>I saw your cover for U$300 there last year,

??? What do you mean? That you saw a comic book with that cover? You didn't
see the original art, I know that much.

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In the Disney comics Digest Volume 97 : Issue 75 Disney Rob asked a few
questions. I Haven't seen the answers, so may this be my first entry to
the discussion ?
I submitted the questions too, since they were posed some time ago.
/Ivar Cavanagh

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 20:33:54 -0700 From: rob gibson
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Subject: questions for Barks

Q1:.In "Dangerous Disguise"(four color #308, 1951) the characters,
other than the ducks, are human. I think this works well and the
tongue-in-cheek political satire makes this one of my favorite
stories. Why was this use of humans discontinued?.

A: Barks was not often subject to censorship by Western, who at that
time published Donald Duck in the US. But the editors did not like the
Human-like charaters - this was supposed to be "funny animals". The
storey went to press, but Barks had to promise never to do it again.
In "Donald Duck:In Old California" (W OS 328-02) he also used "human"
characters, but equipped them with an animal nose.

Q2.After about 1951 the length of the Ducks' bills shortens quite a
bit. Is this part of the natural evolution of style, or was there
pressure to change their appearance? I note that the language was
cleaned up( no more use of "ain't") and that Dell's "pledge to
parents" came out at this time.

A: The length of the bills has been subject to scientific studies in
Jon Gisles "Andelogien"(In Norwegian!) - There seems to be a connecion
between the length of the bills and the quality of the storey - The
longer the bill the better a storey!
Jon Gisle introduced the "RostoLongitudeQuotient" (memorized by me -
someone out there with the book handy/suficcient Latin knowledge may
supply the right phrase)
The shortening of the bills took place in the early '60s, but I don't
know weather it was due to an evolution or a rationalization of the
ducks !?

Augie:

>I can't tell you how much DuckTales means and meant to me.
> Started me off on this wild Duck journey, not to mention my passion for
>animation, and a rather large videotape collection filled with cartoons and
>science-fiction shows.

There's no better reason for DuckTales to have happened. I wish I hadn't
been so darned old and cynical, so I could have enjoyed it as much as you
did!

>Yes, but Quack Pack is utter blasphemy and should be ignored at all costs.
>Don't even try to link it to DuckTales. Please. =)

Lame Quack Pack most certainly was, but maybe a few "Augies" watched *it*
and are now on their own "wild Duck journey"s.

Gary

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I've watched Beauty and the Beast over and over again. I am just
wondering why Mrs. Potty's, the teapot, is old when she is turned back
into a human at the end of the movie. Also, why is Chip still young? Why
aren't his brother's and sister's ever shown in the movie?

On Mon, 5 May 1997 (Email removed) wrote:

[ KaraMieka also included a copy of the whole previous digest
in the message, but I've edited that out. Of course this whole
message shouldn't be on the list as it's not about Disney comics
at all. Please everyone -- don't answer this on the list. If you
really want to help, send your answer in private mail instead. /Per ]

Ivar:
> Jon Gisle introduced the "RostoLongitudeQuotient" (memorized by me -
> someone out there with the book handy/suficcient Latin knowledge may
> supply the right phrase)

I think it must be called: "LongitudoRostri"-Quotient (longitudo=length;
rostri=of the bill) or "RostriLongitudo" (unusual word order)
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I have at last put, with Kristian's permission, a copy of <What if... a
stone could think?> on my www site.
I am however not satisfied. I am relying on a neighbour's scanner, and he
hasn't quite mastered using it ;-) so we are going by gross error and trial.
I got a good image with a 600 dpi scanning resolution, but that was a *very
large* picture, and I wanted it to be the same size as the original! So I
scaled it. I tried using <Paint>, then <GWS> but the result, as you can
check, is not brilliant. However it DOES print on sheets of A4 paper
(provided you set a no-margin option).

http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it/Stones.html

Should any of you be able to work on the original large file, scaling it
without visible damage, please contact me privately!

Marco

http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it

DON:

> Hm...I thought I went to LOTS of shows. Well, it's plenty to suit me, since
> I don't "live" comics... or perhaps I do, but I also need time for 1000
> other interests and hobbies, not to mention grass cutting.

So what other hobbies/interestes do you have? I suppose old movies is one of
them.

GARY:

> There's no better reason for DuckTales to have happened. I wish I hadn't
> been so darned old and cynical, so I could have enjoyed it as much as you
> did!

Yeah, it was a magical time. It was something new on TV. It starred a
character I always remembered liking.

> Lame Quack Pack most certainly was, but maybe a few "Augies" watched *it*
> and are now on their own "wild Duck journey"s.

Maybe, but I doubt it. DuckTales was more or less true to the characters
and had interesting stories. It wasn't hip for the sake of being hip. Quack
Pack, alas. . . But, then, maybe I'm getting old!

-Augie
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