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Harry F. : thanks for coming to the defense of Bark's editors (whose names
escape me today); I can think of many editors working today (and let me
point out I'm not thinking Gladstone) who would have fired Barks when he
changed his first WDC&S script. They not only accepted it, they let him
write the next story. And they mostly let him alone for 20 years. They
"reigned" him in a few times, and usually he desirved it. I liked his
"Silent Night" story, but I don't think anyone would have printed it.
Oh, I've got an issue of Mickey Mouse Magazine; I guess I should index it
for you.. All the Dells Comics are indexed right?

Steven Rowe

STEVEN:

> Oh, I've got an issue of Mickey Mouse Magazine; I guess I should index it
> for you.. All the Dells Comics are indexed right?

Right. But there are quite a few Gold Key and Whitman issues missing. At the
moment, Johan Nilsson is indexing a lot of them. If you (or anyone) wants to
index comics, please contact me in private mail, so I can make sure that the
comics haven't been indexed by someone else yet.

--Harry.

Now and then it has been mentioned on this list that Don's stories
were not so easily accepted by younger readers, or somesuch. He
himself (Hi Don! ;-) commented (more than once ;-) that - if awarded
with a price for children comic books - wouldn't quite know what to
say in his speech...
Now, firstly I guess that this observation might not be true in
general, but secondly I just found a living an breathing proof of the
opposite right here in Vienna, Austria. And a female one too!
To stop this mystification: I recently got to know a nice 35 year
old schoolteacher, mother of two daughters. After a while of chatting
we spoke about my interest in (Disney-)comics, and she told me about
her older daughter, Rafaela, aged 14, who is an avid duck fan! She
went on describing how her daughter collected Duck-comics for years,
how she could tell all the artists apart (!), and knew about them
(!!), and that her favorite character was Uncle $crooge...
Her other daughter aged 11, read and enjoyed the stories too.
Certainly, I had to tell her that I knew Don and met Carl Barks -
courious as if her daughter might really know and like "all the
artists". Next time we met she told me of her daughters' reaction,
after she had related her our conversation: Rafaela got very exited
dashed away to get comic-books and started to explain to her mom,
who Don was, and how you could tell his stile apart from others! She
described it something like this: "In other stories all the action takes
place in the foreground, in Rosa's stories there is always another
action/story taking place in the background" and she showed her mom
the scene where, while U$ earns his first coin, his sister nearly
gets eaten by a horse...
So, never fear! Rosa is read and liked by the future generations!

DAVID
>BTW, wasn't someone going to transcribe a new interview with Barks
>on the Digest soon? I'm curious to read it...

Ehemm... guilty as caught. I'll get on with it, promise!

Harald

PS: But I sent al loooong description of the Barks' birthday ceremony
- and NO ONE commented on it (*sob*), so comon, guys, give me a
little feedback to increase my motivation!

--- Harald Havas <(Email removed)>

ALL:

Yep, the first of the four albums reprinting Don's stories is out. This one,
for a mere $11, collects "Son of the Sun" and "Cash Flow," two stories I've
never red before. I look forward to them as study breaks in upcoming finals.
=)

The cover is really nice, with a map of the world serving as a background to
$crooge, Donald, and the boys walking off to their next great advanture. And I
like this Uncle $crooge logo better than the one they're currently using on
the monthly comics.

Coloring looks beautiful. It's always great to see artwork printed in a larger
size.

And part four with "His Majesty McDuck" is just around the corner. (Excuse me
whilst I wipe this drool off my mouth.)

Christopher wrote:

> the "Atlantis" story scheduled to be reprinted in June's U$A #50 is
> advertised in the relevant issue of Previews magazine as not having been
> reprinted "in quite some time." In COMIC-BOOK form, perhaps... but Gladstone
> has already reprinted it in a "Series I" digest AND in one of the Scrooge
> Albums.

Yes, but those don't count since nobody could possibly afford to buy the
albums. (And yet here I am with a stack of them on my bookcase behind me. =)
There has been an awful lot of that lately, printing the same stories in the $2
format as well as the $9 format. I thought Gladstone was doing it in the $2
format first and then the album so as not to look like they're ripping off
anyone, but that trend has reversed recently.

-Augie
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>PS: But I sent al loooong description of the Barks' birthday ceremony
>- and NO ONE commented on it (*sob*), so comon, guys, give me a
>little feedback to increase my motivation!
>
>
>--- Harald Havas <(Email removed)>

I read the post and enjoyed it very much. I was really interested in it
because I had ordered the "Barks Treasury" book that was unveiled that
day. It arrived today and is beautiful! Thanks for your report.

Chris Celebrezze

MATT:
Hm. You say somebody from Gladstone had a booth at the last Chicago Con with
my original art on display? That's the first I'd heard of them doing that. I
was told they don't set up at conventions any longer. And giving away free
$10 albums to anyone who could name 3 characters on a cover that showed all
the most famous $crooge characters INCLUDING DD and HD&L? In other words,
free albums to one and all? That doesn't sound like something Bruce would
send his people out to do. Gary L., did this happen?

HAKON:
So "An Eye for Detail" is in the new Duck issues in Europe? Not one of my
better stories -- it's no "Matter of Some Gravity", anyhow.
But, yes, in the optomitrist's office he has his diploma hanging upside down
-- he can't see, right? Ha. This is indicative of how funny the rest of the
story is. But you want to know what the diploma says? Since I went to work
for Egmont, I've learned NEVER to put any sort of writing or signage or even
lil' mice going "?" or "Z" into the background, because someone in
Copenhagen will white out any and all such lettering, and no one will add
notes to the script to tell translators or anyone else to add the
lettering/signage back in so that the pictures make sense. Why do they even
take out the itty-bitty mouse and birdie "?"s? Because they figure someone
in Arabia might order photostats someday and they would then need to remove
even "?"s... though I should think that at least those "?"s should be left
in so that 99% of the other world editions won't end up with blank balloons,
and let the Arabians fix their own problems when that time comes, if ever.
So, even if there's a good gag to be made, I can NEVER put lettering or even
punctuation into my stories -- therefore, that diploma never said anything.

CHRISTOPHER:
Yes, my actual first name, through a strange set of circumstances, is Keno,
my grandfather's nickname, short for Gioachino... but I don't like the idea
of that name being used in a by-line. John Clark always calls me "Keno" as a
bit of whimsy, which is swell... but I would have asked him not to use that
on a comic/album cover simply because, as with yourself, it will uselessly
confuse people. Or maybe anytime they do use "Keno" on a cover it should
have a little "*" by it, with a note at the bottom of the cover saying "* --
through a strange set of circumstances, Don's actual first name is Keno, his
grandfather's nickname... etc., etc."
And I'd heard they were reusing those old WD COMICS IN COLOR covers on the
albums... and a few of them weren't bad. But that "novelty photo" one was an
idea from Disney, and was (and is) just a sick looking notion, doncha'
think? Sort of Todd Browning-esque? Plus it has Mickey Mouse in it,
suggesting there are Mouse stories in that issue, eh?

I can't stand it any more...
Will someone please explain who/what Quack Pack is?
Becattini's "red book" lists more than 700 characters, and none with this
name!!!

Marco

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