Keskustelujen arkisto

Mike Schneiderath writes:
> I have to admid that I had to read it twice and very slowly to get
> most of the kentucky language (which can really be an challange for
> the standart european reader ;-)

This is the point we were discussing about how hard it must be to
translate Walt Kelley's "Pogo". Actually, the hillbilly dialect is
the same as was used in Al Capp's popular "'Lil Abner" comic strip;
were European equivalents found into which that strip could be
translated successfully?

Incidentally, there are some scholars who claim that this hillbilly
accent is the closest modern-day speech to what "classical" English
may have sounded like!!! They base this claim on the fact that the
hillbillies' ancestors came to America in the 17th century and moved
to the backwoods, where they have had very little contact with the
"outside world". They have thus preserved their original accent,
while the English spoken in the rest of the world has changed by being
"corrupted" through the mixing of various accents from groups of
people with different dialects who did communicate with one another
and whose speech then become more nearly blended together over time.
This sounds far-fetched to me, but then who really knows for certain.

> Could someone please give me a hint about the words Donald is using
> in the second part of the story on page 5 : "klaatu Barada Nikto?"

This little exchange between Patricia Neal and Gort the Robot in "The
Day the Earth Stood Still" has, for some reason, taken on a life of
its own. It was a message that she delivered to the robot telling
him that his owner, an alien named "Klaatu", says to stay calm and
not start destroying things. Somehow this little burst of extra-
terrestrial language has fascinated movie audiences for decades, and
it keeps cropping up in other movies and stories. For one of the
funniest instances, see the horror/comedy "The Evil Dead, Part 3".

And now for some "scientific" dialect. The Ducks aren't being quite
accurate on the first page, when they keep referring to the rocks
found in Antarctica as "meteors". Strictly speaking, these are
"meteorites". A "meteor" is something that falls through the sky,
making a blazing trail as atmospheric friction burns away at it.
Usually these "shooting stars" are just pebbles or grains of sand,
and they disintegrate before they hit the earth. If they are large
enough rocks that something is still left to hit the earth without
burning up, then that rock which is found on the earth is called a
"meteorite". So a "meteor" is the blazing streak the object makes
as it falls through the atmosphere, and a "meteorite" is the remnant
rock (if any) which hits the earth. The distinction is seldom made
in popular speechm though; in Gladstone Comics' home state of Arizona
there's a huge hole in the ground (Barringer Crater) which was dug
out by the impact of a meteorite thousands of years ago. However,
the feature is known everywhere as "Meteor Crater", not "Meteorite
Crater", so the Ducks were just making a very common mistake in their
terminology.

Wilmer Rivers

Hi, everybody! I just thought I'd let you folks know that I'm back on the
mailing list after a long, long break. Actually I've been back for a little
while now. I meant to slip out of lurk-mode before this but somehow I never
got around to it. With the San Diego Con coming up and a chance to get
together with folks, I thought it was time to de-lurk.
For those of you who don't know, I'm an American and I write for
Egmont--mostly doing the ducks. I've been writing Disney comics for about 10
years and started back with Gladstone towards the end of its first run.
By the way, Augie, thanks for the kind words in a recent letter page to
Gladstone. Believe me, it's appreciated.
---John Lustig

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Hi, all!

Luca Boschi just said me about an article of Lidia Cannatella on "Zio
Paperone" no. 94, about Don Rosa at Rome ("Expocartoon"). I kept
immediately a copy at the nearest newstand! Very nice, with a beautiful
photo of a big group: they are Don, Fabio, Frank, G.B.Carpi, Lidia herself,
Carlo Chendi, Alberto Becattini, me and many others. The article is all in
full color, with a marvelous Uncle $crooge drawn by Don for Lidia.

All the best!

Leonardo Gori
Leonardo Gori

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GARY:
> It seems to me certain parties need to wake up and smell the coffee.
> Disney, for expecting Gladstone to be able to reach any kind of 1990's
> audience by holding us to 1950's sensibilities, Gladstone, for adhering too
> timidly to same, and, most critically, you, our readers, for giving Disney
> the impression that you don't watch anything more unseemly on TV than
> reruns of Leave It To Beaver.

Hmm... Who is the right person to complain about such idiot
policies? The readers? The artists? The editors(-in-chief)?

DON: (who was discussing my "A Little Something Special" story when he
said the following ... which you shouldn't read if you have yet to read the
story itself):

> I guess I simply forgot to include the stripes so the colorist had nothing
> to color. If this is the biggest error I make in a story... in fact, if
> this is the biggest error I make on an average page, I'll be happy!

Not so fast, Don! You've also drawn Flintheart's bill wrong (he
should have a Gladstone Gander/Clinton Coot kinda bill) and that, I dare
say, is a bigger mistake. And you make it through the story. (unless you
suddenly can come up with something about your own view of the duck
universe or how he's just testing Magica's transformation wand...)

> And who says that it takes more magic powder to transport 8 people than
> 1? Are you a sorcerer? Where's your license?

That's common knowledge, you old coot! Everybody who knows
anything about enchantments knows that. You see, all magical transporting
powders basically function the same way - they make a thaumal code of the
object's DNA and it's physical (possibly mental as well) data and pack it
into a few thaums. Together with a few sample molecules typical to the
object (not including water, oxygen etc. available in the heading of the
transportment) it's all sent to the heading location with the speed of
magic (= the speed a thaum goes = ca. 450 000 km/sec).

The more atoms and thaums the packet carries the more magical
energy it takes to accelerate it to the speed of magic - if the speed is
slower some of the thaums may split, although it's possible to wiggle
around that part. Also the further away the transport is made the more
magical energy it takes to go there because keeping up that speed is very
magic-consuming. To transport something e.g. to space is very hard because
none of the 'standard' molecules are not found there. To transport only
the thaumal code is relatively easy and is called necromancy.

A specific amount of transportation powder can contain a certain
amount of magical energy which is liberated by the will of the user. If
it's not magically sealed it also causes an explosion as not all of the
powder's energy can be channelled to the transportation. The only
thaumaturgically correct explanation I can think of is that Magica used
too much powder the first time and thus the extra energy meant greater
explosion. Also she used it indoors, so the pressure was too high when the
thaumal energy couldn't escape to the sky. And the next time she either
concentrated more and had the Beagles all around her. Yeah, that's
probably it.

My sorceror's license? I just transported it to replace the paper
with the drawings that's on your working desk right now. See? I'm gonna
transport it back soon because I'll need it in a meeting tomorrow.

> Yes, it was stated by $crooge in some old story that he built all the
> sewers under Duckburg, and that tale showed him expertly running through
> them. (Forgive me if I don't name the story off-hand.)

A Barks story?

> I am very casual about where I place that statue. But I figure all the
> biggest ones were torn down as menaces to aviation, and there's only that
> one semi-giant one left. It looks nice in backgrounds. At LEAST you'll

But the first time you show it (not mentioning the cover which
obviously has it in a fictitious place to make a better cover) it seems
toe be on the wrong side of the Money Bin. Page 2, panel 3. It's on the
left of the Bin while all the other time it's on the right.

> The entire plot revolves around it being the 50th anniversary of $crooge
> arriving in Duckburg, right? Then it also means it's been 50 years since he
> left the Klondike to go to Duckburg, right? Isn't that obvious? He left the

I thought that after Scrooge left Klondike he went on opening
factories and making money for a few years, then went to Scotland to
settle there, and only after all that he went to Duckburg for the first
time!

> No, please... (sob)... let me tend to the upkeep of my home and the rearing
> of my children, I beseech you!

I'm sorry, Mister Rosa. I've been hired by a colleague who your
loss of time would become his profit. Mister Van H... uh, let us call him
"Mister Bill" pays me really well to talk nonsence to you and most other
people on the list.

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

Is there anyone that has a current Disney collectors guide that can look
something up for me? A comic book.

I'm not sure how useful this is to a worldwide list, but the Barnes &
Nobles chain here in the States is remaindering a series of "How to Draw
[blank]" books by Disney (ie Harold Foster's studio, I think.). The titles
I noticed are Uncle Scrooge and Huey, Dewey and Louie; Donald & Daisy;
Mickey and I think there's a fourth one. As you would expect, they're
instructional books for drawing each character. They're $4.98 each.

Mike Rhode

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Hi, I am still here :-)

Just to say that issue #4 of "I Maestri Disney" (out in August) will
feature Giorgio Cavazzano's "Casablanca", here at its first reprint, among
other works by him.

Definitely a must-have it !!

Fabrizio.