HEIDI <(Email removed)>:
> Forgive me if this has been covered before, but are there any meeting
> plans for San Diego? I missed the breakfast last year, but would like
> to try again.
I haven't seen anything mentioned. Also, there's no Egmont get together
this year, as in times past. Are there any Disney panels? I'll be there
Monday through Wednesday, and Sunday, for whatever that's worth to
anyone.
Fredrik Sandstrom <(Email removed)>:
> A silly thought just popped into my head: How come the Ducks use
> base 10 when they only have 8 fingers? :)
They also use their feet?
--
riverrun past Eve's and Adam's from swerve of shore to bend of bay
(Email removed) -=*=- http://users.aol.com/dcrawson/home.htm
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Topic: 199707
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Dave Rawson
Disney comics Digest V97 #136
Message 31 -
1997-07-03 at 04:23:08
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V97 #136
Message 32 -
1997-07-03 at 06:54:19
ARTHUR: (who says:)
> "A Little Something Special" is definetely in my top 5 of favorite
> Rosa-stories. I absolutely LOVED it. It has everything: from action to
> romance and lots of humor. Putting all those villains together to join
> forces against Scrooge is brilliant. The chase-scene that starts on page
> 22 is my favorite section.
Yes, but I was getting very cramped for space around page 19-22 and I
started squeezing events too close together. So, for the Gladstone version
of this story, I've added one page worth of panels, one panel at a time
(which is a complicated undertaking!), not to add anything new, but simply
to expand pages 19-22 and give the action a bit more breathing room... very
similar to what I did to the chase scene in Gladstone's version of chapter
12 of the "Lo$".
>It's very exciting and could have been
> a scene from a real movie.
What could have been a scene from a real movie? The part where $crooge has
the villain dangling hundreds of feet in the air by the coat sleeve while
both are hanging off the edge of a giant statue? That *IS* a scene from a
real movie -- one of my favorites! Who knows which movie?
> I also read the "An Eye for Detail"-story recently and it was okay.
Saying that story is "okay" is generous. It was one of those instances
where I thought I had a good concept, but I couldn't make it work... but I
couldn't afford to scrap several weeks of work and start fresh. So, I just
finished it off and moved on, hoping the next story would be better.
> Also the ending was not as good
> as I'm used to with Rosa-stories, but maybe that's because I read the
> story in another language and I didn't get every word.
Nah -- it's no better in English.
> One more thing; the "Untold Tales You'll Never See" drawing in the
> Spiderman comic has a "D.U.S.K" in it, in stead of a "D.U.C.K". What does
> it mean? Does the "S" stand for Scrooge?
There were TWO "D.U.S.K."s right next to each other. If you know what
"D.U.C.K." stands for, and you know that Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee
and Steve Ditko, you should be able to figure out what the pair of
"D.U.S.K."s mean, eh?
***************************************************************
Anyway, I want to go off-topic and make a comment that I feel the need for,
simply because this is the only forum I address regularly.
I love comics... and I love Barks' work among many others... but something
I love far more than comics is movies... old movies. And there has always
been one actor/movie-maker who I idolized far, FAR above all others. He was
probably my favorite human being in world history (besides my wife!), and
still alive after 7 decades in films. Strangely enough, over the past few
nights I'd been watching my new wide-screen laser disc of one of his best
(if not THE best) movies, "Vertigo", directed by my favorite director (the
same guy who directed that hanging-off-a-giant-statue movie I alluded to
above). I could go on for countless pages about this great American hero,
but this is not the place for it...
But now he's finally gone. G'bye, Jimmy.
> "A Little Something Special" is definetely in my top 5 of favorite
> Rosa-stories. I absolutely LOVED it. It has everything: from action to
> romance and lots of humor. Putting all those villains together to join
> forces against Scrooge is brilliant. The chase-scene that starts on page
> 22 is my favorite section.
Yes, but I was getting very cramped for space around page 19-22 and I
started squeezing events too close together. So, for the Gladstone version
of this story, I've added one page worth of panels, one panel at a time
(which is a complicated undertaking!), not to add anything new, but simply
to expand pages 19-22 and give the action a bit more breathing room... very
similar to what I did to the chase scene in Gladstone's version of chapter
12 of the "Lo$".
>It's very exciting and could have been
> a scene from a real movie.
What could have been a scene from a real movie? The part where $crooge has
the villain dangling hundreds of feet in the air by the coat sleeve while
both are hanging off the edge of a giant statue? That *IS* a scene from a
real movie -- one of my favorites! Who knows which movie?
> I also read the "An Eye for Detail"-story recently and it was okay.
Saying that story is "okay" is generous. It was one of those instances
where I thought I had a good concept, but I couldn't make it work... but I
couldn't afford to scrap several weeks of work and start fresh. So, I just
finished it off and moved on, hoping the next story would be better.
> Also the ending was not as good
> as I'm used to with Rosa-stories, but maybe that's because I read the
> story in another language and I didn't get every word.
Nah -- it's no better in English.
> One more thing; the "Untold Tales You'll Never See" drawing in the
> Spiderman comic has a "D.U.S.K" in it, in stead of a "D.U.C.K". What does
> it mean? Does the "S" stand for Scrooge?
There were TWO "D.U.S.K."s right next to each other. If you know what
"D.U.C.K." stands for, and you know that Spider-Man was created by Stan Lee
and Steve Ditko, you should be able to figure out what the pair of
"D.U.S.K."s mean, eh?
***************************************************************
Anyway, I want to go off-topic and make a comment that I feel the need for,
simply because this is the only forum I address regularly.
I love comics... and I love Barks' work among many others... but something
I love far more than comics is movies... old movies. And there has always
been one actor/movie-maker who I idolized far, FAR above all others. He was
probably my favorite human being in world history (besides my wife!), and
still alive after 7 decades in films. Strangely enough, over the past few
nights I'd been watching my new wide-screen laser disc of one of his best
(if not THE best) movies, "Vertigo", directed by my favorite director (the
same guy who directed that hanging-off-a-giant-statue movie I alluded to
above). I could go on for countless pages about this great American hero,
but this is not the place for it...
But now he's finally gone. G'bye, Jimmy.
Arthur De Wolf
Disney comics Digest V97 #136
Message 33 -
1997-07-03 at 10:45:54
Hoi!
DON ROSA said:
> So, I just finished it off and moved on, hoping the next story would be better.
What do you think are your best and worst stories?
I know that a lot of people on the mailing list are argueing
about which stories are your best, but what do you think YOURSELF?
Bye!
Arthur
DON ROSA said:
> So, I just finished it off and moved on, hoping the next story would be better.
What do you think are your best and worst stories?
I know that a lot of people on the mailing list are argueing
about which stories are your best, but what do you think YOURSELF?
Bye!
Arthur
NISSE JAKOB KRENCHEL
Hitchcock etc.
Message 34 -
1997-07-03 at 11:14:26
--- Modtaget fra KB.KRENIS +45 36 874334 97-07-03 10.05
-> IN:DCOMICS(A)STRINDBERG.LING.UU.SE
-: - - - - - - - - - - > COMPLEX NAME OF MHS USER
DON:
>>It's very exciting and could have been
>> a scene from a real movie.
>
>What could have been a scene from a real movie? The part where
$c>the villain dangling hundreds of feet in the air by the coat
slee>both are hanging off the edge of a giant statue? That *IS* a
scen>real movie -- one of my favorites! Who knows which movie?
The Mount Rushmore scene in 'North by Northwest'?? Though
'hanging off the edge' of something could be 'Vertigo' too...
Please do not get inspired of the bombing in Hitchcock early
masterpiece 'SABOTAGE' (1936).
ALL:
Today 'Treasure of Marco Polo' is on the newsstand in Denmark for
the first time ever!
You can see a picture from the story on http://www.andeby.dk/
-> IN:DCOMICS(A)STRINDBERG.LING.UU.SE
-: - - - - - - - - - - > COMPLEX NAME OF MHS USER
DON:
>>It's very exciting and could have been
>> a scene from a real movie.
>
>What could have been a scene from a real movie? The part where
$c>the villain dangling hundreds of feet in the air by the coat
slee>both are hanging off the edge of a giant statue? That *IS* a
scen>real movie -- one of my favorites! Who knows which movie?
The Mount Rushmore scene in 'North by Northwest'?? Though
'hanging off the edge' of something could be 'Vertigo' too...
Please do not get inspired of the bombing in Hitchcock early
masterpiece 'SABOTAGE' (1936).
ALL:
Today 'Treasure of Marco Polo' is on the newsstand in Denmark for
the first time ever!
You can see a picture from the story on http://www.andeby.dk/
Dr. Archontis Pantsios
The First(?) International Don Rosa Survey
Message 35 -
1997-07-03 at 14:36:01
(I sent out the same posting yesterday, but it bounced back--I'm sending it
again, in the hope that it finally reaches the List. Hopefully, not twice!)
ALL:
I've been reading recently in our ML about people's favorite Rosa stories.
So I thought to myself: why not carry out a survey on Rosa's stories among
the List members?
Something similar was done back in 1982 by Ken Bausert on Carl Barks, and
the results of his survey were published in "The Barks Collector", "The
Duckburg Times", and "Der Hamburger Donaldist". People were asked to name 10
picks in each category. The following were the top 5 vote-getters by category:
COVERS: (39 respondents):
#1: "Sheriff of Bullet Valley", FC 199, 18 votes
#2: "Luck of the North", FC 256, 15 votes
"Only a Poor Old Man", FC 386, 15 votes
#4: "Ancient Persia", FC 275, 14 votes
"Golden Helmet", FC 408, 14 votes
SPLASH PANELS: (36 respondents):
#1: "Dam Break", pg. 26 of FC 386, 19 votes
#2: "Serpent First Appears", pg. 15 of FC 318, 15 votes
#3: "Ghost Ship Appears", pg. 11 of US 25, 13 votes
#4: "City of Plain Awful", pg. 17 of FC 223, 10 votes
"Octopus/Ship Rising", pg. 20 of FC 159, 10 votes
GAGS: (28 respondents):
#1: "Tuxedo", FC 223, 8 votes
#2: "Scrooge brings own cup of coffee", US 7, 7 votes
#3: "Sponge donut", US 12, 6 votes
"Mush!", US 13, 6 votes
#5: "Masks", DD 26, 5 votes
WORST STORIES: (36 respondents):
#1: "Titanic Ants", DD 60, 6 votes
"Interplanetary Postman", US 53, 6 votes
#3: "Golden Xmas Tree", FC 203, 4 votes
"Queen of the Wild Dog Pack", US 62, 4 votes
"Monkey Business", WDC&S #297, 4 votes
BEST SHORT STORIES, 2-10 pages (49 respondents):
#1: "Cornelius Coot Story", WDC&S 138, 15 votes
#2: "Quiz Show", WDC&S 99, 11 votes
"Cyclone scatters Scrooge's money", WDC&S 126, 11 votes
#4: "Flipism", WDC&S 149, 9 votes
"The Hypno-gun", WDC&S 145, 9 votes
BEST LONG STORIES (49 respondents)
#1: "A Xmas For Shacktown", FC 367, 34 votes
#2: "Lost in the Andes", FC 223, 28 votes
"Golden Helmet", FC 408, 28 votes
#4: "Luck of the North", FC 256, 20 votes
#5: "Only a Poor Old Man", FC 386, 18 votes
Now, how about doing something similar for Rosa's stories? By now, we have
enough material by Don to have a large enough # of potential candidates, and
members of this list should provide a large enough sample size. I know it's
summer, but what the heck, it'll make it more bearable before we hit the beach!
So I ask all interested List members to send me their picks on the following
categories:
INTERNATIONAL SURVEY ON DON ROSA
NAME:
NATIONALITY:
SEX:
AGE:
1) Pick 3 covers which you consider Rosa's BEST: (*NOTE*: NOT in order of
preference. Simply what you'd consider Don's 3 BEST covers).
2) Pick 3 OPENING SPLASH PANELS which you consider Rosa's BEST:
3) Pick 3 INTERIOR SPLASH PANELS which you consider Rosa's BEST:
4) Pick 3 stories (of any length) which you consider Rosa's WORST:
5) Pick 3 SHORT stories (2-14 pages long) which you consider Rosa's BEST:
6) Pick 3 LONG stories (15 pages or more) which you consider Rosa's BEST:
7) Pick the 3 BEST/CLEVEREST hidden D.U.C.K.s. (in covers OR Splash panels).
Send your picks to (Email removed)
Deadline for submission: July 31, 1997
I hope you enjoy filling out the above questionnaire,
Archontis
again, in the hope that it finally reaches the List. Hopefully, not twice!)
ALL:
I've been reading recently in our ML about people's favorite Rosa stories.
So I thought to myself: why not carry out a survey on Rosa's stories among
the List members?
Something similar was done back in 1982 by Ken Bausert on Carl Barks, and
the results of his survey were published in "The Barks Collector", "The
Duckburg Times", and "Der Hamburger Donaldist". People were asked to name 10
picks in each category. The following were the top 5 vote-getters by category:
COVERS: (39 respondents):
#1: "Sheriff of Bullet Valley", FC 199, 18 votes
#2: "Luck of the North", FC 256, 15 votes
"Only a Poor Old Man", FC 386, 15 votes
#4: "Ancient Persia", FC 275, 14 votes
"Golden Helmet", FC 408, 14 votes
SPLASH PANELS: (36 respondents):
#1: "Dam Break", pg. 26 of FC 386, 19 votes
#2: "Serpent First Appears", pg. 15 of FC 318, 15 votes
#3: "Ghost Ship Appears", pg. 11 of US 25, 13 votes
#4: "City of Plain Awful", pg. 17 of FC 223, 10 votes
"Octopus/Ship Rising", pg. 20 of FC 159, 10 votes
GAGS: (28 respondents):
#1: "Tuxedo", FC 223, 8 votes
#2: "Scrooge brings own cup of coffee", US 7, 7 votes
#3: "Sponge donut", US 12, 6 votes
"Mush!", US 13, 6 votes
#5: "Masks", DD 26, 5 votes
WORST STORIES: (36 respondents):
#1: "Titanic Ants", DD 60, 6 votes
"Interplanetary Postman", US 53, 6 votes
#3: "Golden Xmas Tree", FC 203, 4 votes
"Queen of the Wild Dog Pack", US 62, 4 votes
"Monkey Business", WDC&S #297, 4 votes
BEST SHORT STORIES, 2-10 pages (49 respondents):
#1: "Cornelius Coot Story", WDC&S 138, 15 votes
#2: "Quiz Show", WDC&S 99, 11 votes
"Cyclone scatters Scrooge's money", WDC&S 126, 11 votes
#4: "Flipism", WDC&S 149, 9 votes
"The Hypno-gun", WDC&S 145, 9 votes
BEST LONG STORIES (49 respondents)
#1: "A Xmas For Shacktown", FC 367, 34 votes
#2: "Lost in the Andes", FC 223, 28 votes
"Golden Helmet", FC 408, 28 votes
#4: "Luck of the North", FC 256, 20 votes
#5: "Only a Poor Old Man", FC 386, 18 votes
Now, how about doing something similar for Rosa's stories? By now, we have
enough material by Don to have a large enough # of potential candidates, and
members of this list should provide a large enough sample size. I know it's
summer, but what the heck, it'll make it more bearable before we hit the beach!
So I ask all interested List members to send me their picks on the following
categories:
INTERNATIONAL SURVEY ON DON ROSA
NAME:
NATIONALITY:
SEX:
AGE:
1) Pick 3 covers which you consider Rosa's BEST: (*NOTE*: NOT in order of
preference. Simply what you'd consider Don's 3 BEST covers).
2) Pick 3 OPENING SPLASH PANELS which you consider Rosa's BEST:
3) Pick 3 INTERIOR SPLASH PANELS which you consider Rosa's BEST:
4) Pick 3 stories (of any length) which you consider Rosa's WORST:
5) Pick 3 SHORT stories (2-14 pages long) which you consider Rosa's BEST:
6) Pick 3 LONG stories (15 pages or more) which you consider Rosa's BEST:
7) Pick the 3 BEST/CLEVEREST hidden D.U.C.K.s. (in covers OR Splash panels).
Send your picks to (Email removed)
Deadline for submission: July 31, 1997
I hope you enjoy filling out the above questionnaire,
Archontis
JTorci3511
Disney comics Digest V97 #135 (BUCK DUCK).
Message 36 -
1997-07-03 at 15:40:08
In Disney comics Digest V97 #135, David Gerstein writes about BUCK DUCK:
<< Has this character appeared anywhere else? In any stories with
Donald and the "traditional" characters? In some foreign stories? What is
his relationship, if any, to Disney cartoons?
Joe Torcivia? Chris Barat? Anyone?>>
That'll teach me to take a day or so off from E-Mail. I'm truly amazed at
the number of responses regarding Buck Duck - I thought I was one of the few
who specialized in this unusual but memorable period of Disney comics!
To the best of my recollection Buck first appeared in the issue of "Walt
Disney Comics Digest" which appeared in December, 1968 or January 1969. The
story was drawn by Paul Murry - very unusual for Murry to do a non-Mickey
related feature by that time! It was later followed up by another Buck story
drawn by Jack Manning. There may have been more in issues I don't own. My
digests have always been a lower priority on my organizing sacle - so I don't
have the numbers handy!
What no one has yet to point out is that Buck Duck DID appear once in the
regular comics line. "Hotlead Hollow Hoax" ( 6 pages ) by Vic Lockman and
Tony Strobl
appeared in DONALD DUCK # 131 (1970) and was reprinted in DD # 231 (1981).
This was a Donald Duck story, in which Don and the boys head out west to
visit Sheriff Buck Duck. "He keeps law and order with a firm hand!" It was
a simple plot, typical of the time, in which Buck is framed for robbery - and
Don and the boys investigate.
And, of course, it finished with that typical Vic Lockman ending where an
object which appeared somewhere during the story (and was usually central to
the plot) is used by the starring character(s) for a more unusual or
whimsical purpose. Sorry, no spoilers on what the object was!
David, if Byron hasn't banned Buck Duck (...and perhaps he hasn't because he
is likely UNAWARE of him) why not try your hand at him once!
Joe Torcivia
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #137
******************************************
<< Has this character appeared anywhere else? In any stories with
Donald and the "traditional" characters? In some foreign stories? What is
his relationship, if any, to Disney cartoons?
Joe Torcivia? Chris Barat? Anyone?>>
That'll teach me to take a day or so off from E-Mail. I'm truly amazed at
the number of responses regarding Buck Duck - I thought I was one of the few
who specialized in this unusual but memorable period of Disney comics!
To the best of my recollection Buck first appeared in the issue of "Walt
Disney Comics Digest" which appeared in December, 1968 or January 1969. The
story was drawn by Paul Murry - very unusual for Murry to do a non-Mickey
related feature by that time! It was later followed up by another Buck story
drawn by Jack Manning. There may have been more in issues I don't own. My
digests have always been a lower priority on my organizing sacle - so I don't
have the numbers handy!
What no one has yet to point out is that Buck Duck DID appear once in the
regular comics line. "Hotlead Hollow Hoax" ( 6 pages ) by Vic Lockman and
Tony Strobl
appeared in DONALD DUCK # 131 (1970) and was reprinted in DD # 231 (1981).
This was a Donald Duck story, in which Don and the boys head out west to
visit Sheriff Buck Duck. "He keeps law and order with a firm hand!" It was
a simple plot, typical of the time, in which Buck is framed for robbery - and
Don and the boys investigate.
And, of course, it finished with that typical Vic Lockman ending where an
object which appeared somewhere during the story (and was usually central to
the plot) is used by the starring character(s) for a more unusual or
whimsical purpose. Sorry, no spoilers on what the object was!
David, if Byron hasn't banned Buck Duck (...and perhaps he hasn't because he
is likely UNAWARE of him) why not try your hand at him once!
Joe Torcivia
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #137
******************************************
Wilmer Rivers
Rosa's film references
Message 37 -
1997-07-03 at 17:06:47
DON ROSA writes of "A Little Something Special":
> The part where $crooge has the villain dangling hundreds of feet in
> the air by the coat sleeve while both are hanging off the edge of a
> giant statue? That *IS* a scene from a real movie -- one of my
> favorites! Who knows which movie?
Without having seen the story (yet) :(, it sounds like Cary Grant and
Martin Landau and George Washington's nose. However, in the Duck
version, I'm sure **both** Scrooge and the villain escape from their
predicament, without a Hitch. :)
> And there has always been one actor/movie-maker who I idolized
> far, FAR above all others.
> But now he's finally gone. G'bye, Jimmy.
I suppose it's natural for fans of talking ducks and their friends also
to be fans of eight-foot tall invisible rabbits and THEIR friends. So
how about putting a tribute into a story? (Other than "It's a Wonderful
Life", which of course you've already used.) I can imagine Duckburg's
favorite everyduck, Donald, in other Jimmy Stewart roles. In particu-
lar, I'm thinking about the scene in "Bell, Book, and Candle" in which
Stewart drinks the bowl full of that foul-tasting magic potion, and his
eyes open up as wide as Donald Duck's. So how about using that scene,
with Magica in the Hermione Gingold (sp?) role?
Wilmer Rivers
> The part where $crooge has the villain dangling hundreds of feet in
> the air by the coat sleeve while both are hanging off the edge of a
> giant statue? That *IS* a scene from a real movie -- one of my
> favorites! Who knows which movie?
Without having seen the story (yet) :(, it sounds like Cary Grant and
Martin Landau and George Washington's nose. However, in the Duck
version, I'm sure **both** Scrooge and the villain escape from their
predicament, without a Hitch. :)
> And there has always been one actor/movie-maker who I idolized
> far, FAR above all others.
> But now he's finally gone. G'bye, Jimmy.
I suppose it's natural for fans of talking ducks and their friends also
to be fans of eight-foot tall invisible rabbits and THEIR friends. So
how about putting a tribute into a story? (Other than "It's a Wonderful
Life", which of course you've already used.) I can imagine Duckburg's
favorite everyduck, Donald, in other Jimmy Stewart roles. In particu-
lar, I'm thinking about the scene in "Bell, Book, and Candle" in which
Stewart drinks the bowl full of that foul-tasting magic potion, and his
eyes open up as wide as Donald Duck's. So how about using that scene,
with Magica in the Hermione Gingold (sp?) role?
Wilmer Rivers
Don Rosa
Disney comics Digest V97 #137
Message 38 -
1997-07-03 at 19:22:07
> From: Ram Samudrala <(Email removed)>
> This is a minor point: but in Life and Times when Scrooge is on the
> train fighting the James gang and gets kicked off, how come he still
> has the watch and the teeth (he leaves it on the table in the train?).
But I made a distinct point of prominently showing that $crooge had picked
his money belt up off the table and had it in his hand when he fell off the
train, rather than having it simply turn up around his waste again later in
the story. I was purposely making *sure* the readers knew he still had his
keepsakes which he keptsaked in that belt. Now you had to assume on your
own that tightfisted $crooge stuck his treasures back into the belt when he
grabbed it -- this happened off-stage in the panel where the James Boys are
jumping off the train -- I shouldn't interrupt the action to show a scene
that the presence of the belt in $crooge's hand in the next panel would
imply.
NISSE:
Well, no, none of those movies are the ones that I had in mind when I did
my scene of $crooge holding onto the villain's sleeve as they dangled off a
giant statue in "A Little Something Special"-- but NORTH BY NORTHWEST is
surely a good guess since it involved hanging off a giant face as in my
story. But Eva Marie Saint was not dangling in midair, nor did she have a
sleeve, nor was she the villain. The movie I'm thinking of had all those
precise elements... and it's one of my very favorite movies from that
director, even though it's one of his least known (for some odd reason).
Speaking of VERTIGO, I actually don't like Jimmy Stewart in that role very
much... it was too grim and nasty and hard-edged and unhumorous for him.
Actually, speaking of another just-passed movie legend, Robert Mitchum
might have been a better choice to be in VERTIGO with his long association
with the film noir genre.
I know -- off-topic, off-topic!
> This is a minor point: but in Life and Times when Scrooge is on the
> train fighting the James gang and gets kicked off, how come he still
> has the watch and the teeth (he leaves it on the table in the train?).
But I made a distinct point of prominently showing that $crooge had picked
his money belt up off the table and had it in his hand when he fell off the
train, rather than having it simply turn up around his waste again later in
the story. I was purposely making *sure* the readers knew he still had his
keepsakes which he keptsaked in that belt. Now you had to assume on your
own that tightfisted $crooge stuck his treasures back into the belt when he
grabbed it -- this happened off-stage in the panel where the James Boys are
jumping off the train -- I shouldn't interrupt the action to show a scene
that the presence of the belt in $crooge's hand in the next panel would
imply.
NISSE:
Well, no, none of those movies are the ones that I had in mind when I did
my scene of $crooge holding onto the villain's sleeve as they dangled off a
giant statue in "A Little Something Special"-- but NORTH BY NORTHWEST is
surely a good guess since it involved hanging off a giant face as in my
story. But Eva Marie Saint was not dangling in midair, nor did she have a
sleeve, nor was she the villain. The movie I'm thinking of had all those
precise elements... and it's one of my very favorite movies from that
director, even though it's one of his least known (for some odd reason).
Speaking of VERTIGO, I actually don't like Jimmy Stewart in that role very
much... it was too grim and nasty and hard-edged and unhumorous for him.
Actually, speaking of another just-passed movie legend, Robert Mitchum
might have been a better choice to be in VERTIGO with his long association
with the film noir genre.
I know -- off-topic, off-topic!
Kriton Kyrimis
Disney comics Digest V97 #137
Message 39 -
1997-07-03 at 19:24:33
Fredrik Sandstrom, quoting Gary, wrote:
> GARY wrote:
> >We have solicited two new titles in the wake of this cancellation. One is
> >Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck, a bimonthly $1.95 book that will take the
> >place of the Penny Pincher in the distribution queue. The other is The
> >Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck, another $1.95 bimonthly, that will be a
> >companion title to Uncle Scrooge Adventures, which is being scaled back to
> >bimonthly frequency.
What? Huh? Where? Who? When, How? etc. etc.
Souds like I missed an issue of the digest.
GLADSTONE:
I gather from the above that the Penny Pinchers are cancelled, to
be replaced by new publications. (I had a look at your Web pages and
didn't see anything mentioned, though.) Although I rather liked the
Penny Pinchers, the replacement whould more than compensate. Will us
foreign subscribers get sufficient notice and/or have our subscriptions
converted to the new titles? If not, what is the recommended procedure,
that will ensure an uninterrupted flow of comics, given the large (2-3
months) delays that surface mail takes to cross the Atlantic?
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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"Starship captains are a special breed of beings who boldly go, et cetera."
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> GARY wrote:
> >We have solicited two new titles in the wake of this cancellation. One is
> >Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck, a bimonthly $1.95 book that will take the
> >place of the Penny Pincher in the distribution queue. The other is The
> >Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck, another $1.95 bimonthly, that will be a
> >companion title to Uncle Scrooge Adventures, which is being scaled back to
> >bimonthly frequency.
What? Huh? Where? Who? When, How? etc. etc.
Souds like I missed an issue of the digest.
GLADSTONE:
I gather from the above that the Penny Pinchers are cancelled, to
be replaced by new publications. (I had a look at your Web pages and
didn't see anything mentioned, though.) Although I rather liked the
Penny Pinchers, the replacement whould more than compensate. Will us
foreign subscribers get sufficient notice and/or have our subscriptions
converted to the new titles? If not, what is the recommended procedure,
that will ensure an uninterrupted flow of comics, given the large (2-3
months) delays that surface mail takes to cross the Atlantic?
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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"Starship captains are a special breed of beings who boldly go, et cetera."
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Carey M. Furlong
Disney comics Digest V97 #137
Message 40 -
1997-07-03 at 20:10:50
Wilmer wrote regarding a breakfast for the Mailing List at SDCon 97:
> I agree that it would be fun to have another such
> session. Would breakfast at the Marriott (next door to the
> convention hall) work for everyone? It seemed to, last year. If
> so, would Friday be the best day (since the con starts on Thurs-
> day), or do people plan on attending only on the weekend?
I'll be at the San Diego con this year and would love to attend
a breakfast for the mailing list. Friday morning would be best for
me. (I tried to attend last year, but couldn't find the restaurant
in the Marriott -- quite embarrasing.)
Carey
- "Blasted kids must think I'm a whelcher!"
S. McDuck (US3 - OS 495)
Carey Furlong; Hungtington Beach, California;
(Email removed); (Email removed)
> I agree that it would be fun to have another such
> session. Would breakfast at the Marriott (next door to the
> convention hall) work for everyone? It seemed to, last year. If
> so, would Friday be the best day (since the con starts on Thurs-
> day), or do people plan on attending only on the weekend?
I'll be at the San Diego con this year and would love to attend
a breakfast for the mailing list. Friday morning would be best for
me. (I tried to attend last year, but couldn't find the restaurant
in the Marriott -- quite embarrasing.)
Carey
- "Blasted kids must think I'm a whelcher!"
S. McDuck (US3 - OS 495)
Carey Furlong; Hungtington Beach, California;
(Email removed); (Email removed)
Dan Shane
Disney comics Digest V97 #137
Message 41 -
1997-07-03 at 20:39:44
DON:
>What could have been a scene from a real movie? The part where $crooge has
>the villain dangling hundreds of feet in the air by the coat sleeve while
>both are hanging off the edge of a giant statue? That *IS* a scene from a
>real movie -- one of my favorites! Who knows which movie?
Kitty Carlisle used to say on WHAT'S MY LINE, I suppose I'll have to
disqualify myself due to my familiarity with the subject, but of course
it's one of my favourites as well. A hint to the guessers out there,
though; the movie was not in colour.
And while we're talking about movies, I'll also break the rule against
discussion of non-comic material. Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum, and Brian
Keith all were on my top 10 list of favourite actors. None of them were
contributing their talents in motion pictures lately, so it isn't fair to
say they will actually be missed. All the wonder and affection I feel is
still there when I watch their films over and over again. It is fair to
say, though, that their like will never (NEVER!) be seen again in our day.
>What could have been a scene from a real movie? The part where $crooge has
>the villain dangling hundreds of feet in the air by the coat sleeve while
>both are hanging off the edge of a giant statue? That *IS* a scene from a
>real movie -- one of my favorites! Who knows which movie?
Kitty Carlisle used to say on WHAT'S MY LINE, I suppose I'll have to
disqualify myself due to my familiarity with the subject, but of course
it's one of my favourites as well. A hint to the guessers out there,
though; the movie was not in colour.
And while we're talking about movies, I'll also break the rule against
discussion of non-comic material. Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum, and Brian
Keith all were on my top 10 list of favourite actors. None of them were
contributing their talents in motion pictures lately, so it isn't fair to
say they will actually be missed. All the wonder and affection I feel is
still there when I watch their films over and over again. It is fair to
say, though, that their like will never (NEVER!) be seen again in our day.
Harry Fluks
The First International Don Rosa Survey
Message 42 -
1997-07-03 at 22:19:46
ARCHONTIS:
> why not carry out a survey on Rosa's stories among
> the List members?
Excellent!
Maybe some implicit rules should be stated explicitly? Like:
- Send your contributions to Archontis only, not to the list. Archontis will
post a resume of the reactions after the voting (I assume!)
- You don't need to fill in ALL categories. For instance, if you don't
know 3 stories that can qualify as Don's best, 2 or 1 would also
be enough. (Just an imaginary example... 8-)
> 2) Pick 3 OPENING SPLASH PANELS which you consider Rosa's BEST:
> 3) Pick 3 INTERIOR SPLASH PANELS which you consider Rosa's BEST:
- Splash panels of part 2 and 3 of a multi-part story are considered
Interior splash panels (right?)
> 7) Pick the 3 BEST/CLEVEREST hidden D.U.C.K.s. (in covers OR Splash panels).
Probably the best hidden one is the one I haven't found yet! 8-)
> I hope you enjoy filling out the above questionnaire,
I will!
> (I sent out the same posting yesterday, but it bounced back--I'm sending it
> again, in the hope that it finally reaches the List. Hopefully, not twice!)
And we indeed got your message twice. In cases like this, please bother our
list administrator Per ((Email removed)). Bouncing messages
could also mean more serious trouble that Per needs to know anyway, and it
avoids double messages.
--Harry.
> why not carry out a survey on Rosa's stories among
> the List members?
Excellent!
Maybe some implicit rules should be stated explicitly? Like:
- Send your contributions to Archontis only, not to the list. Archontis will
post a resume of the reactions after the voting (I assume!)
- You don't need to fill in ALL categories. For instance, if you don't
know 3 stories that can qualify as Don's best, 2 or 1 would also
be enough. (Just an imaginary example... 8-)
> 2) Pick 3 OPENING SPLASH PANELS which you consider Rosa's BEST:
> 3) Pick 3 INTERIOR SPLASH PANELS which you consider Rosa's BEST:
- Splash panels of part 2 and 3 of a multi-part story are considered
Interior splash panels (right?)
> 7) Pick the 3 BEST/CLEVEREST hidden D.U.C.K.s. (in covers OR Splash panels).
Probably the best hidden one is the one I haven't found yet! 8-)
> I hope you enjoy filling out the above questionnaire,
I will!
> (I sent out the same posting yesterday, but it bounced back--I'm sending it
> again, in the hope that it finally reaches the List. Hopefully, not twice!)
And we indeed got your message twice. In cases like this, please bother our
list administrator Per ((Email removed)). Bouncing messages
could also mean more serious trouble that Per needs to know anyway, and it
avoids double messages.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Comics databases
Message 43 -
1997-07-03 at 22:32:15
ROB GIBSON:
> I have noted on several movie websites
> the ability to cast votes for films and/or to submit comments about
> films(moviefinder.com,imdb.com). I would like to see a similar system
> for disney comics
Our (Per's) website offers the possibility to add comments to any story
in our Database. You can find the specific story by searchinf for a code
or a (part of a) title.
Rates and other verdicts are not part of the Database (yet), but they can
be filled in in the free-format comment field. We can make it a "real" field,
if there is enough interest!
RAM SAMUDRALA:
> The comic book database idea is a good thing, and probably very
> profitable to the person who executes it well.
I'm not sure what you mean here. At least the Disney comics Database, which
I am "executing", is on a strict non-profit basis.
> The problem is to make
> it very general: you should have an uniform interface for ANY comic
> book story, whether it involves Batman or Superman or Scrooge McDuck
There is an internet database of *all* American comics, called the Grand
Comics Database (GCD). From time to time, the USA part of the Disney
comics Database (DcD) is copied to the GCD. However, the DcD also has
information of dozens of countries outside the USA.
> I saw an effort on the web to do this for Disney comics, which I
> thought was well-done but could've been better.
I am very interested to know what you think can be better! Have you seen
the ftp version of the DcD as well?
--Harry.
> I have noted on several movie websites
> the ability to cast votes for films and/or to submit comments about
> films(moviefinder.com,imdb.com). I would like to see a similar system
> for disney comics
Our (Per's) website offers the possibility to add comments to any story
in our Database. You can find the specific story by searchinf for a code
or a (part of a) title.
Rates and other verdicts are not part of the Database (yet), but they can
be filled in in the free-format comment field. We can make it a "real" field,
if there is enough interest!
RAM SAMUDRALA:
> The comic book database idea is a good thing, and probably very
> profitable to the person who executes it well.
I'm not sure what you mean here. At least the Disney comics Database, which
I am "executing", is on a strict non-profit basis.
> The problem is to make
> it very general: you should have an uniform interface for ANY comic
> book story, whether it involves Batman or Superman or Scrooge McDuck
There is an internet database of *all* American comics, called the Grand
Comics Database (GCD). From time to time, the USA part of the Disney
comics Database (DcD) is copied to the GCD. However, the DcD also has
information of dozens of countries outside the USA.
> I saw an effort on the web to do this for Disney comics, which I
> thought was well-done but could've been better.
I am very interested to know what you think can be better! Have you seen
the ftp version of the DcD as well?
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
San Diego breakfast
Message 44 -
1997-07-03 at 22:34:44
WILMER:
> And
> will the 95% of the List who **won't** be there be irritated if
> they see more posts like this one, trying to arrange a gathering?
My only irritation is that noone writes WHEN that con is! You are all
talking about "Friday", without mentioning a date! How am I supposed
to know when to take a plane across the Atlantic?
--Harry.
> And
> will the 95% of the List who **won't** be there be irritated if
> they see more posts like this one, trying to arrange a gathering?
My only irritation is that noone writes WHEN that con is! You are all
talking about "Friday", without mentioning a date! How am I supposed
to know when to take a plane across the Atlantic?
--Harry.
Bhc
Disney comics Digest V97 #137
Message 45 -
1997-07-03 at 23:43:28
Eirik:
>Please explain whatever you mean with "put the boot in".
That's an expression that means, roughly, "you brought it up...painfully."
Yes, you weren't intending that, but now you know how deeply this
particular matter cuts.
"Innocence is no barrier to consquence." A hard fact of life. Nobody can
put up warning signs for the unwary concerning every subject of potential
controversy. Fortunately, on this mailing list, consequences are rarely
fatal. Enlightenment is the usual aftermath, if one cares to recognize and
embrace it.
As for what you say is my aggression, arrogance, and less than pleasant
tone: well, take 'em or leave 'em, my friend. This mailing list is not a
nursery. I have things to say and I say 'em, as straightforwardly as I can.
Gary
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"Ee!" - Tiffany Case (as two flaming shish kebabs unpleasantly
approach...)
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>Please explain whatever you mean with "put the boot in".
That's an expression that means, roughly, "you brought it up...painfully."
Yes, you weren't intending that, but now you know how deeply this
particular matter cuts.
"Innocence is no barrier to consquence." A hard fact of life. Nobody can
put up warning signs for the unwary concerning every subject of potential
controversy. Fortunately, on this mailing list, consequences are rarely
fatal. Enlightenment is the usual aftermath, if one cares to recognize and
embrace it.
As for what you say is my aggression, arrogance, and less than pleasant
tone: well, take 'em or leave 'em, my friend. This mailing list is not a
nursery. I have things to say and I say 'em, as straightforwardly as I can.
Gary
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"Ee!" - Tiffany Case (as two flaming shish kebabs unpleasantly
approach...)
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Gladstone on the Web: http://www.hamlco.com/bhc/
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