> > Does anyone now in which story this "Ali Katte" appeard?
JUERGEN
> This sounds like Prinz Ali Miezram von Schnurristan as he was
> called in the German MICKY MAUS 40/1966. This 8-page Uncle $crooge story
> was titled "Onkel Dagoberts Geburtstag" (Uncle $crooge's birthday).
> It is definitely pencilled by Tony Strobl and maybe inked by
> John Liggera. The story tells of $crooge's friend Ali Miezram
> (= Ali Katte) who invites $crooge to spend his birthday in Ali's
> country. Ali is much richer than $crooge and has filled his
> country's deserts with an ocean of coins and money bills.
> This is all pretty much against the spirit of Barks' $crooge
> stories, but when I first read the story as a six-year-old I thought
> it was very exciting.
>
> Juergen
Thanks a lot for the information! I havent had time to look for the story
yet, but with your information, I'm sure it will be easy to find it!
Per-Erik
Author
Topic: 199708
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Per-Erik Malmström
Disney comics Digest V97 #174
Message 211 -
1997-08-22 at 14:04:53
Luna Storta
Daisy's dazed days
Message 212 -
1997-08-22 at 15:01:18
Hello everybody,
for whoever is interested to see the list-discussed page from Barks
"Daisy's dazed days", there is the URL:
http://www.geocities.com/paris/3088/daisy.htm
I'll be back in september, so see you all soon!!!
Bye,
Luna Storta alias Paolo Castagno
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"Daisy's dazed days", there is the URL:
http://www.geocities.com/paris/3088/daisy.htm
I'll be back in september, so see you all soon!!!
Bye,
Luna Storta alias Paolo Castagno
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Didier Ghez
Picsou, Lucca and more
Message 213 -
1997-08-22 at 15:59:04
Hi,
MIKE, MICHAEL,...:
The new Rosa art to be published in Picsou should start appearing by
November (correct me if I am wrong Don). For all of you who want to
subscribe to Picsou for that reason, I will soon let you know what the co=
st
for foreign subscription is and try and get someone to scan a subscriptio=
n
form on a site to make it easier for everybody.
Had I only received one request I would have been able to send any issue =
of
Picsou as a gift (as with issue 300). I am a little bit too swamped by
those nice requests however and since a one year subscription to Picsou
costs only around 150FF or 200FF, I guess that most of you can afford it.=
Hope that is a good solution for everyone.
HARRY:
I will go to Lucca by plane actually. It would be so nice to finally meet=
you there. I would try to arrive on the 30th in the morning and would lea=
ve
late on the 2nd, thus spending 3 nights there. =
I have tried without success to contact Fabio about the best ways to reac=
h
Lucca as well as to get his advice about a hotel. I guess he is currently=
on vacations. =
I am also trying to convince Pascal to attend, at least for the week-end
and will know about that in around 1 to 2 weeks. =
ALL:
If I receive enough questions from the list for the Carpi interview, I wi=
ll
be glad to publish it entirely here as it was suggested. I don't yet know=
where the magazine version might appear. Maybe in a new magazine that lis=
t
member Chuck Manson might launch in the US in the future, maybe in the
fanzine that Pascal and myself would like to launch someday, somehow.
Didier
MIKE, MICHAEL,...:
The new Rosa art to be published in Picsou should start appearing by
November (correct me if I am wrong Don). For all of you who want to
subscribe to Picsou for that reason, I will soon let you know what the co=
st
for foreign subscription is and try and get someone to scan a subscriptio=
n
form on a site to make it easier for everybody.
Had I only received one request I would have been able to send any issue =
of
Picsou as a gift (as with issue 300). I am a little bit too swamped by
those nice requests however and since a one year subscription to Picsou
costs only around 150FF or 200FF, I guess that most of you can afford it.=
Hope that is a good solution for everyone.
HARRY:
I will go to Lucca by plane actually. It would be so nice to finally meet=
you there. I would try to arrive on the 30th in the morning and would lea=
ve
late on the 2nd, thus spending 3 nights there. =
I have tried without success to contact Fabio about the best ways to reac=
h
Lucca as well as to get his advice about a hotel. I guess he is currently=
on vacations. =
I am also trying to convince Pascal to attend, at least for the week-end
and will know about that in around 1 to 2 weeks. =
ALL:
If I receive enough questions from the list for the Carpi interview, I wi=
ll
be glad to publish it entirely here as it was suggested. I don't yet know=
where the magazine version might appear. Maybe in a new magazine that lis=
t
member Chuck Manson might launch in the US in the future, maybe in the
fanzine that Pascal and myself would like to launch someday, somehow.
Didier
Per-Erik Malmström
The producers of Disney Comics
Message 214 -
1997-08-22 at 16:05:10
FRANCOIS
> - The Swedish production began in 1937 in Musse Pigg Tidningen
> - The Swedish production ended in 1938 (?)
> - only *three* stories were made (all with MM and DD)
>
> Right ?
Nope! As I said, after Mickey Mouse in the Land of the Giants, there was a
story with Hiawatha and later Don Mickey, thats all togheter 5 stories.
I don't think Mickey or Donald where in the Hiawatha story, but I'm not
sure.
Some other Disney stories might have started in later issues of "Musse Pigg
Tidningen" so it could be even more then 5 stories.
I made a misstake last time, there were only 23 issues of "MPT",
8 in 1937 and 15 in 1938!
Per-Erik
> - The Swedish production began in 1937 in Musse Pigg Tidningen
> - The Swedish production ended in 1938 (?)
> - only *three* stories were made (all with MM and DD)
>
> Right ?
Nope! As I said, after Mickey Mouse in the Land of the Giants, there was a
story with Hiawatha and later Don Mickey, thats all togheter 5 stories.
I don't think Mickey or Donald where in the Hiawatha story, but I'm not
sure.
Some other Disney stories might have started in later issues of "Musse Pigg
Tidningen" so it could be even more then 5 stories.
I made a misstake last time, there were only 23 issues of "MPT",
8 in 1937 and 15 in 1938!
Per-Erik
Francois Willot
Reply to Per
Message 215 -
1997-08-22 at 16:20:59
Per,
>Francois wrote about the Egmont weekly reports:
>> Per Starback did talk about these reports in this mailing list long
>ago.
>
>That must have been someone else, or I'm vert forget-ful. I don't
>think I've even heard about these reports until now.
I was not able to find that in the archives I have. It may be someone
else.
I do have the weekly reports for 1993 to now. Harry also have them (for
1995 and 1996 he said to me). He wanted (I'll say it, after all) to get
an electronic form of it from Byron Erickson, but it seems that he has
some problems with that. If it's not possible to have files, we can
(argh!) type in the data for the Disney Comics Database. But before I
would like to be sure there's no other way to get them.
Anyway you'll soon be able to get these informations for the Danish
stories published in France in the Disney Comics Database because I
included the infos in my own database.
I understand you and other people would want to have these stories
credits but I can't type in all the data now! But if you (or anyone
else) want infos about a *particular* story, I can easily see what I
have. (I made an index with the codes and the issue numbers of the
reports, so this is not a problem).
-- Francois
>Francois wrote about the Egmont weekly reports:
>> Per Starback did talk about these reports in this mailing list long
>ago.
>
>That must have been someone else, or I'm vert forget-ful. I don't
>think I've even heard about these reports until now.
I was not able to find that in the archives I have. It may be someone
else.
I do have the weekly reports for 1993 to now. Harry also have them (for
1995 and 1996 he said to me). He wanted (I'll say it, after all) to get
an electronic form of it from Byron Erickson, but it seems that he has
some problems with that. If it's not possible to have files, we can
(argh!) type in the data for the Disney Comics Database. But before I
would like to be sure there's no other way to get them.
Anyway you'll soon be able to get these informations for the Danish
stories published in France in the Disney Comics Database because I
included the infos in my own database.
I understand you and other people would want to have these stories
credits but I can't type in all the data now! But if you (or anyone
else) want infos about a *particular* story, I can easily see what I
have. (I made an index with the codes and the issue numbers of the
reports, so this is not a problem).
-- Francois
Kriton Kyrimis
Disney comics Digest V97 #176
Message 216 -
1997-08-22 at 18:58:24
TIM:
> Greek list members:
> Have there ever been any Disney Comics in Ancient Greek,
No, but they've done a couple of Asterix stories (Asterix in Olympia,
and The Rose and the Sword), with Asterix and Cleopatra in the works.
> maybe for reading them in school (I think you can choose Ancient Greek as
> a subject, can't you ?)
Back in prehistoric days, when I went to high school, taking six years of
ancient Greek was obligatory. The only choice available was taking *even
more* ancient Greek, along with Latin and other classical subjects in
the "classical" direction of studies, rather than the "practical" one,
which gave more weight to math and the physical sciences. Since then,
what I translated as high school has been split into two parts, and
ancient Greek has been at times completely removed from the curriculum,
then taught only from translations, or re-introduced again, according
to whatever happened to be the latest change introduced in our education
system, in what I, in my not so humble opinion, believe to be a conscious
effort by the government to turn Greeks into a bunch of uneducated,
hence easily influenced, voters. George, who is at exactly the right
age to experience these things first hand, can tell us what the flavor
of the day is regarding teaching ancient Greek at school.
> or just for pure amusement ?
I've read Asterix in modern and ancient Greek, English, and French, and
I enjoyed the ancient Greek version the most, so I have to agree with
you that reading comics in ancient Greek could be fun. (I wish such
comics had been available during my school days; the way they taught us
ancient Greek made it all seem so *boring*.)
MARCO:
> >I istoria kai doksa tis dinastias ton Ntak
> I gather that you are translitterating different letters with the same "i"
> here: you should have a "iota" in "istoria kai" but you have an "eta" in the
> article "I" and in "tis", am I right? 8-)
Right. George was providing a phonetic transcription of the Greek title.
ROB:
> It seems reasonable to
> assume that a cubic acre would be a cube with an acre on a side, or with
> edges of length 208.71 ft.
It might seem more reasonable to assume that a cubic acre is an acre
cubed, i.e., 1 acre X 1 acre X 1 acre. This would make it a "cube", each
"edge" of which is an acre "long". This would be a six-dimensional object,
that would be extremely hard to visualize.
Barks, probably having little knowledge of the concept of dimension in
units of measurement, probably made up "cubic acre" as a combination
of various large units of measurement, like acre and cubic meter,
to indicate that Scrooge's money bin was *big*. Thus, I would tend to
interpret "three cubic acres of money" as "a *lot* of money", and not
try to figure out how much that would be. (On the other hand, having
a six-dimensional money bin might explain how in some stories Scrooge
appears to have lost all of his money, and in the next story his money
bin is full again: What he lost could have been only a three-dimensional
part of his money, and what we see in the next story is merely another
such part--sort of like skimming off a thin, two-dimensional sheet of
money off the top of a garden-variety, three-dimensional money bin!)
Now if one really wants to put a number to the volume of Scrooge's
money, consider that it is shaped like a cube, and that the money
level is (usually) at the 100 foot mark. This would make the volume of
Scrooge's money equal to 100 X 100 X 100 = a million cubic feet, which
is a bit less than Rob's 27,274,265 cubic feet. (Surprisingly, though,
both numbers are in the order of millions of cubic feet!)
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
-----
"I will venture just one question, Doctor. What precisely do you *do* in
there?"
"Argue, mainly!"
-----
> Greek list members:
> Have there ever been any Disney Comics in Ancient Greek,
No, but they've done a couple of Asterix stories (Asterix in Olympia,
and The Rose and the Sword), with Asterix and Cleopatra in the works.
> maybe for reading them in school (I think you can choose Ancient Greek as
> a subject, can't you ?)
Back in prehistoric days, when I went to high school, taking six years of
ancient Greek was obligatory. The only choice available was taking *even
more* ancient Greek, along with Latin and other classical subjects in
the "classical" direction of studies, rather than the "practical" one,
which gave more weight to math and the physical sciences. Since then,
what I translated as high school has been split into two parts, and
ancient Greek has been at times completely removed from the curriculum,
then taught only from translations, or re-introduced again, according
to whatever happened to be the latest change introduced in our education
system, in what I, in my not so humble opinion, believe to be a conscious
effort by the government to turn Greeks into a bunch of uneducated,
hence easily influenced, voters. George, who is at exactly the right
age to experience these things first hand, can tell us what the flavor
of the day is regarding teaching ancient Greek at school.
> or just for pure amusement ?
I've read Asterix in modern and ancient Greek, English, and French, and
I enjoyed the ancient Greek version the most, so I have to agree with
you that reading comics in ancient Greek could be fun. (I wish such
comics had been available during my school days; the way they taught us
ancient Greek made it all seem so *boring*.)
MARCO:
> >I istoria kai doksa tis dinastias ton Ntak
> I gather that you are translitterating different letters with the same "i"
> here: you should have a "iota" in "istoria kai" but you have an "eta" in the
> article "I" and in "tis", am I right? 8-)
Right. George was providing a phonetic transcription of the Greek title.
ROB:
> It seems reasonable to
> assume that a cubic acre would be a cube with an acre on a side, or with
> edges of length 208.71 ft.
It might seem more reasonable to assume that a cubic acre is an acre
cubed, i.e., 1 acre X 1 acre X 1 acre. This would make it a "cube", each
"edge" of which is an acre "long". This would be a six-dimensional object,
that would be extremely hard to visualize.
Barks, probably having little knowledge of the concept of dimension in
units of measurement, probably made up "cubic acre" as a combination
of various large units of measurement, like acre and cubic meter,
to indicate that Scrooge's money bin was *big*. Thus, I would tend to
interpret "three cubic acres of money" as "a *lot* of money", and not
try to figure out how much that would be. (On the other hand, having
a six-dimensional money bin might explain how in some stories Scrooge
appears to have lost all of his money, and in the next story his money
bin is full again: What he lost could have been only a three-dimensional
part of his money, and what we see in the next story is merely another
such part--sort of like skimming off a thin, two-dimensional sheet of
money off the top of a garden-variety, three-dimensional money bin!)
Now if one really wants to put a number to the volume of Scrooge's
money, consider that it is shaped like a cube, and that the money
level is (usually) at the 100 foot mark. This would make the volume of
Scrooge's money equal to 100 X 100 X 100 = a million cubic feet, which
is a bit less than Rob's 27,274,265 cubic feet. (Surprisingly, though,
both numbers are in the order of millions of cubic feet!)
--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
-----
"I will venture just one question, Doctor. What precisely do you *do* in
there?"
"Argue, mainly!"
-----
Otterburg
Disney comics Digest V97 #176
Message 217 -
1997-08-22 at 19:48:29
Ooops, I think I just sent a message with nothing in it.
Sorry for that !
Dwight Decker:
You must have quite a nice opinion of Hamburg to think that anywhere else
than in a theatre, museum or zoo you'll get seperated from either your
health, wallet or virtue. Not even the Reeperbahn is such an exciting
horrortrip as you seem to expect it. You should really give it a try.
Most people survive visiting it. If you're honestly interested to get
to know where to go in Hamburg I could tell you privately, but I don't think
it's very interesting for the rest of the ML members.
What did you mean by writing that you've seen Disney comics in several
flavors of German ? German light, medium or extra strong ?
You referred to somebody who proposed to publish Disney comics in English
dialects. I think that was me (unless somebody else did the same proposal).
I must admit that I don't have much knowledge about the different American
dialects, but I was really thinking about a written adaption of *spoken*
dialects. If the differences between the American dialects are really that
small, it surely wouldn't be much fun. But I still think it could work
with English dialects in Great Britain.
As for the Faroese Barks Library: Why do you want to ask somebody from
the Faroese Islands who now lives in Copenhagen if he can get these
comics for you ? Wouldn't it be easier to write directly to the publisher ?
You have the adress ? It works without problems ! I think one album was
about 20 DEM.
Bye, Tim
Sorry for that !
Dwight Decker:
You must have quite a nice opinion of Hamburg to think that anywhere else
than in a theatre, museum or zoo you'll get seperated from either your
health, wallet or virtue. Not even the Reeperbahn is such an exciting
horrortrip as you seem to expect it. You should really give it a try.
Most people survive visiting it. If you're honestly interested to get
to know where to go in Hamburg I could tell you privately, but I don't think
it's very interesting for the rest of the ML members.
What did you mean by writing that you've seen Disney comics in several
flavors of German ? German light, medium or extra strong ?
You referred to somebody who proposed to publish Disney comics in English
dialects. I think that was me (unless somebody else did the same proposal).
I must admit that I don't have much knowledge about the different American
dialects, but I was really thinking about a written adaption of *spoken*
dialects. If the differences between the American dialects are really that
small, it surely wouldn't be much fun. But I still think it could work
with English dialects in Great Britain.
As for the Faroese Barks Library: Why do you want to ask somebody from
the Faroese Islands who now lives in Copenhagen if he can get these
comics for you ? Wouldn't it be easier to write directly to the publisher ?
You have the adress ? It works without problems ! I think one album was
about 20 DEM.
Bye, Tim
Harry Fluks
Website (Mike)
Message 218 -
1997-08-22 at 22:39:49
MIKE P:
> Don's picture on himself, much more detailed than the one on
> Harry's webpage.
> [...] I've got links on
> you both on my page, now. Harry, you even made me think about doing my own
> page about Don Rosa in Finnish.
Are you sure you're talking about *my* website? I have no self portrait of Don Rosa
on my website.
--Harry.
> Don's picture on himself, much more detailed than the one on
> Harry's webpage.
> [...] I've got links on
> you both on my page, now. Harry, you even made me think about doing my own
> page about Don Rosa in Finnish.
Are you sure you're talking about *my* website? I have no self portrait of Don Rosa
on my website.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks
Cubic feet (Kriton)
Message 219 -
1997-08-22 at 22:44:21
KRITON:
> Now if one really wants to put a number to the volume of Scrooge's
> money, consider that it is shaped like a cube, and that the money
> level is (usually) at the 100 foot mark. This would make the volume of
> Scrooge's money equal to 100 X 100 X 100 = a million cubic feet
To be a bit more precise: the money usually is at the 99 feet mark, but
there is a considerable amount of space above the marker. Let's
say the height of the bin is 120 feet, so his money is 99 x 120 x 120
cubic feet = 1.4 million cubic feet.
(120 feet seems so little for such a big building. In Holland, the marker
says 100 METER. That sounds more logical to me!)
--Harry.
> Now if one really wants to put a number to the volume of Scrooge's
> money, consider that it is shaped like a cube, and that the money
> level is (usually) at the 100 foot mark. This would make the volume of
> Scrooge's money equal to 100 X 100 X 100 = a million cubic feet
To be a bit more precise: the money usually is at the 99 feet mark, but
there is a considerable amount of space above the marker. Let's
say the height of the bin is 120 feet, so his money is 99 x 120 x 120
cubic feet = 1.4 million cubic feet.
(120 feet seems so little for such a big building. In Holland, the marker
says 100 METER. That sounds more logical to me!)
--Harry.
Fabio Gadducci
Hallo...
Message 220 -
1997-08-22 at 22:50:26
Hi, folks.
Gosh, I seems to be so late in everything. Even in delurking, when people
looks for me...
Anyhow, Harry and Didier: I just answered both of you. I swear!
And despite the overload of work, I cannot thing of any meaningful excuse
not to have greeted good ol' Francois, after his first e-mail. It is nice
to have you around here.
And after that, let's go directly to the core of the question.
Since I'm suppoed to be the guy in charge of the Foreigner Office (so to
say) at the Lucca Convention, I could also start doing some advertising.
This semester (like other Italian conventions, we held our own twice per
year) Lucca Comics&Games will be held from October 30, to November 2. The
highlights are supposed to be a twin exhibiton on Jeff Hawke and Storm,
with both Jordan and Lawrence. Another one devoted to the (not necessarily
Disney) work of Giorgio Cavazzano (and many other Disney artists of the new
generation will be there). A third one to the current Italian underground
comix (the so-called Alter Vox zone). Besides that, a few, not yet
confirmed (but usually present) artists from Bonelli (publisher of Tex
Willer, etc) and Marvel Italy. Furthermore, we should have two other
guests: Namely, our Don and (last minute, not yet confirmed addition) Neil
Gaiman.
Now, about the weather: it is difficult to predict, but it is usually still
rather sunny and warm in Italy, in that time of the year. And you could
also make an holiday out of that, Harry, visiting Tuscany.
And, Didier: getting there by plane, via Pisa, is the best solution...
Unfortunately, I cannot offer anyone to share my flat (it has been already
lent to a friend of mine, while I'm here in Berlin), but (and now I'm my
own prosecutor, linking myself to a deadly task, and everybody will hate me
in the end, etc...) I could look for a cheap accomodation in Lucca for all
the people who is interested! Let me know, and remember (like I always keep
on saying) that I'm always late, late, and if possible even more late in
any possible, conceivable deadline...
hPew, already a quarter without punching formulas in my keyboard: back to
work...
Fabio
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #177
******************************************
Gosh, I seems to be so late in everything. Even in delurking, when people
looks for me...
Anyhow, Harry and Didier: I just answered both of you. I swear!
And despite the overload of work, I cannot thing of any meaningful excuse
not to have greeted good ol' Francois, after his first e-mail. It is nice
to have you around here.
And after that, let's go directly to the core of the question.
Since I'm suppoed to be the guy in charge of the Foreigner Office (so to
say) at the Lucca Convention, I could also start doing some advertising.
This semester (like other Italian conventions, we held our own twice per
year) Lucca Comics&Games will be held from October 30, to November 2. The
highlights are supposed to be a twin exhibiton on Jeff Hawke and Storm,
with both Jordan and Lawrence. Another one devoted to the (not necessarily
Disney) work of Giorgio Cavazzano (and many other Disney artists of the new
generation will be there). A third one to the current Italian underground
comix (the so-called Alter Vox zone). Besides that, a few, not yet
confirmed (but usually present) artists from Bonelli (publisher of Tex
Willer, etc) and Marvel Italy. Furthermore, we should have two other
guests: Namely, our Don and (last minute, not yet confirmed addition) Neil
Gaiman.
Now, about the weather: it is difficult to predict, but it is usually still
rather sunny and warm in Italy, in that time of the year. And you could
also make an holiday out of that, Harry, visiting Tuscany.
And, Didier: getting there by plane, via Pisa, is the best solution...
Unfortunately, I cannot offer anyone to share my flat (it has been already
lent to a friend of mine, while I'm here in Berlin), but (and now I'm my
own prosecutor, linking myself to a deadly task, and everybody will hate me
in the end, etc...) I could look for a cheap accomodation in Lucca for all
the people who is interested! Let me know, and remember (like I always keep
on saying) that I'm always late, late, and if possible even more late in
any possible, conceivable deadline...
hPew, already a quarter without punching formulas in my keyboard: back to
work...
Fabio
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #177
******************************************
Harry Fluks
Scripters and Raetsel (Francois)
Message 221 -
1997-08-22 at 22:54:37
FRANCOIS:
> I think the story where Scrooge is shown as a shoe
> cleaner (used by Don Rosa in LoS) was written by Lockman (anyone here
> could confirm that?).
"The Invisible Intruder" from US 44 was indeed written by Lockman
(according to Kim Weston in Jack Chalker's book).
And then there's "Too Many Pets", originally written by Merill De Maris.
> By the way, there *is* a 18th Disney Producer:
> - Germany 80s - now (some gags are still produced?)
The Germans have been making their own "Raetsel Comics", 1-page
mysteries similar to the French "Enigmes". They use codes like
"G RC 9401". The most recent one in the Database is from 1994.
--Harry.
> I think the story where Scrooge is shown as a shoe
> cleaner (used by Don Rosa in LoS) was written by Lockman (anyone here
> could confirm that?).
"The Invisible Intruder" from US 44 was indeed written by Lockman
(according to Kim Weston in Jack Chalker's book).
And then there's "Too Many Pets", originally written by Merill De Maris.
> By the way, there *is* a 18th Disney Producer:
> - Germany 80s - now (some gags are still produced?)
The Germans have been making their own "Raetsel Comics", 1-page
mysteries similar to the French "Enigmes". They use codes like
"G RC 9401". The most recent one in the Database is from 1994.
--Harry.
Francois Willot
Fabio
Message 222 -
1997-08-22 at 23:50:26
Hello, Fabio !
I was wondering if there was someone called Fabio Gadducci on this
list...
And, by the way, as I already said to Didier, I plan to go to Lucca too.
Nice if I could meet with you and with Harry.
Just a question : on which part of Italy is Lucca's fair exactly? (I
haven't looked at this in detail yet.)
Per-Erik,
Thank you for your last message and for all the informations in it! (I
though the Hiawatha story was just syndicated strips from the USA...).
By the way,
There *is* a 19th production :
- Finlandn in the 80s (the Winnie the Pooh stories by Wallu)
I think that's all now...
-- Francois
(Fabio: if I want to send you things, in a few weeks, what address
should I use? Berlin or Pisa?)
I was wondering if there was someone called Fabio Gadducci on this
list...
And, by the way, as I already said to Didier, I plan to go to Lucca too.
Nice if I could meet with you and with Harry.
Just a question : on which part of Italy is Lucca's fair exactly? (I
haven't looked at this in detail yet.)
Per-Erik,
Thank you for your last message and for all the informations in it! (I
though the Hiawatha story was just syndicated strips from the USA...).
By the way,
There *is* a 19th production :
- Finlandn in the 80s (the Winnie the Pooh stories by Wallu)
I think that's all now...
-- Francois
(Fabio: if I want to send you things, in a few weeks, what address
should I use? Berlin or Pisa?)
Joachim Butz
Hi - back again; Re. #175/176/174
Message 223 -
1997-08-23 at 00:19:01
Hi,
anbody remembering me? :-)
After a long time offline and some testing of several providers, it seems it
will work with the actual one I have now. So I am available via e-mail again
since a few weeks. I resubscribed to the ml a few weeks ago (so I am a
MoDML='Member of Disney Mailing List' again - so this for the actual
discussion about abbreviations), but the digests are piling up mostly unred.
So I am not really informed whats going on here.
But I red V97 #175 yet:
>Well, the news this time is that "Harald, Joachim, P.T. and Silvio"
>at Ehapa's Disney-editorial-department (Germany) have joined the list
>(with one joint username).
Uh, oh - more MoDMLs here from Stuttgart?
And bad news in digest # 175: Don ROSA is NOT coming here to Stuttgart at
his next tour ( $$%&'*!@ - moarn - groan - $$%&'*!@). And no nephew who
could moarn for me. :-)
DON wrote:
> First I'll go to
>Germany for my annual signing tour for Ehapa, ... but I don't know those
details.
>Maybe Ehapa will answer queries concerning exact locales
Well, it seems there are EHAPA people on the list now. So, maybe, the can
post the details?
DIDIER wrote:
>DON:
>It has been a long time since that question was last asked so here it comes
>again:
>
>What are you currently working on?
It seems he is working full time on his Europe tours :-)
In #174 Francois WILLO wrote:
>The French "Picsou Magazine" will include unpublished drawings and
>illustrations by Don Rosa in each Picsou issue beginning with october or
>november 1997.
Sounds very interesting. please report more about this.
Best wishes to all of you nice and friendly guys.
Joachim from EHAPA-city (but with no relation to the company)
anbody remembering me? :-)
After a long time offline and some testing of several providers, it seems it
will work with the actual one I have now. So I am available via e-mail again
since a few weeks. I resubscribed to the ml a few weeks ago (so I am a
MoDML='Member of Disney Mailing List' again - so this for the actual
discussion about abbreviations), but the digests are piling up mostly unred.
So I am not really informed whats going on here.
But I red V97 #175 yet:
>Well, the news this time is that "Harald, Joachim, P.T. and Silvio"
>at Ehapa's Disney-editorial-department (Germany) have joined the list
>(with one joint username).
Uh, oh - more MoDMLs here from Stuttgart?
And bad news in digest # 175: Don ROSA is NOT coming here to Stuttgart at
his next tour ( $$%&'*!@ - moarn - groan - $$%&'*!@). And no nephew who
could moarn for me. :-)
DON wrote:
> First I'll go to
>Germany for my annual signing tour for Ehapa, ... but I don't know those
details.
>Maybe Ehapa will answer queries concerning exact locales
Well, it seems there are EHAPA people on the list now. So, maybe, the can
post the details?
DIDIER wrote:
>DON:
>It has been a long time since that question was last asked so here it comes
>again:
>
>What are you currently working on?
It seems he is working full time on his Europe tours :-)
In #174 Francois WILLO wrote:
>The French "Picsou Magazine" will include unpublished drawings and
>illustrations by Don Rosa in each Picsou issue beginning with october or
>november 1997.
Sounds very interesting. please report more about this.
Best wishes to all of you nice and friendly guys.
Joachim from EHAPA-city (but with no relation to the company)
Cebarat
Disney Comics Digest V97 #175
Message 224 -
1997-08-23 at 02:29:14
ANDREW WILES said:
<<In response to the following comment:
"I am getting more and more persuaded that there is a link between
scientific interests [Mathematics, Engineering ;-), etc. etc.] and Duck
fondness"
I started reading $crooge and only $crooge at the age of 6. By the time I
was in my twenties I had completed a mathematics degree. I finally know
what or who influenced my direction in life.>>
While trying to come up with some ideas for new Scrooge adventures some years
ago, I conceived the notion of Scrooge going on a search for the proof of
Fermat's Last Theorem that Fermat supposedly had concocted but lacked
sufficient margin space to write. News of the Wolfskehl Prize (offered in
the will of a German mathematician to the first person to prove FLT) would
have spurred Scrooge on this quest. Never mind that the Wolfskehl Prize was
rendered worthless by inflation -- Scrooge would figure that if someone was
actually willing to pay money for a proof of FLT, then finding Fermat's
supposed proof might REALLY be worth big bucks. Of course, the nephews would
serve as the corrective Greek chorus, trying to get Scrooge to see that
mathematical results (even legendary ones) aren't quite the same as lost
treasures.
I suppose that this story could still be done today, but some of the romance
has leaked out of my idea. Pity. :-)
KRITON KYRIMIS commented, regarding DISNEY ADVENTURES -style comics:
<<...
The publishers sent me a couple of letters to inform me of all the
wonderful stuff that "my kid" would be missing, and this only strengthened
my decision not to renew. I am not a kid (even though I am a child at
heart), and even if I were a child, I would not want to be treated as
such: part of the fascination of Disney comics is that they do not talk
down to children, treating them rather as young adults.>>
DISNEY ADVENTURES is no longer even treating its "kid" audience as Disney
fans. The last two issues have had no -- zero, zip, zilch -- Disney comics
material of any sort. Instead, there have been reprints of Jeff Smith's
BONE, a story featuring DOUG (a character whose rights Disney purchased),
things like that.
LUNA STORTA responded to the claim that it
>...seems pretty standard in comics and TV series that happy marriages
do not make for interesting plots with some exceptions...>
by saying:
<<Yes, and very remarkable exceptions are Jiggs and Maggie from George
McManus (known in Italy as Arcibaldo e Petronilla) and Blondie and
Dagwood Bumstead from Chic Young (Blondie e Dagoberto).>>
I agree with Blondie and Dagwood, but Jiggs and Maggie?! BRINGING UP FATHER
has the theme of Maggie trying to pull an unwilling Jiggs into a "nouveau
riche" lifestyle he doesn't want. It may not be a COMPLETELY unhappy
marriage, but it is, at best, a contentious one.
-- Christopher E. Barat
(Email removed)
http://members.aol.com/cebarat/home.htm
"IT'S ONE OF THOSE GEE-WHIZ MATHEMATICAL THINGS!" -- Nephew, William Van Horn
story "The Black Moon"
On the issue of scientists and mathematicians evincing a particular interest
in Barks' stories and Duck stories in general... As I've noted before, I've
observed the same phenomenon. Actually, I've observed a more general trend
of "professionals" (academics, lawyers, businesspeople) being enamored with
the Ducks. Since strong storytelling is at the root of Barks' greatness, and
his successors have tried to maintain that standard, it is easy to see why
intelligent readers would be drawn to these comics. There is more "meat" to
a typical Duck comic than there is to a typical "endless fight" superhero
comic. Other comics genres with an appeal to thoughtful readers have grown
up in recent years, but the Ducks were there from the beginning, so there's a
lot of longstanding loyalty to the genre involved.
<<In response to the following comment:
"I am getting more and more persuaded that there is a link between
scientific interests [Mathematics, Engineering ;-), etc. etc.] and Duck
fondness"
I started reading $crooge and only $crooge at the age of 6. By the time I
was in my twenties I had completed a mathematics degree. I finally know
what or who influenced my direction in life.>>
While trying to come up with some ideas for new Scrooge adventures some years
ago, I conceived the notion of Scrooge going on a search for the proof of
Fermat's Last Theorem that Fermat supposedly had concocted but lacked
sufficient margin space to write. News of the Wolfskehl Prize (offered in
the will of a German mathematician to the first person to prove FLT) would
have spurred Scrooge on this quest. Never mind that the Wolfskehl Prize was
rendered worthless by inflation -- Scrooge would figure that if someone was
actually willing to pay money for a proof of FLT, then finding Fermat's
supposed proof might REALLY be worth big bucks. Of course, the nephews would
serve as the corrective Greek chorus, trying to get Scrooge to see that
mathematical results (even legendary ones) aren't quite the same as lost
treasures.
I suppose that this story could still be done today, but some of the romance
has leaked out of my idea. Pity. :-)
KRITON KYRIMIS commented, regarding DISNEY ADVENTURES -style comics:
<<...
The publishers sent me a couple of letters to inform me of all the
wonderful stuff that "my kid" would be missing, and this only strengthened
my decision not to renew. I am not a kid (even though I am a child at
heart), and even if I were a child, I would not want to be treated as
such: part of the fascination of Disney comics is that they do not talk
down to children, treating them rather as young adults.>>
DISNEY ADVENTURES is no longer even treating its "kid" audience as Disney
fans. The last two issues have had no -- zero, zip, zilch -- Disney comics
material of any sort. Instead, there have been reprints of Jeff Smith's
BONE, a story featuring DOUG (a character whose rights Disney purchased),
things like that.
LUNA STORTA responded to the claim that it
>...seems pretty standard in comics and TV series that happy marriages
do not make for interesting plots with some exceptions...>
by saying:
<<Yes, and very remarkable exceptions are Jiggs and Maggie from George
McManus (known in Italy as Arcibaldo e Petronilla) and Blondie and
Dagwood Bumstead from Chic Young (Blondie e Dagoberto).>>
I agree with Blondie and Dagwood, but Jiggs and Maggie?! BRINGING UP FATHER
has the theme of Maggie trying to pull an unwilling Jiggs into a "nouveau
riche" lifestyle he doesn't want. It may not be a COMPLETELY unhappy
marriage, but it is, at best, a contentious one.
-- Christopher E. Barat
(Email removed)
http://members.aol.com/cebarat/home.htm
"IT'S ONE OF THOSE GEE-WHIZ MATHEMATICAL THINGS!" -- Nephew, William Van Horn
story "The Black Moon"
On the issue of scientists and mathematicians evincing a particular interest
in Barks' stories and Duck stories in general... As I've noted before, I've
observed the same phenomenon. Actually, I've observed a more general trend
of "professionals" (academics, lawyers, businesspeople) being enamored with
the Ducks. Since strong storytelling is at the root of Barks' greatness, and
his successors have tried to maintain that standard, it is easy to see why
intelligent readers would be drawn to these comics. There is more "meat" to
a typical Duck comic than there is to a typical "endless fight" superhero
comic. Other comics genres with an appeal to thoughtful readers have grown
up in recent years, but the Ducks were there from the beginning, so there's a
lot of longstanding loyalty to the genre involved.
Merlin Haas
Acre
Message 225 -
1997-08-23 at 04:15:44
> This is a good time to ask: What is an acre? In metric units if
> possible?
> # Cristian Lucas
> # From Buenos Aires, Argentina
An acre is a unit of area used to measure land in the USA and England.
It is equal to 43,650 square feet or 4047 square meters or 0.405
hectare.
One square mile (often referred to in the Midwest United States as a
"section") contains 640 acres. This would be 2.590 square kilometers.
best -- Merlin Haas
> possible?
> # Cristian Lucas
> # From Buenos Aires, Argentina
An acre is a unit of area used to measure land in the USA and England.
It is equal to 43,650 square feet or 4047 square meters or 0.405
hectare.
One square mile (often referred to in the Midwest United States as a
"section") contains 640 acres. This would be 2.590 square kilometers.
best -- Merlin Haas