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FRANCOIS WILLOT, 20-08-1997:

> - The notaries in Barks' Heirloom Watch

Seems that you beat me on that. <groan!> Well, what about the Terries and
Fermies in Barks' "Land Beneath the Ground" (U$ 13) then? The falcons in
"Doom Diamond" (U$ 70)? Er... no, I don't think they count. ;-)

Maybe the Peeweegahs?

DON ROSA:

I've used a fan-drawing(?) you once made as illustration on the volleybal-
page I've made with a friend (Donald ramming his fist through a computer-
monitor), this to illustrate some problems I recently had (and have) with
my computer. You can find it at http://www.palet.nl/mvc/index.html. I hope
you like it.

I'm fond of internet, Frey (the friend) is fond of volleybal, so we thought
making a volleybal-internetpage would be a nice combination. ;-)

Greetings, "Oh peel your eyes and take a peep
at how I buy ingredients cheap!
--- Daniel The wheels spin, the choppers fly,
and out goes stuff that sell sky-high!"

Carl Barks, Looter of the Lake (JW 9)

> > By the way, are they actually called Karp and Taliaferro in
> > the original version? The Danish version has them named after
> > the original translator and, I believe, editor of 'Anders And
> > & Co', Rindom and Daa respectively.

If my memory serves me correct Karp is called Osborne (or something) in
the Norwegian edition. Somewhere in the magazine it is stated that Osborne
(Ted) was the writer of the story.

Trygve

Various people have been feverishly contributing Disney and non-Disney
look-alikes instances a la our favourites H,L,D Duck. But in this Male
Chauvinist world nobody has yet mentioned the somewhat underexposed, or
artistically underdeveloped, April, May, June. -- Is it a verifiable literary
fact that these are nieces of Daisy? Who created them? Are they used more than
once by Barks? Has Rosa touched them yet, with a ten-foot pole or a with a pen?

[While waiting for someone to mention A,M,J I've been hearing Benjamin
Britten's beautiful "Flower Songs" in my head (mixed choir, poem by Robert
Herrick, "The succession of the four sweet months").
The full poem/song seems to await a fourth niece a la Phooey...]

First, April, she with mellow showers
Opens the way for early flowers,
Then after her comes smiling May
In a more rich and sweet array,
Next enters June and brings us more
gems than those two that went before
Then, lastly, July comes and she
more wealth brings in than all those three;
April! May! June! July!

Nils Lid Hjort

... and at this very moment the latest digest comes in with Dan Shane's very
appropriate A,M,J note!

The german version of Don s W.H.A.T.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N. story is just
beiing released in Germany. What I have noticed so far is that this is
actually the first translation that features not an abbreviated title..it
is simply called: "Reif fuers Faehnlein Fieselschweif" (Ready for the
Junior Woochchucks).

And I have to admid that I like the story very much (maybe 7,543 out of 10)...
but I won t give away any spoiler for our american friends....

>You mean the guy leaving the comic PUBLISHER (not a shop -- did they change
>that, too?) carrying a copy of CHERRY POPTART? Byron... did you see that in
>that story? Why didn't you tell me to remove that? Who is that supposed to
>be, anyhow????
I found it quite unusual that they didn t changed the titles of the comics
in that panel. But it s not that I would complain about it!

Taliafero and Karp (page 5 - panel 2 if my guess its right) are just
carrying "funny" names : Willibald and Waldemar ...
(hmm I guess it is not that bad as intentionally crediting other
people...but I still can t see why they HAD to change that anyway....)

Mike

DON M, DAVE RAWSON:

> Speaking only for myself, I've written very few stories
> hastily, and virtually none without much thought. It takes REAL
> EFFORT to drag the things out of my brain, and they come out
> EXCRUCIATINGLY slowly. One always hopes the effort shows...
> Sadly, this is not always the case.
> Anyway, when you see a story by Dave Rawson, David
> Gerstein, Don Rosa, or any other American writer in a Gladstone
> comic, the chances are, you ARE reading what the author actually
> wrote -- and given the state of Disney comics in the English-
> speaking world, that's probably the ONLY place you can read it.

Well, to be honest I don't know if I've seen any of your stories (though I
probably have). Could you tell me which # they are in? I couldn't find a
file on you in the Creators section of the database. But anyway, I figure
that anyone so engaged in Disney comics that they've joined this list (and
even contribute) would hardly -at the same time- be so disinterested in it
all that they write sub-standard scripts. And anyway, the ART in the
weeklies is what annoys me the most (but again; not ALL the art, just a lot
of it...the recent Mickey Mouse art(and script of course David G ;), Don
Rosa stories, Carl Barks stories, a LOT of the classic stories, William Van
Horn and a host of other modern artists are great).

I checked some of your scripts Dave....I see nothing wrong with them! Very
good scripts in fact. BUT the art in some of them is less pleasing. I f.eks
DO NOT like the art of Sabate (Daisy story, story code: D96016)...this is
exactly the kind of thing which I don't like, in fact. Little detail or
shading, thus no depth. It just lacks something...(the art) !IMHO!

Both of you (or don't you have anything to do with Egmont, Don?); what do I
do if I want to submit a story-script to Egmont?

EIRIK:

>I have a Donald Duck sticker that says "I go for the '92 Olympics" (in
>Norwegian)
>and pictures Donald *skiing*. The '94 Olympics was the winter games,
>doesn't that mean that the '92 Olympics would have been the summer games ?
>
>

Aren't the Winter Olympics every 2 years?

HARRY:

Thank's for the Dave Rawson list :-)

DON R:

re: european tour dates

*aaaah!*

Are you going on TWO european tours?? Or whatever happened to Norway?

CLAUS:

>
>What in Norway? Where?
>

In Bruns Libris in Trondheim (the kiosk section in Kongens gt.)......

GENERALLY:

>Today I received very bad news, all the Gladstone titles are canceled
>almost everywhere(not Canada and USA). The local comicshop owner came with
>the sad news a few hours ago. The reason for this should be a fight between
>Gladstone and Disney(no details!).

Ahhhhhhhhh! I *really* hope this isn't true......

If this was true wouldn't that effectively spell the !-->*END*<--! of
Gladstone?? I get the impression that a LOT of the # go to other countries
than Canada and the U.S.......

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Christopher and Tarjei:

Thanks for answering my question. It's good to know that there are things
some folks feel we contribute to the global Disney comics scene.

Gary

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Hi!

MIKE about the new Rosa story:
> but I won t give away any spoiler for our american friends....
AND Dutch friends, ofcourse! ;-)

DON ROSA:
It's been a long time since anyone asked you
what you were working on, right? So, what have you been working
on recently? Is that story with ze French master-thief finished yet?

Bye!

Arthur

Dwight Decker writes:
> What makes April, May, and June work so well is the fact they're
> both the names of consecutive months and perfectly legitimate
> female-type first names in English. July isn't a real girl's
> name (although for a joke, maybe "Julie" would do for a stand-in
> in case somebody ever accidentally drew the a fourth niece in
> a panel).

Actually, there was a fairly popular song about 20 (or more?) years
ago called "July, You're a Woman". I think it was by John Stuart,
formerly of the Kingston Trio, which means that it was probably really
by John Hartford (of "Gentle on My Mind" fame) instead, since I always
get those two guys mixed up. Anyway, in at least that one instance,
"July" can be used as a female name. Maybe a better choice for the
name of the accidentally included fourth niece would be "February",
since that's the month with the "extra" day sometimes. Or we could
just call her "Leap Year". If you want to use consecutive months for
all four names, though, maybe you could back up and call the fourth
niece "March", since "march fo(u)rth" is what the erring cartoonist
would like for her to do, and just get her off the page! Hey, following
Dwight's suggestion, you could actually fit **six** Duck nieces into
one panel, and call them Marge, April, May, June, Julie, and Augusta!
Now if only their Aunt Daisy's middle name were "Ember"...

Now here's an old (and off-topic) joke for you. A well-known film actor
of earlier generations was Hal March. His son, who was a popular
game-show host on television in the 1960s, was Hal March Jr. When he
in turn had a son, he rather unoriginally named the kid Hal March 3rd.
The joke was that this boy should marry actress Tuesday Weld when he
grew up, since then her name would become Tuesday March 3rd.

Yeah, I know - "Phooey".

Wilmer Rivers