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All Norwegians:
I see the new "gullbok"(Golden book) is out. Does anybody
know what's in it?
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GARY LEACH

Thanks for the answers regarding the printrun of the LO$ book. Insight
in these matters are what us punters like.
Interesting to learn that DR's and the others involved personal copies
does not come out of the numbered batch.

I think I'm not the only one who is completely in the blue on how modern
comics are produced. From the moment a film of a certain story arrives
through the computer colouring etc. An article showing this process in
PICTURES would be a great feature in an upcoming WDC. And what about
running a photo of the Gladstone bullpen and your building? Has it got
the same classic look as Disney's on Hyperion avenue? Are you open to
visitors if one happens to be in the neighbourhood?

TAMPERING

I thought this was old news. The article in B&B appeared in 1994.
Here Greger Nassen shows how in "Terror of the river" someone (perhaps
the art director knows who) has widened the tiers to absorb the void at
the bottom, with the result that the auctioneer suddenly appears behind
the picture he is holding (panel 5).
I can not understand the motives for this. Surely you would save both
time and money, and integrety if you left it has CB drew it. In a
Norwegian reprint the "problem" with the empty box was solved by
extendimg the sky in the top panel and not adding any art. Oddly enough
In CBLWDCiC the box wasn't a problem but was left as originally
concieved.
Also in the D & M 25 reprint of "This is your life DD", Nassen points
out that in the eyes of the ducks are drawn a white sector, the Barks
characteristics, and not the usual Strobl "hypnotic" eyes. Why, art
director?
I have never bothered to compare the reprints to the original because
frankly, I didn't deem it necessarly. Apperantly I was wrong.

BTW, in Norway a company was sued by an artist because they made an
addition to a logo he had made. The artist claimed they violated the
original art. I should think the same applies here (Bill Grandy do you
hear this!!)

I'm not sure if you are more comfertable with the word tampering by now?
Perhaps "refine" or "enhance" or words you would have chosen.
Anyway you put it; I was disapointed to learn this sad fact about "the
fans that publish comics".

Gaute Kongsnes

Hello,

Here there are my two cents about PKNA:

Well, I read about 10 numbers of PKNA (Paperinik New
Adventures), and I have to say that after all its'n
so bad as it is supposed to be on this list: it's a
good comic, with (sometimes) excellent drawings that
remind me of the american super-heroes, expecially
for the town of Duckburg that seems very similar to
the Gotham City of the Dark Knight... but it's not a
Disney Comic!
This "new" Paperinik can be intended as a completely
new charachter: the original one was born with a
completely different purpose: he was a thief, he was
the Donald's chanche to rebel against his old uncle,
who, in many Martina's stories, is presented as a
completely negative charachter: in his first
adventure Paperinik steals Scrooge's bed and takes
his vengance on Gladstone who is accused of the
crime.
As you can see there isn't any super-heroistic
aspect in this adventure, nor aliens looking after
our planet.
Some other italians authors made some stories where
Paperinik is seen as a super-hero, but aren't the
best ones, surely not as good as the ones from
Massimo de Vita in the early 70.
This IMHO this new way to intend the charachter can
be in some way reported to the extremization of
Rosa's drawing style: some digests ago I said that
what seems strange to some people in apporoaching
for the first time Rosa's drawings is the new style
of intending Disney charachters playing with them as
they were not ducks and as if the world where they
live is the real world (and he confirmed this on
this list). The same can be intended for PKNA: this
is a completely new way to intend Disney comics, at
the moment this way doesn't seem to gain a lot of
succes between the "historical" Disney fans, but (at
least in Italy) hooked a lot of new readers who
never before read a Disney comic or who read them in
their youth. We'll se if in the future the situation
will return to the normal "Disney standard" or will
open a new way to rivitalize them.

Ciao,

Paolo Castagno alias Luna Storta

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STEVEN ROWE:
Who asked if anyone is familiar with various creators for Acclaim's Disney
stuff....

Bob Budiansky, Jose Delbo, and Ian Akin are all veterans of my favorite
non-Disney comic; TRANSFORMERS. The works of Delbo and Akin in Marvel's
late series about alien robots certainly doesn't come across as being
"cartoony", and I'm actually kind of curious to see them try their hands
at Disney material.

I've seen the works of Gary Fields in magazines like CRACKED or perhaps
MAD, and I've seen him do other works in various comic books through the
years. He has a very distinct art style, which should add a nice touch to
the Disney stuff.

-Shaun

c The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) - After a 40-year break, Mickey Mouse is going
back to work in television.
``MouseWorks,'' a weekly half-hour series debuting in January
1999, will feature the first regularly produced new TV footage of
the Disney cartoon icon since the original 1955-59 run of ``The
Mickey Mouse Club.''
Mickey will be joined by pals Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Goofy,
Pluto and Daisy in the new series, the Walt Disney Co. said
Tuesday.
Each episode will feature a mixture of shorter ``gag'' cartoons
and longer ``story'' cartoons up to 12 minutes in length. Although
all original, some themes and elements from older cartoons may be
used.
The new series will feature voices matching those of the
original characters.
``We're going to do whatever it takes to make this as good as it
can possibly be,'' said Barry Blumberg, senior vice president of
Walt Disney Television Animation.
Roy E. Disney, vice chairman of the board for Disney, made the
announcement in honor of Mickey's 69th birthday. The mouse made a
few movie appearances in recent years, in the 1995 short ``Runaway
Brain'' and in 1983's ``Mickey's Christmas Carol.''
A decision has yet to be made whether to air ``MouseWorks'' on
Disney-owned ABC, in syndication or on cable's Disney Channel.
AP-NY-11-19-97 1812EST

It seems my taste of Disney artwork differs from most
people here. I like Paperinik New Adventures ("DuckPower"
in Holland). One reason for that might be that I had
never read any Paperinik stories before!

I like it because it's so different from the Disney
comics I'm used to. The adventure I read was
"The time pirate" (the story had no code in the
Dutch reprint). I like stories about the (il)logic of
time travelling. I like Quantum Leap and Red Dwarf,
I like (parts of) Thorgal, and I like Paperinik N.A.

And, by the way, I also like Don Rosa's stories. But
I'm still surprised that a lot of people voted for Don as
the best *artist* on Paolo's webpage. Don is a great
storyteller, and his art is above average. But surely
there are some Disney artists that are way better than
Don! I'd prefer the art of Daan Jippes, Mau Heymans,
Giorgio Cavazzano, Daniel Branca, Cesar Ferioli,
and Marco Rota!
The *stories* that they make vary in quality because
of the different writers, but the *art* is often superb!

Of course, Don's art has a lot of funny details. Which
makes it a joy to read. And sometimes the drawings
Don makes are really worth framing (especially
when the Nephews are involved). But to me, that's
not enough to prefer him to the others I mentioned!

This all is, of course, IMHO (In a Minority's
Humble Opinion)!

--Harry.
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 GARY wrote:

> >* Are there ways of "beating the system"?
> >For example, an Oslo store could make 50 subscriptions with Gladstone
> >directly,
> >I suppose, by-passing Diamond?
>
> Your Oslo store can take out 5 or 5000 subscriptions without having
> to beat
> any kind of system. The fly in the soup is that the solicited retail
> discount would not apply.

Just to make things perfectly clear:
Does this mean, that I (here in Germany) can still get my Disney comics
via a direct subscription from Gladstone? Or are you only allowed to
deliver your comics to the USA, Canada, and non EC European countries?

(Sorry if this has already been answered, but I have not been able to
read the digest for about a month.)

See you
Sven

Hi!

I was in the Comic Gallery in Oslo today and met Don.
He signed comics and some of us got a drawing too.
I got a really great Woodchuck-head. (Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! , Don)
He could only be there an hour so he could only draw heads.
Sad :-( that he couldn't be longer.

JO

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