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Hi all,

the German weekly (Micky Maus) has now started to print story credits,
beginning with No. 50/97. Persons responsible for script and art are listed
as "Koautoren" (co-authors) on the bottom of the first page. The result is
a bit strange in the case of Marco Rota and Carl Barks, who both wrote and
drew their respective stories, but nonetheless are listed as "co-author
(script and art)".
But anyhow, I now know that the person whose drawing style I don't
particularly like is named Colomer (and before anyone asks, what I don't
like aren't the Ducks, but the supporting characters, who look decidedly
ugly, and not only when they should).
I guess a thank you should go to Byron in Copenhagen, who seemingly made
this possible. So: thanks. I like it.

Best regards, Frank

I looked again at the Norwegian edition of Rosa's hardcover book yesterday,
"Liv og levnet". One thing that strikes one as mildly unpleasant, when
comparing it to the yearly Barks hardcover books{^*}, is that the texts in the
"balloons" have not been hand lettered (all the 14 Barks books have been hand
lettered). One should not overstate this point, and one should perhaps not
make it a dogma that hand lettering by definition is more beautiful than
machine printing -- but this particular choice of machine texting font seems
to me to be rather typewriterishly uncharming. So, again, don't let this deter
anyone from buying a beautiful book, but it _could have been_ a couple of
percent better regarding this factor.

I also had a chance to look at Rosa's Italian hardcover book (the famously
inexpensive 10,000 lira 272-page book). That one also looked more "immediately
appealing" than the Norwegian version with respect to the lettering of
balloons (yes, it was hand lettered too).

I talked to the Norwegian Egmont editor, who said that they had planned to
use hand lettering too, as with the Barks books -- but that for various reasons
(including illness) _both_ the intended letterer _and_ the backup possibility
person had been unable to do it on time, leaving computer texting as the only
option. -- Are the Swedish, Danish, Finnish (Icelandic??) editions hand
lettered?

There are now various computer type-setting programmes available, also
commercially, that produce "hand lettering similar" output (for example by
intentionally creating a little randomness around fixed templates). Perhaps
such machinery will be used in comic books in the future. Has Gladstone already
used this to some extent?

Nils Lid Hjort

{^*}
The Barks hardcover books: in Scandinavia these have appeared every Christmas
season since 1984, making this year's book number 14. They have about 200
pages and have generally speaking been very nicely done, with suitably
learned prefaces, and so on. All the five-six most recent ones are still in
print and easy to find in bookstores, and I guess all 14 have been and are
selling well. So this year's situation is an interesting experiment: give
_both_ a Barks book (NOK 195 or so) _and_ the first hardcover Rosa book
(NOK 265 or so) to the people! It should be interesting to observe sales
figures over the next months. -- The Norwegian citizens are buying more goods
of all sorts than ever before in history, to our Prime Minister's dismay...

In article <(Email removed)> Tarjei Kidd Olsen <(Email removed)> writes:

> >What is "chapter 0" ?
>
> Chapter 0, or "Of Ducks, Dimes and Destinies" is one of those chapters Don
> added to his Life Of $scrooge series after the original episodes were
> completed. It's story code is D91249 I have it in Norwegian somewhere,
> but can't seem to find it...

I remember him saying that "Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies" was made
_before_ the Life Of $scrooge series, but it was published after it. The
story codes seem to support this: DDD = D91249 and chapter 1 = D91308.

--
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I was just confrontend with the following question... which I cannot answer in
that I haven't seen this particular comic book (yet)! I guess there are fellow
Norwegians/Scandinavians out there who can supply an answer (which will
then be given to the original question maker).

<<Have you seen the new edition of "Xmas on Bear Mountain" that these days are
landing in everybody's mailboxes. Isn't something strange with the drawn lines?
Some of the pictures seem to have been redrawn, cf. in particular the older
ducks' faces. Or is it only I who has such an idyllic memory image of this
story from my childhood that any later edition must be a disappointment?>>

I guess "landing in everybody's mailboxes" must mean "for those subscribing to
the weekly DD&Co."? (So in this particular subscribing family not only the five
children, but also the parents study each weekly Duck magazine with care.)

Nils Lid Hjort

Addio Jac.
The greatest Maestro.

Fabrizio.

FRANCOIS WROTE:

>
>And, while I'm talking about Scrooge: why is there two names for Scrooge
>in Italy, "Zio Paperone" and "Paperon de' Paperoni"? Is "Zio Paperone"
>the modern one, and the PdP the first historically? (I think I've read
>"Paperon de' Paperoni" on a recent story, so I'm confused...).
>

It's easy in fact.
"Zio Paperone" means "Uncle $crooge" -
"Paperon de' Paperoni" means "$crooge Mc Duck"

So you might even have "Zio Paperon de' Paperoni", which would mean "Uncle
$crooge Mc Duck"...

Marco

Well the new DA is out, Pierce Brosnman on the cover with three recent Disney
females (ack, I can't name the female from Hercules!)

However, there is a big format change, it's now side stappled, rather than
with a glued spine. Same number of pages (96 digest), but without the spine,
it feels smaller.

circulation figures: 1,066,709

D& A In the Really Really Cute Little Monster That Ate Tokyo! 10pp JZ 330
Mike Duggan, scipt and pencils; Steve Leialoha, inks
Bone * I hear You Knockin" JZ338
(c) Jeff Smith ; reprinted from an issue of Bone.

Steven Rowe