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Dwight Decker wrote:
>Blum starts by insulting Rosa and his readers, proceeds to spoil the =
story's ending ...
There has been some talking about this Blum! I only know Blum's reports =
on Barks!
So, could anybody please send me a copy of the comic or just E-Mail me =
privatly this prologue to "A little Something Special". I am really very =
interested in which way Blum insullts me, who loves Don's work, =
especially $crooge's 50th Anniversary story.
Don:
> So, I have now finished all the signed editions and the editions that =
(I think) are the ones >going through Diamonds to dealers.
Great!! I am looking forward to hold this treasure in my hands.=20
By the way, thank you very much for your nice drawing of $crooge and =
Donald. I really enjoyed seeing you in Karlsruhe!!
Dominik Altevogt
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Dominik Altevogt
Disney comics Digest V97 #278
Message 196 -
1997-12-21 at 23:52:59
Luna Storta
Duckburg and Cavazzano
Message 197 -
1997-12-22 at 00:04:39
Hello,
SHAUN:
>Can someone tell me in which story the term "Duckburg" was first used
>as the name of the hometown of the ducks?
Well, surely you already received many answers to your question, BTW,
I'd like to post my 2 lire (...and it's really cheap!): the first time
of Duckburg is in the last panel of Paperino equilibrista, Donald and
the High-wire Daredevils (W WDC 49-02). It was written on a sign
indicating the direction of the Ducks hometown.
JONATHAN:
Thanks for your nice words about Italian artists, expecially about
Scarpa, Rota and Cavazzano. But, sad to say, nowadays they are no more
appearing on Topolino's pages: Rota disappeared from Italy some years
ago, and now he works for Egmont (some of his stories appeared on Mega
2000 in an horrible way, and more recently on the excellent Zio
Paperone).
Scarpa is still the GREATEST one, but his stories are very rare to
appear (recently on Topolino #2152-53 appeared one more masterpiece
from the Maestro from Venice: Topolino e la sindrome visionaria,
really great, it reminded me something from Topolino e la collana
Chirikawa).
Giorgio Cavazzano changed a lot his style, becoming -IMHO- too
childish, his charachters seem to be too much close to cartoon
charachters: he won't produce anymore stories such as "Donald and the
underwater adventure" (in this story appeared for the first time
Reginella, and is one of my favourite stories of all times!) or
situations like those one in the story where Donald becomes a football
champion using a special helmet invented by Gyro: every panel of that
story was dynamic and inovative in a certain way. BTW, this is just my
opinion about Cavazzano, maybe I'll learn something more reading the
new book from Loca Boschi: "The art of Giorgio Cavazzano"... at
a first look it seems to be really interesting!!!
Ciao,
Paolo Castagno alias Luna Storta
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SHAUN:
>Can someone tell me in which story the term "Duckburg" was first used
>as the name of the hometown of the ducks?
Well, surely you already received many answers to your question, BTW,
I'd like to post my 2 lire (...and it's really cheap!): the first time
of Duckburg is in the last panel of Paperino equilibrista, Donald and
the High-wire Daredevils (W WDC 49-02). It was written on a sign
indicating the direction of the Ducks hometown.
JONATHAN:
Thanks for your nice words about Italian artists, expecially about
Scarpa, Rota and Cavazzano. But, sad to say, nowadays they are no more
appearing on Topolino's pages: Rota disappeared from Italy some years
ago, and now he works for Egmont (some of his stories appeared on Mega
2000 in an horrible way, and more recently on the excellent Zio
Paperone).
Scarpa is still the GREATEST one, but his stories are very rare to
appear (recently on Topolino #2152-53 appeared one more masterpiece
from the Maestro from Venice: Topolino e la sindrome visionaria,
really great, it reminded me something from Topolino e la collana
Chirikawa).
Giorgio Cavazzano changed a lot his style, becoming -IMHO- too
childish, his charachters seem to be too much close to cartoon
charachters: he won't produce anymore stories such as "Donald and the
underwater adventure" (in this story appeared for the first time
Reginella, and is one of my favourite stories of all times!) or
situations like those one in the story where Donald becomes a football
champion using a special helmet invented by Gyro: every panel of that
story was dynamic and inovative in a certain way. BTW, this is just my
opinion about Cavazzano, maybe I'll learn something more reading the
new book from Loca Boschi: "The art of Giorgio Cavazzano"... at
a first look it seems to be really interesting!!!
Ciao,
Paolo Castagno alias Luna Storta
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Cebarat
Disney comics Digest V97 #278
Message 198 -
1997-12-22 at 04:45:14
AUGIE DE BLIECK asked DON ROSA, re the climactic scene of "A Little Something
Special":
<< Also, was that scene an homage to a particular movie? It just struck me as
something you might see in some silent film of the 1920s. Maybe I'm thinking
of
the one where the guy is hanging off the clock face, but that's not it. >>
I also thought of Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last," but my best guess is that Don
was paying tribute to the Mt. Rushmore scene in Hitchcock's "North by
Northwest." Also, the crash of the villains' train may have owed something to
"The Greatest Show on Earth"... and (though it's not a classic movie of the
type Don seems to enjoy) the "underground Duckburg" reminded me of the
subterranean New York City glimpsed in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes".
BTW I will be incommunicado for a while due to holiday travel, so I want to
wish everyone safe and happy holidays! :-)
-- Christopher E. Barat
(Email removed)
http://members.aol.com/cebarat/home.htm
Special":
<< Also, was that scene an homage to a particular movie? It just struck me as
something you might see in some silent film of the 1920s. Maybe I'm thinking
of
the one where the guy is hanging off the clock face, but that's not it. >>
I also thought of Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last," but my best guess is that Don
was paying tribute to the Mt. Rushmore scene in Hitchcock's "North by
Northwest." Also, the crash of the villains' train may have owed something to
"The Greatest Show on Earth"... and (though it's not a classic movie of the
type Don seems to enjoy) the "underground Duckburg" reminded me of the
subterranean New York City glimpsed in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes".
BTW I will be incommunicado for a while due to holiday travel, so I want to
wish everyone safe and happy holidays! :-)
-- Christopher E. Barat
(Email removed)
http://members.aol.com/cebarat/home.htm
CarmenG
Disney comics Digest V97 #278
Message 199 -
1997-12-22 at 05:50:50
AUGIE:
<< $crooge does some pretty fancy leaping around Cornelius
Coot's statue....was that scene an homage to a particular movie? It just
struck me as something you might see in some silent film of the 1920s. >>
I certainly wouldn't presume to know DR's mind, but my guess is that it's an
homage to the climax of Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." If you
haven't seen that film, do yourself the tremendous favor of blocking off a
largish chunk of time to watch it.
DON ROSA (and others!):
<< I was very, VERY proud of "A Little Something Special"... to
me the whole story was in the final two pages. And to have the publisher
print a prologue to the story that seems to insult anyone who likes my
work, then gives away the story's surprise ending for no possible reason
than to simply spoil the story for those fans.... >>
Y'know, I'm not really that cynical a guy, but I just KNEW that something like
that would happen, so I purposely SKIPPED the prologue and went straight to
the story. I would suggest that we all make this a habit. I was understandably
perplexed when I read the prologue afterwards as to why someone would do
this.... I write reviews myself, and I know there is a definite line that one
just doesn't cross!
--carmen
<< $crooge does some pretty fancy leaping around Cornelius
Coot's statue....was that scene an homage to a particular movie? It just
struck me as something you might see in some silent film of the 1920s. >>
I certainly wouldn't presume to know DR's mind, but my guess is that it's an
homage to the climax of Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." If you
haven't seen that film, do yourself the tremendous favor of blocking off a
largish chunk of time to watch it.
DON ROSA (and others!):
<< I was very, VERY proud of "A Little Something Special"... to
me the whole story was in the final two pages. And to have the publisher
print a prologue to the story that seems to insult anyone who likes my
work, then gives away the story's surprise ending for no possible reason
than to simply spoil the story for those fans.... >>
Y'know, I'm not really that cynical a guy, but I just KNEW that something like
that would happen, so I purposely SKIPPED the prologue and went straight to
the story. I would suggest that we all make this a habit. I was understandably
perplexed when I read the prologue afterwards as to why someone would do
this.... I write reviews myself, and I know there is a definite line that one
just doesn't cross!
--carmen
CarmenG
NOT by Northwest
Message 200 -
1997-12-22 at 07:11:53
AUGIE (again):
Hmmmmm. You're right, it's another movie in "A Little Something Special." My
earlier guess of "North by Northwest" is one influence, but I'm sure there's
*another* movie that's closer, with the whole villain/sleeve business. And, as
you say, I think it's an older one.
Now, would someone tell us before it drives me crazy?
-carmen
Hmmmmm. You're right, it's another movie in "A Little Something Special." My
earlier guess of "North by Northwest" is one influence, but I'm sure there's
*another* movie that's closer, with the whole villain/sleeve business. And, as
you say, I think it's an older one.
Now, would someone tell us before it drives me crazy?
-carmen
Mike Casillas
V97 #278
Message 201 -
1997-12-22 at 08:03:01
Michael Naiman wrote:
>*****SPOILER ALERT*****
>!!!DO NOT READ THE INTERIOR TEXT OF Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck #2!!!
>Please be aware that the latest (and last) issue of the Adventurous Uncle
>Scrooge McDuck #2 contains editorial text by Geoff Blum on the inside front
>cover which DISCLOSES THE ENDING OF THE STORY!!!
>
>
>Can you believe it??? Sheesh.
Thanks for the warning. You saved the ending for me!
-Mike
>*****SPOILER ALERT*****
>!!!DO NOT READ THE INTERIOR TEXT OF Adventurous Uncle Scrooge McDuck #2!!!
>Please be aware that the latest (and last) issue of the Adventurous Uncle
>Scrooge McDuck #2 contains editorial text by Geoff Blum on the inside front
>cover which DISCLOSES THE ENDING OF THE STORY!!!
>
>
>Can you believe it??? Sheesh.
Thanks for the warning. You saved the ending for me!
-Mike
Fluks, H.W.
By Southeast? (NOT by Northwest)
Message 202 -
1997-12-22 at 13:40:50
CARMENG:
>it's another movie in "A Little Something Special." My
>earlier guess of "North by Northwest" is one influence, but I'm sure there's
>*another* movie that's closer, with the whole villain/sleeve business. And,
>as
>you say, I think it's an older one.
>Now, would someone tell us before it drives me crazy?
Don himself elaborated on this story when it was published in
Scandinavia. So if you don't want to get crazy, browse through
the old mailing list messages!
--Harry.
<><><><
>it's another movie in "A Little Something Special." My
>earlier guess of "North by Northwest" is one influence, but I'm sure there's
>*another* movie that's closer, with the whole villain/sleeve business. And,
>as
>you say, I think it's an older one.
>Now, would someone tell us before it drives me crazy?
Don himself elaborated on this story when it was published in
Scandinavia. So if you don't want to get crazy, browse through
the old mailing list messages!
--Harry.
<><><><
Gilbert Roser
Thanks Byron and a Merry Xmas to all
Message 203 -
1997-12-22 at 15:37:47
Hello!
BYRON:
Thank you Byron!
I had waited to thank you, until I've seen it with my own eyes, that the
credits to the creators are printed in the weekly. Sometimes Ehapa takes
his own way, but this time they print the credits, too. Until now only in
the weekly (in the ECC they already printed some credits), but I hope
that this will change.
ALL:
To all of you:
A Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year!
----------------------------------------------------
Gilbert Roser A Disney Maniac
TUBerlin
Germany
(Email removed)
----------------------------------------------------
BYRON:
Thank you Byron!
I had waited to thank you, until I've seen it with my own eyes, that the
credits to the creators are printed in the weekly. Sometimes Ehapa takes
his own way, but this time they print the credits, too. Until now only in
the weekly (in the ECC they already printed some credits), but I hope
that this will change.
ALL:
To all of you:
A Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year!
----------------------------------------------------
Gilbert Roser A Disney Maniac
TUBerlin
Germany
(Email removed)
----------------------------------------------------
Michael Naiman
Futre Rosa material
Message 204 -
1997-12-22 at 17:47:48
I understand that the Stateside version of W.H.A.T.A.L.O.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.
is going to be postponed.
Let us hope that GLADSTONE will not favor us with another proctological
examination and surgical dissection of Don's story by Mr. Blum. Please let
Mr. Blum continue his professorial reviews of Barks' work...that is what he
does best.
We can all understand criticism and intelligent discussion of story lines
and characterization, but, when gross inaccuracies and the deliberate
sabatoge
occurs, one has to wonder what there is to gain by this?!?
Should everyone on the list go out and see the latest movies, read the
latest books and let Mr. Blum know how they turn out before he goes
to see/read them...?
is going to be postponed.
Let us hope that GLADSTONE will not favor us with another proctological
examination and surgical dissection of Don's story by Mr. Blum. Please let
Mr. Blum continue his professorial reviews of Barks' work...that is what he
does best.
We can all understand criticism and intelligent discussion of story lines
and characterization, but, when gross inaccuracies and the deliberate
sabatoge
occurs, one has to wonder what there is to gain by this?!?
Should everyone on the list go out and see the latest movies, read the
latest books and let Mr. Blum know how they turn out before he goes
to see/read them...?
PAULO CEZAR LOPES BARRETO,BARRETO
Disney marketing, Brazil et al (#276, #278)
Message 205 -
1997-12-22 at 19:21:03
Greetings, earthlings...
SOEREN:
> Might it just be, that the Gladstone magazines are too
"difficult" or for children??? (...) I am not sure that appeals to
children compared to what we see from some Italian "dynamic"
artists where the characters are almost in motion within
the panels.
Maybe. The earlier (50s and 60s) Brazilian Disney titles, when
non-U.S., non-domestic production was modest or nonexistant, helped
grow a Barks "culture" here, so they're very cherished and frequently
appearing up to the present. In the 70s Brazil gradually stressed on
the excellent local production and European stories, mostly Italian
(the publishing company is run by an Italian family and they've shown
frequent attempts to emulate Italian titles as long as they remain
marketable). Now most main stories in Brazilian titles are Italian;
nevertheless, many people, young and old alike, hate Italian Disney,
but in general they seem to sell well enough to stand prominent for so
many years. I believe the Italian model may not be well accepted by
the U.S. market, but when Gladstone is radically reforming their
marketing, it can be a valid alternative.
FRANCOIS:
> Could you tell us if original Disney comics are still published in
Brazil? How many pages? In what publications? Pato Donald? The most
recent Brazilian story I saw has a "B 93n" code. Are there still "Disney
heroes" stories, or "modern" Daisy stories created in Brazil?
BTW, was there a "Peninha" (Fethry Duck) magazine in Brazil?
Answers, respectively: Yes, there is a lot of titles, some with local
production (it was more frequent in the 70s and 80s, but is still
existing). There are from 30-something-page titles to 200-page
digests. "Pato Donald" is historically the flagship title but others
like "Mickey" or "Tio Patinhas" surpass it in quality and number of
pages. I'm not sure about Disney heroes or modern Daisy currently
being created here, but they surely had their time. Yes, there was a
"Peninha" title in the 80's, a "cheapie" comic book issued fortnightly
alternating with "Pateta" (Goofy) weeks.
JAKOB:
> So why can't Disney comics make it to the
kids hearts in the US the way they do in Europe? (...) the kids *are*
children at heart, even if they want to be as strong as Hulk or whatever,
and Donald Duck (being the Donald they know from TV) as a superhero might
be what Barks' Donald Duck (worked out from the Donald we saw in the cartoons)
is for us today.
Or some kind of market trust inversion: U.S. Disney comics don't sell
badly because they're "out", but they're "out" because they sell badly
in the first place...
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #279
******************************************
SOEREN:
> Might it just be, that the Gladstone magazines are too
"difficult" or for children??? (...) I am not sure that appeals to
children compared to what we see from some Italian "dynamic"
artists where the characters are almost in motion within
the panels.
Maybe. The earlier (50s and 60s) Brazilian Disney titles, when
non-U.S., non-domestic production was modest or nonexistant, helped
grow a Barks "culture" here, so they're very cherished and frequently
appearing up to the present. In the 70s Brazil gradually stressed on
the excellent local production and European stories, mostly Italian
(the publishing company is run by an Italian family and they've shown
frequent attempts to emulate Italian titles as long as they remain
marketable). Now most main stories in Brazilian titles are Italian;
nevertheless, many people, young and old alike, hate Italian Disney,
but in general they seem to sell well enough to stand prominent for so
many years. I believe the Italian model may not be well accepted by
the U.S. market, but when Gladstone is radically reforming their
marketing, it can be a valid alternative.
FRANCOIS:
> Could you tell us if original Disney comics are still published in
Brazil? How many pages? In what publications? Pato Donald? The most
recent Brazilian story I saw has a "B 93n" code. Are there still "Disney
heroes" stories, or "modern" Daisy stories created in Brazil?
BTW, was there a "Peninha" (Fethry Duck) magazine in Brazil?
Answers, respectively: Yes, there is a lot of titles, some with local
production (it was more frequent in the 70s and 80s, but is still
existing). There are from 30-something-page titles to 200-page
digests. "Pato Donald" is historically the flagship title but others
like "Mickey" or "Tio Patinhas" surpass it in quality and number of
pages. I'm not sure about Disney heroes or modern Daisy currently
being created here, but they surely had their time. Yes, there was a
"Peninha" title in the 80's, a "cheapie" comic book issued fortnightly
alternating with "Pateta" (Goofy) weeks.
JAKOB:
> So why can't Disney comics make it to the
kids hearts in the US the way they do in Europe? (...) the kids *are*
children at heart, even if they want to be as strong as Hulk or whatever,
and Donald Duck (being the Donald they know from TV) as a superhero might
be what Barks' Donald Duck (worked out from the Donald we saw in the cartoons)
is for us today.
Or some kind of market trust inversion: U.S. Disney comics don't sell
badly because they're "out", but they're "out" because they sell badly
in the first place...
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V97 Issue #279
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Jakob Soederbaum
Semi-goof
Message 206 -
1997-12-22 at 19:45:37
Hi!
Yesterday my computer ran amok and began sending stuff I hadn't finished
writing, like the message "Answers to a few digests" I'd done for the list.
I rushed a letter to our dear list-administrator, but it appears he didn't
manage to get it off the list. The reply was more finished than I'd
expected, but it looks a bit weird. Anyway, it appears I managed to get most
of the stuff I'd wanted to say finished (more or less), so I won't bother you
with a "finished 2nd version". I suppose this semi-goof was more of trouble
to me than to anyone else - you get my view on the topics, and I get sick
of seeing sucha bad outline in a message of mine. ;-) Sorry for any
inconvenience this has brought. All I can blaim this on is the stress those
last few weeks of the year brings to a final grade student in the senior
highschool.
HOY wrote (a couple of digests ago):
> 1. Since the prestige format books should have a longer shelf life, arrange
> to sell them in Disney Stores and the theme parks as high price
> "collectables." I collect them, and I'd say they're pretty high priced.
> There's not much else in a Disney Store I can afford to buy, and hardly
> anything else there with a duck on it.
I think this is a swell idea!
> 2. Publish some black and white "phone book" collections of Barks or Rosa
> stories in the format that DC, Marvel, and some of the manga publishers use.
In the mid 80s there was a "phone book" collection of all of Barks' work
called Carl Barks Library. Not that I wouldn't want to see a re-issuing of
this, but it's already been done (and it was quite expensive, too). We're
still waiting to see a Complete Don Rosa Collection in b/w, but we'll hafta
wait a couple of more decades for that, don't we Gary? Alas and alac...
DWIGHT wrote:
> In fact, I have to question somebody's judgment in running that Blum
> piece to begin with. Blum starts by insulting Rosa and his readers,
> proceeds to spoil the story's ending, and winds up by sniffing
> disdainfully at the stories in a companion comic on sale at the same
> time, as if Gladstone's sales weren't already low enough. Why didn't
> somebody read Blum's manuscript and say, "We can't run this!" and then
> not?!
I don't get this. Don is one of Disney's main reasons for income in the
comics market, and they still do everything they possibly can to spoil his
good reputation! Geoff Blum is a great Barks historian and promoter, but
it appears that anything of Don's work he gets involved in (like this and
the shameful foreword of the Lo$-book) turns into a veritable piece of
sh*t. Why don't Gladstone hire a Rosa-historian and leave Blum to write
articles on Barks?
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Title of the year: The Big Bad Wolf
in
"The Big Bad Wolf"
by: David Gerstein (1997)
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Yesterday my computer ran amok and began sending stuff I hadn't finished
writing, like the message "Answers to a few digests" I'd done for the list.
I rushed a letter to our dear list-administrator, but it appears he didn't
manage to get it off the list. The reply was more finished than I'd
expected, but it looks a bit weird. Anyway, it appears I managed to get most
of the stuff I'd wanted to say finished (more or less), so I won't bother you
with a "finished 2nd version". I suppose this semi-goof was more of trouble
to me than to anyone else - you get my view on the topics, and I get sick
of seeing sucha bad outline in a message of mine. ;-) Sorry for any
inconvenience this has brought. All I can blaim this on is the stress those
last few weeks of the year brings to a final grade student in the senior
highschool.
HOY wrote (a couple of digests ago):
> 1. Since the prestige format books should have a longer shelf life, arrange
> to sell them in Disney Stores and the theme parks as high price
> "collectables." I collect them, and I'd say they're pretty high priced.
> There's not much else in a Disney Store I can afford to buy, and hardly
> anything else there with a duck on it.
I think this is a swell idea!
> 2. Publish some black and white "phone book" collections of Barks or Rosa
> stories in the format that DC, Marvel, and some of the manga publishers use.
In the mid 80s there was a "phone book" collection of all of Barks' work
called Carl Barks Library. Not that I wouldn't want to see a re-issuing of
this, but it's already been done (and it was quite expensive, too). We're
still waiting to see a Complete Don Rosa Collection in b/w, but we'll hafta
wait a couple of more decades for that, don't we Gary? Alas and alac...
DWIGHT wrote:
> In fact, I have to question somebody's judgment in running that Blum
> piece to begin with. Blum starts by insulting Rosa and his readers,
> proceeds to spoil the story's ending, and winds up by sniffing
> disdainfully at the stories in a companion comic on sale at the same
> time, as if Gladstone's sales weren't already low enough. Why didn't
> somebody read Blum's manuscript and say, "We can't run this!" and then
> not?!
I don't get this. Don is one of Disney's main reasons for income in the
comics market, and they still do everything they possibly can to spoil his
good reputation! Geoff Blum is a great Barks historian and promoter, but
it appears that anything of Don's work he gets involved in (like this and
the shameful foreword of the Lo$-book) turns into a veritable piece of
sh*t. Why don't Gladstone hire a Rosa-historian and leave Blum to write
articles on Barks?
---
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Title of the year: The Big Bad Wolf
in
"The Big Bad Wolf"
by: David Gerstein (1997)
======================================
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* E-mail: (Email removed) *
* Disney Comics page: http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-47991/ *
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Eta Beta
Disney comics Digest V97 #278
Message 207 -
1997-12-22 at 19:47:16
There's been a lot of discussion about "The Great Gladstone Crisis",
lately, but the most interesting comments, to me, were those concerning
the philosophical and cultural side of things, like recent ones (#278)
from JAKOB SOEDERBAUM and RICH BELLACERA.
Well, their opinions start a few questions, IMO, that could be formulated
as follows
Why does the country that generated Disney and the Disney "universe", not
just phisically, but culturally, rejects them now?
Is it "just" a matter of changing culture?
Are the Europeans ahead, because they are more sensible towards
artistical expressions, or actually behind, because everything that
happens in the States will nearly certainly happen here in another five
years, as it usually does? (shiver...)
Is there anything to do with English language? Crazy as it may seem,
there's no Disney comics at all being currently published in ANY English
speaking country, as far as I know.
Are we perhaps ageing dinosaurs that just don't understand all this
commotion, and gripe about the scarcity of "food"?
Any ideas on this topics?
DAVID GERSTAIN
I just received the latest WDC, which for me means #616, believe it or
not, and found a pearl inside.
I'm talking about "MM against the world", and I just wanted to express my
heartiest thanks for this piece of "new classic" Mickey. The Groucho mask
was a gas!
You make a great team with Caesar Ferioli, too.
I understand the story's not very recent ('95 ?). Are there any more in
this fashion, and of the same team?
Cheers
Eta Beta
Email to : Eta Beta <(Email removed)>
lately, but the most interesting comments, to me, were those concerning
the philosophical and cultural side of things, like recent ones (#278)
from JAKOB SOEDERBAUM and RICH BELLACERA.
Well, their opinions start a few questions, IMO, that could be formulated
as follows
Why does the country that generated Disney and the Disney "universe", not
just phisically, but culturally, rejects them now?
Is it "just" a matter of changing culture?
Are the Europeans ahead, because they are more sensible towards
artistical expressions, or actually behind, because everything that
happens in the States will nearly certainly happen here in another five
years, as it usually does? (shiver...)
Is there anything to do with English language? Crazy as it may seem,
there's no Disney comics at all being currently published in ANY English
speaking country, as far as I know.
Are we perhaps ageing dinosaurs that just don't understand all this
commotion, and gripe about the scarcity of "food"?
Any ideas on this topics?
DAVID GERSTAIN
I just received the latest WDC, which for me means #616, believe it or
not, and found a pearl inside.
I'm talking about "MM against the world", and I just wanted to express my
heartiest thanks for this piece of "new classic" Mickey. The Groucho mask
was a gas!
You make a great team with Caesar Ferioli, too.
I understand the story's not very recent ('95 ?). Are there any more in
this fashion, and of the same team?
Cheers
Eta Beta
Email to : Eta Beta <(Email removed)>
Aderack
Hullo.
Message 208 -
1997-12-22 at 19:56:19
I've been a semi-constant lurker for a while now and have annoyed a cou=
ple of
you by private mail in the past (sorry), and I'd just like to ask this =
(for
reasons I'll get to in a moment) --
Under what jungian personality type would $crooge be classified?
I've attempted to put myself in $crooge's shoes and taken the variation=
of the
Myers-Briggs personality test at http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-
bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi a couple of times, then examined the results wit=
h the
(much better) personality descriptions at
http://sacam.oren.ortn.edu/~jabutt/profiles/profiles.html.
The best I can figure out, $crooge seems to be somewhere between an IST=
J and
an INTJ. . .both appear to have elements of his personality, and yet I =
feel
that while I've grown up reading Barks and Rosa (being currently ninete=
en), I
still don't know $crooge *personally* well enough to judge which small
personality traits, around the edges, would fit him the best. I have a =
good
feel for his character, yes, but. . .well. I just thought I'd pose the
question.
Oh, yes -- my reasons aren't purely curiosity, although I have wondered=
this
in the past. I'm in th' process of writing a paper on the subject for m=
y
ENG101 class. Well, =BFpor que no? <g>
T'anx. . .
P.S.: oh, um. I'm being infinitely impersonal and aloof, I realize. Sor=
ry
about that. . .I'm not terribly well-versed in communicating with other
bipedal life forms, especially in quantity.
Thanks 'gain.
ple of
you by private mail in the past (sorry), and I'd just like to ask this =
(for
reasons I'll get to in a moment) --
Under what jungian personality type would $crooge be classified?
I've attempted to put myself in $crooge's shoes and taken the variation=
of the
Myers-Briggs personality test at http://www.keirsey.com/cgi-
bin/keirsey/newkts.cgi a couple of times, then examined the results wit=
h the
(much better) personality descriptions at
http://sacam.oren.ortn.edu/~jabutt/profiles/profiles.html.
The best I can figure out, $crooge seems to be somewhere between an IST=
J and
an INTJ. . .both appear to have elements of his personality, and yet I =
feel
that while I've grown up reading Barks and Rosa (being currently ninete=
en), I
still don't know $crooge *personally* well enough to judge which small
personality traits, around the edges, would fit him the best. I have a =
good
feel for his character, yes, but. . .well. I just thought I'd pose the
question.
Oh, yes -- my reasons aren't purely curiosity, although I have wondered=
this
in the past. I'm in th' process of writing a paper on the subject for m=
y
ENG101 class. Well, =BFpor que no? <g>
T'anx. . .
P.S.: oh, um. I'm being infinitely impersonal and aloof, I realize. Sor=
ry
about that. . .I'm not terribly well-versed in communicating with other
bipedal life forms, especially in quantity.
Thanks 'gain.
Shaun M. Knowler
Disney comics Digest V97 #279
Message 209 -
1997-12-22 at 21:26:27
PAOLO, and the other fellow who answered my query:
> Well, surely you already received many answers to your question, BTW,
> I'd like to post my 2 lire (...and it's really cheap!): the first time
> of Duckburg is in the last panel of Paperino equilibrista, Donald and
> the High-wire Daredevils (W WDC 49-02). It was written on a sign
> indicating the direction of the Ducks hometown.
Thanks, guys! And don't worry Paolo, I only got 2 responses. And yours
thankfully had the context of the first usage of the term "Duckburg".
MICHEAL NAIMAN, and all others curious:
> I understand that the Stateside version of W.H.A.T.A.L.O.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.
> is going to be postponed.
For everyone's information; The story will now be printed in the first
issue of the new format Uncle $crooge, in March. Or so Gladstone tells
me!
> Should everyone on the list go out and see the latest movies, read the
> latest books and let Mr. Blum know how they turn out before he goes
> to see/read them...?
Wow, would I love to do this! :) I think we all just discovered why Mr.
Blum refuses/is too chicken to become a presence on the Internet!
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all you great people who make up this wonderful mailing
list!
-Shaun
> Well, surely you already received many answers to your question, BTW,
> I'd like to post my 2 lire (...and it's really cheap!): the first time
> of Duckburg is in the last panel of Paperino equilibrista, Donald and
> the High-wire Daredevils (W WDC 49-02). It was written on a sign
> indicating the direction of the Ducks hometown.
Thanks, guys! And don't worry Paolo, I only got 2 responses. And yours
thankfully had the context of the first usage of the term "Duckburg".
MICHEAL NAIMAN, and all others curious:
> I understand that the Stateside version of W.H.A.T.A.L.O.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.
> is going to be postponed.
For everyone's information; The story will now be printed in the first
issue of the new format Uncle $crooge, in March. Or so Gladstone tells
me!
> Should everyone on the list go out and see the latest movies, read the
> latest books and let Mr. Blum know how they turn out before he goes
> to see/read them...?
Wow, would I love to do this! :) I think we all just discovered why Mr.
Blum refuses/is too chicken to become a presence on the Internet!
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all you great people who make up this wonderful mailing
list!
-Shaun
PAULO CEZAR LOPES BARRETO,BARRETO
Scrooge's 50: Brazilian special (again)
Message 210 -
1997-12-22 at 21:31:40
Greetings, earthlings...
Corrections and additions about "Tio Patinhas Especial", the Brazilian
extra issue celebrating Scrooge's 50 years. The intro by by the
Brazilian publisher is 5 pages long (not 3 pages) and is overly
illustrated with Barks oil paintings. The "narrow, dull font" used in
newly-introduced computer lettering is a narrowed MS Comic Sans (thus
even worse than Whizbang). IMHO the overall feeling is much
"Gladstonish", as much for the contents (a collection of Barks
classics, more appealing to older readers) as for some non-Italianized
visual components (computer lettering, less vivid colors) -- only the
size remains the same (American comics pages are larger).
MISC STUFF: Again, this mailbox is not likely to be checked before
Dec. 29, 8:30AM (Brazilian Southeastern Daylight-saving Time). In the
meantime, personal messages may be e-mailed to (Email removed) Thanks!
P.C.Barreto
(Email removed)
Corrections and additions about "Tio Patinhas Especial", the Brazilian
extra issue celebrating Scrooge's 50 years. The intro by by the
Brazilian publisher is 5 pages long (not 3 pages) and is overly
illustrated with Barks oil paintings. The "narrow, dull font" used in
newly-introduced computer lettering is a narrowed MS Comic Sans (thus
even worse than Whizbang). IMHO the overall feeling is much
"Gladstonish", as much for the contents (a collection of Barks
classics, more appealing to older readers) as for some non-Italianized
visual components (computer lettering, less vivid colors) -- only the
size remains the same (American comics pages are larger).
MISC STUFF: Again, this mailbox is not likely to be checked before
Dec. 29, 8:30AM (Brazilian Southeastern Daylight-saving Time). In the
meantime, personal messages may be e-mailed to (Email removed) Thanks!
P.C.Barreto
(Email removed)