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DONALD MARKSTEIN:

> [Grandey and Morby] Anybody know their history before they sunk their
> claws into Barks?

Yes, look under "retirement years" and then "Barks Studio" on my webpage:

http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html

BTW. Please avoid words like "claws". I think such terms make e-mails
unnescessarily partial sounding and people can build their own opinions
on what they hear and/or see.

Greetings,

--- Daniel

HARRY FLUKS --
>> "Probably because of the Cajun influence, your area pronounces
the word closest to the French way..."
In the part of Louisiana where I grew up (New Orleans), it
would have been more the Creole influence. Cajuns are found more
in the western part of the state. There is a very sharp
linguistic distinction between the two waves of French
settlement. Although everyone in New Orleans grows up speaking
English (unlike some of the rural areas of the Cajun country),
there is a definite Creole-French influence in our style of
English. For example, we pronounce "mayonnaise" the French way,
unlike any other part of America.

DANNY COENEN --
I can say with fair assurance that no comic-book
adaptation of THE BLACK CAULDRON was issued in America. I was a
good deal older than seven at the time (pushing 40, in fact),
and had become fairly good at seeking out comics I was interested
in -- and I was trying to maintain a complete set of Disney
animated feature adaptations.

Quack, Don

The latest Bud Plant catalog lists:

---
UNCLE SCROOGE McDUCK: His Life and Times Hardcover

A best seller! By Carl Barks. 12 full-length Four Color adventures,
printed from the original b&w negatives and beautifully recolored by
Peter Ledger. A brand-new 12th story, written and drawn by Barks,
appears exclusively in this edition. This huge volume weighs 5 lbs and
is a delight, whether for yourself, as a gift to young fans or veteran
collectors! The soft cover edition is out of print.
---

** "brand new 12th story"?!? ** Huh? Just what is this? Has Carl
Barks done a new story, or is this an old one that has never been
reprinted anywhere else? Anyone already have this book?

Hello,=20

In Topolino Libretto #2205 there is a bad story, but which=20
will have an important role in the future (IMO): the story=20
(Topolino e la tromba di Satchmouse =3D Mickey and Satchmouse's=20
trumpet) is a sort of hommage to Luois Armstrong (BTW one of=20
my preferred musicians, I LOVE his voice!), written by=20
Gianfranco Cordara and drawn by Paolo Mottura in a very=20
unorthodox style, too dynamyc and too much distorting of the=20
charachters silouhettes. But (and this is the new) for the=20
first time, as long as I can recall, since Gottfredson's=20
times there is a coloured charachter: a mouse plaiyng the=20
role of Louis Armstrong! I don't recall at all an italian=20
author using a coloured mouse in any story (even Mister Bunz=20
from Ula Ula was white) so I think it's an important thing to=20
notice.
I put a scan of this page on my website with a translation in=20
english of the ballons:
http://www.confor.it:2222/disney/satchmo.jpg
So what do you think about this? And are there any other=20
stories (of course excluding Gottfredson) with coloured=20
charachters in Disney Universe?=20
IMPORTANT: I REALLY HOPE I used the right word saying=20
"coloured", I don't want to offend anyone nor to be=20
considered a =E7*!$% racialist!!!!!!!

While I'm talking about the recent issues of Topolino I have=20
two more things to say: the first one is a "BRAVO" to Corrado=20
Mastantuono for his really exhilarating story "Paperino e Bum=20
Bum pasticcieri pasticcioni" with a semi-new charachter (I=20
already saw him, but can't recall where...): Bum Bum!!!=20
Really one of the best stories in the last issues of=20
Topolino, that recently is offering as very poor stories:=20
infact the average printing is falling down: now has reached=20
thew number of 396,284 copies: in the past it was always over=20
500,000 copies (while during the 60ties-70ties it was about=20
1,000,000).

Ah, yet one more thing: I always saw Magica de'Spell as a=20
charachter VERY BEAUTIFUL: she was inspires to Barks from=20
Sofia Loren, IMHO much of her success is due to her charm:=20
even Rockerduck senior shows interest in her in Rosa's Lo$=20
(Hi Don!). Now some authors (including the historical ones=20
such as Luciano Gatto) are presenting her as a fat, shorty=20
and graceless duck?=20

Well, now it's time for great news! It's now for sale in all=20
specialized bookshops my second book "Il Topolino di Floyd=20
Gottfredson" (Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse)! I know it's not in=20
the best of taste to brag about it, but I'm happy about this,=20
and I need to let it know to as much people as possible! ;-)

One last thing is about the Disney comics webring: anyone who=20
needs help, please e-mail me privately!

Ciao, and thabnks for you patience of reading all this=20
loooong posting!

- Paolo
http://www.confor.it/disney/home.htm

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Mark A. Semich <(Email removed)> wrote:> ---
> UNCLE SCROOGE McDUCK: His Life and Times Hardcover
>
> A best seller! By Carl Barks. 12 full-length Four Color adventures,
> printed from the original b&w negatives and beautifully recolored by
> Peter Ledger. A brand-new 12th story, written and drawn by Barks,
> appears exclusively in this edition. This huge volume weighs 5 lbs and
> is a delight, whether for yourself, as a gift to young fans or veteran
> collectors! The soft cover edition is out of print.
> ---
>
> ** "brand new 12th story"?!? ** Huh? Just what is this? Has Carl
> Barks done a new story, or is this an old one that has never been
> reprinted anywhere else? Anyone already have this book?

This is certainly another reprinting of the 1981 book, The Life and
Times of Scrooge McDuck, originally published by Celestial Arts.
The 12th story is, "Go Slowly Sands of Time," a special
version of the story done by Barks for this book, but never printed
in a comic book. The book is a classic. You can even order the
reprinted edition online from Amazon.com.

- "Blasted kids must think I'm a whelcher!"
S. McDuck (US3 - OS 495)

Carey Furlong; Huntington Beach, California;
(Email removed); (Email removed)

Hi, Francois!

> The article about Rota is interesting (the information in it are taken
> from "I Disney Italiani" and "Zio Paperone").

Happy to know that our book still is useful to someone in the World!
It should be published again, with a big amount of new text!

> BTW, does anyone know if "Billion in the Hole" was published in "Zio
> Paperone" with a cover by Rota showing Scrooge, his money bin and an
> ant?

No, in that issue there are no Rota stories. But from the next one,
which shall come out next week, the Andold saga shall begin, starting
with the first, long story, drawn for Italian market. For four months,
each issue shall introduce new stories of Andold in the *original*,
uncut version (unpublished in USA and northern countries).
The story you mention maybe is virtually unpublished in Italy, or...
Is it an "underground" story?
Quack to everybody!
Luca

KATIE:
>Well, my subject line is "nostalgia", which will sound weird to some of
>you when you see what I'm talking about. But since I'm only 18 years
>old, things from even 5 years ago seem like nostaglic. Anyway, on to my
>point...

Ditto! (I'm only 17...)

>I also ran across some other Scarpa translations, and I really enjoyed
>them. Just makes me wish I spoke Italian! (Although 5 years of Spanish
>study does clue me in on a few cognates.)

Ditto again! That defintely was an important springboard for me. (Francesco,
Marco, and Fabrizio all know what I'm talking about...:-)

PER-ERIK:
The Van Horn story you mention isn't so new--the Egmont printing (at least
in Denmark) dates from the Summer of 1997. And it's been printed in the USA,
circa December of that year (in fact it's the one mentioned in my message
you refer to, "The Saphead Factor".)

PAOLO:
>IMPORTANT: I REALLY HOPE I used the right word saying=20
>"coloured", I don't want to offend anyone nor to be=20
>considered a =E7*!$% racialist!!!!!!!

I'm afraid you goofed--"colored" went out with the days of Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. The current term seems to be either "black" or
"African-American," anlthough not being one of those people (whatever their
name) I'm probably not the one to judge.

As for your question about precedents of this situation in Mouse/Duck
stories, there are several Barksian "Africa" stories with such people as
"natives," including "Darkest Africa" and "Voodoo Hoodoo." There's a
non-Barks Duck story which you probably already know, but I think is
relevant to mention to our non-Italian list members. "Zio Paperone e la
calunnia colossale" ("Uncle Scrooge and the Colossal Slander," TOPOLINO 715)
by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi has a scene where Rockerduck
attempts to infiltrate Scrooge's ship crew by painting himself black (having
already failed with an equally un-PC "Chinese" disguise), addressing Scrooge
as "capo bianco" ("white boss"). Scrooge, having seen Rocker through, shouts
"Negro fasullo!" ("False negro!") while washing away the latter's disguise.
The story later shows a scene of a "real" African native with VERY un-PC
large lips. Somehow I have very little expectations of seeing this
uncensored in a Gladstone mag. This story in particular jumps out at me
because it comes not from the unenlightened Colonial period (1880-1960, but
especially blatant in the 1930s, at least in popular entertainment), but
from the post-MLK year of 1969! (BTW, the "Colossal Slander" in the title
has nothing to do with race--it refers to Rockerduck's accusing Scrooge of
sabotaging the former's ship.)

--Jonathan Markoff

"Coraggio! Reginella non ha mai spaventato nessuno!"
--Rodolfo Cimino, "Paperino e l'avventura sottomarina" (a story free of
un-PC references! :-)