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I've just read this story in an Australian 1963 edition, and was wondering
whether anyone could tell me when it was written. The subtext of the story
toys interestingly with Marxism. (The story is actually untitled in my
edition, but I'm sure others will be able to identify it easily.)

David King
(Email removed)

KOSARIN:
>Here's what I think the deal is with Zeke & the Pigs...
> Zeke is a madman...
[snip]
ROTFL! I got a big kick out of this one!
On a more thoughtful note, I've always thought that the "Wolf
Universe" is truly one of anthropomorphic *animals* - who, like the
characters in Kelly's Pogo, are aware of their status as animals (and in
the food chain), even if they have human behavior. In this way, they
differ from the Mice and Ducks, who are really treated as human beings.
But some animals, like Zeke, are more instinct-driven than
others, such as Li'l Wolf.
Of course, some stories that show the characters venturing into
the city, etc. blur the lines between human-animals and
anthropomorphic-animals. That can be fun, although I've seen it taken
too far (a French story with the wolves in what appeared to be
Manhattan, and Zeke chasing a sexy girl pig/person, the gag being the
question of what he intended to do after catching her!).

KRITON:
>Since you are the "guilty party", can you explain something that has
been
>bothering me for decades?
>
>***SPOILERS***
>
>In the Greek edition of the story in the late sixties, Scrooge
>exchanges his fortune for the *last* share of the Beagle Boys' lentil
>company. [snip] In the Gladstone version, Scrooge buys 50% or so
>of the shares from the Beagle boys, which makes a lot more sense. Did
>you make this correction, or did the Greek translators goof back in the
>sixties?
Neither. The Greeks didn't goof, and I translated it as in the
original version (*one* share). It was Disney that made the change.

ETA:
(regarding my alterations of Scarpa for Gladstone)
>We sometimes complain about modifications (I know I did :-),
>but when you explain the reasons for such, I often agree
>with the choices made (or, at least, am not seriously
>disturbed ;-)
Thanks for your understanding!

KRITON:
Nice job on the Scarpa page, so far. Sweet images from "il ratto
di Brigitta" at the top, too. I don't know when Gladstone's going to use
my version of that...

David Gerstein
<(Email removed)>

JONATHAN MARKOFF:

> The fault is mine, I guess. I ask you all--should I delay my reviews about 3
> months, even if they come with a *SPOILER WARNING*?

Not as far as I am concerned. Posting the reviews with a three-month
delay would turn them into retrospectives. Besides, as in the months that
intervene between your posting the reviews and my actually receiving the
comics, I usually forget most of the details, reading both the reviews
and the comics sort of doubles my pleasure.

> Neither do I recall any Lil Bad Wolf
> story featuring a complex, intriguing and informative plot revolving around
> Eldorado or the Library of Alexandria, nor ingenious sidesplitting gags
> about sideways gravity or silver platters.

Not that I particularly disagree with you on this point, but perhaps we
should have a contest to prove you wrong! :-)

SOEREN:

> "The Last Balaboo" - beautiful idea, but why the "Last"-word?

Because there is only one surviving balaboo in the world?

> Could I add "The Man from Alcatraz", a story that still puzzles me!

Is that the story that involves a weird musical instrument, which looks like
a small trumpet with only one key, on top of an inner tube?

ALL:

Just a reminder that although I am a Red Dwarf fan, my name is spelled
with an "I"! :-)

--
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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"Time is the ultimate nonrenewable resource, and we are rapidly running
out of it."
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SOEREN

>"The Last Balaboo" - beautiful idea, but why the "Last"-word?

Well, there's only one Balaboo, isn't it ? ;-)
Joking apart, it seemed a nice title for a page about
Scarpa, I like the sound of it...;-) but I'm open for
suggestions.

>Could I add "The Man from Alcatraz", a story that still puzzles me!

It's ALTACRAZ, not ALCATRAZ ! Nobody ever seem to notice...;-)

>Why does "The Man" suddenly phone Mickey in the middle
>of the night to make that "joke", which is not really a joke, or...???

Uhmm... I don't recognize this situation... the only phone
call in the story is that of O'Hara, to which Mickey doesn't
answer...

Cheers

Eta Beta

KOSARIN --
>>"Here's what I think the deal is with Zeke & the Pigs...
>> Zeke is a madman."
Then why don't his neighbors get together and lock
him up? Or are they all madmen too? Surely, no sane bunch
would tolerate the proximity of someone who repeatedly
tries to cannibalize them (and the Pigs are not the only
ones he has tried to eat), unless there's something
fundamentally different about their society.
As, indeed, there must be. Br'er Rabbit characters
frequently appear in the LBW strip as neighbors, and one
of Br'er Fox's cherished goals is to eat Br'er Rabbit. So
Zeke isn't the only one who tries to eat his neighbors.
And yet, while it's generally agreed that they're pretty
disreputable characters, their disreputability is about
on the level of chicken thieves, rather than homicidal
maniacs.
Obviously, something is going on here that we can
see only the vague outlines of. I wouldn't want to
explore it in too great a detail (I like it better when
that sort of thing is kept nebulous), but if anyone is
interested in comics where that IS explored, take a look
at the on-line strip "Kevin & Kell". He's a rabbit, she's
a wolf, but their marriage seems to work. Endless gags
about characters eating other characters -- but the
munchees DO get eaten, rather than endlessly threatened.
You know, even when there were a lot of crossovers
among Disney characters, we didn't see much interaction
between the LBW/Br'er Rabbit set and the Duck/Mouse
nexus. I think writers were responding to the fact that
there are fundamental incompatibilities between those two
societies.

ANDERS CHRISTIAN --
>> "how much time does a comics writer/artist spend on his
>> work per day, how many hours."
In my case, it depends on a lot of things. Some
writers have a set schedule, where at a certain time they
start writing, and then at a certain time they stop. I've
never been able to stick to a schedule like that -- which
is why I freelance instead of holding a job in the first
place. If I've got heavy deadlines, or am particularly
interested in what I'm writing right then, I'm likely to
work steadily from 6 in the morning to 9 at night. But if
nothing is pressing right then, or other things are
demanding my time, I may get practically no writing time
in for a week.
That's PRACTICALLY no writing time -- not
absolutely none at all. I make it an ironclad rule to get
SOME writing done every single day, no matter what. And
because I'm a harder taskmaster for myself than anybody
else ever could be, I scarcely even notice Sundays and
holidays. A day is a day.
Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific writers of
all time, had a daily quota of one word. Once he'd
written a word, he felt he could take the rest of the day
off if other matters required attention. I think that's a
good policy because once I've set myself up with the word
processor, opened a writing file, gotten back into the
mindset of the project, etc., one word will just
naturally lead to another. I can stop if I have to, but a
daily quota of one word ensures that writing projects
will inexorably move toward completion.

Quack, Don

Hello Everyone,
Do we have any Mose-experts here?
If that's the case I would like you to explain
me a thing, which I have been wondering about
since I read the norwegian book "Donaldismen"
(The donaldism).
How many nieces does Minnie have? 1, 2 or 3?
In the mentioned book, the author said that she
had only one (she was called "Musse" in danish,
the tranlator found it, when he was looking for
something else, that name corresponds to Moussie
or something like that) This girl was very stupid,
and Mortie and Ferdie had to be forced to play with her.
In other later stories Minnie has two nieces,
and according to a Donald Duck - "Problem page",
their names were Millie and Tillie, here they were
said to be very sweet. I only saw them two times,
latest in 1991, and both times only on the front
page of the danish Disney Weekly, to mark the
beginnig of the new shool year. (yuck!) Here they
went to school with all the other kids from Duckburgh,
and the teacher was: Ludwig von Drake.
Now there's two possibilities does Minnie have 3,
or only the last mentioned 2 nieces?
In all cases I would like someone to tell me
where I can find stories, with 1 or 2 of those girls?
Anders Christian - (Email removed)

Hi

Thanks to Anders Christian for the Pig villain index!
Isn't "The Milkman" WDC '57 a great story?
This is my favorite Pig villain story!

Reg.
Birte Scheel

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