Keskustelujen arkisto

Don R.:

>>Is there a D.U.C.K. dedication on the drawing you did
>>for the latest Picsou (#319) with a scene from Cash Flow?! I have
>>been searching for it everywhere but I can't find it and I'm wondering
>>if there is one at all!
>
>I have *also* been searching!!!! I can't find one either, so I guess =
this is
>another of the times that I pencilled the "D.U.C.K." into the scene,=20
>that it was hidden so well that I failed to notice it while inking!

Well *I* found it...
It's in the money some centimetres below the Beagle boys' right oar.
It's hidden very well, the D, U and C are different coins, and the K is =
made of two coins.
I'm a trained D.U.C.K.-hunter, so it didn't take me long before i found =
it.

O/yvind

David King:

> I take it Mark Evanier is a well-respected writer?

I haven't seen many of his stories, but the few that I've seen are very
good! To me he is one of the lights in the Dark Ages of USA Disney
comics (the Gold Key/Whitman period).

> I haven't abandoned the idea of an Australian Disney comics database,
> incidentally: it's just that I keep accumulating more Oz Disney, and I'd
> prefer to wait until I have a straight run of, say, 100 numbers before I
> start cataloguing. The whole process would become chaotic otherwise.

OK, that sounds good. Maybe we have to talk again about the layout of
the files you'll send me - 100 issues is a lot for manual conversion
into the DcD...

Juhana Kouhia:

> I have finished the first version of my Finnish CB story listing. It is
> available at "http://www.funet.fi/~kouhia/cbs.txt" and typeset with
> TeX (but still readable as txt file).

I would indeed like to have this information in the Disney comics
Database (DcD). I'll tell you the details in private mail.

> To make a listing of all stories published in Finnish DD magazine
> would be a major job and I'm not going to do it myself alone. Any
> interest?

It would be great to have a Finnish "coordinator" (or "maintainer") that
can help me getting Finnish information in the DcD! That shouldn't be a
*very* hard job, BTW: the Finnish issues are often parallel to the
Danish/Swedish/Norwegian issues. So all the Finnish indexers have to do
is find the parallels, and fill in the Finnish titles (those long words
with lots of aaa's and uuu's in it).

All:

The DcD is getting bigger and bigger, and we can even start aiming for
*completeness*. Fortunately, I don't have to do the work all by myself.
We have "maintainers" for a few countries. These people not only make
indexes themselves, but they also coordinate the work of other indexers,
and check the already indexed stuff. And they make sure that the indexes
fit in the DcD. Currently, we have "maintainers" for the following
countries:

Denmark (Ole Reichstein Nielsen)
Germany (Brix Lichtenberg)
France (Francois Willot)
Italy (Paolo Castagno [+ Marco Barlotti])
The Netherlands (Harry Fluks)
USA (Harry Fluks - I like to do this myself!)

As you can see, no people for Norway, Sweden, Brazil, Australia,
Finland, etc. etc.
We *do* have an extensive index for Sweden, but it's not updated on a
regular basis.

Volunteers are welcome!

--Harry.

Hello
Well, Don won't have to tell where the Duck is in the cover for pm 319,
I found it, and it was easy, but you'll have to use a magnifiing glass, but

it's not in the hat, which would also have been too hard to find. The place

is as genuine a hideplace as any Duck-dedication (IMHO) Well, hint: what
is it that makes Scrooge a billionaire/cillionaire/well,
fantasticillionaire
(whatever?)?

please remove me from your mailing list. Thanks

JONATHAN MARKOFF to me, 21 August 1998:

>> In Carl Barks' 1950 story "The Magic Hourglass", the exact total amount
>> of Scrooge's money can be calculated from Scrooge's comment: "I can't
>> go on like this - losing a billion dollars a minute! I'll be *broke* in
>> 600 years!"

> This is obviously a gag as much as "ten fantasticatillion, skyrillion,
> and 16 cents". There isn't that much money in the world. Furthermore,
> as Don has said, this was an early story that contains many "facts"
> that aren't in sunc with "our" Scrooge, and should be regarded as
> "fictional fiction".

Your comment made me check the existance of this story in my Barks
collection immediately, but fortunately it's still there. :-) No, I
don't agree on the "fictional fiction" you mention. For me, either
*all* Barks-stories really happened or *none* of them happened at all.

The Magic Hourglass (and also Penny Wise) may not exist in Don Rosa's
universe and his timeline, but I don't think it's reasonable to put
aside these stories because of this descision (why would one?). Doing
this with a classic story like "Magic Hourglass" makes that even
worser IMO, since I think this is definitely the best one Barks did
while featuring *real* people. Like "Dangerous Disguise", it has a
very dangerous and frightfully realistic atmosphere, which IMO makes
it a classic *within* the classic area.

Even *if* Don Rosa's "Life and Times" (in contrary to its initial
intention) should be considered as the definitive one-and-nothing-else
Scrooge-history, I don't see problems btw. Like with his later "lucky
dime" it seems that Scrooge has a superstitious side in his character,
as more fortunate/famous people seem to have that with lucky charms
and/or heaven-on-earth-promising deceivers.

I think that even *with* magic hourglass, Scrooge would have gotten the
bad news about the big losses. Only, instead of blaming it on the
hourglass, he would have put the losses straight with his experience
and his strong personality.

Greetings,

--- Daniel - "A lake of *diamonds*!"
- "Nothing but old, hard, dry *diamonds*!"

(The Magic Hourglass, OS 291, 1950)

DON MARKSTEIN:

Now that I think of it, there is more information on/from the Carl Barks
Studio on the Guidebook pages. These are three of the interviews included
in the "interviews" chapter. At that point these were the only integral
English interviews I had, published in a pink booklet sent out by the
Carl Barks Studio.

The rumours on managers controlling/changing Barks' words makes me wonder
how much of these interviews are genuine and/or in context. The thought
that Barks himself may not even know about the final results nags me
heavily, something I started to realise after reading your letter and
while writing these letters as a reply.

I would be very grateful if you or someone else could advice me on this.
Maybe these interviews could be forwarded to Carl Barks for his judgement
on them? I'd of course rather have no English interviews on the Guidebook
pages at all, than ones which are not real.

Greetings,

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

Lugwig is hidden sitting in a chair hiiden in the lower right corner in
one panel.
Nick Kosarin