From: (Email removed) (Mattias Hallin)
>>>>DON:
As we're talking 'bout the "Well-Educated Duck", I've been meaning to ask
you: were the "High Society" references in the original script, or are they
your own additions?
(Boing!) I don't know what you're referring to! Do you mean in the Swedish
version you saw? Or the Gladstone printing? If you mean the latter, save me
the trouble of digging it out and remind me what I might have done that you
refer to...
Do you mean you saw reference to "High Society", the Frank Capra remake of
"Philadelphia Story"? I don't think so, as I can't think of what sort of
reference to that movie could there be that wouldn't be over even my own
head -- that's about my least favorite Capra movie, maybe because I like the
original so much, being not just a great movie, but the only teaming of
either two or three of my favorite actors.
Author
Topic: 199809
(311 messages)
Don Rosa
Digest #214
Message 1 -
1998-09-01 at 00:40:27
Francois Willot
Scarpa
Message 2 -
1998-09-01 at 01:01:10
Some good news from Hachette:
Romano Scarpa will probably draw a 12-pages story for "Le Journal de
Mickey". I don't know if he'll do other covers for Mickey-Parade, after
the one he did (on #223, "Le g=E9ant de la publicit=E9", the others are=
by
Cavazzano).
I've also seen the nice drawing Don Rosa did for the full version of
"Trick or Treat" to be published in Picsou. The coloring (very dark) is
nice too!
Francois
Romano Scarpa will probably draw a 12-pages story for "Le Journal de
Mickey". I don't know if he'll do other covers for Mickey-Parade, after
the one he did (on #223, "Le g=E9ant de la publicit=E9", the others are=
by
Cavazzano).
I've also seen the nice drawing Don Rosa did for the full version of
"Trick or Treat" to be published in Picsou. The coloring (very dark) is
nice too!
Francois
Kalle Hermansson
Non-existing ducks
Message 3 -
1998-09-01 at 01:04:10
Hello
My name is Kalle Hermansson and I sit in Sweden writing into this list=20
for the first time. I=B4m 18 years old and my interest for Disney Comic=
s=20
has recently rised after a long (to me!) period in darkness.
So I don=B4t know much about what happened the last years in the busine=
ss=20
(actually I don=B4t know nothing as i was just 10-11 when i left the=20
swedish weekly Donald Duck for some more intresting stuff at that time)=
.=20
But theres one thing who=B4s bothering me and thats when=20
Daniel van Eijmeren wrote:
> just like something similar has happened to Ludwig Von=20
>Drake who now also doesn't seem to exist.
whats the meaning whit doesn=B4t seem to exist?? (and *also*??) sounds=20
strange!!
Kalle (hope my incomplete english is readable)
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My name is Kalle Hermansson and I sit in Sweden writing into this list=20
for the first time. I=B4m 18 years old and my interest for Disney Comic=
s=20
has recently rised after a long (to me!) period in darkness.
So I don=B4t know much about what happened the last years in the busine=
ss=20
(actually I don=B4t know nothing as i was just 10-11 when i left the=20
swedish weekly Donald Duck for some more intresting stuff at that time)=
.=20
But theres one thing who=B4s bothering me and thats when=20
Daniel van Eijmeren wrote:
> just like something similar has happened to Ludwig Von=20
>Drake who now also doesn't seem to exist.
whats the meaning whit doesn=B4t seem to exist?? (and *also*??) sounds=20
strange!!
Kalle (hope my incomplete english is readable)
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Bhc
Disney comics Digest V98 #211
Message 4 -
1998-09-01 at 01:36:11
Per-Erik:
I'll defend the ramparts against all who would assail Carl Barks' right, as
creator, to say that Gyro is a chicken. And I'll identify Gyro as such to
anyone who asks, you betcha. But I'll confess that in my own mind I've
always seen Gyro as a turkey. As in, the bird that graces countless
American dinnertables every third Thursday in November.
There are four reasons for this: he is decidedly bigger than the ducks (in
real life a chicken and a duck are not materially different in size), he
has a beak I associate with the "turkey" look, his single-minded focus on
something to the exclusion of practical considerations is quite
turkey-like, and I was highly influenced in my outlook on poultry in
general by my grandfather, who was a professor of agriculture at the
University of Missouri with a specialization in turkeys.
I don't think Gyro *has* to be a turkey, it's just a personal perception
that goes all the way back to childhood. And I'll take it with me to my
grave, I'm sure.
Gary
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"It's either very new cheese or very old meat." - Oscar Madison
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Gladstone on the Web: http://www.brucehamilton.com
I'll defend the ramparts against all who would assail Carl Barks' right, as
creator, to say that Gyro is a chicken. And I'll identify Gyro as such to
anyone who asks, you betcha. But I'll confess that in my own mind I've
always seen Gyro as a turkey. As in, the bird that graces countless
American dinnertables every third Thursday in November.
There are four reasons for this: he is decidedly bigger than the ducks (in
real life a chicken and a duck are not materially different in size), he
has a beak I associate with the "turkey" look, his single-minded focus on
something to the exclusion of practical considerations is quite
turkey-like, and I was highly influenced in my outlook on poultry in
general by my grandfather, who was a professor of agriculture at the
University of Missouri with a specialization in turkeys.
I don't think Gyro *has* to be a turkey, it's just a personal perception
that goes all the way back to childhood. And I'll take it with me to my
grave, I'm sure.
Gary
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"It's either very new cheese or very old meat." - Oscar Madison
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Gladstone on the Web: http://www.brucehamilton.com
Kfitz
Junkville Journal
Message 5 -
1998-09-01 at 04:30:58
Don,
A while back I realized that the below is exactly what my husband and I do
with our comics. This explains why our collection is so out of order all
of the time. We also rerererererereread them.
Kathy
> WHAT I DO WITH MY COMICS --
> I dive around in them like a porpoise, burrow
> through them like a gopher, and toss them up and let
> them hit me on the head. Isn't that what everybody does
> with them?
>
> Quack, Don
A while back I realized that the below is exactly what my husband and I do
with our comics. This explains why our collection is so out of order all
of the time. We also rerererererereread them.
Kathy
> WHAT I DO WITH MY COMICS --
> I dive around in them like a porpoise, burrow
> through them like a gopher, and toss them up and let
> them hit me on the head. Isn't that what everybody does
> with them?
>
> Quack, Don
Carey M. Furlong
Disney comics Digest V98 #214
Message 6 -
1998-09-01 at 05:28:34
"Robert King" <(Email removed)> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to aquire the Carl Barks lithograph, Always Another
> Rainbow, and I was wondering where I might purchase one, I know that Another
> Rainbow sells them, but does any other place? AR seems a little steep in
> their prices, could I get it for less? Also, if anybody out there has one
> that they would like to sell, please let me know.
The litho "Always Another Rainbow" is for sale right now online at the
ebay auction site:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=27837024
So far the bid stands at only $200.00 dollars. This particular item
will be available for several days. (Note that I have no connection
or knowldedge of the person selling this litho.) A few weeks ago
an entire 30 volume set of the Carl Barks library was auctioned
off on ebay for well under market value.
Carey
- "Blasted kids must think I'm a whelcher!"
S. McDuck (US3 - OS 495)
Carey Furlong; Huntington Beach, California, USA;
(Email removed); (Email removed)
> Hi,
> I am trying to aquire the Carl Barks lithograph, Always Another
> Rainbow, and I was wondering where I might purchase one, I know that Another
> Rainbow sells them, but does any other place? AR seems a little steep in
> their prices, could I get it for less? Also, if anybody out there has one
> that they would like to sell, please let me know.
The litho "Always Another Rainbow" is for sale right now online at the
ebay auction site:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=27837024
So far the bid stands at only $200.00 dollars. This particular item
will be available for several days. (Note that I have no connection
or knowldedge of the person selling this litho.) A few weeks ago
an entire 30 volume set of the Carl Barks library was auctioned
off on ebay for well under market value.
Carey
- "Blasted kids must think I'm a whelcher!"
S. McDuck (US3 - OS 495)
Carey Furlong; Huntington Beach, California, USA;
(Email removed); (Email removed)
Kfitz
Scrooge's age
Message 7 -
1998-09-01 at 07:59:24
Halsten,
And if Ducks can be born rather than hatch then why shouldn't their life
span be somewhat limitless?
After all the nephews don't have to grow up.
As far as I am concerned Duckburg is in sort of a time warp and those who
love the stories will be forever young.
-Kathy
And if Ducks can be born rather than hatch then why shouldn't their life
span be somewhat limitless?
After all the nephews don't have to grow up.
As far as I am concerned Duckburg is in sort of a time warp and those who
love the stories will be forever young.
-Kathy
Kfitz
Fictional magic hourglasses
Message 8 -
1998-09-01 at 08:16:07
Of course and why not? Uncle $crooge also has a collection of talismans.
I like to believe all things are possible in a pleasant way in Duckburg
with the Ducks. Like Don Rosa reminds us, let us not take the fun out of
it.
I wonder if folks who were very involved in superhero comics got the idea
there has to be all of these universes and continuities. Life is
contradictory after all.
-Kathy
> But the other ducks find a lake of diamonds while they have the
hourglass...
> Maybe magic hourglasses really exists in the Duck universe?
> *Magic* certainly does? (every time I read a Barks story)
>
>
>
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> Vidar Svendsen http://home.sol.no/~vidasven
I like to believe all things are possible in a pleasant way in Duckburg
with the Ducks. Like Don Rosa reminds us, let us not take the fun out of
it.
I wonder if folks who were very involved in superhero comics got the idea
there has to be all of these universes and continuities. Life is
contradictory after all.
-Kathy
> But the other ducks find a lake of diamonds while they have the
hourglass...
> Maybe magic hourglasses really exists in the Duck universe?
> *Magic* certainly does? (every time I read a Barks story)
>
>
>
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> Vidar Svendsen http://home.sol.no/~vidasven
Mattias Hallin
Well-Educated Duck
Message 9 -
1998-09-01 at 08:34:28
DON:
Beg pardon; it seems I managed to make my question even more obtuse than I
usually do! No, I did not mean that there should be any such references in
the text -- if I remember correctly (I can't find the story just now -- it
may be that I read it at my brothers recently), those reference were all
visual (which, in conjunction with your penchant for old movies, is of
course what made me suspect in the first place they might be your
additions).
And by "High Society" I mean the Crosby/Kelly/Sinatra/Armstrong movie from
the 50s (directed by Charles Walters, I think -- not Capra, so it could
hardly be the one you mention?). This is one of my favourite movies (though
I had the hard luck of seeing it dubbed into French a while back. Shudder!
Louis Armstrong should *not* speak French, nor Bing Crosby, IMO!)
And the references? Well, the captain's hat, the concertina, and the pipe
that Donald is packing to go sailing, as well as the boat name "True Love"
are what I'm talking about! Or am I mixing up my Rosa stories? Isn't this
in the first page or two of "Well-Educated Duck"?
So, what I was curious about was whether the script instructed you to use
those props, or if you added them yourself.
All the best,
/Mattias
*** Mattias Hallin ** Brussels ** Belgium ** <(Email removed)> ***
* *
* "Oh bury me thar! With my battered git-tar! *
************* A-screamin' my heart out fer yew!" *************
Beg pardon; it seems I managed to make my question even more obtuse than I
usually do! No, I did not mean that there should be any such references in
the text -- if I remember correctly (I can't find the story just now -- it
may be that I read it at my brothers recently), those reference were all
visual (which, in conjunction with your penchant for old movies, is of
course what made me suspect in the first place they might be your
additions).
And by "High Society" I mean the Crosby/Kelly/Sinatra/Armstrong movie from
the 50s (directed by Charles Walters, I think -- not Capra, so it could
hardly be the one you mention?). This is one of my favourite movies (though
I had the hard luck of seeing it dubbed into French a while back. Shudder!
Louis Armstrong should *not* speak French, nor Bing Crosby, IMO!)
And the references? Well, the captain's hat, the concertina, and the pipe
that Donald is packing to go sailing, as well as the boat name "True Love"
are what I'm talking about! Or am I mixing up my Rosa stories? Isn't this
in the first page or two of "Well-Educated Duck"?
So, what I was curious about was whether the script instructed you to use
those props, or if you added them yourself.
All the best,
/Mattias
*** Mattias Hallin ** Brussels ** Belgium ** <(Email removed)> ***
* *
* "Oh bury me thar! With my battered git-tar! *
************* A-screamin' my heart out fer yew!" *************
Halsten Aastebøl
Scrooge's age
Message 10 -
1998-09-01 at 11:14:20
kfitz wrote:
>Halsten,
>
>And if Ducks can be born rather than hatch then why shouldn't their life
>span be somewhat limitless?
>
>After all the nephews don't have to grow up.
>
>As far as I am concerned Duckburg is in sort of a time warp and those who
>love the stories will be forever young.
>
>-Kathy
>
>
Huh? Have I said that I consider Scrooge to be dead by now? No way!!!
But I do like to establish a birth year and thus his age. He should be
around 131 years old now! But like you say, the lifespan is limitless, so
that's not a problem. Actually Scrooge grew younger and younger during the
Barks years. The explanation of how that was possible is given in the story
"Go Slowly Sands of Time" combined with Rosa's Life of Scrooge.
Halsten
>Halsten,
>
>And if Ducks can be born rather than hatch then why shouldn't their life
>span be somewhat limitless?
>
>After all the nephews don't have to grow up.
>
>As far as I am concerned Duckburg is in sort of a time warp and those who
>love the stories will be forever young.
>
>-Kathy
>
>
Huh? Have I said that I consider Scrooge to be dead by now? No way!!!
But I do like to establish a birth year and thus his age. He should be
around 131 years old now! But like you say, the lifespan is limitless, so
that's not a problem. Actually Scrooge grew younger and younger during the
Barks years. The explanation of how that was possible is given in the story
"Go Slowly Sands of Time" combined with Rosa's Life of Scrooge.
Halsten
Kyrimis
Disney comics Digest V98 #214
Message 11 -
1998-09-01 at 13:03:22
ARTHUR:
> Why
> do almost all sentences in comic stories end with them?! Is
> there a reason?
Gladstone once explained this in one of their "year that was" features:
periods can be mistaken for dirt specs and be eliminated by the printer.
That particular "year that was" reprinted something that had suffered
this way, with the text losing some of its meaning.
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://cti.gr/~kyrimis
-----
"If you want to find out where you're going, you find out where you're
supposed to come from, and if you haven't been there, you go there and work
back."
-----
> Why
> do almost all sentences in comic stories end with them?! Is
> there a reason?
Gladstone once explained this in one of their "year that was" features:
periods can be mistaken for dirt specs and be eliminated by the printer.
That particular "year that was" reprinted something that had suffered
this way, with the text losing some of its meaning.
Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://cti.gr/~kyrimis
-----
"If you want to find out where you're going, you find out where you're
supposed to come from, and if you haven't been there, you go there and work
back."
-----
Vidar Svendsen
Fictional magic hourglasses
Message 12 -
1998-09-01 at 15:12:35
Kathy:
>Of course and why not? Uncle $crooge also has a collection of talismans.
>I like to believe all things are possible in a pleasant way in Duckburg
>with the Ducks. Like Don Rosa reminds us, let us not take the fun out of
>it.
That's what I do. I didn't mean that the ducks *do* live in another universe
(except the one in my comics and the one in my head.
Seems like everybody's answering my mail twice nowadays, hmm....
Seems like everybody's answering my mail twice nowadays, hmm....
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Vidar Svendsen http://home.sol.no/~vidasven
And he said all those numbers
made him numb,
which (he thinks) is why
they're called numbers
>Of course and why not? Uncle $crooge also has a collection of talismans.
>I like to believe all things are possible in a pleasant way in Duckburg
>with the Ducks. Like Don Rosa reminds us, let us not take the fun out of
>it.
That's what I do. I didn't mean that the ducks *do* live in another universe
(except the one in my comics and the one in my head.
Seems like everybody's answering my mail twice nowadays, hmm....
Seems like everybody's answering my mail twice nowadays, hmm....
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vidar Svendsen http://home.sol.no/~vidasven
And he said all those numbers
made him numb,
which (he thinks) is why
they're called numbers
Jyrki Vainio
Disney comics Digest V98 #214
Message 13 -
1998-09-01 at 17:34:36
Hello again, you Duck fans!
It's me Jyrki, and I have returned from a year-long hiatus.
It seems that I never got around to making an introducktion of myself when
I first joined the list back in 1995, so I guess that would be a good way
as any to start with.
I'm Jyrki Vainio, 20, a comics fan and an aspiring cartoonist from
Finland. My work has appeared in various publications in Finland (but I
don't want to give you the wrong impression here: they have been either
local or aimed at special interest groups, like the magazine of the Scouts
and Guides of Finland), and the peak achievement so far has been having my
strip as the "Featured Finnish cartoon of the month" in our largest
national tabloid paper Ilta-Sanomat in March 1997.
My interests in the field of comics are quite wide, but in particular I
enjoy main stream "all-family" comics; Euro-BD, newspaper strips and, yes,
ducks.
As said, I first joined the list in '95, but now I've been away for a bit
more than a year because of my 11-month stint in the Finnish army doing my
compulsory "national service". I've been holding back my comeback as I
didn't know whether my e-mail address would change as I changed schools.
Now it would seem that I'll be keeping my old address anyways, so here I
am... again.
Now. Going through all that I already forgot who asked this, but somebody
wanted to know about CARL BARKS LITHOGRAPHS:
There have been a few Barks lithos listed on every BUD PLANT'S COMIC ART
CATALOG - and they might be under the price that Another Rainbow gives
them (?) - as the titles of the lithos change with nearly all catalogs,
they might have more of them in stock, they just offer a few at a time.
I would recommend their services in other comic stuff as well - I know
that even some European comic stores get their stuff there. (He used to be
a distributor but when he changed to being exclusively a mail order
service, at least some stores maintained the connection).
---Jyrki Vainio
It's me Jyrki, and I have returned from a year-long hiatus.
It seems that I never got around to making an introducktion of myself when
I first joined the list back in 1995, so I guess that would be a good way
as any to start with.
I'm Jyrki Vainio, 20, a comics fan and an aspiring cartoonist from
Finland. My work has appeared in various publications in Finland (but I
don't want to give you the wrong impression here: they have been either
local or aimed at special interest groups, like the magazine of the Scouts
and Guides of Finland), and the peak achievement so far has been having my
strip as the "Featured Finnish cartoon of the month" in our largest
national tabloid paper Ilta-Sanomat in March 1997.
My interests in the field of comics are quite wide, but in particular I
enjoy main stream "all-family" comics; Euro-BD, newspaper strips and, yes,
ducks.
As said, I first joined the list in '95, but now I've been away for a bit
more than a year because of my 11-month stint in the Finnish army doing my
compulsory "national service". I've been holding back my comeback as I
didn't know whether my e-mail address would change as I changed schools.
Now it would seem that I'll be keeping my old address anyways, so here I
am... again.
Now. Going through all that I already forgot who asked this, but somebody
wanted to know about CARL BARKS LITHOGRAPHS:
There have been a few Barks lithos listed on every BUD PLANT'S COMIC ART
CATALOG - and they might be under the price that Another Rainbow gives
them (?) - as the titles of the lithos change with nearly all catalogs,
they might have more of them in stock, they just offer a few at a time.
I would recommend their services in other comic stuff as well - I know
that even some European comic stores get their stuff there. (He used to be
a distributor but when he changed to being exclusively a mail order
service, at least some stores maintained the connection).
---Jyrki Vainio
Fluks, H.W.
Rosa statistics (2)
Message 14 -
1998-09-01 at 20:06:56
Don R.:
I wrote:
> Up to the "Black Knight" story, you have done 59 stories, plus 1
> script-only, 4 art-only, and 4 onepagers/twopagers. 68 in total.
And you asked:
> Were there really 4 art-only Oberon stories? I can only think of 3. (I guess
> I should go check your index!)
Actually, I (wrongly) counted the Dutch 1-pager with "art-only" in stead
of with the gags. Besides that one, you made 3 gags written by Gary
Leach, plus one gag for the German TEMPO magazine (which I assume you
wrote yourself).
> No, I won't count the 4-pager I wrote for that DuckTales kiddie-magazine.
> That was a sad, regretable decision...
Still, it was a nice story...
--Harry.
I wrote:
> Up to the "Black Knight" story, you have done 59 stories, plus 1
> script-only, 4 art-only, and 4 onepagers/twopagers. 68 in total.
And you asked:
> Were there really 4 art-only Oberon stories? I can only think of 3. (I guess
> I should go check your index!)
Actually, I (wrongly) counted the Dutch 1-pager with "art-only" in stead
of with the gags. Besides that one, you made 3 gags written by Gary
Leach, plus one gag for the German TEMPO magazine (which I assume you
wrote yourself).
> No, I won't count the 4-pager I wrote for that DuckTales kiddie-magazine.
> That was a sad, regretable decision...
Still, it was a nice story...
--Harry.
Fluks, H.W.
LVD in a little something special?
Message 15 -
1998-09-01 at 20:13:31
Anders:
> I was just looking in the Don Rosa index. It says on A little something
> special that LVD (Ludwig von Drake) org.app. (originally appeared) in the
>story.
Actually, this may be an indexer error: Ole Reichstein indexed the
Danish publication, not noting that LVD appears in the story, while I
indexed the USA version and noted that LVD is there. The database
program considers *my* data as "original", that's why it adds "org.app"
to the Danish reprint file. Actually, LVD appears in *both* versions.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks, Leidschendam, The Netherlands
http://home.wxs.nl/~fluks4
http://members.xoom.com/bolderbast
> I was just looking in the Don Rosa index. It says on A little something
> special that LVD (Ludwig von Drake) org.app. (originally appeared) in the
>story.
Actually, this may be an indexer error: Ole Reichstein indexed the
Danish publication, not noting that LVD appears in the story, while I
indexed the USA version and noted that LVD is there. The database
program considers *my* data as "original", that's why it adds "org.app"
to the Danish reprint file. Actually, LVD appears in *both* versions.
--Harry.
Harry Fluks, Leidschendam, The Netherlands
http://home.wxs.nl/~fluks4
http://members.xoom.com/bolderbast