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Tristan wrote:

>Are there two diffrent DDAD 18's out there, one rare with a screwy cover
>design?

Well, like Harry said, that was a joke by Bob Foster. But I admit it is pretty
confusing, and nowhere near as funny (or obvious) as his crack about Barks
producing clunky comic book work. I first read the bit about alternate cover
designs when I was twelve, and I acknowledge that I also took it at face value,
going off and hunting down my friend's copy of that issue in the hope of
finding a million dollar rarity! It was only when I reread the book that the
joke suddenly clicked with me, making a lot more sense. I'm sure that lots of
other people took it literally too...

Cheers,

Owen.

In a message dated 10/26/98 6:01:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, dcomics-
(Email removed) writes:

<< (Email removed) wrote:
>This week DC Comics released "Bugs Bunny and Friends: A Comic
Celebration," a
>168-page collection of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies comic books stories
>from the past 60 years. At $14.95 it's a little pricey and I probably would
>have passed it up except that it has a 24-page Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny
story
>drawn by Carl Barks, with writing and editing by Craig Chase.
>

How can I order this album? (From Norway)

Halsten
>>

<< How can I order this album? (From Norway) >>

I don't know your distribution system, but you can probably order it from your
book store or online at Amazon.com. The ISBN number is ISBN: 1-56389-458-0.

--your pal, Hoy

Hey everybody..Im going to update my Don Rosa Index this wekend, so come back for a new edition of the index on monday...
Erik! You sent me an mail concerning a paperversion of the index, but i accidentily deleted the mail you sent me...could you send me your adress again??? Thanks!!

My homepage is:"http://come.to/dagove"
The index is on page 2.....

See ya, Dag Ove

Hi,
for those who give a.... dern ;) :
Today I bought the Norwegian "Mikke Mus Jubileumshefte", a 70th anniversary
album (softback) reprinting some old Mickey-stories! On the back cover it
says: "Mickey Mouse turns, as you maybe know, 70 this year! In connection
with this we have the joy of giving you 168 pages with classic Mickey Mouse
stories. We are proud to be able to present 12 stories by the most known
Disney-authors like eg. David Gerstein, Floyd Gottfredson and Romano Scarpa.
As a Mickey Mouse fan you just can't miss out on this anniversary-album
filled with pearls with Mickey Mouse and old friends. You will also get to
meet old enemies and join in amazing adventures. Mickey Mouse was Walt
Disney's favourite figure, and it WAS this little mouse it all started
with... Enjoy!"

An interesting album? I sure think so.

Tarjei Kidd Olsen
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website: http://home.sol.no/kidd/
work: http://panacea.norgesnett.no
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Something odd happens to my messages right before each trip to Europe so
that I am unable to announce my disappearance in case someone here starts
asking me questions and thinking I am ignoring them. Earlier this month my
computer power-supply blew and I had computer-healer Dan Shane mention my
absence for me. This time I actually sent my message into the Digest, but it
was part of that Digest "deleted due to lack of disk space" that happened
two weeks back.
So, sorry if I ignored any questions -- I never do that intentionally... but
since early last week I have been in Belgium, Sweden and Finland. I got back
last night (but I leave again today to be a guest at a convention in Chicago
this weekend).
Anyway, in Sweden I was in Gothenburg (second biggest city there, for people
like me who didn't know) as a guest (again) of their annual international
book fair... and what a whopping huge thing it was! There's only one or two
book fairs bigger, such as the super-giant Frankfurt fair. I sat for 4 days,
off n' on (mostly on), and signed about 400 more "Lo$" hardbacks, 300+
Family Tree posters and any other stuff that Duckfans plopped in front of
me... and scribbled as many Duck heads as I could for polite people who
didn't wince at how sloppy I musta been. I also attended the Book Fair
reception/party at City Hall with many other Fair guests such as Mary
Higgens Clark, Terry Pratchett, and a hundred or so others who I am too
ignorant to have heard of. I don't even know if I hobnobbed with those two
since I don't know what they look like (I knew when I was talking to the
mayor -- he was wearing one o' those European-mayor-necklaces-geegaws). Also
during the Fair at the seminar which interviewed me for journalists and
(paying!) comics fans, where a culture-critic for the largest Swedish
newspaper spent about 15 minutes introducing me in Swedish (but which I
assume was nice stuff, otherwise he wouldn't be there), I was surprised to
be given one of the three comics awards of the Fair -- the Swedish "Academy
of Comics" has given such awards for about 35 years... this year, one to a
Swede and two to non-Swedes. I was, of course, honored to receive mine, but
as someone who still feels like more of a comics fan than a professional, I
was much more thrilled to accept the award for the other (non-attending)
winner, *WILL EISNER*! And while I was there I also saw several of the
Swedish Donaldists, including our leader Per Starback!

Then I went to Finland (and this will answer Juha's query) to do some
preliminary research on the Kalevala story that I will write/draw sometime
in mid 1999. I think Finns know that the Kalevala is not well-known beyond
their borders, so they'll forgive me if I explain a bit -- in the mid 19th
century a doctor named Elias Lonnrott (right?)(I can't type the lil' dots
over the 'o's) spent many years collecting notes on the spoken Finnish
legends and assembled them all into a single book designed to give Finland a
literary heritage like many other cultures... and that book, published in
1849, was The Kalevala. I postponed doing a Duck story based on the Kalevala
for just a few years so that the hardback book in which it appears can be
part of the big 150th anniversary of the Kalevala. So, I was in Helsinki to
try to learn and gather as much info as I could book in preparation for this
project. I met with the head of the Kalevala Society, who gave me various
translations, showed me lotsa pictures, let me manhandle a first edition
from 1849... and even allowed me to browze through the *original manuscript*
of the Kalevala... Elias Lonnrott's own handwritten notes! This would be
sorta like what?... letting someone handle the paper-scrap with the
Gettysburg Address written on it? Or play with Tom Jefferson's first draft
of the D of I? Anyway, I am very scared of this project, since I have a
great responsibility to do a GOOD story (I hope!!!) to please all of Finland
(though I've certainly learned you can *never* please everyone)... and I'm
gonna try my hardest. But if I pull it off, and produce a decent story
combining the two most beloved things in Finnish culture, The Kalevala and
Donald (Aku Ankka) Duck, I suspect I will be elected Prime Minister of
Finland (though I would have to decline the post in order to continue to do
Duck stories).
In Belgium? Oh, all I did was sit in the airport between planes and kill
zombies and demons and perform heroic (Kalevala-style) quests on my laptop.

I had written other stuff in that deleted message 2 weeks ago... I can't
reproduce it all now.
I recall someone was saying that I had no right to tell them not to
criticize Gladstone Comics. I never tell anyone they have no right to
criticize -- it's the old bit about "I may not like what you say, but I
defend your right to say it". But I can tell a few are totally
misunderstanding my point... even saying that in America, in particular, we
have the right to and should criticize even our president. I wrote that what
is happening at this point is that some are criticizing a good president
after his assassination -- it's too late and seems in very bad taste,
lacking in grace and showing no gratitude for a job heroically done. Go
ahead and do that if you wish to. And I'll go ahead and say when I think
it's tactless (or simply grossly uninformed) when I wish to.
And another Gladstone-graveside-critic, thinking to be sarcastic, said
something to the effect of "what? Is Gladstone a GOD or something, not to be
criticized?" And I waxed eloquent (and I'm sorry this message was lost last
week, since I'll do a poor job recreating it) that... by golly, yes --
Gladstone Comics DOES have many earmarks of a god! Gladstone revolutionized
Disney comics around the world! They changed the way these comics were
regarded, the way they were produced, the style of the presentation, etc.,
etc. Disney comics at Egmont are in a Rennaissance of creativity lead by
Gladstone's original editor Byron, and performed by several of Gladstone's
writers and artists, accompanied by many others inspired by the example set
by the Gladstone comics. None of these people would be doing Disney comics
today *if not for Gladstone*. There are Barks Libraries in many European
countries which are either imitations of Gladstone's or direct
copies/reprints of them. There are wonderful collector-style comics in
places like Italy and Greece and France and elsewhere that are obviously
inspired by Gladstone's comics and historical texts and features on the
artists and writers and publishing histories. Often these excellent
magazines lift Gladstone's texts and picture-features and cover art and
coloring directly out of the Gladstones and reprint them (and, even though I
don't mind such use of my texts and I doubt if Gladstone minds it either,
Gladstone's permission for this use of their work is never sought and the
only payment for this usage goes *not* to Gladstone but to the licensing
corporation which had *nothing whatsoever* to do with the creation of any of
the material... that's another bit of "whining" for Gladstone). The fact
that Gladstone existed is the reason for a new respect for these comics'
future and past and a new respect for the readers. And it is clear that only
a true love and understanding of this material can result in good comics, as
proven by the licensing corporation which interrupted Gladstone's production
of these comics, and is more responsible than any other single reason for
the collapse of their circulation and early demise, by breaking their
excellent momentum of success and popularity up into "Gladstone I" and
"Gladstone II".
Anyway, here you have a tiny publishing company, born in the desert of
humble means, which inspired a new wave of thought and changed the face of
Disney comics around the world, which still struggled on in humble fashions,
fighting unfair and sometimes plain evil adversities, and finally dying off
beyond the sight or knowledge of most of the world who doesn't realize what
they owe this heroic lil' entity... they "died for your sins", eh? And some
still seek to crucify them further (or at least drag a cross). Yeah.... I do
think they are sorta "godlike", and I don't mind saying it. And I'll step up
and help drag their cross for them whenever I think I can help.

Hello. My question is kind of off-topic, so I'm requesting that any British
list members (who wouldn't mind) please e-mail me personally. Thank you.

Hi,
I've been off this list for several months now, so will be interested to
catch up on any news of Gladstone's health and new Rosa stories etc.

A request: does anyone know if William Van Horn has an e-mail address? And
if he is approachable by fans and such? Some of you may have conversed
with him or met him at conventions.

Thanks.

Dave Fenske

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