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I just received the last two Gladstones, the WDC&S #633 and the U$ #318,
both with my stories. Great looking comics, both of 'em... nice final
efforts. (And I'm particularly pleased, of course, to finally see "The War
of the Wendigo" in English, and in direct violation of Disney's ban on that
story. Heh heh.)
But this is the last time I'll ever see my stories in a language I can
read! I do see some changes from my original script, and since this is the
last time I'll ever know about such things (without some bi/tri-lingual
friend warning me), I guess I'll take this last opportunity to whine. "The
War of the Wendigo" was done nearly 10 years ago and it was
always ironic that it was my one story to be banned from American
publication, yet it was the one story in which I'd put LOTS of extra effort
into the English (Peeweegah) dialogue. And since I was so careful with the
Longfellowian (Kalevala-ian) rythm to the verse, I must point out that in
the half-dozen instances when the rythm is broken, it's simply because a
word has been dropped from the actual original dialogue. I detect that other
balloons were enlarged here and there when my bubbles were too small for my
words, but not so with the Peeweegah dialogue. Perhaps the letterer did not
realize that each Peeweegah line must have 8 beats, and didn't worry about
omitting a word. Anyway, as I said, if you are reading their verses and are
disturbed when a line is missing a beat, that beat is somewhere on a cutting
room floor. It's in the original script.
Other changes in the Wendigo story... whenever the Peeweegah are saying
"Yes, yes, yes", my script had them saying "woo, woo, woo" as they did in
Barks' (oh-so-politically-INcorrect?) original. In another spot I had Savage
DeFlora dumping chemicals into the mill pipes to disperse the frogs, but I
see that is now merely "hot water". If this was to protect the frogs, it's
odd that he is still shown putting even worse chemicals into the smokestacks
to disperse the bats... and later in the story the reference to his dumping
his entire chemical arsenal into the river is still intact.
But THANK YOU Gladstone for finally printing this story. Aside from the
extra effort this one took, it is one of my own stories that I *AM* very
proud of as the environmental subject matter is very close to my heart. I've
read through it twice now, and each time I get a bit of mist in one eye when
I read the Peeweegah Chief's dialogue in the final chapter. I think that
came out rather well if I do say so myself. ("Final chapter"?... yes, that
was my first 3 parter, and in those days I did not do extra art to bridge
those awkward 2nd & 3rd chapter splash-panels.)

UNCLE $CROOGE #318 had "The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark", a story 9
years newer than "Wendigo".... and I notice that "my" stay in UNCLE $CROOGE
lasted exactly 100 issues, #219-318. Heh. "CCotCS" looked great... beautiful
colors, virtually no changes... there was one omission in one panel, but it
was an ommission that has occured around the world, so I guess it was
accidentally left out of the Egmont script -- but there's a panel during the
bullrace when $crooge is thinking of all the money he plans to make, and you
see some sort of empty cloud trailing behind his head, like his head is
dusty or something. That's a thought balloon that is supposed to be filled
with a long trail of dollar $igns.
The only change in the dialogue that seems to have been made by Gladstone
will probably seem very insignificant to readers, but it happened to be my
favorite line in the whole story. When the captain's camera is destroyed by
a rock, this edition has him saying "Mr. Pencroft, fetch me a marlinespike.
I've an urge to do this contraption a further mischief." But in my original
script the Captain's frustration was somewhat (!) greater -- his dialogue is
*supposed* to be "Mr. Pencroft, fetch me a marlinespike. I've an urge to do
myself a mischief". In other words, he wants to kill himself. Obviously, not
really... but I guess this was still too much for someone...? A teeny
change, but I just loved my original line of self-threat spoken by that
constantly emotionless, stoic captain. (By the way, this is how the books
describe the actual Captain Moore of the Cutty Sark, in his character, his
appearance, and his love of cameras.)

Well, so long Gladstone. I'd go into detail about what a great job you've
done in the face of constant adversity for all those years, but I've already
done that here a month or so ago. Hope to see you guys back on these comics
for another publisher someday... but I somehow see that as a longshot in a
country where the publisher would have to deal with the adversities of both
a crumbling comic market and the Disney corporation.

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Hi,

Don R. said:

>The only change in the dialogue that seems to have been made by Gladstone
>will probably seem very insignificant to readers, but it happened to be my
>favorite line in the whole story. When the captain's camera is destroyed by
>a rock, this edition has him saying "Mr. Pencroft, fetch me a marlinespike.
>I've an urge to do this contraption a further mischief." But in my original
>script the Captain's frustration was somewhat (!) greater -- his dialogue
is
>*supposed* to be "Mr. Pencroft, fetch me a marlinespike. I've an urge to do
>myself a mischief". In other words, he wants to kill himself. Obviously,
not
>really... but I guess this was still too much for someone...? A teeny

In the Norwegian edition the line follows the original script, and yes, I
DID notice that omission since it was one of the funniest parts in the story
along with the suddenly ecstatically happy captain and some other moments.
Until now, though, I thought it was the SCANDINAVIAN translators that had
altered the line to something funnier.

Tarjei Kidd Olsen
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Ciao!

PAOLO:

>della Disney di distribuzione cinematografica, e nell'atrio
>avevano un disegno autografo di Scarpa celebrativo di Topolino
>2000 e inedito!!! Quando (se) ci tornero' cerchero' di farne una
>fotocopia!

E' per caso questo?

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/6371/Scarpa.html

(scusa per il colpo di flash)

E... In bocca al lupo!

TUTTI:

Se volete, date un'occhiata a questo albo Disney, piuttosto raro, uscito
nel 1946:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/6371/Pinocchio1.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/6371/Pinocchio2.html

E' l'unico cartonato Disney di "media epoca", e faceva parte di una
collana, "I grandi albi di Walt Disney", che non ebbe mai seguito. Volete
che lo indicizzi?

Ciao a tutti.
Leonardo Gori

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DON ROSA said re the last two Gladstones:

> But this is the last time I'll ever see my stories in a language I can
> read!

Here's hoping your conclusion is premature, Don.

> And since I was so careful with the
> Longfellowian (Kalevala-ian) rythm to the verse, I must point out that in
> the half-dozen instances when the rythm is broken, it's simply because a
> word has been dropped from the actual original dialogue.

Thanks for clearing this up. Between the rather hasty lettering (which may
have included dropped words) and the large empty spaces in the splash panels,
it seemed to me that this was a "rush job" at least by Gladstone's previous
standards.
Well, better that than never to see this story in English, I suppose.

Chris Barat
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At 02:28 AM 1/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I just received the last two Gladstones, the WDC&S #633 and the U$ #318,
>both with my stories. Great looking comics, both of 'em... nice final
>efforts. (And I'm particularly pleased, of course, to finally see "The War
>of the Wendigo" in English, and in direct violation of Disney's ban on that
>story. Heh heh.)
>But this is the last time I'll ever see my stories in a language I can
>read!

Well, I guess I'm an optimist, who can't really believe that Rosa McDuck
stories will never be available again, because if I wasn't, this recent
turn of events would have me thoroughly depressed. I have really enjoyed
your stories over the past 10 years or so, Don. I have yet to read Cutty
Sark (I've been saving it, but any day now...) but enjoyed War of the
Wendigo. Being a Canadian, it was nice to see another story set here. But
what's amazing is that anyone would even consider banning it. No, amazing
isn't the right word. Scary is.

Maybe Egmont could publish a Don Rosa English Edition comic every quarter,
or twice a year, and sell it by mail order? I'm sure thousands of fans
from around the world would purchase such a publication. I know... not
realistic, or feasible. But talk to them about it, eh?

Dave Fenske
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>
>

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Hi all!

Excuse me! I just sent *two* messages (in italian!) for another list... I
have some problems with my computer. Or I'm only a little tired (I think
the second idea is right)
I apologize

Best
Leonardo Gori

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Don Rosa wrote:

>> And since I was so careful with the Longfellowian (Kalevala-ian)
rythm to the verse, I must point out that in the half-dozen instances
when the rythm is broken, it's simply because word has been dropped from
the actual original dialogue.

Speaking of the Kalevala, are we going to see any of that poetical
language in your Kalevala story? What kind of a story will it be,
anyway?(how many pages, which characters, which time & place etc.)
Or is it too early to talk about it? As a Finn, I'm really looking
forward to see the story and would really appreciate any advance
information.

Juha

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Here sme Infos for you from German:
-"Mulan" came in the cinemas in Germany(ca.4.000.000 saw it-in Germany it is
good-Titanic had 12.000.000)
-The famoust Comic-Books in Germany are the 100-Sides "Micky
Maus-Magazin"-it exists for ca.45 years.It is weekly in the shops.
And there ist the "Lustiges Taschenbuch".It has 254 Sites and it is
monthlyin the shops(is my English too bad?)
The "Lustiges Taschenbuch" is my favourite Disney-Book.
I have 247 of 255 Exemplars(next Month there came Nr.256 in the shops)It
exist for ca.30 years.
Are those informations interesting for yo Americans-or not?

Christian from Germany
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