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MARCO:

>A new section, "Gli altri Paperoni" started out, printing two nice stories
>by Jack Bradbury. This chance to talk about Disney authors different from
>the usual bunch of three-four is VERYYYYY nice. Congratulation, Luca! I
>hope you'll also be able to talk about SCRIPTERS and not only artists.

Let me adds something...

When Luca had announced here this new idea I was a bit "scared" 'cause I
can't really say that I love... say... Strobl's art as much as Scarpa's or
Barks'...
But now I'm really relieved!

Besides the articles that are great and very interesting (but I didn't have
any doubts about that!), even the stories weren't that bad..actually they
were *really* good... better for example, than many other stories published
on ZP by Jippes (I'm talking about the first Jippes, from the 70's)

So I really liked this one and hope that the next will be this good!

>(AR 107 was printed on "ZP 110" and that's not reported...; and a note to

Damn! I wanted to be the first one to spot out here! :-)))

>So, Harry, you are getting famous among Italian readers too!
>(At least among the not-so-much-far-sighted ones...) ;-)

Yep... they couldn't have printed it in smaller fonts :-)

Francesco

Just out of curiosity: Is there any relation between Jack,
Dick and Sarah Kinney?
That may sounds like a silly question, but it DID turn out
that Bob and Roberta Gregory were father and daughter,
so maybe, just maybe, Sarah is Fethry's "sister". :-)

Ole(!)

Francois:

> - D 96197 (I can't tell who draw it)
>
It's drawn by Maria Jose Sanchez Nunez. And it's Utter Rubbish. At least,
that's what the title says... 8-)

--Harry.

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I read the following message on a message board
(http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb168362), but I think it belongs here
too.

From a Danish newspaper, translated and commented by Anders Chr. Sivebaek.

Trial about the name Barks, in case you haven't heard:
(I translated an article in a paper to english)
{Picture text} Carl Barks has won back the right to his own name.
{headline} Drama in Duckburg
{under-headline} The 97-year-old creator of $crooge
McDuck won over his former managers
{article about Barks} Carl Barks, 'The Good Artist',
the creator of among others $crooge McDuck, Cousin
Gladstone, Gyro Gearloose and the Beagle Boys, is
still going strong. He's not doing comics anymore,
but he has won a violent dispute with his former
managers Bill Grandey and Katie Morby.
Ekstra Bladet (this same tabloid paper) mentioned
the case about half a year ago {I didn't read that}.
Carl Barks has now, in his old years, begun to earn
money on his art. He gets nothing for the uncountable
reprints of his masterpieces {refers to his comics},
which are published all over the world, but in return
he has made oil paintings which both in original and
signed litographs {prints, if it isn't the same}
sells as hot cakes. The paintings {are sold} for prices
at several hundred thousands dollar.
The income went to "the Carl Barks Studio" which Barks
had employed Bill Grandey and Katie Morbie to run. They
earned well on that, but weren't satisfied.
They summoned Barks for one million kroner {I don't know
what that was in dollar, and why did they convert that sum?
200,000 maybe} and the right to use his name. Barks
summoned back and required a million dollar of his
former employees and demanded that the pair no longer
would be allowed to use his name.
{under-headline} Blackmail (Forgery?)
{article} The action for damages has been dealt with
outside court, after the judges has made a decission
of who has the right to Barks' name, tells the american
'Comics Journal'. Either part are goin to pay damages
to the other part. That sounds like unsettled, but
absolutely central is the fact that Carl Barks has now
again the free liberty of action over his name and his
works after the Disney-period.
This happends in spite of the fact that G and M in court
displayed a document which had, so it seemed been signed
by Carl Barks. In the document he gave his name and all
the rights to his works to the managers for just 2,000 dollar.
In court the pair admitted that they had written the
document themselves , but that it was by request from Barks
and that he had gladly signed it. On the question how
they had reached such a rediculous little sum for
something which was completely obvious worth more, Kathy Morby
declared:
Carl is a cult figure. I mean ... were not talking about Frank
Sinatra here. So we landed on 2,000.
But Carl Barks explained that he had never signed that paper.
He called it a forgery {?}, and if the manager pair had insisted
he would have demanded that handwriting experts where set to
investigate the case.
{under-headline} Not senile
{article} Carl barks is 97 years old, and he was asked in court
if he couldn't have signed the document without knowing what it
was about. His answer shows that he may be old, but he's not
senile:
- If that paper had been displayed to me, I would firstly have
read it through, before I signed. And when I would have read it,
I would have thought: "For God's sake, these people must think,
I'm crazy."
Grandey and Morby's lawyers could in no way proof it right, that
the documnet was genuine. The Judge turned it down, and thereby
the case fell to earth.
Now we can only hope that Barks will at last have as much joy
of his fortune as $crooge McDuck has of his.
written by Hans Bjerregaard

--Harry.

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End of Disney comics Digest V99 Issue #11
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From: "Fluks, H.W."
Subject: The name Barks for $2,000
>>>>I read the following message on a message board
(http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb168362), but I think it belongs here.
From a Danish newspaper, translated and commented by Anders Chr. Sivebaek.

That article seems to be a condensation of a very long article about the
rise and fall of the "Studio" that recently appeared in the latest COMICS
JOURNAL (#202). The article is a straightforward reporting of facts, but the
editors included some amusing illustrations in the form of old Barks comics
panels... for instance, above the caption "Barks claimed they tried to buy
his 'life's assets' for $2000" is the panel from "The Old Castle's Secret"
where $crooge is holding a gun on his groundskeeper and saying "Scottie! My
faithful servant! You tried to steal my treasure!". There is also a copy of
the "questioned document" which is fascinating (!!!) to read.

Well, the list seems to be rather quiet lately, so I feel encouraged to do a
little rambling ;-)

A few weeks ago I noticed some messages (Bror, Halsten) about the
Scandinavian "Jubilee-books". (For those who are not familiar with the
subject, we're speaking of thick books collecting reprints of the very first
issues of the local Kalle Anka / Anders And / Aku Ankka / ... comic-book,
from the late 40's - early 50's).

Which prompted the following question: in about three months' time, the
Italian "Topolino" comic-book will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary (No. 1
came out in April, 1949). Has anybody in Disney/Italia thought of an
appropriate way of celebrating the event? Maybe something different from
enclosing some kind of for-small-kids-only gadget in the April issues? Maybe
something in the line of what our friends from Northern Europe have been
experiencing?

Furthermore, I don't know about Scandinavia, but in Italy reprint-series are
an established tradition. Bonelli-comics run no less than four parallel
reprint-series of their most successful titles ("Tex", "Dylan Dog") - which
means that a fan can go to the newsstand and choose between No. 460, 420,
300, and 30 of "Tex"! And I read somewhere that the series reprinting the
oldest issues actually sells more than the "regular" one...

I'm sure there's plenty of problems to be solved... First to come to mind,
Disney/Italia relationships with Mondadori (the original publisher); the
fact that "Topolino" didn't contain only comics, but also various texts and
advertisements; the print quality that can be achieved without excessive
costs; and, for sure, many others. All the same, it would be nice to be able
to find Topolino #22 at the newsstand, instead of #2222... And Jubilee-books
would be gratefully accepted, too!

Maybe some Italian list members - and occasional contributors to Disney
publications ;-) - can provide their opinion on the above, or even make
Disney/Italia sensible to the issue? (It would be a good opportunity for
them to write philological notes, and for us to read them...)

OK, back to reality now...

Ciao,
Armando

P.S.: I, too, found Per's statistics about the list membership very
interesting. And I liked Tryg's idea of volunteering geographical data, so,
here they come: Genova (Italy) here! (Well, it was easy indeed!)