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From: "Berglund"
>>>With Stefan's comment in mind it didn't seem to be the reason it was dropped from Sweden, but if it (the appearance of a Celtic Christian CROSS ) was the reason for it not appering in some other country, it's strange to imagine ENTIRE story would be dropped...

They would have no other choice. They do not have the capability to change a single molecule of a story for their own use... they can only add text to blank areas like the balloons. They can't even remove a few lines for a sound effect or a sign if it doesn't fit onto the proper area. That's why you'll sometimes see attractive things like lettering on a sign extending out into empty space. They have their whole system set up on computer discs shipped to the publishers. If an Egmont publisher wants to use a story, they must use it exactly as it is sent to them since they don't have the technical capability to alter it. (At least that's what the publishers always tell me.)

From: "O/yvind J. Karstad
>>>>The LCoC story was published in one part in Norway and Denmark.
These three countries get the same comics from Egmont each week,
so the Swedish publishers only got the one-part story.
I could possibly be wrong.

No, that is surely the reason. The publishers are all supposed to know that ALL of my stories are done in multi-part versions. And even though I was allowed to violate that rule once in 1997 and again in 1998, the publisher should still know to request the colorized serialized version rather than the one-parter since it almost always exists. Why they often don't think to do this, I dunno.
But now I guess I *won't* be doing any more one-part-only stories. I did the 33-page Kalevala story in 3 parts and not in equal parts. Part 1 is 12 pages and I think part 3 is 11. (I believe that only Finland will see it in one part, but they also plan to use the extra half-pages as well, just to show fans the variations.) And there's no reason not to do all the stories in that fashion if they say they need it. If I'm not forced to break the story into even parts, the chapter breaks will not be a harmful influence on a story like they were when I thought the chapters all had to be perfect matches in length, and a cliff-hanger would be forced on me a page sooner or later than I was ready for it.

Gary Pantzer writes:

>As long as I've de-lurked and things seem a little slow on the ML of
>late, I have a question. I have started to get comic books
>from various countries and usually the $ sign on Scrooge's bin is
>changed to reflect the currency symbol of the country. When the
>"Euro-dollar" becomes common, will an "E" be used on the bin by
>any publishers?

This is a pretty interesting question. The whole point of Scrooge is that he's had his money for decades (or should that be centuries?). But the Euro is a new currency - so saying that Scrooge has had a bin full of Euros for 100 years really makes no sense.

But how would Scrooge react to the new currency? This might actually make for an interesting story - would he convert all his cash to Euros or would he keep the old currency?

My guess would be that he keeps all the existing cash he has, but that the Euros would just be dumped in on top of the existing money - so that the archeological (sp?) layers effect would be kept. Just like he has Spanish doubloons and other defunct money down on the bottom, he'd now also have a middle layer of soon-to-be obsolete European currency.

BUT - that obsolete currency (since it's not made of gold or silver) would have no intrinsic value - so maybe he *would* convert to Euros.

Anyways, it's food for thought, and probably won't be relevent until such time as there is an actual Euro that people can hold in their hands...

- M

hello
Happy hollidays, to those who are in that wonderful situation
I just remembered one of the last hiolidays, eatser, where I met with some
of the other danes from this list. I took 3 pictures, and put them online
on this page
http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/Mall/5218/

I give you the picture-text here, because I had already used too much time
on that page...
the first one, with 2 persons on, is with Thomas to the left and Soeren to
the right (www.duckburg.dk and www.raptus.dk)
the second is Ole RoC and Soerens cat (hi cat, you really did miaaau and
scartch a lot;-) (he's reading a topolino)
the 3th is of the table with various disney comics from denmark and other
countries, under the table one can see some feet! (LOL)

Anders Christian Sivebaek
(Email removed);

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DON ROSA :
>No, that is surely the reason. The publishers are all supposed to know that ALL
of my stories are done in multi-part versions.

The french publishers certainly ignore that fact.
Your stories are always printed as one-part version in Picsou Magazine.

Is that meaning we've missed many "splash pages" ?

Oliv

There is now a new version of the Inducks!

The web searches at

http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/inducks.html

use this new version now, and there you can also find links to the new
set of output files. Here are some figures on the current contents of
the database. (There are some more figures at the end of the web page
referred to above).

STORIES
=======
There are totally 52,499 "stories" in the database.
(That includes covers, some illustrations, etc.)
36,068 of those have a credited artist, and 22,954 a writer.

24,916 of them have at least some appearing characters listed.
12,712 have (almost) all appearing recurring characters listed.

9593 stories have W codes (Western), 8998 D codes (Egmont),
7545 I codes (Italy), 5269 B codes (Brazil), 4464 H codes (Dutch),
4110 S codes (Disney Studio), 2746 F codes (France).
4716 are newspaper comics.

BOOKS
=====
23,760 comic books, magazines, newspapers, etc. are indexed.

4,762 German
4,088 Danish
3,457 Dutch
3,446 Swedish
2,966 Italian
2,901 American (1,996 Western, and 905 Gladstone/Disney)
1,810 French
266 British
42 Norwegian
22 other

(As you can see we need Norwegians, Finns (two of the most common
nationalities of the DCML subscribers!), as well as Australians,
Greeks, etc., etc., to extend the Inducks.)

--
Per Starback <(Email removed)> <http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/me.html>
"Life is but a gamble! Let flipism chart your ramble!"

Olivier:

> DON ROSA :
> Your stories are always printed as one-part version in Picsou
> Magazine.
> Is that meaning we've missed many "splash pages" ?

Yes, but these splash panels *replace* half pages in the one-part version.
So the comics where the multi-part version is printed are missing half pages
of art that *is* printed in Picsou M.!

And nowadays the splash panels (for the multi-parters) usually are xeroxes
of artwork from elsewhere in the story, with some pieces of art and text
added. So, usually the one-part version of a Rosa story is the *best*
version.

--Harry.

Hi, all!

Jyrki Vainio wrote:
> SAN DIEGO:
>
> I don't know if this is a bit too early to bring up, but in previous years
> I've come to understand people from this list have gathered together at
> the San Diego Comic-Con. I haven't seen it mentioned yet this year but I
> thought I'd bring the topic up as I'm preparing to make my very first trip
> to the United States in connection with this year's con!
> Any ideas, anyone?
>
> ---Jyrki Vainio, Finland

I'll go to San Diego, this year, and I've seen from the booklet,
received by Cristina (in this same list, and who shall come to the
Comics Con too) that also Don Rosa shall be there. And M. Naiman,
also, I think...

And who other shall come of yours?

Luca