Keskustelujen arkisto

I enjoy Don's letters, and I encourage him to continue contributing. I
have an odd problem with his letters in the list. They run way off the
right side of the screen. None of the other letters do this. Am I the
only one? If so, perhaps I need a new email reader.
Scrooge definitely goes to heaven. When the chips are down, he's more
generous than almost everyone I know( if that is the criteria for
getting through the pearly gates).
In the quote below, Perhaps Scrooge is using the royal "we", finding it
hard to think of himself apart from his money bin. The Bin was not
physically there, but its creator was.
I guess I am not a strict constructionist/Fundamentalist/Literalist on
this issue. Sometimes I suspect Unca Carl plays a little fast and loose
with the facts in the interest of humor and entertainment. He was under
a grueling production schedule at the time as well, I believe.

"I bought this land when there was nothing within 50 miles but a fort on
the Tulebug river."

"My money bin and I have been here for seventy years, and we're
staying."

"I'll buy Duckburg and move the mushrooming mostrosity to the middle of
Madagascar!" Scrooge McDuck -Out of the way of Progress (US 15)

Hi, all!
My good friend and countryman Don Rosa wrote, some days ago:

> YES! I will, as always, be in San Diego!!! You and other list members can leave me messages at the Clarion Hotel.

Wonderful! Now, Don is in Europe, in Luxembourg at the annual comic
convention, but I hope that when back he finds this message, so we can
meet, also in a different time than in Friday morning at *Cafe 222*
located at 222 Island Avenue, because we'll be in San Diego only on
Saturday.

Carey wrote:
> in 1995 there was a panel on
> the Disney Ducks, "What's All The Quacking About?" A really great
> panel, with many notables in the Disney Duck universe (e.g, David
> Gerstein, Harry Fluks, W. Van Horn??, Don Rosa).

Anything of similar has been planned this year?

So, for what I can know, now, from this list shall be in San Diego:
Don Rosa, Michael Naiman, Joe Torcivia, Dana Gabbard, Brent Swanson
Chris Barat, Cristina Francesconi, Harry Fluks, Carey Furlong, maybe
Wilmer Rivers, Barry Branvold, Luca Boschi...

Someone more to add?

Ciao,
Luca

Hello
Here it is finally, my tellings and complaints about a trip held the last
weeks. I haven't come down to it before now, when I'll also register the
comics I bought.
We went to hamburg firstly, by car that is. As soon as we got over the
border at Froslev, i bought 4 MM with cd-roms, for myself and friends. I
bought some LTB's too. Then we had to go wtih the ferry, and I was pleased
that MM's in germany seem to be out all the week, whereas our weekly is
usely sold out on tuesday (is that wrong?). The kiosk on the ferry had a
german LTB too, which I also bought, the birthday-edition.
Then we landed in Newcastle, and I'll just tell the route now, and note
that i bought 2 feet word of books for the shelves (classics you know, like
Rob Roy and Ivanhoe). Somewhere I found my first mag, Big Time, which is
the worst ... beeep! ... I've ever seen, this magazine for young "normal"
(that is: stupid, not very comic-reading, interested in pop-stars and so)
people... Luckily it caries a sheet of 100 stickers, but only few of them
have real Disney-charecters... I guess the company overthere has a lot of
licenses as they show things from Star Wars (not that bad ;-) and
Spiderman, Batman and such other Marvel/DC-charecters.
I attended many newsagents, both big and smaller ones, but the shelves
sounded lilke this: papers, women's magazines, men's magazines and generel
interst such as computers... well, I guess kids aren't anything there, or
comics at least... the magazines one see is for children under 6, like
Postman Pat and Sesame Street (which maybe aren't bad, but not my hobby).
One place though I found a plastic bag with 4 comics, UK-comics that is,
with a boy called Dennis, and some other charecters... he has a maybe quite
popular magazine there... that was in Edinburg I found that.
I have to mention that the day we were in Edinburg was the opening of the
scottish parliament day, so they have a parliament now, what they haven't
had for 300 years, hail Scotland! It was great with parades of
bagpibe-players and dancers and so. Btw we stood about 40 metres from the
Queen passing by, but we only saw the top of the horse-guard:-)
We saw a tartan museum in this city. And as we were the only vistors we got
a guided tour. The guide was of swesish origin, so that was kinda funny,
and learning of cause too. I showed her the McDuck-tartan, but she didn't
have any... by the way the McDucks must have two kilt-sorts, one for winter
and one for summer, at least the colours change from time to time, even in
the book... or maybe it's just egmont's coloring that is the problem!!

On the way from Edinburgh to Inverness, we made a drive-in to Rannoch, yes
Rannoch Moor, the place where we place the old MacDuich-castle! Allthough I
didn't see a trace of it (and knows why: In reality barks looked in
National geographic and took a tower from one scottish castle and the
main-part from another) - I guess I was near Dismal Downs cause it was
quite grey that day...
I off course read a lot in my Lo$-book on the trip and I also had the
manuscript-pages of the first chapter with me, so I had a sume-up of all
the facts... as we know there was a macduich/duck in every important part
of Scotland history. CHAPTER 5 got me wondering though: on page 14 panel 5,
one sees some ancestors pooping out... some of them aren't even in the
final book, but others can be spotted in the manuscript. I for one thought
it could be fun to know the names and stories of those persons... eg. the
ones with yellow/white hair, are they just "normal" members of the clan?
And this person, sir Swamphole McDuck, who looks like a munk, with that
cape over his head, who is he? He was seen on the tree and in Barks' Old
castle-story, but nothing is known (It says in the fact-pages I have from
egmont, about the tree) - and he wasn't in the manuscript...
Inverness was the next place, and we stayed there one day, whereafter we
drove to Drumnadrochit at Loch Ness, we saw an exhibition and the store and
saw the store of the other exhibition too, so that was a lot of toy-nessies
to see! well, the monster that is said to live in that lake have also been
inspiration for a lot of stories, of cause we know the ones by barks, and
Rosas drawing for the barks-one, but on the trip I was reading another one,
about a whole monster-family, living in another lake though but monsters
are a good thing... the people living there, surely earns a lot by all us
ourists coming to get a photo of the lake and maybe the monster.
As I read in one of the two books I bought there, a famous person said: I
don't know if there's anything there, but I know that if they (the people
making operations and such to find Nessie) find it, I know they'll do
something nasty to it... and I go on: maybe put it into a cave in a zoo,
and then it'll fade a way very fast...
We were at the wiev-point too, Urquhart castle which is also famous for
maybe being the place where this munk, Colombo has lived...
On the way to Fort William, we dropped in at a highland game, I carried my
Lo$ wtih me, and tried to memorize the differences between that game US
participated in and this one... luckily I got a programme, and the
diciplines in this game was among others: running, boot-throwing,
hammerthrow, tossing the caper (the thing US does fine, but the judges are
drunk at the time), dancing with folk-clothes, and there was some kinda
hockey or kricket too. Of course every Scotsman wears his kilt on such a
day if he has one, and the women were dresses made of the clan-tartan. We
talked to the Royal air force too...
In fort william a restaurant was showing scottish evening every night so we
had to go and see that, which is recmommendable, we heard a lot of good
songs, heard bagpibes, and a girl danced some of the old dances
(sword-dance eg.)
sometime here about I must have bought the mag. Disney and me, at least
there was a Disney store in Edinburgh, but they didn't know why there
weren't any real disney *comics* in UK... there was a 8-pages special with
someone called Dough in the big time, but I wouldn't look at him as a
disney-charecter... just one they have copyright for...
That disney and me is for little kiddies, but the charecters in it are
okay, such as Ariel and Timon and so... but no Scrooge (I bought a plastic
figurine of him in Edinburg...) That kiddie mag, has been here for a long
itme, once it was called Disneyland, both in DK and germany, at some time
it was dumbo here, and now it's winnie the pooh (maybe about to destroy(?)
the other magazine of that name in sweden...). In germany they have the
mag. prinzessin and some others (later)
In Carlisle We finally found a comic-store. I talked with the owner for
some time, and he told me that he couldn't even sell gladstone's old comics
(as the publisher doesn't publish any Scrooge-comics that would be a
natural thing to do), cause that would be breaking the copyright
infringement... I bought a Superman (the magazine I once loved, but then he
dies or soemthing like that...) and two x-men magazines...
well that was Scotland and UK.
Maybe I should post now and send the germany/Hamburg report later?
Yours travelling Mac (from Jim Henson's Fraggles)
Anders Christian Sivebaek
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I was on holiday in Germany and I bought a Lustiges Taschenbuch there,
similar to Finnish Aku Ankan Taskukirja and other pocket books (I guess they
do those in other countries, too). In the middle of that Taschenbuch was 16
pages of Bark's half-page-comics and information about the Donald-films
around 1940. I wish they put these to Aku Ankan Taskukirja too.

Mikko

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Fellow Quackeroos:

For reasons partly beyond my control and partly because it's vacation time,
"Story of the Week" will take a brief break until mid-August or so. I
realize I still owe the List Part II of "Il tiranno del Nord", and that will
be the first thing I send when I find the time, along with a copy of Part I.

I hope you all have a great summer!

Cheers,

Archontis

Hello again friends
As you might not remember we were in Scotland and returned (nah, we didn't
but I'm my other personlaity?!) and styed one night at the Jugendherberg in
hamburg. This was really har t ofind and really a youth-herberg (hostel).
allmost everyone there were young - the staff, most of the guests... only
exceptions were some candians, to whom I spoke a bit, I had a talk with
some swedes too (told them I was a member of the swedish list, hello guys!)

well, after getting some sheets on the beds we took the U-bahn (lane S that
was) to the main-station. we were there some time, went up and came back
again where we found a lot of german comics like Minnie, Micky, LTB's and
then we were in a big store where I asked for the kinder-abteilung. it was
upstairs were I met a guy putting stacks of LTB's on the shelves. I found
the MM book, one of them (we saw the other later, but ermm... you'll know
why)
And I talked with the guy, showed him my list with the books Ole and I are
missing... sadly they weren't reprinted lately. I asked about the
ehapa-albums, such as Barks and Rosa-albums. He told me that some way down
the "road" (we were some metres under surface, at the station, where a
whole city with eating places and a lot of these "Stile aktuel" stores,
which are great places to find stuff).
We went there and I looked a bit around. The nice lady there, answered my
question aboout the rosa albums, the next was in september she told me.
luckily I also got a glimpse of album 23 and 24 (due for march and june) 23
must have the Shambala-story, it has the cover at least (that one with DUCK
*and* ROC-dedications:-) and 24, well I saw it, and it must be some new
story, but I only remember some coins... Then I saw an album with the full
version of Trick or treat (I have the censored one in german too) so i had
to buy that... well 16,80 Dm is money, so one understands why the money
disappear...
I asked the lady where to find older comics than those fine one she had.
and I found out that the germans have the word antiquariat! I always knew
they were intelligent! ;-) She thought a bit and told us (the guys at the
youth hostel told us another one too, but I think i found the best place)
We went to the place, wish is situated, from the station up a long road,
called lange Reihe, and we even asked in a book store for the way (if it
was right) and at last we found it.
Gosh, I must have thought: I'm in heaven... a really duck-inspired store.
he had most of the LTB's (But I only bought two, for Ole:-) many Micky
Maus, of which I only browsed one stack, the old ones are usually quite
expensive... I looked on a shelve where I found a fanzine with Scrooge's
50th birthday, an article supposedly to have been made by the duck
himself... there was some old albums too, a birthday albums among others
(showing the drawing Don made for the Duck that never was) and a christmas
one, ta da: showing the first half of the Silent Night story (which Rob
Klein is said to have something to do with:-) There were also some
classic-albums, both CBL and the german klassik's, they are at issue 56 or
such but I strangely enough didn't buy any...
then I browsed through the other collectors-minded magazines, namely the
tollsten geschichten-comics. those are great and I found this 4-in-1 comic
carrying some of the stories that I only have in copy or scan. then mom
showed me something great! two collections of Barks-covers made into
wall-posters! I found a double, but the owner said that they sometimes did
that on porpous... well i browsed through them all and had a good time. He
also had some Donaldist-magazines (the german fanzine, untill now come in
106 issues!) I looked in them and took the newest one. then he had some
books on ducks too... among others this very ehapa-attacking book on how
they destroyed Barks and others works with starnge translations and
censorship... I didn't buy that, cause my stack was getting quite big...
I think that that was the last thing we looked at, and the shop was empty
when we left. We asked the owner when he closed, and, maybe to be nice, he
said 6.30 pm which was the time. I didn't have many d-marks back when I
left... erm...!
The fact that the last place we was, a boarder-kiosk that had magazines,
where I bought a tv-guide (not a *TV-guide tm (c) just a german one), after
that I had 30 pfennig back...
Since then I've been in Herning and Silkeborg, every place finding other
comics that I don't have... it never stops, and that's kinda good! two days
ago I received 3 CK-comics from Don so I have something to read now. And
then I'll have to prepare Rob's visit.

Yours travelling Mac (anyone here saw that series??)
AC
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A while back (maybe a couple of months ago?) someone asked if anyone knew
where they could buy a complete set of the 30 vol, hardcover, black and
white Carl Barks Library. Just today I visited a store which was selling
the complete set for $1,000 (this place is located in Maine, USA). If the
person who wanted this information will privately e-mail me, I'll provide
them the dealers name and address (he DOES do mail orders).

Tom Peaco

Arthur de Wolf wrote:
> It was hard to find any comicshops though. We walked around
> a lot through Rome, Pisa and Venice, but didn't find many
> used bookstores or places that had older Italian Disney
> magazines. One normal magazine store had a bunch of "I
> Maestri Disney" and "Zio Paperone", so that was good.

Hey, next time ask on the list, and I'll provide you with a
complete, detailed list of shops in Rome where it is possible to
find very interesting stuff... at least *before* I visit them:
once I check them they won't have a lot of comics left! ;-)

- Paolo
http://www.confor.it:2222/disney

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