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> 1. MICE and DUCKS (Vic Pratt)
> 2. Kalevala (Geir Hasnes)
> 3. More than one Rosa story before Christmas... (Geir Netland)
> 4. Guildo Horn'back (oliv)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:49:39 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Vic Pratt <(Email removed)>
> Subject: MICE and DUCKS
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> I was very pleased to discover a mailing list for Disney comic fans on the net.
> The only problem is that it reminds me what a shoddy deal English readers get
> with regard to new Mouse/ Duck material...the only Disney comics available here
> apart from imported Gladstone material are glossy magazines for small children
> with no discernible comic element at all...I wish we got reprints of Topolino
> etc...it seems that publishers in other nations have far more respect for
> genuine Disney comics.
>
> sorry if I appear to be a klutz, but can someone tell me exactly what KOMIX is?
> Is it a fanzine? Is it in English? And what exactly is the Rosa book that
> everyone 's talking about?
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> Thanks
> Vic
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> From: "Geir Hasnes" <(Email removed)>
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> Subject: Kalevala
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:40:05 +0100
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> Hello from Norway.
>
> I just got the Norwegian Donald Duck weekly in the mailbox, containing the second part of Don's Kalevala story.
>
> It was incredible. It was absolutely way above anything he has done. He will probably not agree with me, but that doesn't matter.
>
> I happen to enjoy the kind of story that suggests so much behind what is actually told.
>
> The idea of introducing the Duck's into the Kaleva universe is great!
>
> I am currently reading Kalevala in a Swedish translation to get behind Don's story - I bought the book in 1985 in Finland but haven't been able to finish it yet - so what an occasion to renew my acquaintance with this mythological universe!
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> Geir Hasnes
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> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:19:35 -0800 (PST)
> From: Geir Netland <(Email removed)>
> Subject: More than one Rosa story before Christmas...
> To: "Disney-comics mailinglist" <(Email removed)>
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> Hello fellow Duckers!
>
> This year's Norwegian "Donald Duck Christmas-Album"
> is an exact re-print of the Christmas Album from 1988.
> That means that the *first* Rosa-story ever printed in
> Norway (probably also the hardest one to get a copy
> of) is again available.
> The name of the story is: "Du grønne, glitrende...."
> (Fir-tree Fracas).
> Perhaps this Christmas-Album has also been printed in
> other Scandinavian countries????
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> Greetings from/Vennlig hilsen:
> Geir J. Netland
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> From: "oliv" <(Email removed)>
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> Subject: Guildo Horn'back
> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 01:04:03 +0100
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> Hi all !
> Don't you know Guildo Horn is back
> since this summer in Germany ?
> What about him ?
> Just use any search engine and type
> in his name.
> Actually the best showman in europe :-))
>
> Oliv
>
> I know, i know it's Disney Comic list but
> Guildo and his sox areworthy of interest.
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VIC:

> can someone tell me exactly what KOMIX is?
> Is it a fanzine? Is it in English?

KOMIX is arguably one of the best Disney comic books in the world: it is
printed on thick glossy paper, with excellent computer color, has some
very well-informed editorials, and at under 2 Euros it is practically
a steal. It is also printed in Greek--literally!

Kriton (e-mail: (Email removed))
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis
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VIC:

>sorry if I appear to be a klutz, but can someone tell me exactly what KOMIX
is? Is it a fanzine? Is it in English?

Not a "klutz", just uninitiated! :-)

KOMIX is a monthly Disney comic book published in Greece, and by most
accounts is ranks amongst the top 2-3 Disney comics in the world.

It has a page-count of 66 glossy pages and prints mostly Barks, Rosa, and
Scarpa, accompanied by many editorial pages lifted mostly from Gladstone's
Carl Barks Library, and a Letters Column that features on ocassion the
undersigned. :-) It ocassionally prints original pieces by Don Rosa (I
understand that one such piece will appear in the upcoming Y2K issue). Its
paper and color quality is truly outstanding.

Cheers,

Archontis

Another hello from Norway

I can only add my own sentiments to those of Geir, this promises
to be a great story, and I look forward to the rest of it. I feared
working within the constraints of such an esoteric work as the
Kalavala would hamper Don, but this seems definitely not to
have been the case.I should have known Don's work better
by know :-) And this time the translators to Norwegian seems
to have got it right!

(I have only read the first part, it came to the shops
yesterday.)

Even

>From: "Geir Hasnes" <(Email removed)>
>To: <(Email removed)>
>Subject: Kalevala
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:40:05 +0100
>charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>Hello from Norway.
>
>I just got the Norwegian Donald Duck weekly in the mailbox, containing the
second part of Don's Kalevala story.
>
>It was incredible. It was absolutely way above anything he has done. He
will probably not agree with me, but that doesn't matter.
>
>I happen to enjoy the kind of story that suggests so much behind what is
actually told.
>
>The idea of introducing the Duck's into the Kaleva universe is great!
>
>I am currently reading Kalevala in a Swedish translation to get behind
Don's story - I bought the book in 1985 in Finland but haven't been able to
finish it yet - so what an occasion to renew my acquaintance with this
mythological universe!
>
>Geir Hasnes
>
>
Even Flood, Senior Research Librarian
RBT/Norwegian DIANE Center,
University Library of Trondheim,
N 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
Phone: +47 73 59 51 62, Fax +47 73 59 60 97
(Email removed)
<*>
"Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow."
(Shakespeare)

Kriton:

> Komix is arguably one of the best Disney comic books in the world: it is
> printed on thick glossy paper, with excellent computer color, has some
> very well-informed editorials, and at under 2 Euros it is practically
> a steal. It is also printed in Greek--literally!

Tha last is its only flaw ;-)))

Sprea

Hi.
I very seldom do anything here but follow the discussions and only speak up
when I am asked a direct question.
I am pleased by how much people are saying they liked my Kalevala story! It
was the longest story that I've worked on so far. I'm afraid that I don't
think it's one of my best stories, as some kindly readers have opined, but
it had some nice touches.
So far, the response to the story has been beyond overwhelming. I knew it
would be popular in Finland, but I didn't expect to be the single most
famous person in the whole country when I visited two weeks ago! Huge press
conferences, jammed bookstores and shopping malls.... they sold out the
first printing *instantly*. Does that ever happen? It was the best-selling
book in Finnish history. I will reportedly actually get thousands of votes
in next month's presidential elections. No kiddin'! Remember that 70's
show, "Fantasy Island", where people would pay $10,000 to live out a
particular fantasy? I get to do that, and I don't even have to pay the
dwarf's boss the ten grand! (And yes, if I got any royalties, I'd be
dictating this and somebody would be typing this for me while I sipped a
fine port!)
But I'm approaching my point obliquely. Even before the story was
published, my gratification was great! I was *voluntarilly* contacted by
the translators and editors in Finland (of course, from the start), but
later also by their worthy counterparts in Sweden (ML member Stefan Dios!),
Norway (ML member Nils Lid Hjort!), and Germany... and I worked with all
these nice folks to help them do a good job and follow all the story's
intentions and plans. This particularly relates to the Kalevalian texts
which were shown in the script as being planned as being written in the
proper rune-o-meter, and lettered in a special font. And it looks like that
in all these countries the translators went to *great* effort, did extra
research, and probably even *improved* on what they had to work with.
Everything was done perfectly! I am So proud!!!
But now I am getting first reports from readers in Denmark who are
confused. Now, I CANNOT READ DANISH... so I only know what I'm being told.
But what I'm told is that the Danish editions have made no effort to write
the Kalevalian rune-o-meter or research the proper wordings, and the
dialogue was not even printed in a special font, as simple as computers now
make that. And if you've seen the story, this would mean that the point of
the final panel will be lost! If the rune-o-meter and font are not used on
the dialogue in that final balloon, how would readers know who the old man
really is who is speaking? All that extra dialogue work, creating poetry,
counting syllables, timing phrases.... lost completely. (sob)
Anyway, if this is all true, my point is to apologize to any Danish readers
here on the ML, and assure them that what they are seeing is not what my
intention was. These are the sorts of things, as I always say, that I have
no control over. Once the story leaves my hands, I lose all ownership and
control (after all, that's the reason I'm typing this myself rather than
sipping that port).
So, I can't do anything in a case like this but THANK the folks in places
like Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany (and certainly, I fully expect, later
on also my publisher-friends in France and Greece and Italy) who *do* offer
me the opportunity to help them in their extra efforts to make a story be
everything it was meant to be for the readers.
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!

David King:

> It features something called a "happy tingle ray",
> and has Gyro
> riding over the ocean on a machine that produces a spider's
> web-like ray.

I think this is a "Studio production" story. Not published in the USA. The
Australian publication is not in our database yet:

S 64023, 10 pages, art Jack Bradbury, Gyro "The Fishing Pied Piper", with
Gyro, Donald, Gladstone, Scrooge.
Reprints:
| dk: AA65-11 (Friskfanget fisk)
| fr: JM 798*,MPO 105* (Comme s'il en pleuvait)
| it: AT 93 (Archimede e i raggi del Pescik)
| nl: 68-42,99-34 (Vissen op het droge)
| se: 65-10 (Ett strålande fiska-fänge)

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