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HENRI KUNNE, 22 FEBRUARY 2000:

> [Officer For a Day] True, but first, I think Strobl is living a bit *too*
> much in Barks' (and Rosa's)shadow nowadays, and second, I'd like to
> compare both versions.

I've heard that Strobl's earlier art was much better. Towards the end
of the 1950s (1958?) the paper (Strathmore?) on which the artists worked
was replaced by cheaper paper, which made drawing and erasing difficult.
In the early 1960s (around Uncle Scrooge No. 40?), also the size in which
the artists had to draw was reduced. Someone told me that some artists who
use to make made good art, turned into a very bad artists at that time.

Is there someone here who has some information on this? Are there for
example art comparisons of artists who worked for Western from, let's say,
1955 to 1965? And if so, are there remarkable changes in their art during
this period?

Greetings,

--- Daniel
http://www.acciom.se/barks/index.html

> This week's (issue 8) old Scarpa-story from 1955 (Il carnevale di Paperin
> PaperoneI) was also very good. In this issue we see HDL fighting among
> themselves and getting sick beacuse of eating too much chocolate. The B-boys
> are smoking, and they don't even get caught at the end of the story. Such
> tings are seldom seen in modern stories, and I found them quite refreshing.

Indeed, this story is quite "refreshing" and good; and I hope Hachette
will publish it. The "B-Boys" are supposed to be the Beagle Boys I
think, but Scarpa drew them a bit differently (like the Beagle Boys who
appear in two consecutive Barks 10-pager have a very different look than
the classical Barks Beagle Boys).

This story was reprinted in the latest issue of "Zio Paperone" together
with an interesting article by Luca Boschi on the first appearances of
Scrooge in Italian stories (after the first American but non-Barks
appearances of Scrooge).

The article features a panel of a story drawn by the mysterious Rino
Anzi, and mentions "Alberto Testa" as the writer of "Paperino e le
onorificenze".

> I think this story is the oldest Scapa-story I have read, but looking at
> 'the last Balaboo' it looks like 'Ttavole di raccordo per Almanacco
> Topolino' is the first mouse/duck-story he made. Is this right, and what's
> this story about? Is this story reprinted anywhere?

The "Tavole di Raccordo" pages are a set of comic pages drawn to connect
the end of certain stories (published in the same issue, here Almanacco
Topolino) with the beginning of the next story. It doesn't constitute a
real story by itself.

While these "glue pages" are the first Scarpa "story" published in
Almanacco Topolino, I think the real first Italian Scarpa story is a
Snow White story
(check http://stp.ling.uu.se/cgi-bin/starback/dcml/story?I+TL+78-A)

After this one,
http://stp.ling.uu.se/cgi-bin/starback/dcml/story?I+TL+97-B
is his first Donald story.

Francois (http://www2.ec-lille.fr/~willot/coa/cgi-bin/search.uk.htm)

HENRI KUNNE, 22 FEBRUARY 2000:

> [Officer For a Day] Page 2 presents us a black-and-white
> reproduction of the Gold Key comic containing the Strobl story.
> No issue number is to be seen, but it has the title of the
> story: "Donald Duck, Officer for a Day ". Guess that original
> must be paid with gold now, but does anybody know about some
> reprint? Any translation is welcome, too. Can anybody help?

At Ebay ("http://www.ebay.com"), there are many old Barks comics for sale.
Sometimes there's also original art which I've never seen before. Maybe you
will find the comic there? I've no experience with Ebay or any other online
auction myself.

Does someone here know other online auctions which sell Barks comics and
original art?

Greetings,

--- Daniel
http://www.acciom.se/barks/index.html

Today I bought a Italian Disney Comic into a library. In that edition there
is a old history that I think is american. There aren't any code, but I read
something draw by this artist before in some brazilians comics. I really
like his(or her)style and i'm very interisting in learn something about
he/she. I can't put scans off it now, because my mouse is not working, so I
can't use my scanner. If someone have this comic and know who made this
comic, or something more, please, say to me!!!
Thanks!!! Fernando Ventura fernandopventura at uol.com
Gli Albi di Topolino #62 decembre 1998-"Paperina e il primo volo", 13
pages, first published in Topolino #647 from April,21,1968.

Does someone here know other online auctions which sell Barks comics
and original art?

Hi Daniel-
Check these out:
www.amazon.com (click on auction, then search for scrooge)
www.ubid.com (click on art)

I've seen disney duck stuff on both recently.

Sonia

Hello, list

I'll be back with a few more reviews soon, probably on monday. Have
had a lot to catch up with for a while.

Arie had a question about my name, which Anders answered correctly.
For some reason the body of the letters are translated from eight-bit
character sets to seven-bit (which the protocol can handle), and then
back to eight-bit again, while headers are translated from eight-bit
to seven-bit, and _not_ back to eight-bit. This messes up the letters
which are not in the English alphabet (and the "good old" ASCII
(ISO-646) character set).

And no, I'm certainly not offended. If anyone should be, it's the people
who made those protocols many years ago, without thinking of all the
alphabets that have more letters than the English one.

Personally I'm much more offended by people who _don't_ ask questions,
and therefore just walk around assuming things, and misinforming other
people.

And, David! That was a nice one you had in last weeks weekly! It was a
great thrill to see Scarpa there. And nice work on the script too. More
of that, please :-)

J?rgen

>I regret it being no estimate given in any other currency, dollars if need
>be, but lires are, in a sense, 'unreadable' to non-Italians. How much
>is all this?
1$ is approximatly 1770 Lit
You should consult more recent exchange rate
if you'd like to to know the exact value of 1$.

>Can't it be an Eurocheck, within the EU??
That'll be available in January 2002.
(It is already possible to use "euro"checks,
but it's very expensive)

bye bye
oliv

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