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As for Carl Barks... I was working at the Las
Vegas airport at one time (around '89) and I heard
something like, "Paging Carl Barks to [some
terminal]" So I put a "closed" sign on my shop and
took off running to that gate. Didn't see him.
It may have been a different Carl Barks, but you
can never know! :) If it was Don Rosa... I
wouldn't have got the sign up, I would've passed
out from excitement.

Also, the last time I went to Disneyland, there
was an Uncle Scrooge character walking around. As
soon as I saw him, I went RUNNING through
Cinderella's Castle for him, but he must have gone
into one of those hidden tunnels they have because
I missed him. I swear, when I get around to
taking my daughter there, I will stand at the gate
and say, "You'd better get a cast member in that
Uncle Scrooge suit so I can get a picture and
autograph -- I didn't come all this way for
nothing!" ;)

Those Ducktale characters, I don't like them!
Probably because they take time away from Scroogie
and the nephews, which is what I'm tuning in for.
I'm AM grateful that they put those cartoons
out... it lead to my being able to purchase a lot
of Uncle Scrooge stuff. There was even stuff in
cereal boxes and at Long John Silver's seafood I
got a Scrooge straw-hugger.

Juliet Violette
Las Vegas, Calisoda
http://www.lvdi.net/~emerald/Index.html

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hi everybody!!
i'm miki from israel and im new in that list.
i'd like to know if there are other people from israel??
does anyone comes to israel soon??
i need someone to "get me into business" because its hard for me
to get to know you all alone.
can someone please make some order in this mass...

thanks!!
(by the way,thank you so much Rob for the information!!!)

I've been terribly behind on my email and have been trying to catch up on
all the digests that I had archived. I had a few comments on some subjects
that have been mentioned over the past couple of months.

1) Female artists - In my humble opinion, anyone who's seen any of Susan
Daigle-Leach's work would never refer to her as "just a colorist". I
personally like her coloring work on the Ducks, but her other art is also
outstanding! I'm certainly not a professional art critic, but I know what
I like!!!

2) Southern dialects and Brer Rabbit, etc. - I believe it was Rodney that
pointed out that the speech used in the Song of the South wasn't atypical
of older people raised in the Southern U.S., regardless of race. Having
spent the majority of my life in the Southern part of the U.S.A., I would
concur with this opinion. I would further add that although it has
declined drastically with time and exposure to radio and television, this
dialect wasn't limited to illiterate people. I've known many highly
literate individuals born prior to 1910 or so, who spoke in a manner
similar to that illustrated in these stories. As long as one remembers the
time period in which the stories originated, the speech patterns really
shouldn't cause offense.

3) Sensitivity to portrayal of Native Americans - I am 5/8 Cherokee, 3/8
Caucasian (that 3/8 descended primarily from English settlers), and a
member of the Western Cherokee Nation... I appreciated the lists that
some members made of Native Americans in comics, and over the years, have
enjoyed reading stories featuring many of the characters listed. As long
as a character isn't portrayed as being less valuable or intelligent
strictly because of race, I can appreciate the story (assuming that it's
well done!). I was very happy to see Don Rosa's War of the Wendigo story
published at the end of Gladstone's run, and I enjoyed it very much. In
fact, I have a hard time seeing how anyone could be offended by any aspect
of it. However, I do realize that some Native Americans are more sensitive
than I am, and I think that this just means that there are some
individuals, regardless of race, who are very sensitive about their
background, race, culture, etc. I'm afraid that it gets back to a point
that Don made several digests ago: no matter what you do or say, if you
have a large enough audience someone's going to be unhappy with some aspect
of it. (Please forgive the paraphrasing, Don!) The folks who get upset
over the naming of sports teams, etc. aren't overly common, in my
experience. However, they can be very vocal. I'm just glad that folks
like Don tell the stories that they enjoy, and try not to worry too much
about the reactions of a small faction. Maybe if Disney had taken the
same attitude, (and been nicer to the folks that were trying to keep their
characters alive in comics) we might still have Disney comics in the US...
:(

Sorry about the delayed input. I'd like to say that I'll stay more
current, but I wouldn't bet on it!

Take care and Do'-da-da-go'-hv-i' (Goodbye - We'll see one another again -
in Cherokee),
Darrell C. Roden
State Road, NC USA

Hi!

As I promised, I put some new Brazilian
Fethry's spin-off stories on the Web. Marco
Barlotti suggested the first Pena Kid story, when
he was just a comic character drawn by Fethry Duck
for Scrooge's newspaper. But his origin needed
three stories to be told:

a) B 74141 Uncle Scrooge "Quadrinhos e Adivinhos"
Art: Carlos Herrero

Pena Kid is only mentioned twice, as a Donald's idea for a
comic character for Scrooge's newspaper. I scanned only the
two panels where he appears since the rest of the story
has nothing to do with him:

http://www.projesom.com.br/afaria/b_fethry/b74141.jpg

b) B 74144 Donald Duck "Pena Kid e Xaxam" (9 pages)
Art: Carlos Herrero

http://www.projesom.com.br/afaria/b_fethry/

Again, the character appears in two panels only, as one of many
comic characters created by FE and DD to attract comic
readers for Scrooge's newspapers, while Rockerduck does
the same.
Curiosity: Some Brazilian artists, writers, inkers and
editors of the 70s appear in Rockerduck's artistic
teams, caricatured as dog noses, pig noses, etc. Carlos
Herrero, the artist of all stories of that phase,
depicted himself as a pig nose in page 5, panel 7)

c) B 74143 Fethry Duck "Uma miss?o espinhosa" (9 pages)
Art: Carlos Herrero

http://www.projesom.com.br/afaria/b_fethry/

The first complete Pena Kid's story, a comic story
inside another, where one can see Fethry drawing it, while
Donald and Scrooge stick their oars in it according to
the readers' reactions. Since then the character became
a Fethry's creation.

Have fun.

-- Arthur.

AC wrote:

> [...] so practically all of us would like better to see
> a Scarpa, Strobl or Rosa-Library.

...accordingly ;-)

Søren

Hi folks!
I have been contacted by a man from the Neatherlands who has in his
possession a bounch of sketchbooks that Daan Jippes filled up during his
years in high school. He doesn't know much about comics (much less the
crazy people interested in them) so I promised to spread the word that he's
selling these books. From what I have seen, the artwork seem to be a
mixture of everything from pencil sketches to inked color drawings. Some
with Disney motives.
If anyone should be interested in buying these books -- or happen to know
anyone who collect original artwork by Jippes -- please contact Coen Meeder
at <cmeeder at kabelfoon.nl>.
Trust me, you would not have received this message if I had a cubic acre
or two to spare...:-)

Thanks for your time...

/Per-Erik

Hi again, folks!

JOAKIM:
> [...] unpublished Barks [...]

A great subject! Someone here who knows what was auctioned out on the
Howard Lowery auction of November 20th? I heard that a few of the lots were
original art by Barks, but back in November I was to lazy to send for the
catalogue and now in March I'm to greedy. Is it worth the effort?

> F.ex. the uncensored version of the final strip of the 'Lectro Box?
> or such stuff.

There is an unpublished cover for that story available on the web, but the
man behind the pen is not named Floyd. Check out
<http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/7211/wvh/Lectro.jpg> if interested!

/Per-Erik