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Hi folks,

If anybody is interesting in seeing the WDC&S covers, please look
at http://etabeta.pcupdate.easyspace.com/cv_usa.html.

This pages are a part of the homepages of the German D.O.N.A.L.D.
adress of the homepage: www.donald.org

It?s nice to see all the covers from WDC&S and all other like
mickey mouse, four color, US and so on...

with greetings

Helmut

KRITON
>It seems that either few people fell for my April Fools' gag, or few people
>bother reading my presentation of each month's Komix issue.

It was an impressive joke! But I could not speak, to prevent anyone of
thinking that I knew the real contents.

Georgios

The new-improved version of the Italian story index for "Topolino"
(covering all issues up to 2313, i. e. up to last week) is on line at

http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it/DisneyIndex

and hopefully soon will be integrated into Inducks (Harry: you know where
the TL.INS.ZIP file is...)

Marco

http://marcobar.cce.unifi.it/Comics

> >If anybody is interesting in seeing the WDC&S covers, please look
> >at http://etabeta.pcupdate.easyspace.com/cv_usa.html.
> >This pages are a part of the homepages of the German D.O.N.A.L.D.
> >adress of the homepage: http://www.donald.org

Author Eta Beta replied:

> The covers pages are not part of the D.O.N.A.L.D. site

But it's annoying that D.O.N.A.L.D. suggests that they are. They even claim
the copyright for your (and many other people's) pages! And the real URLs of
the links are hidden (in my browser) by some banner about "das schwarze
Brett".

> some new, BIG and ads-free web-space, but I'm still looking
> around for that.

Maybe the D.O.N.A.L.D. society can offer you the web space? Then at least
part of the phrase "part of the homepages of the German D.O.N.A.L.D." would
become true...

--Harry.
(Not a member of D.O.N.A.L.D.)

I'm one of those people who have a massive box of
Scrooge comics that I read over and over and just
haven't bought any new ones lately. (Sorry, Mr.
Rosa!) I really need to get back in the game
because I'm sure there are a lot of great new
stories out there.

Who is publishing the Scrooge comics in the US?
Is it still Gladstone?

Thanks a lot!

Juliet

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> From: Juliet Violette <julietv at email.com>
> I'm one of those people who have a massive box of
> Scrooge comics that I read over and over and just
> haven't bought any new ones lately. (Sorry, Mr.
> Rosa!) I really need to get back in the game
> because I'm sure there are a lot of great new
> stories out there.
>
> Who is publishing the Scrooge comics in the US?
> Is it still Gladstone?
None as far as i know. Perhaps it's time for you to get a foreign language
course :-D

Best,
Arie Fachrisal

John Garvin:

>
> <<<<<<As an artist and writer, Stephan, I take great exception to this. It
> sounds to
> me that you are in the wrong line of work. You don't want to be a
translator,
>
> you want to be a writer.

You are right, John, that I would prefer not to call myself a "translator".
That's what it says in the comics, but I'd much rather say I "write the
Swedish
dialog". Sometimes I still use words like "translating" because it may be more
convenient than some awkward phrase like "dialog-writing". Perhaps this use
may
look a little careless, given my basic attitude towards my work.

I also agree with everything you say about translating in general. If I'm
translating a book (non-Disney) or something like that, which has happened on
rare occasions even though I clearly specialize in Disney comics, I approach
the task much differently. Yes, comics should certainly be treated with the
same respect, but trying to maintain something of the traditional Swedish
atmosphere about the way the Ducks talk is just as important to me, if not
more, as preserving the exact wordings of a writer. The magazine needs some
consistency within itself and within the frame of history, even though many
different talents are contributing.

<<<<If I want
>
> to read a story by Rosa, Barks, Scrapa, whoever, I want to read their works,
> not
> the modified works of Stephan Dios.

Now you mention the greatest masters. It would be very rare that I'd take upon
myself to correct or improve upon such elite authors... although I'll readily
admit that I would try it whenever I saw necessary. Even for other writers, I
really don't change as much as it may sound from some of my overly pompous
"mission statements". Ten or fifteen years ago I'd change a lot more than I do
now. (And then the Swedish editors would make further changes behind me. Those
poor writers of the 80's!)

As for my wanting to be a writer... yes, I like to write, but no, I never felt
an urge to produce any comic stories of my own... at least not since I
found my
place "translating". I'm sure I couldn't write stories well enough to
please my
own taste (nor any readers'), so I'd rather stick with something I feel
comfortable doing. Writing Duck dialog, and maybe an occasional article about
the comics, is what I do best... in fact, it's the only thing I can manage in
this field at all, and I don't think I'll ever aspire to do something else.
Obviously, lots of people will think I can't even do that well enough...
but as
long as my editors are happy, and I keep feeling comfortable myself, I'd like
to try to continue just a little while more. Of course, as soon as a true
talent shows up for my position, I'll gladly step aside to ensure that the job
gets done as well as possible.

Meanwhile, John, I sincerely hope that whenever I come across some of your
writing, I can render it in a way that will please both yourself and the
Swedish audience.

Stefan Dios
Malmo, Sweden

Hi
Let me first say that I noticed Kriton's april gag very much. As usual
I'm naive and I wrote at once to him and asked, what he wants in
return... fooled!
Don is the basis of two gags this april then. A fun person on the
norwegian newsgroup with the subject comics fooled everyone.

But anyway, isn't it wish-thinking more than fooling? wouldn't it be
great with a story done especially for Komix? BTW Kriton you goofed on
the K-code, that's reserved for Disney Studios in the 90'es, for some
reason...

I understand John garvin saying as he does, also because he's a writer
and artist himself. But don't be too hard on Stefan Di?s (It's at least
usual to spell the name right:-) He's a talented translator, and it
seems to necessary at some times to correct mistakes.

Denmark is also giftet with a good translator I think. Mr.
Soendergaard. is his name and he's been there since 1992 -His first job
might have been the Lo$ starting chapters, on Rosaic terms I mean.
The combination of Rosa's talent of drawing and telling combined with
the translators weel translated wordpuns is great. He even made a
better joke than Don in the 10th chapter of Lo$. In the american
version Mathilda says that the Canoe-dragging story was more likely
(Scrooge and Teodore Roosevelt have been talking about what happened
since chapter 4). The danish one mentions the soft gold, and Mathilda
says a very catchy thing, maybe to modern. "Then we believe that one!
And the one about the soft gold." (Scrooge just told that he will fill
the bin to the top 100 feet.

With the Kalevala there was some mistakes, but they aren't his fault,
but some other leak on the line, I am told.

AC