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Archontis wrote (Monday, June 12, 2000 5:59 PM):

> What was the coolest room in the house? Well,...., the famous "comics
> vault"! We descented down the stairs and got inside the room
> we had read
> about so many times in the past. It's a relatively small room, with
> wall-to-wall comic-book "carpeting"!

I have some pictures of that vault from 1994 (I've never been there myself,
though). Anyone interested can have a look at
http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/bolderbast/p00-08.html
and maybe Archontis or Don can tell us if anything has changed in the past 6
years. 8-)

--Harry.

Apostolis, Anders, Kriton:
Thank you very much for the information.

Apostolis:
>Welcome to the 37*Celcium Athens, Oyvind.

You're scaring me!
:-)

>(Even if you are not still here!)

I'm going next friday.

Anders:
>You'll be so lucky as to be able to buy two issues,
>if you stay untill 1st july.

Great!
Does anybody know the contents of the next issue?

Oyvind

Yesterday I posted Carl Barks address.
Today I offer my services to bring messages to him if you prefer to send them by email. My address is gwtank at email.msn.com. If you wish you can also send letters or cards of best wishes to me at G.W.Tank, 2370 Scoville Road, Grants Pass, Or. 97526-3462 and they will be promptly forwarded to him. In advance, he thanks all of his fans for their interest not only in his comics, but also in his welfare at this late stage in life.

OYVIND:

>> Welcome to the 37*Celcium Athens, Oyvind.
>
> You're scaring me!

You could have come today, when we had an unusually cold spell. I believe
that at one o'clock today the temperature in the center of Athens was
only 21 degrees Celsius!

> Does anybody know the contents of the next issue?

Stories:
* Barks' "Heedless Horseman"
* A Vicar story whose Greek title is "Underwater Trouble"
* A Noel Van Horn story whose Greek title is "The Ghost Train".

Articles:
* The Beagle Boys' club
* Fantasia 2000

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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"I am not here, don't worry!"
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I do not frequently contribut to the mailing-list but I do read it
frequently. Now this trip I made to the USA to meet my Greek friend
Archontis Pantsios and then accompaning him to visit Don Rosa is a very good
reason to write to the mailing-list. When returning to Sweden June 6th I
found that my new computor didn?t want to connect me with the internet, and
I have had that problem for more than two weeks. Eventually the problem was
solved and now it should work, I hope.

Archontis did a great job describing the trip to Don Rosa so detailed, that
it was like doing the trip once more when I read it. I will not repeat that.
Archontis wrote that he had kept bugging me for visiting him in the States.
I wouldn?t say bugging, just ask politely a couple of times. I always
answered that I would try to make the trip. But, honestly, in my mind I
thought of all obstacles that would keep me from going. Considering that I
am approaching my 50th birthday and that I never have been to the US, I new
that first time over there had to be with my family and then visiting the ?
usual? tourist attractions in New York, Washington, Florida, Los Angeles
and/or San Francisco. But when the day for Archontis? departure for
Louisville came closer in time I finally realised that this was THE chance
of my life! To ever have the chance to go for that long ride through New
York State, Pennsylvania, Ohio and then into Kentucky, and to visit Don and
his wife in his home, this was it! Only my friend Archontis living in the
States for a few months could ever make this possible. So I decided to make
the trip only six days before I left for the States. One thing I had to do
before my final decision was to ask Don if it was OK if I would accompany
Archontis visiting them. When I got the reply, one single line, ? Yes, of
course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? it was all set.

I did the trip from Sweden on my own, and this was the first time I would
meet Archontis face to face. It was actually through this mailing-list we
first started to correspond back in 96 or 97, at first from our interest in
Don?s pre-Disney work. But as we started to write also about other things
than comics, sharing thoughts, talking about family and work, and as the
years have passed Archontis has become a very dear friend. It was only last
year we spoke on the phone for the first time. Anyway it felt like I aready
had met him.
I arrived to JFK late in the evening, 10.00. It was almost midnight before I
got to my hotel, a tiny hotel just one block from Times Square. The room was
very small 2,5 * 2,5 meters and quite expensive, $110- But after a good
nights sleep I ?did? New York - Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty,
Washington Square, Central Park and Broadway. Then in the evening ti Port
Authority to cath the Greayhound-bus to Binghamton. Then you have Archontis
story. The departure from Sweden so prompt after my decision to go made it
hard to understad that I really was in the USA. It took some days before I
got used to that fact.

Visiting the Rosas was an owerwhelming experience. You can talk about
hospitality, but this was it. Coming for a visit and meet such kindness and
warmth is just great! All you wanted to know about Don?s comic-stories, and
wasn?t to afraid to ask, you got all the answers. To see all what you?ve
heard about or seen in pictures is just fantastic. What I found very
interesting was when Don described how his stories develop fron the first
idea to the final art and text. It is more work in that process than you
would believe.

When we were following Don, in a ?Panama-hat? and with the machettee,
through the trails of his private jungle it felt like taking part of his new
Lo$ story in Panama. I love all the chapters of Lo$, and this is no
exception. I hope that Don keeps his promise to do at least one Lo$-story
each year.
When hearing about the ?Three Caballero story? I thought that I would be
impossible to make a good story from that idea. But after having read it
it?s clearly a masterpiece Don has created, approaching the Disney universe
form a completely different angle. Pure Rosa!!! Just wait and see, and
enjoy!

Thanks Don and Ann for an unforgettable experience!

And to Archontis I have to send a huge thank you! You made it possible for
me to make this fantastic trip, living in your home for so many days,
driving around to so many places, experience so much. I hope to see you and
your family in my home here in Sweden some day.

Orjan B, Sweden

Hi all,

A little while back, in a rare free moment, I obtained
the address for subscriptions to the Indian Egmont
English-language Disney comics from list member Jan
Follak (thanks again Jan!). I sent off a letter
inquiring about the availability of subs to the US,
explaining that India seemed to be the only country
left producing Disney comics in English. Yesterday I
received a pithy two sentence reply from Samantha
Sawlani, a customer service executive at Indian
Express Egmont Publications:

"Thank you very much for showing interest in our
publications. You seem to be a crazy [crazy?? - I
sincerely hope she meant avid or loyal - Chuck] reader
of Disney comics but I'm really sorry to inform you
that it would not be possible for us to have a
subscriber in U.S.A.

Best Regards,
Samantha Sawlani"

I suspected that this might be the case, but it was
still disappointing to see it confirmed in print.
Comments, anyone?

By the way, the envelope noted an e-mail address:
subscription at ieegmont.com. I looked up the address
www.ieegmont.com and the page was blank except for a
note that it was under construction and to please
bookmark it for later. I don't know, perhaps if they
were to be bombarded with a potentially lucrative
number of subscription requests from other "crazy"
readers they might consider foreign subs???? Again,
comments, anyone?

Take care,
Chuck Munson

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My friends and I were trying to figure out if there was ever a black or african Disney character, either in the early days of comics and shorts and cartoons, or otherwise.

If you know of ANY, other than animals, we would love to hear from you.

Thanks A Lot!!!

Pam