Keskustelujen arkisto

You'll find a lot of Scarpa fans here :-)
Since you're Greek I guess you've already found al the "Komix" issues
reprinting Scarpa's stories, haven't you?

--
Francesco.

Actually, I've only heard of KOMIX since joining DCML last week. I've been
collecting American classic comics like U.S. and D.D. and their Adventures
comics. I'm now considering a subscription to KOMIX, but I'm concerned about
the potential damage to the books during shipping.

Mark

ps
I don't know the proper way to write back to the mailing list so that it
continues the THREAD and responds to comments and questions.
Do I just email to thus address as I've done? If so, how should I reference
my subject and response?
Thanks

Because e-mail can be altered electronically,
the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed.

Rob Klein sent me some more interesting considerations about
the Lady Pig cover, and asked to forward them to the list, so
here goes, and thank you Rob.

Cheers

Eta Beta

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As it is unclear from the
picture whether or not she could be one of the three little pigs in
disguise, I rather doubt that she is. I suspect that she is Patricia Pig
from the 30's cartoons and comic strips. I realise that she may not be
as fat as she was in the 30's cartoons, but artists for MMM, Disney
merhandising or Comics (later) didn't always stay very true to the
cartoons
or even Gottfredsson's strip style. I'm sure they didn't use model sheets
very much in those days. The gag writers probably just wrote a note
saying
"girl pig in bathing suit preparing to dive". The gags on the covers of
MMM and the early Comics and Stories were often very obscure or not very
discernable. I'm guessing that this gag was that Mickey and his male
barnyard friends put up a crossed out the S in Swimmin' so they could go
swimming and also covering the desire of these "young" boys (as mickey was
in 1928-30) to have no "girls" around at times.
The coordination of the artwork with the gag is very poor. I suspect the
gag "writer" did not send a scribble drawing with his written
"description"
of the cover. At that time, usually the "writers" were also artists (e.g.
storyboarders). I believe Bob Karp and the other writers could certainly
draw scribbles (I'm sure he didn't draw scribbles for his written stories,
but that should have been done for cover gags.

Rob Klein

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Hi!

> I don't know the proper way to write back to the mailing list
> so that it
> continues the THREAD and responds to comments and questions.
> Do I just email to thus address as I've done? If so, how
> should I reference my subject and response?

What people usually do is "reply to all" in their mail program. Then the
original mail is shown with ">" before them (like in the quote above - if
this really happens depends on your mail program). It then is important to
leave only a very short part of the original message, just enough for people
to understand what you're replying to. And add your own text after it. 8-)

--Harry.

Hi, all!

> I'm sure you're right, but "it's all Greek to me", y'know? And that
second
> "o" in my "Pooa" is not really an "o", you don't need to tell me. The
fact
> is the Greek letters look like they say "Ntov Pooa", not "Nton Rossa" or
> anything else. You'll have people thinking there's something wrong with
my
> eyes!

The third letter is a sigma .This symbol is in use from the 9th century
a.d.The original ancient Greek letter comes from the c and it seems to
approach this shape from the 7th century a.d.Of course I am speaking for
the mentioned sigma not for the capital Greek sigma which is different.
There is also another small sigma we use at the end of the words the
'final' s.
Georgios

>
>D'oh! There, you still did it! I asked you *not* to tell me that, Agent 99!

...I am very sure you knew all that, but I just sent this posting to explain
the historical origin of this letter . It was not a personal disagreement
with you.

Georgios

Hi all-

Can I get some help please? I've been asked to point someone to a Donald
Duck comic. It features a story about Donald Duck visiting the 'Dali/Dolly
Lama' in Tibet. Any idea which comic it is. I think it would have been
one that was printed in the U.S., but if you know the storycode of a non-
USA reprint maybe I can find the U.S. issue via the INDUCKS.

Thanks, Rich Bellacera

Fellow Quackeroos:

I was planning the trip to Rosa since I arrived in the U.S. last January.
Despite having met him at an event last April in Pennsylvania, I still very
much wanted to make the trip to Louiville, Kentucky and visit him at his
home there. In what follows, I'll try to describe this 4-day trip from my
point of view, being well aware that I'll leave many details out since that
4-day period was chock-full of pictures and emotions. It'll take me 3
postings to complete this "report". I'd surely could have done a much
better job at describing it had a brought a tape-recorder along or had I
been taking notes; however, I did not make that trip as a reporter, but as
a friend and an admirer of Don's work.

As it turned out, I wasn't to make the trip all by myself. I kept bugging
my good friend from Sweden, Orjan Berglund, to visit me here in the U.S.
and make the trip to Louisville together. Fortunately, at the last minute,
Orjan decided to visit me for 11 days, May 25-June 4.

I picked up Orjan from the Binghamton Greyhound bus terminal in the
afternoon of May 25. We spend Memorial Day weekend driving around the
Finger Lakes region in upstate New York, in anticipation of the Rosa trip
we had scheduled for May 30-June 2.

*DAY 1: Tuesday, May 30, 2000*---We woke up bright and early that morning
(actually I was awake since 5:00 a.m. full of excitement and anticipation).
The weather was summer-like, after having treated us with record-setting
rainfalls during the month of May. During Orjan's 11-day stay, we only saw
a few drops of rain! I was kidding him that he brought the sun along (when
he left, it started raining again!). Earlier we had studied the map
carefully and we had mapped out our route. From Binghamton we'd take route
17 and drive west, then take interstate 90 and cross into Pennsylvania
first and then into Ohio. At Clevelend, we'd take interstate 71 that would
take us all the way to Louisville. On the map the distance looked short!!!

We departed Binghamton at 8:00 a.m. and started our long drive to
Louisville on my rented Toyota Camry 1990. The first leg of our trip until
we reached Erie, Pennsylvania, was probably the most interesting in terms
of scenery with lots of rolling hills. After we passed Cleveland, Ohio, we
made a stop around 3:00 p.m. and had lunch at a fast food place. An
interesting site in that joint was a group of Amish people (they had to be
modern Amish, since they were using automobiles!).

After we got back on the road, we realized that we still had quite a bit of
driving to do before reaching Louisville. We calculated the total distance
to be ~700 miles, and we had just passed the mid-point! We tried to pep
ourselves up thinking of all the things we'd see once at Rosa's place--plus
we were not really in any big hurry, since we had planned to spend the
night at a motel outside of Louisville. 300 miles later, and after driving
thru the cities of Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, we stopped for the night
at a small town called Carrolton, ~40 miles from Louisville. After settling
at our room at a Day's Inn, we went to a nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken,
picked up dinner to go, and went back to our room to enjoy our chicken
watching an NBA game between the L.A. Lakers and the Portland Trailblazers!
We fell asleep knowing that the next day would be "THE DAY"!

(To be continued.......)

Cheers,

Archontis

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Archontis L. Pantsios, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York 13902
USA
tel: (607)777-4726
fax: (607)777-2681
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