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Hi everyone!

It's been awhile since I've posted here. Carl Barks' death, although most
of us had been expecting it, was still a shock, especially as he wrote the
very first comic book story I ever read or owned (and still do), "Donald
Duck, the Master Mover" (with thanks to Gladstone for giving it a title),
which set a very high standard for all the millions of stories I'd read since
then. I had a chance to meet Carl once (at a Boston convention) and exchanged
a couple of letters with him (about the Duck family tree; we never did figure
out if Gladstone's adoptive father was named Goostave Gander or Goostale
Gander). Definitely one of the greats of comics, without peer in funny-animal
comic books (though Sheldon Mayer and Don Rosa come VERY close) and with only
a few peers in funny-animal newspaper strips (George Herriman, Floyd
Gottfredson, and Walt Kelly are the only ones who come to mind). He will be
greatly missed.

<< Is any member who wants copies of the greek "Almanako" magazine? >>

I'd love some! Thank you! My first serious girlfriend was an Athenian
exchange student, so I learned a little (VERY little) Greek then...suffice it
to say that I'm still very glad I'd have the pictures to help. Are the
stories all by Barks, Rosa, Branca and Van Horn and other European Duck
artists, or are there any native Greek writers and artists as well? And are
there any particular Disney characters who are much more successful there
than at home, like Jose Carioca and Panchito in Brazil and Mexico
respectively? (My guess would be Hercules, or possibly the creatures from the
original FANTASIA...but, if my ex-girlfriend was any indication, Greeks
aren't always fond of foreigners making light of their culture. Especially
the HERCULES movie, which I've got to see one of these days.)

Finally, a question for those of you who (I admit) have much more
familiarity with the Barks canon than I do. Did he ever do a story with
Donald Duck on a motorcycle? (I seem to recall such a thing in the '60's
story "A Duck's-Eye View of Europe," or was that a moped?) The reason I ask
is that someone in my office wants to have that image tattooed on her
shoulder, and I thought, if she wanted Donald, she should have the Good Duck
Artist's version of him if possible...

Rich

Dear Duckfellows
My "English Section" opens today. It's not ready yet, but if you go now you
will find some articles, catalogues, news and much more!
http://www.geocities.com/komixgreekpage/englishindex.htm
If you find any problem, just e-mail me! And if you want to learn when my
page have an update, check out my mailing list.

Apostolis Trikourakis, Athens
E-mail: komix43 at hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/komixgreekpage (English & Greek)
A DCML member

Ola:

Talk about being too fast ... I now saw what you meant, some of the
full-size scans are hosted by Fortunecity (e.g. Donald's Nephews - the
Fabulous Inventors). The said error message appears when you directly click
the link. It seems that Fortunecity does not want to be linked with other
websites, for whatever reason. But you can easily circumvent this by
accessing the page DIRECTLY with your browser ('open location' function);
either type in the URL or copy it using the right mouse button menu and
paste it into the field for entering the URL. The best solution would of
course be if our friend Wundermild transfers the scans to Geocities as
well. Perhaps he reads this.

Best regards,

Frank

Hi all,
Ola Martinsson schrieb:
> Wundermilds Pages not accessible
> anymore,
> why ?
>
> I just tried to access the wonderful

Many thanks!

> homepage of Wundermilds Donald Duck
> Comic Book Rarities. When I try to look closer at a thumbnail a black
> page comes up instead with the following message :
>
> We're sorry, but we can't supply the file you requested.

The reason is simple: While the thumbnail overview files are located on
Yahoo-Geocities, a server that offers free webspace in quantities of 10 MB,
the big images are located on a different server, German Fortunecity (100 MB
webspace). Until now, there were no problems knitting a link from some
non-Fortunecity located file towards a Fortunecity image, but now that is
prohibited. Anyway, thanks for informing me.

The Error message is quoted:
> In order for us to continue to provide our members with the
> first-class service they expect, we don't allow people to link files
> from sites hosted with other providers.

That's not quite exactly what I call first class service, ahem! I hope
when writing "files" they really do mean "images"; wouldn't make much sense to
exclude html files or similar from external viewing.
Anyway, that will be my solution for the dilemma: I'll have to write html
pages for every image, embedding the specific images there, and pointing the
links from the thumbnail pages to the new html files.

Here's what to do meanwhile:
1. Click a thumbnail -> the error message appears.
2. Go to the URL field and change the file you want to access, e.g. from
01.jpg to 02.jpg or from
43-06-28.jpg to 43-06-29.jpg (for the latter: note there are gaps in
the
date format files - Sundays! - that produce another error message),
and
click return.
3. Change the file back to 01.jpg or whatever it was, and return; now the
image shows up (you may have to reload page first, or dump your cache), as
you are coming from a Fortunecity page now.

> If you believe you deserve the best in free web hosting, join
> FortuneCity.com today! It's easy and it's FREE!

I don't recommend them at the moment.
But I announce to present three new Donald Duck Wheaties giveaway stories
soon!

WW

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Hi again,

Quick input, regarding my pages that had some newly unallowed links
inside: The problem is now fixed with a temporary solution; all the images are now
available again without jumping hence and forth and without juggling around
with new windows. Thanks for your patience ...

WW

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Hi Duckpeople of DCML universe

I'm wondering if the Barks, Pat Block and J.Lusting's story "Somewhere in
Nowhere" has been published in Europe. 2 months ago I read in July's mailing
list a mail by Armando Botto, saying that "SiN" had releasead to Ebay. So,
where is that story now? Is it in Europe?

And now something interesting but a little off-topic:
The period 6-12 Septeber, there was a Festival of Comics, here in Athens, in
a place called Texnopolis (-Artcity). Many of the most famous European and
Greek artists was here: Quino, Matioli, Moebius and many, many others.
I went there and I saw a room called "Hell and Paradise": All the famous
characters (From Marvel, DC, even Disney) was there, in a room full of red
and white lights! On the left corner was the Paradise and the Hell on the
right of the room
Well, Gyro, Mickey Mouse and Grandma Duck unfortunatelly went to Hell! Only
Scrooge went to paradise 'cause of his kind soul!! It was a very funny
experience!
If you need any info about the Comics Festival, just ask me.

Apostolis Trikourakis, Athens
E-mail: komix43 at hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/komixgreekpage (English & Greek)
A DCML member

Hi Duckboys and Duckgirls

I translated all my Komix web services (the guestbook, the forum and the web
polls) from Greek to English. So, you can use them all now, in order to
learn more about Komix Magazine, to "sign" your visiting or to vote. Take a
look at them! :-)
Also, you can chat to my chat room! I will be very happy if I will see your
names into my guestbook!!

Armando wrote:
>>>Not yet. The story is going be published in Italy, probably next
November.
So, no SiN yet. We must standbuy a little. Komix had talk about that story 4
years ago.

Apostolis Trikourakis, Athens
E-mail: komix43 at hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/komixgreekpage (English & Greek)
A DCML member

see this link http://www.zen.it/cartoon-news/cronol_mondadori.htm
is possible found entirely pubblications of Arnoldo Mondadori before second world war and a very rare image of Tuffolino!
ciao