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Kriton,
You guessed it....comic book collecting is becoming a very expensive hobby
in the US.
Most comic book titles cost between $3 to $5 (sob!).
Back in the glorious ol' days of Gladstone, Disney comics cost $1.95.

rebecca

"He had decided to live forever....or die in the attempt." ~Joseph Heller

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I think that relatively few people purchase TV GUIDE
at the newsstand price. Like millions of others, I
receive it by mail subscription at a radically
discounted rate. Gary is correct --- there are many
other ways of obtaining TV listings (newspapers, web
sites, onscreen menus) and TV GUIDE must provide
useful collateral content to survive. I enjoy that
content, but I would rather be spending the money on
new Gladstones!

Joe Farrell

Gary Pantzer:

My apologies for any confusion about the usual
price of TV Guide
and thanks to Mark Doukakis for explaining that this
issue I spoke
of was a 'special'. Kriton may be right about the
price from 10 years
ago. I do remember a time when it was only 25 cents,
but it has now
become part magazine and program schedule. Not
everyone with a
tv purchases TVG because any local newspaper has a
daily schedule
and larger town papers often have a weekly section
with a complete
schedule for the coming week.

I would answer Kriton's question about the price of
comic books in
the USA, but I was only buying Gladstone's duck titles
in the last few
years and I have not bought any since their finish. At
the end, I was
(gladly!) paying $6.95 for the 'prestige' format.
Gary

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> > Back in the glorious ol' days of Gladstone, Disney comics cost $1.95.
>
> -Rebecca
>
>
> > Back in the even MORE glorious days of 1986, when Gladstone comics first
> hit
> the market, each issue cost under one dollar.
>
> -Chris Barat
>
>
> I would gladly pay ten times one dollar for resumed Gladstones!
>
> Mark Doukakis
>
>
>
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This is an article/letter I wrote about attending the funeral of Carl Barks.
Obviously I wrote it quite awhile ago. I originally submitted it to Comics
Buyer's Guide, but according to an editor there it was lost when they
switched over to a new computer system a couple of months or so ago. I
decided not to resubmit it to CBG because so much time had passed and the
item wasn't exactly newsy. I thought, however, that readers on this list
might like to see it. So here it is:

By John Lustig

For one of the greatest comic book creators of all time, Carl Barks had a
surprisingly modest and unpretentious funeral. And that was entirely
fitting...because Carl was a modest and unpretentious man. For him, life was
about doing your best and treating people with respect. He never sought--or
was even comfortable with--lavish praise about his work.

So maybe Carl would have been embarrassed by the outpouring of love and
heartfelt-memories that reverberated throughout his funeral on Aug. 31 in
Grants Pass. But then again...maybe not. Because the 70 or so family members
and friends who attended spoke more about Carl the man...rather than Carl the
comic book genius. And that was only fitting. It was Carl's humanity that
transformed his stories from merely being clever...and turned them into
masterpieces. Carl's characters lived and breathed with a fierce humanity and
complexity...that made you forget that most of his characters were ducks!

Friends and family spoke of Carl's kindness, his gentle nature and the
delight he took in life and people. Serene Hunicke, one of his caretakers,
talked about how when Carl was having a bad day (struggling with the leukemia
that eventually took his life) he would perk up when Serene's three-year-old
daughter came over to the house.

"Gee, I'm glad I got to see her grow up," said Carl.

(Even after death, Carl was considerate. I've never been to a funeral before
where the dearly departed had actually made dinner reservations and paid for
the meals of the attending bereaved. As someone said, "Carl knew a lot of you
would be coming from far away and would be tired...so he didn't want you to
have to worry about getting dinner.")

Carl had a reputation for being somewhat of a recluse--and it's certainly
true that he was a very private person. But that was by necessity as much by
inclination. Carl never would have accomplished so much if he'd been more
outgoing. As his grandson, Brad Pattie told me after the funeral, Carl loved
his family, but he didn't have a lot of time to socialize: "He was busy
working!"

I've always considered it a tragedy that Carl was much more famous in Europe
than he is in on this continent. And when I say famous...I mean REALLY
famous. When Carl went to Europe a few years ago he was reportedly mobbed by
fans and reporters as if he were a rock star. He was greeted by presidents
and royalty. When he died (at age 99) his obituary was front-page news in
many European cities. Here his death made the wire services, but it was far
from big news. Most people in this country still don't know who Carl Barks
was.

But now I've begun to wonder if that wasn't a good thing.

Carl went out of his way to maintain a low profile. Nine years ago some
friends and I had lunch with Carl and his wife, Gare', at a restaurant a few
blocks from his home. While the waitress was taking our order one of us made
a casual reference to some aspect of Carl's work. After the waitress left
Gare' leaned over and asked us to watch what we said. "People here don't know
what Carl does."

And that was the way Carl and Gare' preferred it.

After Gare' died, Carl was prodded into making a number of public
appearences--both in the United States and Europe. I think (and hope) that
Carl enjoyed some of those appearences. But, left to his own devices, he
stayed in Grants Pass where he enjoyed his status--not as a star--but as an
ordinary, anonymous citizen.

The End

Dear Joakim, I'm from Brazil and I read your message in dcml and was very proud to learn that the Queen of Sweden was "scared " by the secret of the Old Castle ! I would like to share with you that as your Queen was born ( or grown up ?) in Brazil till the age of around 15 years,as you must know, much probably she read those Carl Barks'stories and was scared in Brazil, as well as I was fallen in love with those stories since my 5 years of age ! ( now I'm 46 ). As you can see, the duck stories and the masterpieces of Barks are very famous in Brazil, as much that me and your Queen were delighted (and scared!) by them ! Greetings from Brazil , luisfelipepires at uol.com.br

Hi!

I need a color jpeg image of the Rosa Olympics poster that appeared in
Finland's AKU ANKKA

thanks

Michael

Hello again,

I have the strong feeling that many of you are especially
interested in "Somewhere in nowhere", the last Barks story, that
was presented to the public for the first time... well, what to
say?

It will surely soon published anywhere (well, except USA,
maybe...) so I won't spoil you the plot, I'll just tell you that
it is settled in one of the coldest places on Earth.

The story is good, and also the drawings... but it seems to me (a
Very Humble Opinion) a story with no "anima" in it, it just has
not the feelings that come from a Barks story...

I have my idea about it, but I want to read it once more before
saying anything.

BTW, Block's art is good: I didn't know this artist (his works
aren't published in Italy, yet) and I hope to see something more
from him, maybe on "Zio Paperone".

There was also an exhibition devoted to Topolino, the main
Italian Disney publication, presenting some original artworks
from issues not very old, maybe starting from 1974. There were
also reproduction of covers.

Between the non-Disney exhibition, the most interesting ones were
the ones devoted to Cinzia Ghigliano, a young artist working for
important Italian comic magazines, and to Batman, with original
interpretations from many Italian artists.

As at the same, Disney Italia, played the game with its own
rules: the Disney room was the **only one** in the whole
exhibition where the artists weren't in direct contact with
people, but were closed in a room with a transparent wall where
the people could look at them... how sad!! Are they scared by
fans?? I still remember Giovan Battista Carpi being simply
talking **outside** this room years ago with his fans, and
providing them with drawings!!!!!

BTW, the artist trapped in this room was Alessio Coppola, an
interesting artist, who was drawing pages for the story
"Gambadilegno e la fuga da Altacraz" (yes, they used the name
"Altacraz" like Scarpa did in one of his most beautiful stories),
and the interesting thing is that the title was in English: "Big
Bad Pete and the escape from Altacraz"... I was going to ask him
why... but I don't know the deaf language, so I couldn't ask him
behind the glass!!!

- Paolo

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