Keskustelujen arkisto

> From: HoyMurphy at aol.com
> My family and I will be attending the Mid-Ohio Con in Columbus
Thanksgiving
> weekend, and I'm hoping we'll get a few moments to talk with you, but I
don't
> see you on the guest list! Are you planning to be there this year?

I'll be there, but only as a buyer of old comic books. The convention
chairman is an old friend and still invites me as a featured guest (i.e.
pays all my expenses) even though no one in America sees my work anymore or
wants to see *me*, but still it would be a bit extravagant of him to do
that each year -- he lists me as one of the half-dozen main guests every
other year. In what I guess are the even-numbered years I always attend on
my own and he lists me as "one of the pack" of other guests. But this year
I guess I failed to send in my notification as an "attending pro" until it
was too late for him to list me anywhere -- I assumed by now he would know
I'd be there, but I guess that would be reckless of him to list my name in
his ads unless he was *certain* I'd be attending.
Still, I usually take my status as a listed guest too seriously and sit at
the table they give me so long that I miss lots of my own "quality time"
needed to dig out some old issues for my collection, so the fact that I
won't have a table at the convention might not be so bad. You (Hoy) will
probably be the only comic fan in Ohio looking for me by now, so you'll be
able to spot me wandering around the hall sometime during the 2 days.

This being a "celebrity of dwindling starhood" in America reminds me of the
interesting e-mail I started getting last Friday. I receive a few requests
from Europe each day for an autographed photo or comic, and I diligently
send out about a dozen a week to fans. But last week I suddenly started
getting *lots* of e-mail from Americans who would tell me how much they
LOVED my work and what a GREAT artist I was and how they've followed my
career for many years and blah blah blah. Actually, here's one of the
best-written ones -- as Casey Casem would say, from Darrin in Brooklyn
comes:
----------------------------------------------------------
Howdy!! Firstly, it is truly an honor and a privilege to be writing to a
talented and gifted cartoonist such as yourself. I cannot even begin to
tell
you just how much I have admired your illustrious career. A career which
has
provided me with immeasurable joy, laughter and insight throughout the
years,
and from one artist to another, it would mean the world to me if you were
so
kind in granting me an autographed picture or sketch. Take care and keep up
the splendid work!!!
--------------------------------------------------------
... but even stranger, others congratulated me for my wonderful work as a
Disney animator, and at least one called me the world's best voice-over
artist. Huh?
Well, it took me just a few hours to determine what I suspected was true --
my name and e-mail had been freshly added to a "CELEBRITY ADDRESS" website
under the title "Disney artist". And I was suddenly the target of autograph
hounds. As I said, I am quite delighted to send my autograph to any comic
fan who requests it, but I find the collecting of autographs simply for the
sake of collecting autographs, autographs of minor "celebrities" you don't
know from a hole in the ground, to be a rather witless hobby. I e-mailed
back to each of these people thanking them and asking them what their
favorites were among my works. About 25% would reply with another shot in
the dark like "oh, my goodness, there are so many, I just can't choose!",
and when I insist, they disappear altogether and move on to their next
target. It's kinda fun.

Hi,

I would like to have a copy of Comics Journal #227 (with the large Barks
article) but I can't find it here. Can anyone provide me with a copy? I will
pay for it or trade for other Disney stuff. If anyone else wants to trade
for international Disney comics or magazines email me privately too.

By the way, I happen to have an extra copy of Le Collectionneur de Bandes
Dessinees #84 from France with a Rosa cover
(http://members.tripod.com/~TheDonRosaWorld/rv16.jpg). I also have extra
copies of Picsou #341 and #342. Anyone interested?

Thanks,

Arthur de Wolf
Disney Comics Worldwide @ http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw

Agridiotis wrote:

>>>Does anybody has the Panama 1906 srory: 'The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut"?

That story haven't published yet. I think Picsou will publish it soon.
Best Wishes

Apostolis Trikourakis, Athens
E-mail: komix43 at hotmail.com & komix at compulink.gr
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/komixgreekpage
DCML member

any help from Finland on the Rosa Olympic poster?????
all I need is a color scan.....
will trade for...????
Am sounding desperate yet?
Michael

well, I just found another "lost" Carl Barks pre-comics work, in the first
issue of "Old Nick's Annual T.N.T. " is a poem and illustration bylined "Carl
Barks" .
There are some other illustrations that I had wondered about before I found
the signed work
There is no date in this magazine, but it includes stories about Mae West,
Major Bowles Amateur Hour, and the Spanish Civil War. I have a fair
collection of 20s and 30s adult joke books, and this is the rawest stuff that
i've seen yet (except for tijuana bibles).
Published by Nickerson Publishing Company, 419 South Third Street,
Minneapolis

Steven Rowe

Hi Arthur

My best wihes to you & Amy! You wrote:

> Where is the best change of finding back-issues of Disney comics in Paris?
> Last time I found some cool shops by the Gardin du Luxembourg area. Is
that
> the best place to find comic shops?

I'l send it to the list, maybe this can help others.

There are two important librairies:
- "Aux livres d'Alesia", 13 rue Daval, 75011 Paris (near the Bastille)
Lots of old comics, including Disney ones from the 30s to now. Reasonable
prices, but they never look wether the comics are complete or not. So you
should take a close look to each album before buying. (They would accept to
take them back if though). Recent issues should be affordable.
- "Lut?ce II" 2, 5 rue d'Arras near rue Monge (5e). A lot of very rare and
old comics. Prices a bit high, but they check all comics and many are in
near mint condition.

Now, if what you want is very recent and very cheap comics, you can try the
2nd floor of Boulinier, 20 boulevard Saint Michel (6e).

And for US comics (some Gladstones) two American librairies:
- Actualit?s, 38 rue Dauphine (6e)
- D?esse, 8 rue Cauchin (5e)

Francois

[English version further down]

Nein, es ist kein direkter Protest gegen die Sparpolitik unserer Regierung
sowie die Einf?hrung der Studiengeb?hren, aber ich habe meinen
E-Mail-Account bei der Uni gel?scht. Die Adresse:

a8201960 at unet.univie.ac.at

existiert nicht mehr.

Bitte in Zukunft nur noch:

Harald.Havas at blackbox.net
oder
studiohavas at utanet.at

verwenden.

Danke!

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My account

a8201960 at unet.univie.ac.at

has been deleted.

Please use in future:

Harald.Havas at blackbox.net
or
studiohavas at utanet.at

Thank you!

Hi Michael!!

I have a few leftovers of this great poster. I would be happy to send you a scan of it but it's very difficult because the poster is two times bigger than my scanner...
I'll try to arrange some sort of a scan here...

Janne Heino
(could you contact me with a private email. I have had some problems contacting you...)