Keskustelujen arkisto

As has been pointed out on this list, the www.gazette.no/donrosa/index.htm
site works without problems if one wishes to order one or both of the two
Don Rosa books (Captain Kentucky or The Pertwillaby Papers), but does
not appear to work properly for those wishing to have the "Special
Limited Edition". This is the "full package" consisting in Book I + Book II
(both signed by Rosa) + a colour poster featuring the only scene in
existence
where LP and CK actually meet. It is made for the purpose of this edition,
and has been printed in only 150 numbered copies (each signed by Rosa).

The "Tronsmo Books and Comics" shop is working to make their site
more suited for also this "full package" bargain. (I don't know how many of
the 150 are still left after the big signing event on Saturday, but there
should
be some for any eager listees reading this). One may also email directly to
. Lasse Espe (lasse at tronsmo.no) and/or
. Terje Thorsen (terje at tronsmo.no)
about this. As mentioned in one of the last digests, these are "very
friendly
and perfectly fluent in English". One may also call the shop at
(+47) 22 99 03 99 (asking for Lasse or Terje) or fax to (+47) 22 11 33 74.

I'll try to post a report about "Don Rosa meets Duck fans" later on.
Nils Lid Hjort

Hoi Harry,

Rosa krijgt in feite niets anders dan lof op de DCML, maar zodra er
een (1!) uitzondering tussen zit dan denkt Dan Shane dat hij op moet
treden als Rosa's bodyguard door de betreffende persoon grof toe te
spreken en te vernederen.

Bah! Kinderachtig!

Groetjes,

--- Daniel

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From: "Dan Shane" <danshane at bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 07:41:22 -0500

Ah yes, once again the wisdom of the world is dispensed by someone who
cannot master the use of the SHIFT key on his computer.

A friendly word to all faithful list members. Please do not feed the
trolls.

--
Dan Shane
(danshane at bellsouth.net)

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Olivier wrote:

> Do you know "Tante Gra?ieuse" from I-T 230-A1 / 231 A2,
> reprinted in MP 50 (1984-- I was 10!)
> ("Mickey and the Chirikawa necklace)?

By coincidence, I bought the Dutch version of that story at a comic
convention yesterday. It's the first time I can read the story in my own
language. Until now, I only read it in French (in a Mickey Myst?re comic
from about 1997)!
I'm looking forward to reading it (tonight, probably). It really is a great
story.

--Harry.
(Ventilator of Shoe)

Well, I'm back from my very enjoyable and worthwhile trip to Oslo! I'll
leave it to Nils to report on events when he finds time. But I certainly
thank him over and over again for being the prime driving force in the
publication of my college and fanzine and local-paper comic strips from
20-30 years ago! I am certainly also quite gratified by the many fans who
wanted to see my old work -- I signed books for mail-order customers
(including folks here on the ML) for about 2 hours in the office of the
Tronsmo bookstore there in Oslo, then after bracing myself with a
"Texburger" (more like a Rhode-Island burger by American standards) and a
trip to the WC (so I would not have to stop and leave anyone waiting in
line), I went to the main floor and autographed books and anything else
anyone put in front of me and posed for snapshots for 4 hours nonstop...
after which for another 90 minutes I signed more books for people unable to
visit the store. I don't know if the books will continue to sell as well as
they did that day, but I am certainly gratified by that turn-out.

But if I am going to allow Nils to speak of that week, why do I mention the
7 1/2 hours during which I talked, signed items, posed for pictures and
shook hands, of course all for free? Well, maybe because on returning home
and sitting down to answer all of the 153 e-mails that await me, I find
this Digest with a message from someone whom I assume never knew I was in
the newsgroup to call him the liar that he is, or that he may even have
waited until I left for a week before he tried to slip his lies into view
(anonymously, *and* poorly spelled, I might add, typical for his ilk).

I recall the event at the Oakland Comic Convention vividly -- it was the
ONLY bad experience I've had in my 14 years of appearing at conventions
and signings. It was not last year, but two years ago in 1999. The person
who wrote the message showed up with an equally ill-mannered friend and
after I told them that I was not doing drawings during that show, he
*insisted* it was MY JOB to do everyone who wanted it a full-color original
pen and ink drawing on request on the spot. He demanded it! Needless to
say, it's a total lie that I "wouldn't sign anything,... initial anything,
bless anything or discuss anything". For two days straight for 6 hours
each day I was signing everything and showing everyone who visited my table
all my works that were on hand, and talking to everyone about the
Barksducks with the passion I always do. But the ONLY thing these two boors
would accept were full-color drawings, something *no* other artist at any
convention has ever done in my experience, but something I *had* previously
done for years (until I saw the drawings turning up on eBay and fetching
hundreds of $ for the people who tricked me out of the labor posing as my
fellow fans). I am not an employee of Disney, nor Egmont, nor of the
Oakland Comic Convention -- I am a freelance artist and what I do at any
point in time is my own choice. As do all conventions, the Oakland
convention billed me as being "in attendance", not as being there to "draw
full-color illustrations for everyone through the door". If I discussed the
*other* unpleasant aspects of my life and times with these two boors, it
was to help them see how they were fitting into that unpleasant list. After
that, they stormed off and I was later told that they confronted the
Convention organizers who told them exactly what I told them, then
*refunded their money* and told them to *leave* due to their behavior. It's
being tossed out of the hall which is what is probably still eating at the
guy after two years, not that I would not become his personal slave for two
hours producing color drawings on demand. Or... perhaps he's still upset
about those lost eBay sales?
Anyway, after these oafs left, I continued to talk and sign items for the
people who were standing there during their display of temper... and I seem
to recall that the witnesses were a ML member and his girlfriend/wife,
though they may be off-line at this time. But other list-members like
Michael Naiman and Eric Chan and perhaps still others were also at that
convention and heard about these two characters from several sources.
But... I guess it's like writing and drawing stories that I know will never
please 100% of everyone all the time. Even though I have never seen anyone
who devotes more labor to fans at conventions, nor can I imagine anybody
else who spends 2 to 4 hours each day answering e-mail from fans, I know
that I will *still* not always make *everybody* happy! (At least it's nice
to notice that the one guy who complains is one of those geniuses who, as
Dan Shane pointed out, can't seem to master the intricate techniques of
correct spelling and punctuation. That's probably something to take pride
in, eh?)

Oops. Minor correction. I just checked my notes...
That Oakland Con *was* last year, in 2000. Sorry...

>>>By the way, when there's no story code (only "JM 171",
>>>for isntance), could you please sum up the story?
I don't have the stories I spoke about here and the one with Pluto nephew...
They just speak about those characters in the book "Happy Birthday Mickey"
I just know that Tante Matilde is a Mousear who has a ranch, and that Oncle
Toc looks like a Goof version of Humperdink (beard, Hat...) He isn't
Wombat..
Pluto's nephew is used in a one page story, printed behind the cover of a
JdM around 1955 ( d?pot l?gal: 5eme trimestre 1955)

>>>Do you know "Tante Gra?ieuse" from I-T 230-A1 / 231 A2,
reprinted in MP 50 (1984-- I was 10!) as "Mickey et le Collier
Chirikawa"
("Mickey and the Chirikawa necklace)?
Yes, I have this issue 50 of Mickey Parade (I was - 8 months!)

>>> In the next continuity, "Mr Slicker and the Egg Robbers" (Sept 22 - Dec
26, 1930), you get to meet Minnie's parents! ...
Wow! anybody could show us scans, please?

>>>Do you have Uncle Giddy (from a Mickey Suday Page),
one of Rich's favorite character?
I don't! Could somebody tell me who he is?

>>>Baldo de' Paperi
Does he have an English name? If not, is there another character who has "de
Paperi" in his full name?

>>>What kind of code is that? It should be either
D+5digits (year and a number) or D 2000-3digits.
Oops! I've Goofed... the code is D 810201

Yes, Gyro's ancestors are in S69020

I've found new characters!!!

IT 269/270 A Goofy's uncle, "Dingo Dinguis" in french. He just died and was
a cracker paquets collector.

In WDC 172, a third Mickey's nephew appears in a Pluto story

In S 8131, another Mickey's Great Uncle in africa, oncle Baladin, in French.

In several stories from Massimo de Vita and Giorgio Pezzin, we see a
Mickey's detective Ancestor, Mick de Mick in french. He has a moustach and
lived in 1938

In I 1875, printed in MP 184, appears a Goofy's Great Uncle, called Ding de
Ding, he is an inventor with a white beard...

Original/english names welcome...

Gilles

Francesco:
>
>Kriton's (once Archontis's) monthly "column" about Komix got me to think
>that maybe even the Italian Zio Paperone may deserve one.
>In theory it should be interesting only for Italian readers, but if this
>were true, Kriton's komix mails should be interesting only for Greek, and
>that's not true, since I find it interesting, so... ;-)

>
>Zio Paperone #138, March 2001.
>- Cover by Marco Rota (it always is), illustrating "Somwhere in Nowhere";
[snip]
>- Barks's, Lustig's, Block's "Somewhere in Nowhere" (note: ONLY in
>Italian, like the rest of the mag);
This sounds very great.
I'm coming to Italy in the easter holdays so I hope this issue will still
be on the stands by then.
So what if it's only in italian, ZP is a great magazine, and the first to
publish the story, nomatter which quality it actually has.
Yours
AC