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I recently became interested in Disney comics again when asked by our office
communications manager who my favourite Disney character was. I started
working for Disney here in the UK in January. I answered "Uncle Strooge" and
she didn't know who that was.

I thought that was a very telling comment. Disney (IMHO) have forgotten
their roots, and are trying too hard to made technically excellent animated
films for kids that make money at the box office. And NOT using characters
that have a history. I still see plenty of art work of Mickey & Donald
around the building, but nothing new in the film or comic areas. Isn't that
like Coca Cola selling Fanta, Lift, Water etc etc but not selling any Coke?

Someone might be able to correct me, but from what I gather, no-one is
making Donald or Uncle Scrooge comics anymore. Gladstone being the last and
ending in 1997?

Tim

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Simo:

> http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/bolderbast/xindexeng.html
>
> Fine pages, but maybe you should add there that Mau Heymans only
> pencilled (and wrote) that artwork sample in "New Era
> 1983-1992" -page.
>
> Peter Colle (Dutch too?) was the inker of that story
> (H 95114) - and I think he also should be credited for that
> fine artwork.

I'll add his name there. BTW, Peter Coll? did the inking directly on
Heymans' pencils. The pencils are still visible (if not on the scan, then
certainly on the original). Heymans also tends to correct his pages after
inking (also adding some details and background lettering). You could say
that the inkers of Heymans are his "subcontractors". I don't know if Strobl
used to work the same way.

--Harry.

Kriton:

> > If you don't want to sum up your subjects on 1 subject
> > line

> It' s not that I don't want to, it's that I can't

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

Don:

> > Anyway, it's not a very big issue to me. Don Rosa, for
> > instance, has been doing it since 1994

> I've always thought of those
> subject-lines as a puzzling nuisance.

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

Maybe I'm too methodic. I archive all my e-mails, and it's easier to search
for an old mail when it has a readable subject. I guess you never look at
old mails again (where would you get the time for that?), so you don't have
that problem.

--Harry.

From: "Fluks, H.W." <H.W.Fluks at kpn.com>
>>>Maybe I'm too methodic. I archive all my e-mails, and it's easier to
search
for an old mail when it has a readable subject. I guess you never look at
old mails again (where would you get the time for that?), so you don't have
that problem.

I see your point! I'm also a nutball archivist, but not of e-mails. I get
so many that I purge them in vast numbers otherwise I'd soon get buried by
them. But I can see how the subject lines would be important if I saved 'em
all.
With no subject line it would be like the thousand-some-odd boxes of comics
down in my comic "vault" if, instead of labeling each box's contents, my
labels said "COMICS", "ADDITIONAL COMICS", "MORE COMICS", "STILL MORE
COMICS", "EVEN MORE COMICS", "NEVERTHELESS MORE COMICS"... it would be
rather hard to find a particular issue, eh?

OLIVIER:

> The Greek word at the top spells S.T.C. phonetically
> (but instead of an English "ci" it's a Greek/French "ce").
> So what's it mean? (Please)

The Greek word is pronounced "estise", with the stress on the first
syllable), which, as you point out, is phonetically very close to
S.T.C. (estisi). This is the third person, singular, simple past tense,
of a verb which means to assemble, erect, mount, plant, put up, raise,
set up, stand.

> > > * * * * * * * SPOILER re Don Rosa's story * * * * * * *

> > It's been some time since I last read this story, but wasn't it the
> > other way round?
> Hum...
> Well, X is something that is already known.
> Then comes the discovery of T.
> And then they realize that T=X.
> Hence, "T turns out to be X".

They had been to Tralla La in Barks' story, and in Don's story they were
following a trail to Xanadu. When they reached Xanadu, they realized
that it was actually Tralla La. Thus, my claim that Xanadu turned out
to be Tralla La.

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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What kind of a... beast would do such a horrible thing as we've witnessed
today? And what will be U.S.A's reaction to this?

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[I'm back from my vacations now]

I have no words to describe this terrible disaster.
The World Trade Center collapsed, parts of the
Pentagon too and more than 50.000 people are dead
(estimated number). Several bombs exploded (in
Congress and Washington's Metro) and various buildings
have evacuated (United Nations, White House, even
Disneyland).
So many innocent people have payed with their lifes.
All the TV channels around the world (Greek ones too:
2 minutes after the plane crash, all the Greek
channels made "breaking news") describe the disaster
as the "worst terrorist action that have ever been".
Please, pray for the lifes of these people and also be
prepared for the worst: I'm afraid that that was only
the beginning...
Best Wishes and God bless New York's citizens

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Apostolis Trikourakis, Athens, Greece
E-mail: komixgreekpage at yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/komixgreekpage

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