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Here's what's in this month's issue of Komix:

* Cover by an unknown artist. I have put a scan in
http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis/pics/komix160.jpg
* Two pages of letters. One interesting letter points out how the fake
magazine ("Zartoon"), that a happy business class passenger is reading
in an Alitalia ad, looks suspiciously like Komix. The Komix people
appear to be flattered. As for myself, I am quite appalled, as the ad
is in English, even though it is supposed to have appeared in Greek
magazines. The only Greek in the ad is on the front page of "Zartoon".
I have put a scan of the ad, as it was shown in the letters pages in
http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis/pics/komix160a.jpg
* Three pages with "the news of Komix".
* Don's "The Dutchman's Secret".
* A three-page article titled "Legends and Treasures in the Wild West",
subtitled "Don Rosa talks about the Dutchman's secret".
* A two-page article titled "A Duck in the Lairs of Moebius", subtitled
"Don Rosa talks to Komix: from Barks to Blueberry".
* Carl Barks' "Smoke Writer in the Sky", from WDC&S #194.
* A three-page article titled "Designing the Euro", subtitled "the
exciting story behind the cold face of a coin". (This is part of the
publisher's participation in the Euro information campaign.)
* The same two pages of Harry potter trading card ads as in last month's
issue, with one of the pages masquerading as an article.
* The third installment of Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier's Space
Circus. :(

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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Kriton wrote:

> an Alitalia ad, ...
> I am quite appalled, as the ad is in English
> http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis/pics/komix160a.jpg

"Inveting time to relax"... is that English? 8-)

--Harry.

Fellow Quackeroos:

Here's what hit the stands in the past couple of weeks:

1) MIKY MAOUS #1835, September 14, 2001
a) Mickey Mouse in "L' incredibile minaccia di Cyberman", from "Topolino"
#2297, 1999 (40 pages). Script: Rudy Salvagnini; Art: Marco Palazzi
b) Mobby Duck in "The Metallic Fish", M.B. #15 (16 pages). Creators unknown
c) Goofy in "The Secret Recipe", S-79035 (14 pages). Script & story: The
Disney Studio

2) MIKY MAOUS #1836, September 21, 2001
a) Uncle Scrooge in "La furia di Paper-Kong", from "Topolino" #1092, 1976
(33 pages). Script: Michele Gazzarri; Art: Massimo De Vita
b) Inspector Manetta in "Il ciak promozionale", from "Topolino" #2292, 1999
(26 pages). Script: Carlo Panaro; Art: Silvio Camboni
c) Scrizzo Papero in "La logica d' affito", from "Topolino" #2214, 1998 (7
pages). Script: Bruno Enna; Art: Andrea Maccarini
d) Chip & Dale in "Operation...Sweep" (8 pages). Story-code & creators
unknown.

''Til next week,

Archontis

Hi!
In the french version of a Gyro Gearloose story "Fast Away Castaway", from W
US 35, from 1961, by Barks, gyro is flying in a machine and we can see costs.
They are said to be the costs of the Califleurnie. That would be something
like Califlowernia, or Cauliflowernia in English... What is the original word?

Oh... And Happy BIirthday, Unca' Romano!

Gilles

The Norwegian Comics Museum (Tegneseriemuseet)
has existed before, in Langes gate in Oslo, where it led
several fruitful years, until about two years ago, when its
manager Jan Petter Krogh gave in to various difficulties
and obstacles related to its location. Many Norwegians
will fondly remember visits to this place, which served
as a museum, a comics & fanzines shop, a bookshop
for (mainly) used books (and some music), and finally
a place which could stage comics related events. Don
Rosa and other "comics stars" have been specially
invited guests on such occasions. This was a place where
you could browse through issues of "Carl Barks & Co"
and "Der Donaldist", find the "Donald Duck" you
needed from 1963, and then buy the sheet music to
Grieg's Op. 72 for 30 NOK at the other corner of
the store.

Luckily and inspiringly, the museum's reported death was
a premature announcement and its sickbed stay a relatively
short one. The Norwegian Comics Museum has magically
been reincarnated, at Brandbu, an hour's train drive north
of Oslo, again with Jan P. Krogh (also an avid Donaldist
and once-upon-a-time publisher of "Donaldisten") as chief.
Today, on the digital date 01-10-01, the museum was
officially opened, with a select group of invitees. Work is
still going on in the house, and the comics-shop part of it
will have its opening Thursday this week. Opening hours
will be 12--17 Thursdays to Sundays.

The house, formerly the headquarters of the region's
main newspaper, is built in the style of spacious villas anno
1930 or so, and emits a generous two-storeys
atmosphere. One can have a coffee and a snack upstairs,
be a museum visitor for half an hour, and then spend time
at the store, buying yourself a fanzine or The Carl Barks
Index made by Barks-Friends or an old "Fantomet" for
your parents. The museum has potential for becoming a
real success. They also plan "events" which will draw
people from Oslo and surroundings, also featuring guest
artists of international renown.

Several invited people gave small congratulation speeches,
among them Tove Bakke (Norwegian Council for Cultural
Affairs, with a special responsibility for following comics
affairs and some comic affairs; also known for her
translation of Lorca into "new Norwegian"), Reidun
S?rensen and Kirsten J?vold Hagen (from the local Gran
kommune, representing both politics and official cultural
support projects), Nils Lid Hjort (professor at the
department of mathematics, University of Oslo,
occasionally involved with comics projects), Morten
Harper (president of the Norwegian Comics Association,
also an active writer of comics and graphical novels
stories), Nj?l Gulbrandsen (new chief editor of TEGN),
H?kon Aasnes (prolific comics artist), and Hege H?iby
(Egmont company, chief editor of "Fantomet"). Journalists,
photographers and an NRK reporter were also present.

As the visitor from the Academy of Sciences ventured,
one must hope that the Brandbu region now will be noted
and remembered not only for the 8 World Championships
its speedskaters once captured over 13 years
(Ivar 17.14.4 Ballangrud '26, '32, '36, '38, Mikael 2.14.9
Staksrud '30, '35, '37, Hans 41.8 Engnestangen '33) and
for the two world records set down-the-road by Synn?ve
Lie in 1932, and for its association with Aasmund
Olavsson Vinje (who fled from an Oslo hospital when
he understood he was fatally ill in 1870, refusing to die
in the city, and walked to Gran) -- but, also, for
The Norwegian Comics Museum.

May the Brandbu Comics Museum become to
Norwegian comics life what the six Brandenburger
Concertos became for chamber musicians.

Nils Lid Hjort

MY GUESS IS DON BARCLAY WHO WAS IN THE STUDIO DURING THE BAMBI PERIOD. HE DID VOICES BUT WAS ALSO AN ARTIST. SEVERAL OTHER ARTISTS HAVE THOSE INITIALS SO IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHEN THE ART WAS CREATED TO NARROW THE FIELD. MANY ARTISTS WORKED AT THE STUDIO FOR ONLY A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND HAVE NO CREDITS EXCEPT IN THE UNSEEN DISNEY FILES.

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Hi!
I am making tons of new sections for my site at the same time...
One is "A feeling of d?ja-vu", a section showing redrawn panels of Barks by
Don Rosa (for instance, the one in Lo$ 12 and the one from Xmas in Bear mt )
another one is "The trophy's room", with the trophies
another one is Scrooge's zoo
another one is existant characters in Barks/Rosa stories,
another one is the mayors of Duckburg
another one is the civilisations (Tralla lalians, Plainawfultonians,
Peeweegahs, martians...)
and another one is a chronology of Barks/Rosa stories.

I am going to explain the last one : all the stories of Barks/Rosa with
Scrooge take place between 1947 and 1960, because Scrooge died in 1967, and
the nephews would look much older if it was after 1960 (they are born ca 1940)
Some of the stories, such as the one with Culebra Cut, have chronological
clues, like newspapers, or "The 50 first years of SCrooge in Duckburg" (that
is to say 1952)...
For instance, we can also tell that all the stories with the crown of Genghis
khan take place before "Return to Xanadu", as the crown disappear in it. Or
we can see that a story happens after "Last sled to Dawson", because we can
see the pickaxe and the woodchuck hat of scrooge....

so it is going to be hard, but I will do it!!!

I will also have tons of questions, of course.
I don't have the following stories : "The universal solvent", "The Beagle
boys vs the money Bin", "The war of the Wendigo", "The cruisader king".
If there are some redrawn panels in them, could you send me scans???

are there cronological references in those stories?

Now about the Tralla lalians :

They are in a perfect happiness before the arrival of Scrooge and Donald.
They didn't know the hate.
But you must feel something bad, for instance if you are in love with a girl,
but that another *??$?@ guy goes out with her...
But THEY don't feel that.
Could they be polygam, to you (I am not sure about the existence of this
word... I meen do you think in their country, a man can have more than one
women, or a woman can have several husbands)?

Thanks
Gilles
http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/index.html