In the story "House of Haunts"(US 63)by Carl Barks there is an old Haunted
Castle in Duckburg.It was built by the Mad Duke of Duckburg.There is a
picture of him in page 17.He is a duck.He must have lived in Duckburg after
the death of Fenton Penworthy and before the arrival of Cornelious Coot.Who
was he is there an explanation for his reference in this story?Is he related
to the Ducks?
In the story "Phantom of Notre Duck"there is an old cathedral in
Duckburg.The old Duck who spented his life in it is a Scrooge McDuck
look-alike.Who is he?How long has he lived there?Why?What happened to
him?When did he die?Is he ever mentioned in another story?
In Greece there are published many stories of Paperinik(called Phantom
Duck)and a few of Paperinika(called Marvel Duck)which I happen to like.But
in his first Paperinik story Donald inherits the Villa of Roses and the
costume of Fantomius,an old outlaw who has vanished,persumed deceased.The
outlaw was famous according to Huey.He stole from the rich and gave some
money to the poor too.It is a reference to Fantomas.But who was he?When did
he lived?Donald uses his suit without needing modifications.In various
stories paintings of him appear.He looks very similar to Donald.In the first
story of Daisy as Paperinika,not as a superheroine it's just a
Carnival/Halloween costume,she mentions she is dressed like Fantomius
girlfriend.Who was she?When did she live?When was Vila of the Roses live.
It appears that Duckburg is more mysterious than appearing because I
haven't found any answers.Any ideas?
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Dim I Nticoudis
Mad Dukes and Phantoms.
Message 166 -
2001-10-25 at 09:55:10
Dim I Nticoudis
Ducks and knowledge
Message 167 -
2001-10-25 at 10:32:16
I seem you noticed that Scrooge knows a great number of languages.One of
the things that always fascinated me about the Ducks is than unlike Mickey
they are only looking for a passtime.They travel the world seeking
adventure,fortune,glory and knowledge.
Scrooge does know a lot more languages than Enlish.He must be a fast
learner.Many stories including Rosa's imply he has a large library.The books
contained threre vary from old Spanish,Dutch and other jurnals(including the
McDucks' chronicles from Vicar's stories),financial books,history
books,occult books,science books etc.Many of them appear to be rare
editions.Scrooge seems to have various interests.
Donald is no ignorant too.He speaks the Tralaleans Thibetean dialect
fluently while he is there for only a little time.He has learned to do lots
of jobs during the year.Anything from businessman and commando to artist and
gardener.He must be a fast learner too.
Huey,Dewey and Louie are the best Junior Woodchucks ever according to
Rosa.They sure keep learning from this book of theirs and from their
travels.They have learned to translate about any language they came upon.
Magica is a totaly different case.She is a sorceress borned into a hole
family of them.She has natural powers but she chose to be even stronger by
studying the occult.In Barks stories she translates ancient scripts without
help and she is Circe's succesor.There is harldly a story with Magica in
which she doesn't learn and study more.Mainly the reason why the witch is
one of my favorites.Tradition,power and self-education.
While Mickey usualy helps the police in his own city without gaining a
thing or travels around with no apparent purpose.When I was a boy I thought
he was a slacker.He never appears to be learning a thing.
The Ducks are charachters with depth while Mickey is a lazy American
traveling the world with no purpose,no gain.Have you ever thought about
that?
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the things that always fascinated me about the Ducks is than unlike Mickey
they are only looking for a passtime.They travel the world seeking
adventure,fortune,glory and knowledge.
Scrooge does know a lot more languages than Enlish.He must be a fast
learner.Many stories including Rosa's imply he has a large library.The books
contained threre vary from old Spanish,Dutch and other jurnals(including the
McDucks' chronicles from Vicar's stories),financial books,history
books,occult books,science books etc.Many of them appear to be rare
editions.Scrooge seems to have various interests.
Donald is no ignorant too.He speaks the Tralaleans Thibetean dialect
fluently while he is there for only a little time.He has learned to do lots
of jobs during the year.Anything from businessman and commando to artist and
gardener.He must be a fast learner too.
Huey,Dewey and Louie are the best Junior Woodchucks ever according to
Rosa.They sure keep learning from this book of theirs and from their
travels.They have learned to translate about any language they came upon.
Magica is a totaly different case.She is a sorceress borned into a hole
family of them.She has natural powers but she chose to be even stronger by
studying the occult.In Barks stories she translates ancient scripts without
help and she is Circe's succesor.There is harldly a story with Magica in
which she doesn't learn and study more.Mainly the reason why the witch is
one of my favorites.Tradition,power and self-education.
While Mickey usualy helps the police in his own city without gaining a
thing or travels around with no apparent purpose.When I was a boy I thought
he was a slacker.He never appears to be learning a thing.
The Ducks are charachters with depth while Mickey is a lazy American
traveling the world with no purpose,no gain.Have you ever thought about
that?
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Enrico Faccini
Message 168 -
2001-10-25 at 14:46:50
Armando wrote about Enrico Faccini:
>(...)Unluckily, he produces Disney comics in
>the spare time from his regular job, so we have to wait way too long >between
>one story and the next...
I really like Faccini's stories! Specially when he writtes hinself, but...what is his regular job?
Just curious!
Fernando! :)
>(...)Unluckily, he produces Disney comics in
>the spare time from his regular job, so we have to wait way too long >between
>one story and the next...
I really like Faccini's stories! Specially when he writtes hinself, but...what is his regular job?
Just curious!
Fernando! :)
Dim I Nticoudis
Scroogy's farcer uncle
Message 169 -
2001-10-25 at 16:36:47
There is an uncle of Scrooge mentinoned in the story S 86182.Does anybody
know the English name of this McDuck?
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Message 170 -
2001-10-25 at 21:12:04
Joe Gould wrote:
When Western took their
comics liscences and production from Dell to start
their own Gold Key (/Whitman/Western ) company
Some argument could be made that Gold Key/Whitman was a new company, but the
reality is it was Western's new house identity for continuing what it had
been doing for decades, the only significant difference being that the
comics were no longer distributed by Dell.
Dell, as most folks know, was not actually the publisher of 1940s and 1950s
Disney comics, but only the newsstand distributor. Western held the
publishing license and did the production and oversaw the printing, but as
the newsstand distributor, the company actually getting the books out to
market, Dell was entitled to some perks, such as having their imprint on the
books. This seemed to be fine with Western at the time, since Dell was
already a well known imprint and the business and revenue arrangements would
have been little altered by calling them, say, Golden Comics. Upon breaking
with Dell Western finally decided to initiate their own imprints, but this
did not change the publisher of longstanding record: Western.
Gary
When Western took their
comics liscences and production from Dell to start
their own Gold Key (/Whitman/Western ) company
Some argument could be made that Gold Key/Whitman was a new company, but the
reality is it was Western's new house identity for continuing what it had
been doing for decades, the only significant difference being that the
comics were no longer distributed by Dell.
Dell, as most folks know, was not actually the publisher of 1940s and 1950s
Disney comics, but only the newsstand distributor. Western held the
publishing license and did the production and oversaw the printing, but as
the newsstand distributor, the company actually getting the books out to
market, Dell was entitled to some perks, such as having their imprint on the
books. This seemed to be fine with Western at the time, since Dell was
already a well known imprint and the business and revenue arrangements would
have been little altered by calling them, say, Golden Comics. Upon breaking
with Dell Western finally decided to initiate their own imprints, but this
did not change the publisher of longstanding record: Western.
Gary
Botto Armando
Enrico faccini
Message 171 -
2001-10-26 at 11:06:41
Fernando:
> I really like Faccini's stories! Specially when he writtes hinself,
but...what is his regular job? Just curious!
He works in the local newspaper of my hometown (Genova), as a technician
(meaning that he's not a journalist, but he's involved in the printing
process). BTW, Faccini has read the DCML messages about him, and thanks
everybody for their praises and criticism; he also said he'll probably
contribute to the mailing list in the near future.
Ciao,
Armando
> I really like Faccini's stories! Specially when he writtes hinself,
but...what is his regular job? Just curious!
He works in the local newspaper of my hometown (Genova), as a technician
(meaning that he's not a journalist, but he's involved in the printing
process). BTW, Faccini has read the DCML messages about him, and thanks
everybody for their praises and criticism; he also said he'll probably
contribute to the mailing list in the near future.
Ciao,
Armando
Joe GouldIII
Gary - Dell/GK !!!!!!!!!!!
Message 172 -
2001-10-26 at 21:57:43
...I , actually , was not aware that Western's
involvement ent so far as " overseeing the printing "
, thank you Gary , but , I don't think that what I
wrote was inaccurate , Gary just added more detail .
US comics fans DO tend to classify things by company
- And , actually , Gary's description othe post-1963
GK/W/W just backs up that I was accurate , then , in
referring to the 1963-1973 Dell as " another company "
, then - or , frankly , if you want to look at it the
way distributors and comics fans of 1963 no doubt saw
it , Gold Key was the " new company " , though , yes ,
obviously , they continued along the same path they'd
worked on pre-1963 - cerainly regarding our reason for
being here , the Disney comics .
Anyway , there were two companies where one had
stood before . Frankly , considering how AWFUL Gold
Key's distribution got ( in the 70s , Gold Keys were
SIMPLY NOT CARRIED , in my home area , on the
newsstands , whereas DC , Marvel , Archie , Charlton ,
Harvey , etc. , all were . )...well , why cry over
shredded funnybooks ?
Anyway , Gary , I liked the - albeit brief -
information on the EEK! THE CAT comic , and , I wasn't
denigriating , AT ALL , Gladstoe's non-Disney
offerings - many of which I bought ! ( I may be
repeating myself here , but...)
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involvement ent so far as " overseeing the printing "
, thank you Gary , but , I don't think that what I
wrote was inaccurate , Gary just added more detail .
US comics fans DO tend to classify things by company
- And , actually , Gary's description othe post-1963
GK/W/W just backs up that I was accurate , then , in
referring to the 1963-1973 Dell as " another company "
, then - or , frankly , if you want to look at it the
way distributors and comics fans of 1963 no doubt saw
it , Gold Key was the " new company " , though , yes ,
obviously , they continued along the same path they'd
worked on pre-1963 - cerainly regarding our reason for
being here , the Disney comics .
Anyway , there were two companies where one had
stood before . Frankly , considering how AWFUL Gold
Key's distribution got ( in the 70s , Gold Keys were
SIMPLY NOT CARRIED , in my home area , on the
newsstands , whereas DC , Marvel , Archie , Charlton ,
Harvey , etc. , all were . )...well , why cry over
shredded funnybooks ?
Anyway , Gary , I liked the - albeit brief -
information on the EEK! THE CAT comic , and , I wasn't
denigriating , AT ALL , Gladstoe's non-Disney
offerings - many of which I bought ! ( I may be
repeating myself here , but...)
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Message 173 -
2001-10-27 at 03:07:09
<<...I , actually , was not aware that Western's
involvement ent so far as " overseeing the printing ">>
more than overseeing: they printed them on their own printing press
(Western was short for "Western Printing and Lithography. Inc.")
On the other hand, Dell was responsible for arranging distribution. Part of
the problem Dell had started when ANC (their distributor) went under in 1957.
later Dell did self-distributor. On the other hand, Western was responsible
for dime store distribution of the comics.
Steven Rowe
SRoweCanoe at aol.com
involvement ent so far as " overseeing the printing ">>
more than overseeing: they printed them on their own printing press
(Western was short for "Western Printing and Lithography. Inc.")
On the other hand, Dell was responsible for arranging distribution. Part of
the problem Dell had started when ANC (their distributor) went under in 1957.
later Dell did self-distributor. On the other hand, Western was responsible
for dime store distribution of the comics.
Steven Rowe
SRoweCanoe at aol.com
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Picture wanted
Message 174 -
2001-10-27 at 03:51:14
Is there anyone out there who has visited the International Museum of
Cartoon Art in Boca Raton, Florida? I'm hoping to find someone who has
some scanned pictures of the enamel or cloisonn? pins from the museum's
gift shop. If you have any such pictures, would you mind e-mailing them
to me?
--
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reasons.
Please visit The Unofficial Cartoon Character Hall of Fame at:
http://www.toonhalloffame.com
Cartoon Art in Boca Raton, Florida? I'm hoping to find someone who has
some scanned pictures of the enamel or cloisonn? pins from the museum's
gift shop. If you have any such pictures, would you mind e-mailing them
to me?
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reasons.
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Fernando Ventura
Paulo Borge's autograph
Message 175 -
2001-10-27 at 06:02:07
Hi!
Last week I received a very nice present from Wilson Magalh?es, one of the
best Disney inkers...it's an autograph of Paulo Borges, his friend and one
of the best brazilian Disney drawers. He caricatured hinself on this story,
wrotte by ower mailing list friend Arthur Faria Jr! :)
You can see it here:
http://www.disney100.hpg.com.br/comics/PauloBorges.jpg
He's really a good drawer!
Fernando!
Last week I received a very nice present from Wilson Magalh?es, one of the
best Disney inkers...it's an autograph of Paulo Borges, his friend and one
of the best brazilian Disney drawers. He caricatured hinself on this story,
wrotte by ower mailing list friend Arthur Faria Jr! :)
You can see it here:
http://www.disney100.hpg.com.br/comics/PauloBorges.jpg
He's really a good drawer!
Fernando!
Sue And Gary Leach
More on Marvel
Message 176 -
2001-10-27 at 08:36:23
I have been reflecting on the Gladstone/Marvel arrangement, which had some
definite similarities to that of Western/Dell. Marvel, too, was strictly the
newsstand distributor for comics that Gladstone produced, and for taking on
that role Marvel got to have their imprint on the newsstand copies of those
comics. The direct market copies, which Marvel had nothing to do with,
retained the Gladstone imprint.
The key to the imprint situation with Marvel rested on the fact that Marvel
purchased the newsstand copies from Gladstone outright; they owned the
physical product they were distributing, assuming all profit and loss from
them. To this day I'm not sure what spurred Marvel to make this arrangement
with Gladstone, since they knew quite well how dismal things were on the
newsstand, and the only thing I can figure is that they were still feeling
flush from the direct market boom and wanted participation in all Disney
comics publishing after having secured the "modern" character license for
themselves. Terrific idea, really, and a great deal for Gladstone, but the
timing was about as bad as it could be. The U.S. direct market picked just
about that moment to go plotz, and with the newsstand situation continuing
its downward trend I have no doubt that Marvel really sweated out their
contractural obligations to all things Disney after that.
I don't know if Dell bought the comics they distributed outright, but having
their imprint on the books strongly suggests they did. Whatever the facts of
that, there was no direct market in those days ? no other market at all,
outside of subscriptions ? to create any need or purpose for an in-house
imprint by Western, so long as Dell was in the picture. And yet Gold Key
(the imprint I saw on Western's comics when I was a kid, with no awareness
then of the Dell era) was faced with something of the same dilemma that
Gladstone tackled decades later when the newsstand distribution situation
changed: how to keep things profitable in that arena. Whole essays could be
written to just scratch the surface of this particular subject, but suffice
it to say that the newsstand problem contributed significantly to both
Western's and Gladstone's decisions to eventually get out of the comics
publishing biz.
That's all in the past, of course, and things are very different now even
from the early-to-mid 1990s. Diamond/Gemstone may yet bring the Disney
comics back to North America, but under what terms, to what extent, and for
how long is still anybody's guess. But they have a chance at a fresh start,
an opportunity to put things together in a way that truly focuses on,
accommodates and, yes, exploits the market conditions of today. I truly hope
this is what happens, because in that way North American Disney comics
readers may finally get a badly needed break.
Gary
definite similarities to that of Western/Dell. Marvel, too, was strictly the
newsstand distributor for comics that Gladstone produced, and for taking on
that role Marvel got to have their imprint on the newsstand copies of those
comics. The direct market copies, which Marvel had nothing to do with,
retained the Gladstone imprint.
The key to the imprint situation with Marvel rested on the fact that Marvel
purchased the newsstand copies from Gladstone outright; they owned the
physical product they were distributing, assuming all profit and loss from
them. To this day I'm not sure what spurred Marvel to make this arrangement
with Gladstone, since they knew quite well how dismal things were on the
newsstand, and the only thing I can figure is that they were still feeling
flush from the direct market boom and wanted participation in all Disney
comics publishing after having secured the "modern" character license for
themselves. Terrific idea, really, and a great deal for Gladstone, but the
timing was about as bad as it could be. The U.S. direct market picked just
about that moment to go plotz, and with the newsstand situation continuing
its downward trend I have no doubt that Marvel really sweated out their
contractural obligations to all things Disney after that.
I don't know if Dell bought the comics they distributed outright, but having
their imprint on the books strongly suggests they did. Whatever the facts of
that, there was no direct market in those days ? no other market at all,
outside of subscriptions ? to create any need or purpose for an in-house
imprint by Western, so long as Dell was in the picture. And yet Gold Key
(the imprint I saw on Western's comics when I was a kid, with no awareness
then of the Dell era) was faced with something of the same dilemma that
Gladstone tackled decades later when the newsstand distribution situation
changed: how to keep things profitable in that arena. Whole essays could be
written to just scratch the surface of this particular subject, but suffice
it to say that the newsstand problem contributed significantly to both
Western's and Gladstone's decisions to eventually get out of the comics
publishing biz.
That's all in the past, of course, and things are very different now even
from the early-to-mid 1990s. Diamond/Gemstone may yet bring the Disney
comics back to North America, but under what terms, to what extent, and for
how long is still anybody's guess. But they have a chance at a fresh start,
an opportunity to put things together in a way that truly focuses on,
accommodates and, yes, exploits the market conditions of today. I truly hope
this is what happens, because in that way North American Disney comics
readers may finally get a badly needed break.
Gary
Stefan Persson
Disney artists appearing in their own stories
Message 177 -
2001-10-27 at 16:47:31
Hi!
----------This message contains spoilers----------
In the 2nd part of Don Rosa's new story (D 2001-024; Farbror Joakim:
Korsfararkungarnas krona) there's a guy looking like the creator himself,
see http://www.geocities.com/disneycreatorsappearinginstories/dr.jpg for a
scan of a panel where he appears. This made me think of what other stories
there are where Disney creators appear in their own stories. I thought about
Vicar's "The Cartoonist" (D 97258) (scanned panel available at
http://www.geocities.com/disneycreatorsappearinginstories/vr.jpg) and
"Barks' Dog Food" in "Turkey Trouble" (WDC 75). Are there more similar cases
where the creators themselves appear in any way or another?
FYI:
http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/story.php/8/W+WDC++75-01
http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/story.php/8/D+97258
Stefan
----------This message contains spoilers----------
In the 2nd part of Don Rosa's new story (D 2001-024; Farbror Joakim:
Korsfararkungarnas krona) there's a guy looking like the creator himself,
see http://www.geocities.com/disneycreatorsappearinginstories/dr.jpg for a
scan of a panel where he appears. This made me think of what other stories
there are where Disney creators appear in their own stories. I thought about
Vicar's "The Cartoonist" (D 97258) (scanned panel available at
http://www.geocities.com/disneycreatorsappearinginstories/vr.jpg) and
"Barks' Dog Food" in "Turkey Trouble" (WDC 75). Are there more similar cases
where the creators themselves appear in any way or another?
FYI:
http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/story.php/8/W+WDC++75-01
http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/story.php/8/D+97258
Stefan
Timo Ronkainen
Disney artists appearing in their own stories
Message 178 -
2001-10-27 at 22:21:03
I thought about
>Vicar's "The Cartoonist" (D 97258) (scanned panel available at
>http://www.geocities.com/disneycreatorsappearinginstories/vr.jpg)
Vicar doesn't look like this. He has no pointy mustaches or huge glasses. He
visited in Finland last summer, and as I showed this story to him, he had
difficulties to even remember the whole story. Why he didn't make "Victor"
look like himself is quite odd..
But do remember Barks as javelin thrower in WDC 188!
There might be many more things like these, but as far as we don't know how
the artists look like, it is hard to find these. I think Marco Rota has
drawn at least many of his fiends in his duck comics, and maybe even
himself.
Timo
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>Vicar's "The Cartoonist" (D 97258) (scanned panel available at
>http://www.geocities.com/disneycreatorsappearinginstories/vr.jpg)
Vicar doesn't look like this. He has no pointy mustaches or huge glasses. He
visited in Finland last summer, and as I showed this story to him, he had
difficulties to even remember the whole story. Why he didn't make "Victor"
look like himself is quite odd..
But do remember Barks as javelin thrower in WDC 188!
There might be many more things like these, but as far as we don't know how
the artists look like, it is hard to find these. I think Marco Rota has
drawn at least many of his fiends in his duck comics, and maybe even
himself.
Timo
^^''*''^^
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20540 Turku ------------------- -
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Stefan, Timo and myself: Disney artists appearing in their own stories
Message 179 -
2001-10-27 at 23:21:06
"Disney artists appearing in their own stories", isn't that a very good
subject to a home page?
I think it can be really funny! I did some caricatures(or "cartoon
versions")of many friends I have in my stories, but I've never put myself on
then...!
I remember, also, a Claudio Sciarrone story that he appears on the last
panel! I can't say the code now, I'm not sure where is the comic! He, he,
he!
Fernando! :)
subject to a home page?
I think it can be really funny! I did some caricatures(or "cartoon
versions")of many friends I have in my stories, but I've never put myself on
then...!
I remember, also, a Claudio Sciarrone story that he appears on the last
panel! I can't say the code now, I'm not sure where is the comic! He, he,
he!
Fernando! :)
Stefan Persson
Disney artists appearing in their own stories
Message 180 -
2001-10-28 at 00:24:18
----- Original Message -----
From: "timo ronkainen" <timoro at hotmail.com>
To: <reimersholme at hotmail.com>
Sent: den 27 oktober 2001 21:20
Subject: Re: Disney artists appearing in their own stories
> Vicar doesn't look like this. He has no pointy mustaches or huge glasses.
He visited in Finland last summer, and as I showed this story to him, he
had difficulties to even remember the whole story. Why he didn't make
"Victor" look like himself is quite odd..
Indeed. Maybe he was called something else in the script Vicar used, and
then renamed in the final version?
Stefan
From: "timo ronkainen" <timoro at hotmail.com>
To: <reimersholme at hotmail.com>
Sent: den 27 oktober 2001 21:20
Subject: Re: Disney artists appearing in their own stories
> Vicar doesn't look like this. He has no pointy mustaches or huge glasses.
He visited in Finland last summer, and as I showed this story to him, he
had difficulties to even remember the whole story. Why he didn't make
"Victor" look like himself is quite odd..
Indeed. Maybe he was called something else in the script Vicar used, and
then renamed in the final version?
Stefan