Don Rosa wrote:
>I never did understand why someone with beard would have a name
>like "matressface". What sort of mattress looks like hair?
When I first read this story as a kid I always imagined it was a
reference to the old fashioned use of coconut fibre as stuffing in
mattresses and soft furnishings. Coconut fibre was also used for the fibres
in brooms and brushes, and Monsieur Mattressface does seem to have a visage
not unlike an old fashioned broom.
From peoples comments I guess coconut fibre was not a common
material worldwide?
Shaun
Ps: I've been checking on barcodes around our house, maybe we use a
different system here, but all products originating from New Zealand start
with 94 and all products from Australia seem to start with 93. I guess from
the feedback to the previous post on this subject this sort of numbering
convention isn't applicable to the US or Europe?
Author
Topic: 200204
(212 messages)
Shaun Craill
Matressface
Message 76 -
2002-04-08 at 05:09:17
Michael Schartau
Barcodes
Message 77 -
2002-04-08 at 10:45:30
> Shaun
>
> Ps: I've been checking on barcodes around our house, maybe we use a
> different system here, but all products originating from New Zealand start
> with 94 and all products from Australia seem to start with 93. I guess from
> the feedback to the previous post on this subject this sort of numbering
> convention isn't applicable to the US or Europe?
> _______________________________________________
The EAN-13 is an international system. In Sweden most products have 73 as first digits.
http://www.ean-int.org/index800.html
states:
Q. Does the EAN number indicate the country of origin of a product?
A. No, the numbering of a product with EAN numbers does not imply any significance. An EAN number simply starts with the prefix of the member organisation that has allocated a bank of numbers to a company. This does not mean that the product was manufactured in a specific country or by a specific manufacturer.
>
> Ps: I've been checking on barcodes around our house, maybe we use a
> different system here, but all products originating from New Zealand start
> with 94 and all products from Australia seem to start with 93. I guess from
> the feedback to the previous post on this subject this sort of numbering
> convention isn't applicable to the US or Europe?
> _______________________________________________
The EAN-13 is an international system. In Sweden most products have 73 as first digits.
http://www.ean-int.org/index800.html
states:
Q. Does the EAN number indicate the country of origin of a product?
A. No, the numbering of a product with EAN numbers does not imply any significance. An EAN number simply starts with the prefix of the member organisation that has allocated a bank of numbers to a company. This does not mean that the product was manufactured in a specific country or by a specific manufacturer.
Fluks, H.W.
A few questions
Message 78 -
2002-04-08 at 12:19:25
"Fox" (m at teusz lis):
> 2) There is sign (in English): "FLAGS= Red with white symbols"
> in Rosa's "The Treasury of Croesus". It's on page 17. What this
> inscription mean?
This is a directive for the person who adds the colours to the story. A
writer (or editor) of a story sometimes adds directives like this, if the
colours are important. The text should have been removed before the final
publication, but in this case they apparently forgot to remove it!
--Harry.
> 2) There is sign (in English): "FLAGS= Red with white symbols"
> in Rosa's "The Treasury of Croesus". It's on page 17. What this
> inscription mean?
This is a directive for the person who adds the colours to the story. A
writer (or editor) of a story sometimes adds directives like this, if the
colours are important. The text should have been removed before the final
publication, but in this case they apparently forgot to remove it!
--Harry.
Fluks, H.W.
DD+Time+Travel
Message 79 -
2002-04-08 at 12:40:12
Olivier:
>
http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/comp2.php?lg=0&default_o=1&ser=DD+Time
+Travel
>
> you can find that the third episode has been published in
> Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the fourth in Germany, Denmark
> and sweden, and the last one in Germany, Denmark, italy,
> Netherlands, norway and sweden.. (BTW, they're so stupid to
> publish the last part when the first part aren't...)
The "parts", except the first one, can be printed in any order. They all
start with DD and the nephews in a time machine, and they all end the same
way.
The Dutch printed the first one (by Rota). They also printed the Vicar one,
but with start and ending changed, so it could be printed as a stand-alone
story.
> What
> strikes me is that the series isn't arted by the same artist
> each time... (Marco Rota, thenVictor Arriagada Rios, then
> Tino Santanach Hernandez...), neither plotted by the same.
> Are those autors asked by their publisher to do those series,
> or did they decide to work together on this project?
The editors at Egmont (Stefan Printz-Pahlson and Lars Jensen, if I'm not
mistaken) developed the idea for the series. After that, they asked various
writers and artists to make the stories.
--Harry.
>
http://www2.ec-lille.fr/willot/coa/c1/comp2.php?lg=0&default_o=1&ser=DD+Time
+Travel
>
> you can find that the third episode has been published in
> Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the fourth in Germany, Denmark
> and sweden, and the last one in Germany, Denmark, italy,
> Netherlands, norway and sweden.. (BTW, they're so stupid to
> publish the last part when the first part aren't...)
The "parts", except the first one, can be printed in any order. They all
start with DD and the nephews in a time machine, and they all end the same
way.
The Dutch printed the first one (by Rota). They also printed the Vicar one,
but with start and ending changed, so it could be printed as a stand-alone
story.
> What
> strikes me is that the series isn't arted by the same artist
> each time... (Marco Rota, thenVictor Arriagada Rios, then
> Tino Santanach Hernandez...), neither plotted by the same.
> Are those autors asked by their publisher to do those series,
> or did they decide to work together on this project?
The editors at Egmont (Stefan Printz-Pahlson and Lars Jensen, if I'm not
mistaken) developed the idea for the series. After that, they asked various
writers and artists to make the stories.
--Harry.
Fluks, H.W.
Duckburgian Newspaper...
Message 80 -
2002-04-08 at 12:46:07
Olaf:
> What's the original American English name for the daily
> newspaper published in Duckburg?
Before Donald lived in Duckburg, he lived in Quackville, where they publish
the "Daily Quack". (See last page of WDC 42, "Kite Weather".)
There's an American fanzine called "The Duckburg Times", but I'm not sure
where they got their name from.
--Harry.
> What's the original American English name for the daily
> newspaper published in Duckburg?
Before Donald lived in Duckburg, he lived in Quackville, where they publish
the "Daily Quack". (See last page of WDC 42, "Kite Weather".)
There's an American fanzine called "The Duckburg Times", but I'm not sure
where they got their name from.
--Harry.
Fluks, H.W.
WDC&S 2, 3
Message 81 -
2002-04-08 at 12:50:02
Don:
> but I have
> the comics, WDC&S #1-3. They are just a "vault" trip away
Thanks for the indexes. To get exactly the information we want (in INDUCKS),
we need to know *how many* newspaper gags were printed. So in stead of
> DD dailies -- AT.... 4 pp
we'd like to have
> 8 DD dailies -- AT.... 4 pp
Or whatever number is applicable.
--Harry.
> but I have
> the comics, WDC&S #1-3. They are just a "vault" trip away
Thanks for the indexes. To get exactly the information we want (in INDUCKS),
we need to know *how many* newspaper gags were printed. So in stead of
> DD dailies -- AT.... 4 pp
we'd like to have
> 8 DD dailies -- AT.... 4 pp
Or whatever number is applicable.
--Harry.
DGE
DD+Time+Travel
Message 82 -
2002-04-08 at 13:01:29
Hey Harry!
>The editors at Egmont (Stefan Printz-Pahlson and Lars Jensen, if I'm not
>mistaken)
You're mistaken. The editor you mean is Lars Bergstr?m!
(Lars Jensen, known among other things for his collaborations with
Marco Rota and for his Donald and Fethry sci-fi series TNT, is a writer for
Egmont- but *not* an editor.)
David
>The editors at Egmont (Stefan Printz-Pahlson and Lars Jensen, if I'm not
>mistaken)
You're mistaken. The editor you mean is Lars Bergstr?m!
(Lars Jensen, known among other things for his collaborations with
Marco Rota and for his Donald and Fethry sci-fi series TNT, is a writer for
Egmont- but *not* an editor.)
David
Fluks, H.W.
DD+Time+Travel
Message 83 -
2002-04-08 at 13:02:28
David wrote:
> You're mistaken. The editor you mean is Lars Bergstr?m!
Oops. Sorry, Lars and Lars!
--Harry.
> You're mistaken. The editor you mean is Lars Bergstr?m!
Oops. Sorry, Lars and Lars!
--Harry.
Fluks, H.W.
DCML digest, Vol 1 #888 - 2 msgs
Message 84 -
2002-04-08 at 13:11:13
> From: dcml-request at stp.ling.uu.se [mailto:dcml-request at stp.ling.uu.se]
> Sent: maandag 8 april 2002 12:03
> To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
> Subject: DCML digest, Vol 1 #888 - 2 msgs
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Duckburgian Newspaper... (Fluks, H.W.)
> 2. RE: WDC&S 2, 3 (Fluks, H.W.)
Hooray! I got my own digest! (And 888 is a nice number too. And 08-04-02 is
a nice binary date.)
This hasn't happened to me in years - or maybe never, in the 10 years this
list exists.
--Harry.
> Sent: maandag 8 april 2002 12:03
> To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
> Subject: DCML digest, Vol 1 #888 - 2 msgs
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Duckburgian Newspaper... (Fluks, H.W.)
> 2. RE: WDC&S 2, 3 (Fluks, H.W.)
Hooray! I got my own digest! (And 888 is a nice number too. And 08-04-02 is
a nice binary date.)
This hasn't happened to me in years - or maybe never, in the 10 years this
list exists.
--Harry.
Don Rosa
DCML digest #887
Message 85 -
2002-04-08 at 15:22:17
From: Goofy313g at aol.com (Gilles Maurice)
Subject: Donald 1934 [to Don]
>>>I wanted to know about some drawings you made about Donald's birthday
which
included both your Donald Duck and Donald Duck as he looked in 1934..
Do you consider those scenes have occured? How d'you explain them?
That was simply a cover gag I did for a German comic fanzine in 1994.
From: "m at teusz lis" <lis- at wp.pl>
>>>>There is sign (in English): "FLAGS= Red with white symbols"
in Rosa's "The Treasury of Croesus". It's on page 17. What this
inscription mean?
I'm assuming you're seeing that inscription in the margin (outside the panel
area) of the art? That's a colorist's directive -- those sometimes slip by
the eye of the guy who is supposed to remove them from the print version. It
was a directive of how to color the Turkish flag (though some @$#%& altered
the flag symbols I'd drawn onto the flag and made it a fictional flag, even
though my story was *definitely* taking place in a non-fictional Turkey).
>>>I hope that you understand me. Thanks for your help.
Fox
Yes, but I usually decline to answer anonymous questions. Please put your
true name on your postings. Or is your actual name "Fox"? That doesn't sound
very Polish. Thanks.
From: Goofy313g at aol.com (Gilles Maurice)
>>>>those symbols look like the turkish flags without the moon, just the
star.
Maybe the moon has been censored???
That's actually *absolutely right*. The moon was censored because some
functionary who was not reading the story decided that I am not allowed to
draw an actual national flag into a child's comic... some unwary tyke might
accidentally *learn* something. My hair didn't used to be this gray 10 years
ago.
From: "Fluks, H.W." <H.W.Fluks at kpn.com>
>>>>Thanks for the indexes. To get exactly the information we want (in
INDUCKS),
we need to know *how many* newspaper gags were printed.
My hair didn't used to this gray even 5 years ago.
#2 -- November 1940
cover -- DD trying to kill a turkey with a hatchet (!)
inside cover -- Disney movie "festival" promo
contents page -- (DD ill.)
12 DD dailies -- AT.... 4 pp
"Oscar the Ostrich" -- MM strips (cont.) -- FG ... 14 pp
"Donald Duck Goes A-Scouting" -- (DD) ill. text ... 3 pp
24 DD dailies -- AT ... 8 pp
"And Now - the Donald Duck Doodle"--(DD)("DD Steps Out")--ill. text... 3 pp
"The Little Whirlwind" (MM) -- ill. text ... 2 pp
"Sky Island" -- MM strips (conc.) -- FG ... 13 pp
9 DD dailies -- AT ... 3 pp
"The Flying Mouse" (Silly Sym. adaptation) -- ill. text ... 4 pp
12 DD dailies -- AT ... 4 pp
"Thanksgiving Puzzle" -- puzzle page ... 1 p
"The Little Whirlwind" (ill. text conclusion) ... 1 p
"Thanksgiving Puzzle" -- puzzle page (conclusion) ... 1 p
3 DD dailies -- AT ... 1 p
inside cover -- contest page
back cover -- subs. info
#3 -- December 1940
cover -- DD (fireman)
inside cover -- contest page
contents page -- (DD)
DD daily (1 AT daily cut up and scattered cockeyed to fill an entire page)
"Peculiar Penguins" (Silly Sym. adaptation) -- ill. text ... 3 pp
15 DD dailies -- AT ... 5 pp
"The Seven Ghosts" -- MM strips (w/DD) -- FG ... 18 pp
"The Sun and Stars" -- text ... 1p
1 DD Sunday -- AT ... 1 p
"The Fire Chief" -- (DD) ill. text (inc. 1 full page ill.) ... 3 pp
"It's Magic!" -- puzzle pages ... 2 pp
2 DD Sundays -- AT ... 2 pp
MM strips -- FG ... 4 pp
3 DD Sundays -- AT ... 3 pp
MM strips (w/DD) -- FG ... 4 pp
"Don Donald" -- (DD) ill. text ... 4 pp
"Oscar the Ostrich" (conclusion) -- MM strips -- FG ... 9 pp
3 DD Sundays -- AT ... 3 pp
inside cover -- "Fire Chief" w/DD film promo
back cover -- subs. info
Subject: Donald 1934 [to Don]
>>>I wanted to know about some drawings you made about Donald's birthday
which
included both your Donald Duck and Donald Duck as he looked in 1934..
Do you consider those scenes have occured? How d'you explain them?
That was simply a cover gag I did for a German comic fanzine in 1994.
From: "m at teusz lis" <lis- at wp.pl>
>>>>There is sign (in English): "FLAGS= Red with white symbols"
in Rosa's "The Treasury of Croesus". It's on page 17. What this
inscription mean?
I'm assuming you're seeing that inscription in the margin (outside the panel
area) of the art? That's a colorist's directive -- those sometimes slip by
the eye of the guy who is supposed to remove them from the print version. It
was a directive of how to color the Turkish flag (though some @$#%& altered
the flag symbols I'd drawn onto the flag and made it a fictional flag, even
though my story was *definitely* taking place in a non-fictional Turkey).
>>>I hope that you understand me. Thanks for your help.
Fox
Yes, but I usually decline to answer anonymous questions. Please put your
true name on your postings. Or is your actual name "Fox"? That doesn't sound
very Polish. Thanks.
From: Goofy313g at aol.com (Gilles Maurice)
>>>>those symbols look like the turkish flags without the moon, just the
star.
Maybe the moon has been censored???
That's actually *absolutely right*. The moon was censored because some
functionary who was not reading the story decided that I am not allowed to
draw an actual national flag into a child's comic... some unwary tyke might
accidentally *learn* something. My hair didn't used to be this gray 10 years
ago.
From: "Fluks, H.W." <H.W.Fluks at kpn.com>
>>>>Thanks for the indexes. To get exactly the information we want (in
INDUCKS),
we need to know *how many* newspaper gags were printed.
My hair didn't used to this gray even 5 years ago.
#2 -- November 1940
cover -- DD trying to kill a turkey with a hatchet (!)
inside cover -- Disney movie "festival" promo
contents page -- (DD ill.)
12 DD dailies -- AT.... 4 pp
"Oscar the Ostrich" -- MM strips (cont.) -- FG ... 14 pp
"Donald Duck Goes A-Scouting" -- (DD) ill. text ... 3 pp
24 DD dailies -- AT ... 8 pp
"And Now - the Donald Duck Doodle"--(DD)("DD Steps Out")--ill. text... 3 pp
"The Little Whirlwind" (MM) -- ill. text ... 2 pp
"Sky Island" -- MM strips (conc.) -- FG ... 13 pp
9 DD dailies -- AT ... 3 pp
"The Flying Mouse" (Silly Sym. adaptation) -- ill. text ... 4 pp
12 DD dailies -- AT ... 4 pp
"Thanksgiving Puzzle" -- puzzle page ... 1 p
"The Little Whirlwind" (ill. text conclusion) ... 1 p
"Thanksgiving Puzzle" -- puzzle page (conclusion) ... 1 p
3 DD dailies -- AT ... 1 p
inside cover -- contest page
back cover -- subs. info
#3 -- December 1940
cover -- DD (fireman)
inside cover -- contest page
contents page -- (DD)
DD daily (1 AT daily cut up and scattered cockeyed to fill an entire page)
"Peculiar Penguins" (Silly Sym. adaptation) -- ill. text ... 3 pp
15 DD dailies -- AT ... 5 pp
"The Seven Ghosts" -- MM strips (w/DD) -- FG ... 18 pp
"The Sun and Stars" -- text ... 1p
1 DD Sunday -- AT ... 1 p
"The Fire Chief" -- (DD) ill. text (inc. 1 full page ill.) ... 3 pp
"It's Magic!" -- puzzle pages ... 2 pp
2 DD Sundays -- AT ... 2 pp
MM strips -- FG ... 4 pp
3 DD Sundays -- AT ... 3 pp
MM strips (w/DD) -- FG ... 4 pp
"Don Donald" -- (DD) ill. text ... 4 pp
"Oscar the Ostrich" (conclusion) -- MM strips -- FG ... 9 pp
3 DD Sundays -- AT ... 3 pp
inside cover -- "Fire Chief" w/DD film promo
back cover -- subs. info
Fluks, H.W.
Hair?
Message 86 -
2002-04-08 at 15:48:19
Don:
H> To get exactly the information we want
H> we need to know *how many* newspaper gags were printed.
> My hair didn't used to [be] this gray even 5 years ago.
I'm not sure how to interpret this sentence, but thanks anyway!
--Harry.
H> To get exactly the information we want
H> we need to know *how many* newspaper gags were printed.
> My hair didn't used to [be] this gray even 5 years ago.
I'm not sure how to interpret this sentence, but thanks anyway!
--Harry.
Rob Klein
Duckburg Newspapers
Message 87 -
2002-04-08 at 17:11:08
Thanks Don, for the information on WDC & S Nr. 2 and 3. What a memory!!!
To my recollection, Barks' used many different names for newspapers in
Duckburg. As it was a reasonably large city (with a large harbour port and
large railroad station), it is reasonable that it had several newspapers. It
seems to me, that "Daily Drivel" and "Daily Blah", were, by far, the most
used. I also remember "Duckburg Times" and "Duckburg Gazette"; but I believe a
few more were used in single instances. I do not have time to research, but
perhaps one of our members will scan the "Carl Barks Library" to find ALL of
them.
I doubt that coconut shavings were ever used as mattress filler in Europe or
North America.
Rob
Klein
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To my recollection, Barks' used many different names for newspapers in
Duckburg. As it was a reasonably large city (with a large harbour port and
large railroad station), it is reasonable that it had several newspapers. It
seems to me, that "Daily Drivel" and "Daily Blah", were, by far, the most
used. I also remember "Duckburg Times" and "Duckburg Gazette"; but I believe a
few more were used in single instances. I do not have time to research, but
perhaps one of our members will scan the "Carl Barks Library" to find ALL of
them.
I doubt that coconut shavings were ever used as mattress filler in Europe or
North America.
Rob
Klein
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L. Schulte
Monopoly Game
Message 88 -
2002-04-08 at 17:27:51
This might be old news for some, but recently I saw in a toy store a
special Disney edition of the famous board game Monopoly. The box shows
Uncle Scrooge right in the middle dancing around with a happy expression on
his face. Collectors of such things might find this of interest.
special Disney edition of the famous board game Monopoly. The box shows
Uncle Scrooge right in the middle dancing around with a happy expression on
his face. Collectors of such things might find this of interest.
Michael Schartau
Duckburg Newspapers
Message 89 -
2002-04-08 at 17:32:14
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Klein" <bi442 at lafn.org>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: Duckburg Newspapers
>
> I doubt that coconut shavings were ever used as mattress filler in Europe or
> North America.
>
> Rob
> Klein
>
All people could not afford horsehairmatresses. And Hay is not too comfortably. Coir is still used to stuff car seats and furniture even in Europe.
(according to some informations)
/ Michael
From: "Rob Klein" <bi442 at lafn.org>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: Duckburg Newspapers
>
> I doubt that coconut shavings were ever used as mattress filler in Europe or
> North America.
>
> Rob
> Klein
>
All people could not afford horsehairmatresses. And Hay is not too comfortably. Coir is still used to stuff car seats and furniture even in Europe.
(according to some informations)
/ Michael
Fernando Ventura
Newspaper!
Message 90 -
2002-04-08 at 17:43:59
I suppose Olaf was talking about the newspaper where Donald and Fethry
works, in S-Coded Stories and B-Coded...what's the english name of THIS
Scrooge's newspaper?
Thanks,
Fer!
works, in S-Coded Stories and B-Coded...what's the english name of THIS
Scrooge's newspaper?
Thanks,
Fer!