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Sigvald Grøsfjeld Jr.
Alecto <alecto at goulburn.net.au> skrev:
> Thanks for the help Armando, I've put a page up at:
> http://www.goulburn.net.au/~alecto/ustories.html

Great page, but it takes a while to download it. Here
is a link to a page where you can see how to split
such a page in smaller pieces:
http://duckman.pettho.com/sc_cover/sc_cover.html

Sigvald :-)

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Frank Bubacz
>From: "Cord Wiljes" <cord at wiljes.de>

>That is cruel, you know? Telling me of an abandoned Taliaferro edition.
>But I fear it would not have sold enough. A similar project here in Germany
>a few years ago was put on ice after three issues.

Four issues, actually. Better than nothing at all, IMO.

>Just a few days ago
>I ordered a huge edition with Al Taliaferro sundays from Italy - even
>though my only knowledge of the Italian language comes from 7 years of
>Latin in school ;-)

Never mind, most of the gags work visually and I don't think it's a
hindrance not to understand the words...

>I put great faith in the future of digital media. I hope to see all the
>great
>strips of the past in digital form to be read on an eBook display.

It's not the same feeling as having a comic in your hands, isn't it? <:-(
But let's dream on: For a "Gottfredson Library", a complete "Taliaferro
Library" and a "Scarpa Library". And, for the nostalgics, a "Murry Library"
etc. etc. etc.
;-)

Frank

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Cord Wiljes
Cord Wiljes:
>> I put great faith in the future of digital media. I hope to see
>> all the great strips of the past in digital form to be read on
>> an eBook display.

Frank Bubacz:
> It's not the same feeling as having a comic in your hands, isn't it? <:-(
> But let's dream on: For a "Gottfredson Library", a complete "Taliaferro
> Library" and a "Scarpa Library". And, for the nostalgics, a "Murry Library"
> etc. etc. etc. ;-)

I tend to disagree here: I would *prefer* to have my comics in digital form
instead of the current printed versions, because

- they take no space
- comics would always remain in print
- all the great comics of the past would always be available
- I could buy any comic instantly over the internet
- it could be possible to try a comic before you purchase it.
- I could take my comics with me wherever I go
- they could be much cheaper as production costs are much lower
- they do not collect dust, yellow and deteriorate of the years
- I could find any comic in my collection instantly
- I could reread any comic at any time
- colors ould be better as digital displays can display millions of
colors and are more brilliant than print.
- I could make my own "best of" collections

There would of course be a few comics I would like to keep because
they are beautiful books or because I became sentimentally attached
to them over the years, but this would just be around 20-30 books.
The others I would trade in for digital versions at any time.

Of course this means that there has to be a common versatile brilliant
cost-efficient mobile display. But this will come in the next few years.
In fact there already are some, but they are yet too expensive or just
not good enough. The real problem lies in the materials copright and
publishers reluctance to hop onto the digital train. But eComics will come
and we will be there to see it.

Cord
Frank Bubacz
>From: "Cord Wiljes" <cord at wiljes.de>

>Here in Germany we have two ongoing series of newsstand issues: "Micky
> >Maus", which
>is published weekly and mainly contains Scandinavian stories, >and "Donald
>Duck Sonderheft"

Sure? I thought there was plenty more...

>You could say: Micky Maus is for readers,
>Donald Duck Sonderheft for collectors.

Well, I have to admit that I also READ the DD Sonderheft... ;-)

>And while the print run of Micky Maus is dwindling away,
>from 1.5 Million a few years ago to "only" 500.000 today

Gosh! I didn't know about that... But I heard people complain about the bad
quality of the stories included.

>the German edition of the Barks library is selling extremely well.

Have 'em all!!!

>I also fear that there will be less and less children growing up
>with Disney comics in the future.

Of course, they prefer mangas. Disney stuff is too childish for them!

Frank

Am I a bit too talkative today? Yes, I am.

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Cord Wiljes
Cord Wiljes:
>> Here in Germany we have two ongoing series of newsstand issues: "Micky
>> Maus", which is published weekly and mainly contains Scandinavian stories,
>> and "Donald Duck Sonderheft"

Frank Bubacz:
> Sure? I thought there was plenty more...

Everything else is either not an issue ("Walt Disney's Lustige Taschenbücher" are
paperbacks), not puplished regularly ("Disney Sonderhefte") or not mainly a comic
("Winnie Puuh", ...)

>> You could say: Micky Maus is for readers,
>> Donald Duck Sonderheft for collectors.

> Well, I have to admit that I also READ the DD Sonderheft... ;-)

Me too :-)

>> And while the print run of Micky Maus is dwindling away,
>> from 1.5 Million a few years ago to "only" 500.000 today

> Gosh! I didn't know about that... But I heard people complain about the bad
> quality of the stories included.

I don't buy the Micky Maus but whenever I have a look into it the stories
seem to be pretty good. They have a lot of Don Rosa and good European artists.
They even have some pages of Taliaferro (probably to attract collectors). I don't
think it's the material. I believe there are just too many other things today (TV,
Computer Games, Pokemon et al.

>>the German edition of the Barks library is selling extremely well.

>Have 'em all!!!

Me too :-)

>> I also fear that there will be less and less children growing up
>> with Disney comics in the future.

> Of course, they prefer mangas. Disney stuff is too childish for them!

Yes, I believe it's the PR Disney built up over the years which does no longer
work today. If 5 year olds watch "Dragon Ball Z" on TV, where ultra-powerful warriors
blow each others heads off (sic!) how can they read a Donald Duck comic afterwards?
And even if they would, they would not want to be caught by their friends with this
children's stuff.

Has the new version of Paperinik (Donald as a seperhero) produced in Italy a few years
ago ever been the subject of discussion on this list? They tried (pretty successul IMHO),
to transplant Donald into the video age. Was this a financial success? Is the series
continued? Does anybody on the list know more about this?

> Am I a bit too talkative today? Yes, I am.

Ah, those lazy sundays.

Cord
Timo Ronkainen
>From: "Cord Wiljes" :
>Gary Leach wrote:
> > There was always the hope of doing something of that sort, but, as with
>our abandoned Taliaferro
> > collection, too many obstacles lay in the path of doing it right.
>
>That is cruel, you know? Telling me of an abandoned Taliaferro edition. But
>I fear it would not have
>sold enough.
>A similar project here in Germany a few years ago was put on ice after
>three issues.

In Finland we have had almost complete run of Taliaferro dailies from 1938
to 1951 so far. Each year presented in one soft cover book.
Almost all: one week of war time strips were censored, from 2nd of Feb till
7th of Feb 1942 were cut off. I wonder what happened in these strips? Short
explanation on the book says that American publisher made the decision to
not to publish tehse strips any more. I guess this censoring was the reason
why American edition wasn't made at all.
Some of the first of these books have Norwegian (?) original title "Donald
Duck fra dag til dag".
These books are otherwise quite good, but strips are printed in pretty small
size.

Timo

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Frank Bubacz
>From: "timo ronkainen" <timoro at hotmail.com>

>In Finland we have had almost complete run of Taliaferro dailies from 1938
>to 1951 so far. Each year presented in one soft cover book.

Lucky Finns!

>one week of war time strips were censored, from 2nd of Feb till 7th of Feb
>1942 were cut off. I wonder what happened in these strips?

Well, I guess there were just some Nazi monsters in it, speaking with a
strange German accent...
I have to add that I really fed up with this #%@??€ censoring - see
also Gottfredson! A comic fan has the right for completeness! As for
everybody else it is no problem for a German to see Nazis depicted as what
they are (except maybe for some incurable exceptions, but that's not only a
German problem, and they don't deserve any consideration anyway). In films
like "The Great Dictator" or "To be or not to be" the same stereotypes were
ridiculed, but nobody ever thought of censoring them. Guess what would
happen, if somebody had the
"brilliant" idea to forbid any further publication of "Asterix chez les
goths" due to racial stereotypes? He'd certainly be killed...
So why always Disney comics? (sigh)

Paperinik: In Germany, as far as I know, this series was cancelled due
to lack of success. Never mind, I prefer the old version
(Carpi, Cavazzano, and even Scarpa, I think). Back
then, it was a superhero PARODY, but I'm not so sure anymore
about the new version.

Frank

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Francois Willot
>In Finland we have had almost complete run of
>Taliaferro dailies from 1938 to 1951 so far. Each
year >presented in one soft cover book.
>Almost all: one week of war time strips were
censored, >from 2nd of Feb till 7th of Feb 1942 were
cut off. I
>wonder what happened in these strips?

They were not censored in Italy, in the "big white"
hardcover books.

In these strips, Donald tries to take advantage of
American indians by selling them various useful (and
unuseful) objects.

Francois

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Timo Ronkainen
Hi all!

Did Barks ever comment Jippes' redrawn version of his Junior Woodchucks and
Duck -scripts? He must have seen them at least during his European tour,
especially when he met Jippes.

Timo

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Timo Ronkainen
>They were not censored in Italy, in the "big white"
>hardcover books.
>
>In these strips, Donald tries to take advantage of
>American indians by selling them various useful (and
>unuseful) objects.

Strange. No war related topics then? No nazis or ugly Japanese soldiers at
all?

Timo

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Frank Bubacz
>>In these strips, Donald tries to take advantage of
>>American indians by selling them various useful (and
>>unuseful) objects.
>
>Strange. No war related topics then? No nazis or ugly Japanese soldiers at
>all?

Okay (cough, cough!), it was Indians this time...
But the censorship is equally unnecessary.

Frank

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Francois Willot
>>In these strips, Donald tries to take advantage of
>>American indians by selling them various useful (and
>>unuseful) objects.
>
>Strange. No war related topics then? No nazis or ugly

>Japanese soldiers at all?

No. At one time, Donald tries to sell clothes to an
indian, but the indian in question doesn't like the
clothes Donald shows him and says he wants a "war
suit". Then, we see Donald making a deal and the
indian wearing suits for base-ball players thinking
it's for soldiers.

In the strips, the general impression is that Donald
doesn't care much about making a fair deal but wants
to make as much money as possible by whatever possible
mean, using the maladjustation or credulity of the
indians. He acts like a crook (although sometimes not
a very good crook).

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