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"The Fenske's" <dbfenske at telus.net> wrote:

> What do you mean by "correct?" Surely you don't
> mean politically correct, as that just doesn't fit.

No I mean that it's *in* among "cool" people. These
people can say "Donald Duck is for kids", often without
being criticized for it. If someone comes up with some
critics against their beloved comics it's definately
criticized - even at DCML (just remember what happened
to me a few days ago).

> Calvin & Hobbes is popular because it's both very funny
> (not at all a bad thing), and it makes observations about
> us (life, family, friendship, interactions with peers,
> the world of the imagination, etc.) that are both poignant
> and accurate.

These qualities may fit well for a simple news paper strip,
but IMO it looks a bit strange in big hard cover books.

> I have a large collection of Disney comics from the
> 60's, when I was young. Many contain great Barks
> stories, but there are a lot of rather juvenile (and
> totally shallow as far as reflections on life are
> concerned)

Of course they are - real quality comics should be
concerned about entertaining not about reflecting.
Well of course reflections itselves doesn't make a
comics bad, but a comics can IMO *only* be concerned
as good if it's entertaining - just like as it is
with movies.

>>> For that matter, I'm a big fan of Ernie, too, and
>>> Beetle Bailey often gets a laugh out of me as well...
>>
>> Exactly!!! These comics seems to be about one thing
>> - humor. Unfortunately some people seems to believe
>> that short humor gags is all that comics should be
>> concerned about.
>
> But a comic like Calvin & Hobbes, or Bloom County, is
> about so much more. Sure, the humor is there, thankfully,
> but those comics also contain a lot of insight, political
> commentary, etc.

So what? As stated above comics should IMO first be concerned
about entertaining, not act like "60 minutes".

>> Well, I am different, I prefer long comics stories
>> with an intelligent plot. So I very seldom read
>> modern humor gags comics.
>
> Well, you'll only get those from Rosa, some Barks, Gottredson,
> or the better super-hero stories (of which there are a few that
> are worthy of consideration).

I don't read such super-hero stuff (well exept from Captain
Kentucky).

> Maybe the situation is better where you live, however....

Probably, we still have some European quality comics like
Asterix, Luck Luke and Blueberry around here.

Sigvald :-)

Hi everyone. Belated best holiday wishes to our Moslem members for Ramadan and
Eyid al Fitr.

Sorry to be off topic again, but some good has actually occurred from Sigvald's
last computer-related question. Thanks to Georges Helm, I now know why my own
messages have been filtered out of several members' boxes (as SPAM)! My
address <bi442 at lafn.org> contains more numbers than letters in my "member name"
portion. Georges suggests adding my name to list of "friends"(e.g. friendly
message senders), so that they will not be filtered. Thanks, for your
toleration of my off-topic mails.

Holiday season greetings to our Christian, Jewish and Moslem friends.

Rob
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<raptus at stofanet.dk> wrote:
>
>> I also think that I.N.D.U.C.K.S. / COA should have these storied
>> listed by English titles instead of "obscure" Italian tittles (as
>> with Barks/Rosa) [...]

> I don't think so. And besides, I don't find original titles
> obscure--on the contrary.
>
> Only Egmont stories (among those, most of Don's) stories have
> English titles.

That's not enirely correct, also Dell's and Gladstone's
stories have English titles.

Sigvald :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: <sigvald at duckburg.dk>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: den 7 december 2002 21:37
Subject: Today's best Mickey stories

> IMO the stories where Mickey and Goofy travels trough time
> with a time machine located in the basement of the Mouston
> Museum is the best Mickey stories which are made today. I
> also think that the two professors Marlin and Zapotec are
> very interesting characters. I therefore think that these
> stories should be collected in their own books.

Are they still being produced? I haven't seen any new time machine story for
years...

Stefan

Wilson Bernhardt wrote:
> Also - where would one find English versions of the Life and Times
> series by Don Rosa (b) issues which were not printed in the US and how
> many are there?

You can find the complete German series of Don Rosa's Duck stories (27
Albums so far) here:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?N2F3223B2

Hi everyone!

>>>but I thought it might be fun for you guys & gals to see, if just to see how good
>>>your knowledge of obscure recurring Disney characters is.

That's a very nice title banner, Rich! :)
There *are* some characters I don't know. You know what would be nice? Map this image, so that you
can click on a character and go to his HooZoo page. ;)

Best wishes,

Olivier

Hei, all!

As you probably know, in the US they distinguish between
Donald's home "Duckburg" and Mickey's home "Mouston". Do
any of you know if that's the situation in any European
languages as well?

Sigvald :-)