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Dean wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone on the list would be interested in
>getting a copy of the Don Rosa calendar for me as I live in the US? I
>would be happy to pay for the calendar and the shipping costs in
>advance. Thanks, and feel free to reply to me via my email address.

Same for me! Many thanks!
Sonia Dyer

Dean wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone on the list would be interested in
>>getting a copy of the Don Rosa calendar for me as I live in the US? I
>>would be happy to pay for the calendar and the shipping costs in
>>advance. Thanks, and feel free to reply to me via my email address.

Sonia wrote:
>Same for me! Many thanks!
> Sonia Dyer

An now I write:

The same for me!!! But I'm in Brazil! :-)

Fernando!
(I can exchange it with brazilian Disney comics too, if someone think it's
an good idea!)

Hey Rich,

>Personally, I'm partial to the Donald in Duckburg and Mickey in Mouseton
>version. If I'm not mistaken, I think David Gerstein once said that here
>in the USA it was also published that the name of Mickey's hometown was
>once called Mickeyville, but I'm not sure.

Er... uh... Rich, you're >gulp!< mistaken!
The name I mentioned was Disneyville. It's the name that Western
Publishing generally gave to Mickey's town in the 1930s and 1940s,
particularly in text features and stories done for Mickey Mouse Magazine and
WDC&S.
It dropped out of usage in the 1950s, when separate cities for the
different characters became the norm. The name Duckburg spread from Barks
stories to other duck work; the name Mouseville spread from Gottfredson's
"Phantom Blot" story to other mouse stories (though it never became common),
and the wolves and Brers now lived in the forest 'settlement', the
terminology coming from the Brer Rabbit newspaper strip.

David

LARRY:

> So Barks
> had time to moon-light during those years and do these
> Benny Burro & Barney Bear stories?

"Moonlighting" is not the exact word. Those MGM stories were produced
and published by Western Publishing, too, so they were part of Barks'
regular working schedule. (The assignment may also have had to do with
the fact that there was a certain shortage of artists due to World War
II.) Anyway, Barks gave up the Barneys when his output of longer Donald
adventures increased.

HALSTEN:

Interesting to learn about the upcoming Barney/Benny album series! In
Germany there was a short-lived album series called "Barks Classics" in
1991/1992 reprinting Barks' non-Disney stories in good quality and a
beautifully done watercolor coloring. Originally, six albums were
announced, but the series was stopped after the second issue, so only
the first eleven Benny/Barney stories were published.

I gather from Peter Hartung's book "Manden og anden" that there was a
similar series published by Carlsen Comics in Denmark which was also
stopped after the second issue. Do you happen to know who is going to
publish the new series?

Gerd

At 11:45 10.12.02 +0100, Gerd Syllwasschy wrote:

>HALSTEN:
>
>Interesting to learn about the upcoming Barney/Benny album series! In
>Germany there was a short-lived album series called "Barks Classics" in
>1991/1992 reprinting Barks' non-Disney stories in good quality and a
>beautifully done watercolor coloring. Originally, six albums were
>announced, but the series was stopped after the second issue, so only
>the first eleven Benny/Barney stories were published.
>
>I gather from Peter Hartung's book "Manden og anden" that there was a
>similar series published by Carlsen Comics in Denmark which was also
>stopped after the second issue. Do you happen to know who is going to
>publish the new series?

Exactly what happened in Norway too. Only two albums were printed. Some
years ago I was able to get my hands on the Danish versions of these albums.

Regards
Halsten

GARY LEACH (Nov 23.):
>But there is a tidy backlog of Rosa material that has not been seen in the
>States, and catching up with that - as with the work of William and Noel
>Van Horn, the Blocks, The McGreals, Dave Rawson, the Gilberts, Vicar, Daan
>Jippes, Daniel Branca, Marco Rota, David Gerstein, Don Markstein, Geoff
>Blum, even yours truly, et al - is what Gemstone will be about for the near
>future.
>

Just does anyone know could certain economical points effect
what becoming U.S. (and all other) Disney publications might
contain?

If Gemstone has agreed to pay for the licence to print
Disney-comics does it also have to pay for the comic
stories it is going to publish?
Gemstone hasn't produced any Disney(Duck/Mouse)-comics
of it's own so it should get all the material from
"external sources". Gemstone and on the other hand all
Disney stories producing parties are all separate
companies. And naturally all aiming for the best possible
profit they can get.

So: Are there differences between the market-prices of
stories manufactured by different Disney comics producers?
If there are, then I think it could be one thing to direct
the selections about stories to be published.

Let's say if Italian stories are more expensive than
Brazilian stories. Then it wouldn't be a big surprise if
becoming issues would have more Brazilian than Italian
stories.

What is the case with the old already existing (and many
times reprinted) material? Who owns the rights for
Western/Dell stories, S-coded "Disney Studio" stories,
AR-coded Another Rainbow stories, or old KF Sunday pages?
Who gets the license fees from them? They all just can't
be some kind of common-free filling-material allowed to
use for free by everyone who has paid the license to
publish Disney comics? (- in such case you'd expect all
weeklies and other issues to flood old re-re-re-printed
stuff much more)

Perhaps some attempts about cutting the costs have take
place in a real world already?
Some ten years ago the pocket books (260 pages) sold in
Germany, Finland and all around the Scandinavia were
compiled almost solidly about Italian stories. But since
the mid-90's some 1/3 up to half of every book have been
Danish Egmont's own stories.
Since the Italian producktion has been rather massive
all the way there shouldn't be any troubles of filling
the whole book purely with Italian stories. Maybe it was
to replace old poor random S-coded fillers with better
fitting larger stories - or maybe a decision to increase
variety or different kind of mood inside the book?
(I'm not complaining about the quality - atleast some of
the new stories are great)

On the other hand for the couple past years Egmont's
weeklies have had quite a lot of short (2-6 pages) Dutch
stories. Could this be because for Egmont it'd be more
inexpensive to purchase some of the needed fillers from
the Dutch producer than use it's own writers and artists,
as it did yet some years ago? (Surely not the only reason
but who knows?)

- Simo

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During Gladstone's two tenures with Disney comics, there was a
tendency, quite unintentional, to place Donald and Scrooge in Duckburg
and put Mickey in "Anytown, U.S.A." Names like Mickeyville and
Mous(e)ton just never entered our collective editorial consciousness,
due both to our comparatively rare use of Mickey compared to the ducks
and the very rare use of any name for the town Mickey lived in the
Mickey material we did publish.

Perhaps a "Life and Times of Mickey Mouse"-type series could establish
something definite someday.

Gary