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Thomas Pryds Lauritsen wrote:

> Inspired by the recent discussion about the
> Carl Barks font offered on the German
> Donaldists' webpage, I decided to extend it
> with various accented and other special
> characters plus the Greek alphabet.
>
> Everything is done by twisting, combining,
> and in other ways modifying existing letters
> of the font (where possible) so that as much
> as possible of it would resemble Barks'
> writing style.

Thanks, Thomas! Many Donaldists in many
countries will be very happy now!

> I am almost done -- and when I am, I will of
> course offer it to the German Donaldists for
> them to publish it on their website.

And I hope that they will do that!

By the way let me tell you all that I didn't
know that the old version of that font wasn't
a project decided by D.O.N.A.L.D. themselves
but rather an old one man's work. If I had
known that I would have been more carfully
with my shoice of words in my first message
about this topic - I am sorry, and hope that
nobody was upset about it.

And as we Norwegians use to say:
With a happy ending, everything is OK!

Sigvald :-)

>words would be: "Heymans does art in the same
>style as Don Rosa".

As far as I know Heymans just altered Rosa's work, made some changes and
simplified it. It's not completely redrawn version.

Timo

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This discussion of crazy birds gives me an opportunity to open a
controversial can of worms. Most cartoon lovers adore the Chuck Jones shorts
in which Daffy is a bad-tempered, jealous character--a kind of hot-headed
loser. The most famous of these are those in which he's paired with an
ultra-cool Bugs Bunny.
My own take on this is that it is untrue to the original
characters--especially of Daffy. I mean, he started out as...daffy! He was
flat-out, fall down FUNNY. I would laugh out loud at the fast-paced looniness
of Porky's Duck Hunt, or The Great Piggy Bank Robbery. My theory as to what
happened is that Chuck Jones remade Daffy into--DONALD Duck. Jones, for all
his comedic genius at Warner Brothers, always seemed to me to be a
Disney-style storyteller. If you look at his early sentimental shorts, he
seemed to want to be in that Disney mold. (Didn't he do Sniffles?)
Now, one Donald Duck is enough. (Too much, in fact, which is why I love
how Carl Barks expanded his character to include much more than these baser
qualities.) I enoyed laughing with the truly daffy Daffy Duck and have
trouble accepting the selfish, more villainous character he became.
Am I being inconsistent here? I hope not. What I mean to convey is that
Donald evolved into a richer character, while Daffy DEvolved into a baser
character (and I'm not sure I would agree that what he became was more
complex).
I'm interested in what others think. The bottom line is, of course, that
Ducks are Funny.

Carmen

Hi all!

Since "DuckTales" vs Barks has lately been
brought up as a subject here I might add that
Don Rosa once did the plot for one single
DuckTales story: "Back in Time for a Dime!".
That might indicate that Don Rosa found
DuckTales at least a little bit interesting.

For some strange reason that story seems to
have been published only once - in an American
DuckTales magazine from the spring of 1990.
The publisher didn't even bother to give it a
story code. So in order to make it possible to
register that story in the INDUCKS/COA database
mr. Harry Fluks had to create a code hiself:
K DTM90i.

I know that several DuckTales stories has been
published by Egmont, but for some reason
Egmont hasn't published "Back in Time for a
Dime!" - do anyone here know why?

Sigvald :-)

Hi Fernando,

HOGAN'S ALLEY, a semi-annual comic book and animation-themed magazine we
have here in the States, printed a never-before-published interview with
Carl Barks in its ninth issue.

The interviewer, Erik Svane, asked Mr. Barks the following question:
"What do you think of the DuckTales cartoons that are based on your
stories?"

Mr. Barks responded by saying, "I think those cartoons were very
excellent, but they couldn't get enough material out of one of my stories
to fill up a half-hour, so they had to put in a great deal of fresh
material, which introduced a lot of other characters and a lot of other
situations that weren't in my original stories. But they were certainly
fine entertainment."

I know Duck fans tend to waver in their opinion of DUCKTALES. I, for
one, was introduced to Mr. Barks because of the show. The first episode
I ever saw was "Back to the Klondike," which was based upon the Barks
story of the same name (something I found out later).

Needless to say, I was hooked. I had seen it at a friend's house, and on
the way home, I talked and talked and talked and talked about the
wonderful show I had seen. My father humored me, of course, but little
did he know how that one show would lead to a massive obsession with not
only the ducks, but with many other characters, both animated and
live-action.

I know that DUCKTALES didn't always do the Barks tales justice. I've
read many of the stories upon which those particular episodes ("Lost
Crown of Genghis Khan," "The Land of Tralla-La," etc.) were based. I've
enjoyed the Barks stories immensely, usually more than the television
episode that borrowed from it. However, part of me still holds a great
affection for those episodes and every other one that was a part of that
superb series.

Most current American animation barely holds my attention. I'm only
twenty-one-years-old and already I'm telling kids that the cartoons of
today just don't measure up to the cartoons that were produced when *I*
was a kid.

God bless,

Pete Fernbaugh.

From: Stefan Persson (spe at inducks.org)
Subject: Re: DuckTales
> That might indicate that Don Rosa found
> DuckTales at least a little bit interesting.
>>>No, this indicates that his employer ordered him to write a DuckTales
story.

No, this indicates that you don't know what you're talking about. It so
happens that I am a freelancer. I take orders from no one. I do what I want,
when I want. (Maybe you shoulda let me answer this question about me.)
And no, I had no interest in "Duck Tales". But I had an interest in the HUGE
page-rate for writing that the publisher of this kiddie magazine offered me
from out of the blue. It was after I had quit working at Gladstone due to
Disney's command that Gladstone no longer return my artwork, and I was happy
to get such a nice job! But subsequently I had trouble getting the #@^*%
publisher to PAY me, so I did no more work for them.

> I know that several DuckTales stories has been
> published by Egmont, but for some reason
> Egmont hasn't published "Back in Time for a
> Dime!" - do anyone here know why?
>>>>>Possibly because of the low quality of the story and possibly also
because it's difficult to obtain studio stories from Disney.

No, it's only because Egmont does not even know this story exists. It never
appeared in a comic book, only in this children's puzzle/story magazine that
Egmont would never have seen. And I'm not gonna tell them about it because
my script was changed and because Stefan Persson dislikes the tale in no
uncertain terms.
And two more reasons that Egmont would not want to publish it even if they
knew about it -- because "Ducktales" is dead, modern readers are unaware of
the unique storyline and characters; and also because I did not DRAW my own
script, which is where the true sparkle lies (such as it is).

Torsdag 23. januar 2003 20:00 skreiv Sigvald Gr?sfjeld jr.:

>> The "drawing-style" was quite different from
>> the way "most others" draw the characters, and
>> not in a Rosa/Barks kind of style.
> Strange! Very strange indeed!
> Acording to COA, around 1990 Mau Heymans did parts of the art in the
> Don Rosa story "On a Silver Platter". That indicates that Heymans
> does Don Rosa like art - dosen't it?

No it does not. Without even knowing the story you're referring to,
one can say that it doesn't indicate anything except that he is
capable of drawing in a Rosa-like manner, if he has to.

You're very keen on making things 'indicate' other things, and tend to
draw conclusions without really thinking things through.

--
Rune Kristian Viken

Oh, I almost forgot:

The spacing between accented letters is (or appears to be) wider than
between unaccented letters, and possibly uneven. (Compare the distances
between the first three accented letters, e.g.)

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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