Keskustelujen arkisto

Hallo, All!

> Don Rosa wrote:
>
>> I hope I don't have similar trouble getting
>> to Italia next weekend, but I'm to be there
>> for over a week
>
> Do the plans for you stay in Italy by any chance include a trip to your
> ancestors hometown, Maniago?
>
> Sigvald :-)

Well, Maniago is really very far from Naples. If going to Napoli (to Castel
Sant'Elmo, for "Napoli Comicon", I remind) from Rome is a very easy task
(one hour or so by car or by train), from a small land in Northern Italy to
Rome... is a problem! No airports in Maniago; when Don was in Torino last
year it was possible to be planned...

Indeed just now, whil I was writing this very e-mail, a TV journalist called
me by phone to be sure that Don were in Italy the 7th of March, because he
wants to meet him...

Here in Italy the weather is fine, sunny, no clouds and no snow... At least
not in Tuscany and absolutely NO in Naples, where the sun always shines,
like in South California! :-)

Luca

From: mateusz lis (lis- at wp.pl)
>>>>>>>>>>If you are interested, here is an index of your stories publihed
in my country:
http://disneymania.w.interia.pl/don_rosa_index.htm. It's quite small, isn't
it?

That's natural. Disney comics have only relatively recently begun appearing
in Poland, right? They would therefore only be marketed toward very young
children. My stories are for the teen and adult readers, and there would be
no older readers in places where these comics have not been around for
decades so that a buyer base has been long established, grown, and grown
old. Wherever Disney comics are the most popular (which would of necessity
mean that it includes readers of *all* ages) is where they have been around
the longest without interuption in their publication. My stories are most
popular in a place like Italy or Finland where a reader might well be
sharing the same issue with his father and with his *son*, all of whom have
grown up reading Barks' Ducks.
I'm sure my stories are avoided in the Polish weekly, and I doubt if they
have ever been used at all in Russia or China or other new Egmont markets.
My stories are too complex for kiddies to read *or* look at, and certainly
too complex for editors and translators to want to screw with when there are
thousands of pages of much simpler material to work on. And it doesn't
matter to me! As you know, these comics don't pay royalties! (I just wish
they'd send me copies when they use my stories for my collection.)
Perhaps those Polish album collections of my works were aimed at older
readers, which is why they used up my stories there rather than in the
weekly. My stories are never used in the weekly JOURNAL DE MICKY, but seem
the star of the monthly PICSOU; never used in the weekly TOPOLINO, but are
prominent in the monthly ZIO PAPERONE; never used in the weekly Dutch DONALD
DUCK, but used in the monthly DONALD DUCK EKSTRA and are the star of the OOM
DAGOBERT album series. Seems like a good sales strategy.

Re: the flipping of Don Rosa covers -

As much as we may have fiddled with Don's covers at Gladstone, I do not
recollect a single instance in which we outright flipped (or flopped)
one. Most of his cover illustrations are models of painstaking
compositional symmetry, and can be readily flopped - but simply by
being such, there's never any need.

Gary

Hi Stefan:
I only noticed the 2 different versions, and wondered which
was mirrored, and why.
A few days ago Don Rosa replied regarding "Return to Xanadu", and
couldn't recall
which way he drew it 13 years ago. But he suspected it was reversed by
Gladstone. He gave a
quite lengthy discussion why he thinks they did this.
---------Larry.
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Stefan Persson wrote:

> lgiver at postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:
>
> > Now Sigvald has added more covers, and there is another reversed pair,
> > "Treasure Under Glass". On US 263, Scrooge is facing to
> > the right. The corresponding Anders And version has Scrooge
> > facing to the left. So this second example supports Don's
> > reason why he thinks Gladstone flipped these covers.
>
> Are you sure that it isn't the Danish version that's mirrored? Egmont
> *did* do that with a huge amount of their covers at that time...
>
> Stefan
>
>

From: Gary Leach (bangfish at comcast.net)
Subject: Flip (Flop)
>>>As much as we may have fiddled with Don's covers at Gladstone, I do not
recollect a single instance in which we outright flipped (or flopped)
one.

Ah, yes, there is!!! And not that I object, because I assume you needed the
UPC symbol on a certain side (?). But you flipped *at least* the cover of
UNCLE $CROOGE #295 and the matching cover to the 4th "Lo$" album. The proof,
as the man said, is in the fact that the "D.U.C.K." dedication is backwards.
So, there may have been others, but this proves there was at least the two
(or one, depending how you look at it)(which is backwards) covers that you
flipped (and-slash-or flopped).

>>> Most of his cover illustrations are models of painstaking
compositional symmetry, and can be readily flopped - but simply by
being such, there's never any need.

Oh, please!!! You're very kind, but you're seeing abilities and efforts that
are not there! All of my cover illustrations are simply the result of my
effort to get as MUCH into the scene as possible, regardless of the artistry
of the composition or the hourly labor fee.

Larry:

> When I pointed out that the covers on Sigvald's website for
> Return to Xanadu, part 2, were reversed on US 262 compared
> to the Anders And version. Don Rosa replied that this
> may have been flipped by Gladstone for US 262 so that
> Scrooge would face to the right, instead of left. Now Sigvald
> has added more covers, and there is another reversed pair,
> "Treasure Under Glass". On US 263, Scrooge is facing to
> the right. The corresponding Anders And version has Scrooge
> facing to the left. So this second example supports Don's
> reason why he thinks Gladstone flipped these covers.

Note that both comics were published by Disney Comics, not by Gladstone.
That may also be the reason that Gary (Gladstone editor) doesn't remember flipping these!

And Stefan is right: lots of covers that were drawn for Egmont were mirrored even in their first print in Scandinavia!
(I'm talking about any covers, not necessarily Rosa covers.)

--Harry.

LARRY:

> There's an interesting
> design and the letters "SOC" on the truck doors, most
> readily seen in panel 2, page 14. The design seems to show
> several mountain peaks with 3 oil drilling rigs on them, with
> the letters "SOC" (one letter on each rig). Do the letters
> stand for "Scrooge Oil Company"?

Southern Oil Company. This is a reference to the film
"La salaire de la peur" (The Wages of Fear). According
to Don, the truck "had everything except Yves Montand".
(http://stp.ling.uu.se/pipermail/dcml/2000-May/012810.html)

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