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Can someone sent me digest v. 7 #3 directly?

Thanks,

Mike

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> From: "Gerstein, David DK - ECN" <DGE at ECN.egmont.com>

> Meanwhile, the Arab use of pig characters varies with the country,
> as Jehan's research found. Publishers in Egypt, which Jehan saw as
> comparatively liberal, let a pig stay a pig. But in Gulf countries such as
> Kuwait, where the editors were more conservative, Jehan found McSwine
> redrawn with a dog's nose and other pigfaces becoming unspecified
creatures
> (still rather piglike, but with nostrils removed from their snouts).

In Indonesia, few stories featuring pig-faces have been "altered" (just like
you described, David). It happened several years ago but eventually after a
few of those, they dont do that now. One can say that they were trying
things out, the results like you said, David wasnt too pretty as the
pig-faced characters has been made loking like a pig but not truely so it
became an unspecified creature.

Keep On Quacking,
Arie Fachrisal

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John Nichols (Bear Mountain Enterprises) is planning to
print a new issue of "The Barks Collector". (Message
attached below.)

Best,

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: John Nichols [mailto:jnichols at kingston.net]
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 5:49 AM
Subject: The Barks Collector 43

September 1, 2003

John Nichols

Dear Barks fan:

Plans for The Barks Collector 43 are well under way. Thanks to those who
ordered already. If you want a copy but haven't yet reserved, please let me
know and I'll put you on our list. No money now, just tell me you'll want
one.

COST AND FORMAT: The Barks Collector 43 will cost $10 and shipping (probably
$3). We will do either 100 or 150 copies, with each copy numbered. This
will be the entire run, and the issue will never be reprinted. We are not
selling to stores.

LETTERS COLUMN: Send your letter for inclusion in our Letters Column. I'd
especially like to hear from you "old timers" (you know
who you are)- Re- your thoughts on the question "Will Barks collecting
survive us?" In other words- when we're gone, will the hobby go with us?
What will the nature of the hobby be in 50 years? Or will it die out with us
'baby boomers' ?

SOLICITATION FOR ARTICLES- You may never see your name in lights, but you
can certainly see it in print. How? Just send your Duckie article for
inclusion in TBC 43- Original articles only please. TBC 43 will be all new
material, with no reprints from past issues.

GENERAL COMMENTS: Plans are to continue TBC past issue #43, with very
limited runs on each issue, probably no more than 100 or 150 copies. You're
invited to send in your letters for inclusion in our Letters Column. You're
also invited to submit articles for inclusion in TBC.

Thanks for reading- Please email us if you'll want a copy of TBC 43.

Till next time,

John Nichols

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In Barks's "The Doom Diamond" (US 70), the Duckburg officials plan
to remove Scrooge's fortune to Fort Knox, presuming him lost in a
terrible storm the South Pacific.

There's no mention of Donald and the nephews as being Scrooge's heirs.
A reason could be that they may be presumed lost, too. But there's no
mention of Gladstone Gander at all, either...

This seems to mean that Gladstone is not considered a heir of Scrooge,
at least not inherently.

--- Dani?l

According to "The Doom Diamond" (US 70), Beagle Boy 176-176 has
learned medicine in prison.

Some stories earlier, in "The House of Haunts" (US 63), the Beagle
Boys receive their diploma's for finishing their courses in Studio
Hours School. (176-176 is professor of encephalography.)

This must be a cross-reference. Maybe even more because 176-176 uses
the same method in both stories. He taps on Scrooge's head (US 63)
and tail (US 70).

Is this already mentioned somewhere?

--- Dani?l

"Yeeeeowch! All at once a swordfish doesn't like me!"

It isn't just The Carl Barks Library giving me sleepness nights.
Donald Ault's book "Carl Barks Conversations" is guilty, too! :-)

In my latest email, I though I was funny by ending with a reference to
a Barks story in which the newly-wed Murphys are fighting again, the
story of Gladstone's mystery (WDC 140), where Gladstone walks past a
window and hears the following dialogue: "You're three minutes late
for lunch! Just for that I'm going to throw the whole meal out of the
window!"

This reminded me of some information from a Barks interview by Donald
and Lynda Ault, conducted on 13-14 June 1997:

DA: Do I remember correctly that you said that your second wife
[Clara Balken] used to tear up your comic books or something?
CD: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, well, she started out doing my blacking, solid
blacks, and even ink the borders around the panels.

DA: Your second wife did this?
CB: Yeah, she did that for a while. And she had a--she came from a
family that had a long record of alcoholism. And she just loved the
taste of liquor. And so she kept drinking more and more, and finally
she just got to the point that she was hostile and half crazy. And she
would tear up my comic books and my drawings if I didn't get them out
of sight. I had to just be walking on eggshells around her because you
never knew what time she would start being hostile and want to tear
something up.

DA: So she actually did tear up some of your pages?
CB: Yes, well, I can't remember of her ever tearing up a finished one
that had all been inked and everything, but she did tear up one or two
that were just in the beginning stages, the pencil sketches. But she did
take one of my whole 10-pages stories after I'd practically finished it
and threw it outside. Thank God it was not muddy or wet out there--they
all landed in the dirt.

DA: About what year was this?
CB: It was around the late 1940s.

Source: Donald Ault - Carl Barks Conversations, page 181 and 182. In the
book, the above mentioned part continues with Ault and Barks talking about
a connection between this and Barks's most experimental stories of that
time, but that's another matter. I'm getting tired of typing. :-) I hope
I didn't make any typos, by the way. (ALWAYS BEWARE OF THAT!)

To my (sleepy) eyes, the fighting newly-wed Murphys scene in WDC 140 looks
like an autobiographical reference to the above described events.
Mrs. Murphy threw out a whole meal.
Clara threw out a whole 10-pager.

According to Donald Ault's chronology in "Carl Barks Conversations",
Barks's second marriage began in 1938, broke up in 1950-1951, and the
divorce was declared final in December 1951.
The story with the fighting Murphys was accepted on 23 August 1951.

There are instances of (possible) autobiographical references to this
second marriage and divorce. For example, "The Golden Helmet" with the
annoying lawyer was accepted on 3 December 1951, around the time of
the divorce.

Barks also has portayed some rather mean, unreasonable and agressive
women in (mostly) his 1940s and early-1950s stories. Maybe these women
also were inspired by the circumstances of the second marriage?

In fact, are there *any* kind, warm, reasonable women in Barks's stories
of the 1940s and early-1950s? That would be quite quiz for me! At the
moment, I can only think of Grandma Duck.

Two notes:

- This email is about Barks's *second* wife, not to be confused with his
third (and last) wife Gar? Barks. This marriage lasted until Gar?'s death
in 1993.

- Clara Balken died in 1964(?). According to Barks, "it was alcohol that
killed her and it took 13 years to do it." (All those years Barks paid
$250 a month alimony, "and she used it to buy more booze. Eventually she
just died of cirrhosis of the liver.")

Guess from which interview, and interview book I took that quote.
Do I really need to say it again? :-)

--- Dani?l the Spam-Spam-Spammer

P.S. All jokes aside. This email is fully my own initiave and opinion.
I'm really so favourable of Ault's book "Carl Barks Conversations".
And also, the more people who buy it, the more likely new books about
Barks will be written and published. So, yes, BUY this darned book,
and have some sleepness Barks-nights, too! :-)

Hi Daniel - and others!

A photo of Carl Barks and his second wife Clara is for the moment offered
on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2188651300&category=144

I have no idea where it comes from.

Best,
Are Myklebust

>>> Disclaimer: This email has not been set-up to upset women. Any comment
>>> that looks that way, is a typo or a distortion in the transmission. :-P

Of course ;)

>>> "Men! I hate 'em!"
>>> (Which Barks story?) :-)

Answer in the PS

Olivier

PS

If I remember correctly, the trick is that it's actually a bird saying
that, a parrot or something.
Maybe in the ten-dollar bill story, when Donald tries to find who lost the
bill his nephews found in the street.
Yup, that's it - WDC&S 63, DEc '45 (WDC&S LiC album 7)