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KUR
> My best wishes for a very Happy New Year

Thanks.
Happy new yer to you and you ol up there!!!!!!

Yours
Maciek
Olivier
Happy New Year to all of you!

2003 gave us the long-awaited return of Disney comics in the US. At last we can read Rosa, Van Horn, ..., in the original language, with nice colors! All my thanks to Gemstone, and my best wishes to the team for a very long run!

All my very best wishes to everyone on the list!

Olivier
:)
Anders Christian Sivebæk
Hi
Happy New Year to all from little itsy bitsy me.

I have a question for Don Rosa.
I hear you have finished your story where the Black Knight turns up again?
You have turned it in for egmont?
Then the obvious question is the usual one: what are you working on now?

I have been told that your new story, A letter from home is scheduled for
the
early spring issues of the egmont DD weekly in Scandinavia. That is issue
9-11
will have this long story.

Looking forward to your answer and to the coming stories.

Hilsen/Yours
Anders Christian Siveb?k
Donaldist
ZeldasTriforce
Hi and a Happy New Year to all of you! :)

Months ago, before DDA first came out, I thought I read that Gemstone planned
to turn DDA from a bimonthly into a monthly publication starting early this
year. I haven't seen any indication that this is happening, so did I misread
the various releases or did Gemstone's plans change?

Derek Smith
Tristan B Breijer
I was wondering if there is anyone else here who had a Gladstone
subscription and is waiting to

Have it continued by gemstone, because first they said September then
October and now I have still

Not heard anything. I have sent several emails to them but no response, I
know this is slightly off-topic

But I still would like to know if anyone else has had this problem ?
Gary Leach
> Months ago, before DDA first came out, I thought I read that Gemstone
> planned
> to turn DDA from a bimonthly into a monthly publication starting early
> this
> year. I haven't seen any indication that this is happening, so did I
> misread
> the various releases or did Gemstone's plans change?
>
> Derek Smith

2003 turned out to be a year in which we learned a lot "in the field"
about marketing and distributing these books. It's a pioneering effort
for Disney comics in North America, so we'd far rather change our plans
than lock ourselves into anything so early in the game.

That said, there will be an uptick in output of these books, with a
one-shot Mickey Mouse Adventures volume slated for this summer. We aim
to see if this might lead to a regular series, which would mean a
monthly pocket book alternating between DDA and MMA.

Frequency of these books also depends on an increase in staff, and this
appears to be imminent. More on this as events proceed.

Gary
H.W.Fluks
All a very happy 2004 from me!
(Sorry, no fancy electronic postcard wishes this time...)

David wrote:

> My special holiday and New Year's greeting to all of you is here:
> http://wso.williams.edu/~dgerstei/WDC4Xmas.gif

There it says "we win the election": does this mean there's an election (in the USA?) in 2004?

Anyway: *We* win the European cup, okay? 8-)

--Harry.
H.W.Fluks
Olivier wrote:

> how about giving a title and
> asking a quote (from memory) from it? ;)
> For instance, do you remember any quote from the Cuspidoria
> story (WD&S 172, Jan '55)?

That's tougher, since I remember most of these stories only in their Dutch translations.
Recognising a quote in a foreign language is easier than producing one!

Anyway, here's a quote from that story: "De Sint heeft ons uiteindelijk op het goede spoor gebracht!"
("Santa put us on the right track, eventually!").

--Harry.
"Wie ben ik? Wat doe ik hier? Waar is mijn Roddelflop?"
H.W.Fluks
John Lustig wrote:

> www.lastkisscomics.com
> Sometime next year I'm hoping to get some material up
> on my web site about my Disney work over the years.
> Sigh. If I can only find the time...

Here's an overview, to start with:

http://coa.inducks.org/coa/c1/creator.php/0/JLu/1

--Harry.
ZeldasTriforce
Hi all!

First thanks to Gary for answering my question. Good news about MMA.
Hopefully it'll turn out to be more than a one shot and if it's as good as DDA has
been, then the more the better!
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http://stp.ling.uu.se/pipermail/dcml/2002-November/020592.html

>>From Anonima Fumetti news:
> "The Disney Italia refused to talk with the official representatives
> (SILF/SLC/CGIL) of the Italian creators of the Mickey Mouse and
> Donald Duck stories. >>>
>
This is very interesting.
Please, if any italians on this list can keep us updated on the
situation
as things happends that would be very appreciated.
Especially as many of us doesn't understand Italian.
Thanks!

/Joakim Gunnarsson.
------------

Whatever happened about the strike? Did the creators actually get any
meaningful concessions or did Disney/Disney Italia crush them like twigs? I have a
feeling it's the latter, but hope for the former.

Derek Smith
Don Rosa
> From: "Anders ChristianSiveb?k" <anders_sivebaek at nns.dk>
> I have a question for Don Rosa.
> I hear you have finished your story where the Black Knight turns
> up again?

Yes -- sent it off just before Xmas.

> Then the obvious question is the usual one: what are you working on now?

No story yet. Just taking a break to get caught up on other business. For
one thing (I don't guess I've mentioned this), I'm back to creating
"pin-ups" for every issue of PICSOU. This will also enable Egmont companies
to have more art to "swipe" in order to make those Don Rosa Calendars.
Olaf Solstrand
Don Rosa wrote:

> No story yet. Just taking a break to get caught up on other business. For
> one thing (I don't guess I've mentioned this), I'm back to creating
> "pin-ups" for every issue of PICSOU. This will also enable Egmont
> companies
> to have more art to "swipe" in order to make those Don Rosa Calendars.

which reminds me... That Landmarks of Duckburg-something you were working
on before the strike... Is that a project you have been working on after
the strike? Or is it frozen down forever, or just put on hold?

--
Olaf Solstrand

Telefon: 957 08 325
E-post: olaf at andebyonline.com
Heimeside: http://www.andebyonline.com/olaf/
Gianfranco Goria Su Fumetti.Org
About Disney Italy and creators' rights - in Italian, to be translated by
someone with an english better than mine...:
Il SILF/SLC/CGIL - www.cgil.it/silf - ? l'unico sindacato di categoria in
Italia (ma forse in Europa, se non nel mondo) che si occupa specificamente
di fumettisti, animatori e illustratori. Fa parte della CGIL - www.cgil.it -
che ? il maggiore sindacato italiano (ma forse europeo con circa 5 milioni
di iscritti). Da quando ? stato fondato, il 5 febbraio 2000, oltre ad aver
avviato riforme legislative (? in Parlamento una integrazione della legge
sul diritto d'autore ad hoc per il settore fumetto e con integrazioni per il
settore animazione), di carattere generale (? in corso di approvazione,
lenta ma solo per motivi burocratico/istituzionali, l'inserimento delle
professioni creative, come fumettisti ecc., nell'elenco delle professioni
ufficialmente riconosciute dallo Stato Italiano, con conseguenti vantaggi
fiscali, previdenziali ecc.) e previdenziale (sono in corso trattative per
adeguati sistemi pensionistici), ha affrontato e risolto una gran quantit?
di vertenze per conto dei propri iscritti. Tra queste ? ancora attiva la
vertenza che oppone autori italiani alla Disney Italia per la restituzione
dei disegni originali e il pagamento dei diritti di ristampa sulle storie.
La continua pressione del SILF ha probabilmente favorito il cambiamento dei
contratti che la Disney Italia offre agli autori per "produzioni con
personaggi NON classici", mentre ancora non ? risolta la situazione
riguardante i contratti per "produzioni con personaggi classici (paperi e
topi, ad esempio)". Per questo aspetto ? in corso una lunga vertenza in due
fasi, concordate dal Sindacato (e il suo Avvocato) con gli autori stessi,
che hanno scelto in assemblea questa linea di comportamento rispetto ad
altre pi? eclatanti dal punto di vista mediatico come scioperi e
manfiestazioni pubbliche. La prima fase ? per la restituzione delle tavole
originali agli autori. La seconda fase per la corresponsione dei diritti di
ristampa agli autori.
La prima si sta avviando alla conclusione del primo livello: invio da parte
dell'Avvocato del SILF di una serie di richieste formali da parte degli
autori tutelati dal SILF, per la restituzione immediata di tutte le tavole
originali consegnate alla Disney Italia e da questa illecitamente trattenute
(secondo quanto previsto dalla Legge Italiana che in merito ? piuttosto
precisa). Se, dopo tale invio, ci sar? la disponibilit? della Disney Italia
a trattare, questa fase potr? essere risolta in modo extra-giudiziale (cio?
senza andare in Tribunale); se l'Azienda opporr? un rifiuto aprioristico, si
passer? alla vertenza legale vera e propria. Il valore complessivo delle
tavole originali in questione si ottiene moltiplicando il valore medio di
mercato di una tavola originale per il numero delle tavole realizzate dagli
autori italiani: poniamo che siano coinvolti 200 autori (tra autori in vita
ed eredi di autori) e che, in media, ciascuno di loro abbia realizzato nel
corso di una collaborazione disneyana di 10 anni in media circa 2.000 tavole
e che il valore medio di una tavola sia di 150 euro, si tratta quindi di un
montante di almeno 60 milioni di euro. In realt? il montante ? molto pi?
elevato, ma qui non ? il caso di andare nei dettagli. Una vertenza in
Tribunale potrebbe quindi risultare finanziariamente disastrosa per la
Disney Italia (e forse anche per la Disney casa madre, che potrebbe essere
chiamata in causa in quanto titolare del pacchetto di maggioranza della
Disney Italia, ma anche in questo caso non stiamo qui a dettagliare).
La seconda verr? avviata subito dopo il secondo livello della prima. Nel
caso dei diritti di ristampa (caso che la Legge Italiana prevede in
dettaglio e che, grazie ad alcuni accorgimenti legali cui pare nessuno
avesse finora pensato e dei quali non sono autorizzato a trattare in questa
sede, potr? attagliarsi perfettamente sia al discorso tavole originali sia a
quello dei diritti di ristampa) il montante complessivo ? altrettanto
straripante. Anche in questo caso ? auspicabile (per l'Azienda) addivenire a
un accordo extra-giudiziale. Tuttavia, da quando la Disney Italia ha
troncato improvvisamente gli incontri col sindacato SILF, non c'? pi? stato
alcun segnale da parte dell'Azienda. Si vedr? alla ricezione delle prime
lettere dell'Avvocato, se l'atteggiamento di chiusura cambier?.
Certo, i tempi di realizzazione di vertenze di questo genere sono piuttosto
lunghi. Pi? rapido sarebbe stato organizzare uno "sciopero" come quello
fatto da Don Rosa (e che lo ha visto ovviamente vincente), ma gli autori
hanno preferito evitare azioni di sospensione della collaborazione
lavorativa, preferendo invece le azioni legali, ma solo in seguito alla
imprevista sospensione degli incontri da parte della Disney Italia. Se la
Disney avesse continuato a trattare con il SILF, si sarebbe potuto
addivenire rapidamente ad accordi soddisfacenti per entrambe le parti, ma
l'Azienda ha preferito spingere gli autori verso le vie giudiziarie, pur
sapendo bene che una possibile sentenza sfavorevole alla Disney Italia
potrebbe mettere l'Azienda in una drammatica situazione finanziaria. Il SILF
continua a sperare che l'Azienda ci ripensi e che, di fronte alle richieste
veicolate dall'Avvocato del SILF, si renda nuovamente disponibile a una
intesa tra le parti, cos? da non mettere a rischio il futuro della Disney in
Italia. Anzi, il SILF ha inviato segnali in tutto il periodo alla dirigenza
aziendale, segnalando la propria disponibilit? a riaprire un tavolo di
trattativa, che pu? essere riattivato in qualunque momento, purch?,
ovviamente, PRIMA dell'avvio delle (costose) procedure legali.
Per la cronaca: altre vertenze analoghe con altri editori, sono gi? state
risolte, ottenendo la restituzione delle tavole originali e i diritti di
ristampa.
Rob Klein
Happy New Year, everyone. Yes, others of us (probably all) have also not
gotten word on having our old Gladstone subscriptions carried over into our new
Gemstone subscriptions. I was told that it is taking much longer to process the
Gladstone information, as it was obtained only in hand printed writing on paper-
NOT as computer input! It may take some more months. Sorry for the bad news.

Rob Klein

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Anders Christian Sivebæk
Hi all
Hope you've all gotten into the new year safe and sound.
>
>> I hear you have finished your story where the Black Knight turns
>> up again?
>
>Yes -- sent it off just before Xmas.
Good to hear - then we'll only have to wait for one half eternity or so
for it ;-)
>
>> Then the obvious question is the usual one: what are you working on now?
>
>No story yet.
Okay - do tell it here when you start on anew one, please?

>Just taking a break to get caught up on other business. For
>one thing (I don't guess I've mentioned this), I'm back to creating
>"pin-ups" for every issue of PICSOU.
Sounds good - I hope we have some french friends (not french fries, but
french friends...)
who will make scans for duckhunt - when they start to come out, if they
haven't started already?

>This will also enable Egmont companies
>to have more art to "swipe" in order to make those Don Rosa Calendars.
Sounds even better - but why do they stop at the calendar, why not use
them again,
and make large nice posters - I for one would like such nice posters in my
weekly...
>

Now for a short report on our meeting in the DDF(R) this christmas - as
some of you will remember that is our danish donaldist society. Some of
you are members and even where at the meeting - to you: Tak for sidst!

I started out early this monday, bought things for the breakfeast tuesday
at the grocery store. - Then I drove to Struer where the railway station
is. I first went to the bank to get some money for Thomas who prints our
fanzine. Issue 3 just came out.
At 11.15 one of our newest members, Laila, (one of the 4 female members of
the 60+ members we have...) arrived - we talked about this and that untill
12.10 when we went out from the little kiosk and met the others right
outside. Of to Nissum it went, with my car and some by bus.
In Nissum we first waited for the last people to come, before we went on a
trip around the campus at the college where I study. We ended the trip at
the store where people bought supplies for the day.
Home at the house where I live, we had rented a floor, and here we
exchnaged and auctioned over duck items - loooked at eachothers things and
talked all the time. At 5 we had Pizza.
Then we went to the basement, where the editing room of the school paper
(of which I'm editor) is situated - we have a blackboard and here we had a
jeopardy-inspired quiz. Niels and his team won - It would embarress the
other team to say with how many points.
After the quiz we had another game with drawing on the blackboard - only
drawings of ducks and other dieny-charecters places and buildings. we had
a lot of fun with this - many good laughs.
We went back to the floor again, and had auction over S?rens old issues.
at 12 we celebrated the 2 years birthday of our society with chocolate
cake (with frosting saying DDF(R) 2 years!) and burbleurp soda.
as time went to 1.30 the most of us went to bed. I must have been tired
since I didn't shopw up before 10 again. - then i went to the store and
bought bread for the breakfeast, where we also had cereals... - Cleaning
up took a bit of time, and already at 12.40 we were ready for leaving.
The local press had already phoned me the day before and made appointment
about photosession at 2 pm in a comicshop in Struer. they just wanted to
confirm that.
In Struer we found many good things - many found issues that closed holes
in the collection - found comics they had never read - so this was good.
The photographer took some photoes, but I haven't seen them yet, as the
version we have of the paper here in town brought the text about our
mneeting, without a picture. at 3.25 I took thge bus back to Nissum and
from there home. - I hope all the others had a nice trip home.
I must say that io can recommend meeting with fellow disney comic fans -
we have an interest in common, and have something to taslk about quite
fast. - we part as friends who could have known eachother for a life - and
we feel that way because we have shared memories about many stories.

Please, if you others come to Denmark, do drop my a mail and drop by!

Best wishes
Anders Christian Siveb?k
Donaldist
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