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Hi,
firstly I want to say hallo to all the list members as this is my first
mail to the DCML.

But back to the subject. Today a friend of mine drew my attention to to
facts said about Sir Eider McDuck in chapter I and V of "The life and
times of $crooge McDuck" which seem to be contradictory. In chapter I's
page ten says Sir Quackly McDuck about Sir Eider McDuck that he lost the
battle in 946 because his soldiers left him as he had paid them only 30
copper coins (at least in the German translation by Peter Daibenzeiher).
But in chapter V, page 10 Quackly and Sir Eider McDuck himself say that he
lost the battle because he was lacking in arrows (again I can only speak
of the German translation). Now I ask all of you and especially Mr. Rosa:
Is this an error in translation, an mistake by Don Rosa or can it be that
both facts are correct simultaneously?

Best regards,
Maximilian Baumgart.
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L. Schulte wrote:

>If Disney is closing its animation studio because it thinks the animation
>style is at fault, Disney again is showing how out-of-touch it is. Pixar
>Studios is a success because of their stories, not the computer
>animation. "Brother Bear" was just not a very compelling story, more
>politically correct eco-fable than an inventive adventure like "Finding
Nemo".

Ditto from me! Honestly, I took my little boy to see "Brother Bear"
Saturday night, and I enjoyed it. Still, it pales in comparison to "Finding
Nemo." There are so many little things not quite right about "Brother
Bear." The modern, hip dialogue in the mouths of ancient people made me
cringe a little. And were all the animal species in the film alive at the
same time? Maybe that's carping, but the Pixar movies just seem to have so
much heart and seems to be so well crafted. We've played "Finding Nemo"
once every day in my house since Christmas (my little boy loves it!), and I
still get teary eyed when Nemo learns from Nigel that Marlin is coming for
him. "Finding Nemo" works as well for adults as it does children.

The picture I get of Pixar from all of the bonus discs of the Monsters Inc
and Finding Nemo DVDs reminds me greatly of the early Disney. I realize
that this could easily be a phony, calculated image, but I'm eating it with
a spoon. The greater Walt Disney Company just seems like a huge, faceless
corporation now. I fear their days of masterpieces are done.

How wonderful it is to be a Disney Comics fan! It's Disney, on a smaller
scale, with more heart, and without the evil!

Matt

>>Nope... I did not mean "2,000 pages per year", but "a total 2,000 pages
distributed over 10 years". Two thousand pages per year means over 5 pages
per day - you have to draw faster than your shadow in order to achieve such
figures ;-)

All right. That way it would deserve 1500 euro/day :-)

Santiago.

Hi

> Does anybody know if Gemstone plans any new releases for 2004 whether
> they be new series, one-shots, or special collector's books? I hope that one
> day Gemstone will release a Don Rosa Lof$ book including additional chapters
> and commentary. In the meantime, I'm still waiting for the "new" long adventure
> stories in the U.S. including "Crown of the Crusader Kings" and the "Quest
> for Kalevala." Any chance they will appear in "Uncle Scrooge" this year?

I remember that Gary Leach wrote on this list, that they've prepared the
contents for the next half year or so, but that was a couple of months
ago, I think. I've seen the cover for both US 328 (Forget It!) and US
329, and US 329 is not a Rosa cover, so I strongly presume this issue
won't have any long Rosa stories in it, unless they don't know of the
cover for the story! (Crown of the Crusader Kings)
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0911903364-0

Another thing, if I am not mistaking Gary said that they might consider
reprinting the Lo$ (albums), I sure hope they would print them with
extra chapters and the commentaries Don wrote for them. Those comments
always add a little dimension to the story! :-)

Hopefully the previews for the next couple of issues will be availble on
the web!

Btw, Gemstone (Gary), is there any chance you would consider using the
one-parter versions instead of using the three-part versions, when it
comes to Don Rosa's stories ?

> I'm a fairly new subscriber to the list. I'm a Norwegian living in
the > US and a Gemstone subscriber. I just received Uncle $crooge No 325
> (January), and noticed a massive blunder in the editorial on page 1.
> It's a comment on the cover for the Don Rosa story that opens the
> issue... <cut>

I'm a Dane, and I noticed it too :-) I just had a little laugh about it,
but sure would have to have seen the cover used instead!

Best wishes,
Mads

> From: Maximilian Baumgart <max.baumgart at web.de>
> Subject: Contradiction in terms in Lo$?
> But back to the subject. Today a friend of mine drew my attention to to
> facts said about Sir Eider McDuck in chapter I and V of "The life and
> times of $crooge McDuck" which seem to be contradictory. In chapter I's
> page ten says Sir Quackly McDuck about Sir Eider McDuck that he lost the
> battle in 946 because his soldiers left him as he had paid them only 30
> copper coins (at least in the German translation by Peter Daibenzeiher).
> But in chapter V, page 10 Quackly and Sir Eider McDuck himself
> say that he
> lost the battle because he was lacking in arrows (again I can only speak
> of the German translation). Now I ask all of you and especially Mr. Rosa:
> Is this an error in translation, an mistake by Don Rosa or can it be that
> both facts are correct simultaneously?

I like readers to try to find errors in my stories since they are reprinted
so often and I can always correct the errors in future editions. But usually
the "errors" can so often be explained away too easily:
1) The soldiers quit because they were underpaid *and* had no arrows. Or
some quit for one reason and others quit for another. Or they were supposed
to buy their own arrows but their low pay prevented it. The reasons are not
mutually exclusive.
2) There was more than just one single battle in all of 946.
3) I did not want to use the same lame joke twice.

> From: Anthvvuono at aol.com
> Subject: Any new Gemstone comics for 2004
> I'm still waiting for the "new"
> long adventure
> stories in the U.S. including "Crown of the Crusader Kings" and
> the "Quest
> for Kalevala." Any chance they will appear in "Uncle Scrooge" this year?

I guess they had to slow down on using my backlog of stories, otherwise they
would run out too soon. In the first 6 months I think they used half of the
backlog.
But I'm helping organize printings for several stories right now. For
example, Todd Klein, the best and most popular comics letterer in America,
is currently lettering "The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut" and "Quest for
Kalevala". (He doesn't simply "often" win the Eisner Award for "Best
Letterer"... he *always* wins the Eisner Award for "Best Letterer".) Todd is
a Duckfan from 'way back and personally volunteers to letter my stories for
American appearances. Also I'm telling Gemstone of the various covers or
pin-ups that I've done for various foreign printings -- if there are 2 or 3
such illustrations for a single story (which there almost always is), I'm
told they will use one for the cover, one for the backcover and, if there is
one, another somewhere in the interior. Meanwhile, I'll write texts about
the story's creation. Like getting special edition DVDs, eh?

I happened to come across this by chance: "Forbes" is an American business
magazine, whose owner, Steve Forbes, once tried to run for president. Last
year it apparently published the Forbes Fictional Fifteen, i.e. the richest
fictional characters. Somehow Uncle Scrooge is listed as having "8.2"
billion dollars, making him #4 on the list. For a slide show and more
information:

http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional.html

It seems that they've taken the info from the TV-series DuckTales, even though I was not aware of that someone in these stories mention that Scrooge's fortune is 8.2 billion dollars.

Or did someone do that? Where else could the information come from?

/Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: "L. Schulte" <lschulte at sfstoledo.org>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:46 PM
Subject: Forbes Fictional 15

> I happened to come across this by chance: "Forbes" is an American business
> magazine, whose owner, Steve Forbes, once tried to run for president. Last
> year it apparently published the Forbes Fictional Fifteen, i.e. the richest
> fictional characters. Somehow Uncle Scrooge is listed as having "8.2"
> billion dollars, making him #4 on the list. For a slide show and more
> information:
>
> http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/13/400fictional.html
>
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