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Mateusz:

> I'd like to learn more about this series (because it will be probably
> published here in Poland). What's the quality of the print? What are the
> articles about?

The "Hall of Fame" will be a series which focuses on the creators. Egmont
will gather the best stories of the creators and collect them in books. So,
we'll get one book about Romano Scarpa, one about Vicar, one about Paul
Murry... One about all the great ones.

Two creators are different, though.

Carl Barks is included in the series. They won't even TRY finding his 150
best pages or something, of course there is too much to choose from. So,
they will instead print about one book a year with Carl Barks. These books
will focus on various themes - so that we simply once a year get a book of
Carl Barks stories with one theme in common.

And... Don Rosa. Instead of printing ONE book with his best stories, they
will print ALL HIS STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. A book a year will be
dedicated to Don Rosa.

I understand that a normal book will include
- a long foreword
- an article on how to recognize this artist
- a shorter foreword by the artist himself/herself
- the artist's own introductions to each of the stories

As to the last point: I understand that Romano Scarpa (which book two is
about) was asked to write this, but only had the capacity to write this for
one of the stories.

The quality of the print is pretty great. That's about all I can say about
it.

The first book is already inducksed:
http://coa.inducks.org/coa/c1/issue.php/0/no/HOF+++1

And yes: From what I've heard, this series WILL be published in Poland (I
wrote an article for the Romano Scarpa book which the editor asked me to
translate into English afterwards so that it could be used by those
publishers which does not understand Norwegian, as an example she mentioned
Poland).

I wrote:
> I understand they were made for a
> reprint of the story where a missing, uriginally unpublished, 3/4 page
> of Barks' was found and printed. Originally there was a whole page, but
> the last 1/4 was lost, so you recreated it.

What I meant here was:

I understand they were made for a reprint of the story where a missing,
uriginally unpublished, 1 3/4 page of Barks' was found and printed.
Originally there were two whole pages, but the last 1/4 was lost, so you
recreated it.

Again, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks,
Thomas

--
Thomas Pryds Lauritsen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~pryds/

Dansk Donaldist-Forening: http://ddfr.dk/

This is called in french 'Le myst?re des ?crevises en civet' 'Paperino e i gamberi in salmi' (mickey parade 1 january 1980, Topolino 132 year 1956 (first italian publication); The first story of Donald by Romano Scarpa is a complex and humorous one which mixes elements of film 'noir' and tell the mysterious case of the abduction of a supposed famous east scientist; the story seems to be in background a critic about the east of Europe totalitarism of the time but more than that introduces some singularities in the world of Duckburg; in this fifties story, the landscape of Duckburg is still marked by the Barks imaginary of the town, this latter seems to be here a typical american city with big skyscrapers whereas a decade later Duckburg has in the italian stories a more mediterranean feeling; an another singularity is in the character of the journalist which make an important apparition in the story and in the intrigue and the plot; i may be wrong but i don't know if this character has ever been used for some others plots since this story; Donald has also an important part in the story whereas Scrooge play only a second part to be used for the plot and particularly for unravelling the mystery; the action is fast for this story which bizzarely has a Gottfredson-esque feeling of film noir better adapted to the Mickey Mouse's stories.

I read again the El Dorado story about two days ago and the intrigue tends to summarize a lot of elements which are presents but separated sometimes in the Barks' stories: the chance of Gladstone Gander (Gontran Bonheur in french) with its part of humorous situation, the adventurous Donald and his nephews searching for an expensive rare stamp in the jungle, the collectors everywhere (and thus the rivalry everywhere), even at the end of the world, searching for the same unique thing; the adventure in the jungle reminds me of the beginning of the 'Raiders of the lost ark'; the story ends nicely for Donald, whereas the lucky Gladstone, by accident, without doing anything, wins a fortune in bucks for the precious stamp; this is a part of the final plot, how this precious stamp is gotten by him suddenly, after a tremendous adventure in the jungle with a golden giant, and thanks to the mail administration.

> From: Thomas Pryds Lauritsen <thomas at duckburg.dk>
> Subject: Don Rosa: D 2003-081 (part 2, page 1) + How Green was my
> Lettuce (extra panels)
> Don:
> I have just received the second part of (the Danish translation of) D
> 2003-081 "A Letter from Home". I noticed that the first page is entirely
> made up of panels from part one (except one panel which is from later in
> part two), but instead of speech balloons, the panels have boxes with a
> recap of part one. Was this something intentially done by you, or did
> Egmont add this as an extra page?

I built that page myself out of copies reduced or enlarged, cut up and
arranged and pasted together, with newly drawn panel and caption borders...
and when it's all done, I think that it would be easier and faster to have
just redrawn the whole thing from scratch. But this is the new system that
I've mentioned that will prevent publishers from using the wrong art in the
one-part presentation of my stories.

> Also, I have a question about the two panels that you made for Barks' W
> US 51-01 "How Green was my Lettuce".
> I understand they were made for a reprint of the story where a missing,
> uriginally unpublished, 1 3/4 page of Barks' was found and printed.
> Originally there were two whole pages, but the last 1/4 was lost, so you
> recreated it... please correct me if I'm wrong.

So far, so good...

> What I would like to know is if these panels were made from CB's
> descriptions (if such exist) or if you thought them up yourself?

I wasn't given any clue as to what the missing panels had been, and I recall
thinking that my guess at what they might have been was not 100% logical,
but it was my best shot. I suspected that U$ had been reaching for a head of
lettuce and it had been sucked down outta sight -- but I didn't know why
that would have happened or why his reaction to that was so mild as seen in
the next existing panel. So I guessed that he figured he'd just fumbled the
grab.

Hi

I have two Questions obaut "Hall of Fame"

1) Wich storys by "Romano Scarpa" are in his "Hall of Fame"?

2) There are two "Hall's of Fame" with Don Rosa storys. In one ther are his
first 13 storys. What is in second one?

Yours
Maciek

OLAF:
>I would hope so too, but I really doubt it, so instead I cross my fingers
>real hard and hope that the Scarpa book simply will have more pages than
>those of authors writing 4-tiers.
>And I assume they will add at least two or three of his shorter Egmont
>stories... a little annoying, since he didn't write many of them himself,
>but... Hey, I'm still more and more satisfied for every extra page of
>Scarpa.

A similar book was published here in Finland last year. It is the second
volume of the series called Ankantekij?t (Duck Makers) that has the same
idea as the Hall of Fame. First volume contained Junior Woodchuck stories
written by Barks and drawn by Jippes. The next should be a Vicar one.

But the Scarpa book contained 3-tier stories, all written and drawn by
him. Scarpa had written and introduction to the book and to every story.
You can browse the contents here:
http://coa.inducks.org/coa/c1/issue.php/0/fi/ANTE+2

A very nice book, only one story had been published here earlier and
printing quality was just great. The magnifications from pocket book size
to album size hadn't made the lines rough.

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