Keskustelujen arkisto

Hi,

This week's issue of Gemstone's newsletter Scoop says:

"If you're still not quite sure where to pick up Gemstone's Disney Comics in
your area, you now have one more easy-to-find option. Because everyone knows
where the nearest Wal-Mart is. That's right--Wal-Mart now carries Disney
Comic titles. You can find them in their magazine/book section or online at
Wal-Mart.com."

Does this mean that all Gemstone's latest Disney titles are available at all
Wal-marts? Or only some titles at some stores?

If they are really available at all over 3000 Wal-mart stores in the US then
I am curious to see what this will do to the sales figures in coming months.

Kind regards,
Arthur

In a message dated 9/25/2004 5:08:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
arthur at wolfstad.com writes:
<<If they are really available at all over 3000 Wal-mart stores in the US
then I am curious to see what this will do to the sales figures in coming
months.>>

it wont do a thing, as the sales reports you see posted here, are only
through direct market comic shops.

Oops!

I answered Larry:

>> But isn't Scrooge's German name just Dagobert Duck, and
>> not Mc Duck? Is the Dutch name Dagobert McDuck?
>
> Yep!

Er, what was I thinking? In Dutch, as in German, Scrooge is just
Dagobert Duck these days; although it's been made clear in the Dutch
comics that he was originally McDuck (and changed his name!).

Embarrassedly, David

Lars Jensen wrote:
>
> Mateusz Lis wrote:
> > If you would be interested, I can translate it to English.
>
> Yes, please do.

So here it is (well, it's not exactly a translation):
Vicar was invited by the publisher to help celebrating 70th birthday od
Donald and 10 years of "Kaczor Donald" (a weekly) on the Polish market. The
visit was also a part of promotion of "Hall of Fame" (Polish title:
"Kaczogrod") books.
The press conference (I wasn't present at it) started at 12.00. After Vicar
had drawn a picture of Donald, he told about his work. He counted that he
has drawn 10000 pages since 1971 (when he started working for Egmont). When
Tomasz Kolodziejczak, editor-in-chief of "Kaczor Donald" and "Hall of Fame"
and the host of this conference, said that it gives nearly 80000 drawings of
Donald, Vicar became really amazed. He said that he didn't even want to
think about it...
Vicar told aslo about making comics. He said, that he often improve the
story he gets, sometimes even changing the ending. After that, he makes a
datailed inked sketch, which is later redrawn by his staff by pencil. Then,
the penciled sketch is inked.
One of the journalists aked him what is more important -- a story or art.
Vicar answered that of course the story is more important, because the good
script can go with bad art, but even great art can't save bad story.
The other question was about his inspirations. Cinema, theatre and life
experiences are the things which inspirate Victor the most.
Wondering over Donald's pupularity, Vicar said that Donald is very good and
complex character, with many interesting companions. He also said that
Donald's universe is very friendly and cordial and it's some kind of asylum
for children, who are showered by gloomy news every day. For adults, reading
comics with Donald is a way to develop the hidden child inside.
The meeting with fans started at 4.00 p.m. at Empik - the biggest store with
press, music, books, videos etc. in Warsaw. Before that, Polish television
interviewed him (the material should be aired tomorrow morning) Later, Vicar
has drawn Donald holding a book. He asked the translator to write "slownik
polsko-hiszpanski" (="polish-spanish dictionary" - it should be opposite) on
it and "Czesc" (="hi") over Donald's head.
Then he answered some questions asked by host of the meeting, a guy from
Empik, and by young fans. He sometimes asked his wife Ute for help, because
he forgot some English words. One of the question was about his infamous
panel with fourth nephew. I recorded part of his answer by the digital
camera, here is what he said (and what I understand):
"Well, this mistake has to be, because this work was very artistic in a way
that we are also searching for good composition, the harmony, you know. And
I was working on this picture, maybe a little distract (? - I'm not sure of
this part) or maybe working on this way, that I explain. So, in a moment,
something was missing in the picture, so, I put unconsiously another duck.
But the problem is, that I have an equipment (?), they are only two, but the
one who put this in pencil, he drew the four ducks. And afterwards, it was
taken by the one of the inkers and he drew four ducks! And afterwards, by
the time I used to see the work to make corrections, and I didn't see the
four ducks. So I send it to Egmont in Denmark."
Then, about 4:50 p.m., he started signing comics. Some people were giving
non-Vicar's comics to sign...
After I had gotten an autograph, shaken Vicar's hand and had a little
conversation with him (this was thrilling and absolutely fantastic
experience!), I went to McDonald's to have a little chat with another DCML
member, Maciek Kur.
I found both Vicar and Maciek really nice guys! :-)

Best wishes,
Mateusz Lis

To Mateusz Lis:

Thanks so much for the photos and the translation. I never knew what Vicar
looked like before this and it was nice to see him. I also didn't know he had
been drawing Donald Duck comics for as long as he has. It looks like he was well
recieved in Poland.

Derek Smith

Let me see if I get it right...

1 - Vicar draw the story and ink it himself;
2 - Some member of his staff re-drew it (probably cleaning up with a light
table);
3 - A inker re-ink all the pages!

Weird! O_o

Fernando!

For some reason, I didn't notice this when we actually discussed it, last
summer, so I respond to it now instead.

Sigvald Gr?sfjeld jr. asked if alcohol had been used in any known Disney
comics.

I replied:
"[paragraphs about a few stories containing alcohol]

And, even though this is not alcohol-related, I must mention that one of
my favorite comics EVER is the one where Scrooge is opening a tobacco
plantage, and have Donald and Fethry doing research for him by picking up
cigarette ends all over Duckburg to find out what brands are popular. And
then, a maharaja (or was he a prince?) picks up Donald and rents him to be
a hitman."

Claudio Eckert replied:
"This reminds me of the story I TL 920-A. Iin the German translation
Donald and Fethry have to search for spit off chewing gums, though."

Also, Petri Kanninen replied:
"So they were cigarettes! In the Finnish version Scrooge has Donald and
Fethry collecting bubble gum papers. I knew there was something odd with
the papers they picked up. The story is actually from the same pocket book
as the wine bottle collection story. It is Zio Paperone e i "desperados"
di Paperopoli, I TL 920-A."

I noticed these replies just now, so I have to ask:

----------[ SPOILER AREA ]------------------
Amazing! Chewing gums? Bubble gum papers? OK, I shouldn't be surprised
seeing such a translation in a disney comic. But... That story started
with Scrooge telling that he had bought a tobacco plantation (if my memory
isn't playing tricks on me), and it ended with Donald and Fethry salting
and thus destroying the poisonous plants that were ruining the farmland in
this eastern country, and when they come back, they proudly tells this to
Scrooge, who explodes in anger hearing this because he realized the plant
they ruined was his tobacco plantation.

What did the "hide-all-references-to-tobacco"-translation do to this in my
opinion very clever idea? Don't say it was a gum plant?
----------[ /END OF SPOILER AREA ]----------

Oh, and... Petri, you asked if our edition of "Zio Paperone e il
nabucodonosor da collezione" actually said that the bottles Scrooge and
Rockerduck were collecting were wine bottles? Yes, they were. No juice
bottles.

--
Olaf Solstrand
http://www.andebyonline.com/olaf/