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There"s some more link that shows some art of Branca"s
1)http://www.raptus.dk/b.html
2)http://www.free.pages.at/ralf_h/comics-donald/tgdd161.html
3)http://dk.outducks.org/aa/1996/

Hi all!

Oppfinnar-Jocke is Gyro Gearloose in Swedish. I read from Who's who that his
whole Swedish, "real" name is Joakim Johansson. Is this name mentioned in
some translations of Barks' stories? Who has invented this name?

Timo

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Best wishes
Jano

It goes to show that with most Disney writers/artists, I know about their
work than about them themselves. Heck, for some reason I thought Branca was
Dutch, not Argentinian. :P

It's too bad that he died so relatively young. He contributed alot to the
Disney comics world and hopefully he'll be long remembered.

Derek Smith

Timo:

>Oppfinnar-Jocke is Gyro Gearloose in Swedish. I read from Who's who that
>his whole Swedish, "real" name is Joakim Johansson. Is this name mentioned
>in some translations of Barks' stories? Who has invented this name?

Uh... Who's what? I mean, where did you find this interesting information?
We thought Joachim Johansson was a tennis player!

But I'll try to answer. In Gyro's earliest Swedish appearances, starting
with the January, 1953, issue of the (then monthly) Kalle Anka & C:o
magazine, he is alternately called things like "Uppfinnar-Jocke",
"uppfinnare Johansson", or "herr Johansson" - "uppfinnare" meaning
"inventor" and "herr" meaning "Mister". It's obvious from these stories,
translated by Axel Norbeck, that his name is intended to be "Jocke
Johansson". This name, incidentally, contains no gag attempt at all.
Johansson is the most common surname in Sweden, and Jocke is similarly a
common male name. Indeed, it's usually a shortened, informal form of the
name Joakim/Joachim - we might pick DCML member Joakim Gunnarsson as a
prominent example!

Yet, to my knowledge, it has never been stated in any comic that this is
the case with the Swedish Gyro. For all we know, he's called Jocke and
that's that. Of course it's possible that his real name is (or was) Joakim,
although he doesn't use it anymore. So, either there is some obscure
mention of "Joakim Johansson" somewhere that I'm not aware of, or the
writer of that article made it up as a "reasonable assumption". After all,
there is already a major character (Uncle Scrooge) waddling around in the
Swedish Ankeborg with the name Joakim, so who can blame Mr. Johansson if he
wants to avoid confusion?

Very soon, Jocke dropped the use of his last name altogether, letting his
nickname take over completely (also changing it to "Oppfinnar-Jocke" with
an O, making it look even more informal, even verging on the playful or
disrespectful). The fact that he once was called Johansson remained a
trivia quiz item for nerdy Barks scholars like myself. It wasn't used in
comics for many decades. Even now it's seen very rarely, sort of like an
esoteric tribute to the old days (like in some Rosa stories about Gyro's
heritage, for example). Whenever someone addresses the character formally,
they say "Herr Oppfinnare" (Mr. Inventor).

That's about where we stand in this case. Maybe in the future, if some
translator should happen to really use the name "Joakim Johansson" on some
background diploma or something, we could make the author of Timo's quote
look better... But in that case, he'd need to improve his serve.

Stefan Dios
Stockholm, Sweden

I'm really sorry to hear of Daniel Branca's passing. He was one of the best Duck artists of all time; his drawings were always so wonderfully bouncy and full of life. He'll be missed.

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So sorry to hear of the death of Branca. He was far and away my favorite of the "long-timers" among the Egmont Duck artists.

Chris Barat

Hi all!

Talking about Branca for a moment, I hope that Gemstone in some way
acknowledges his death in a future issue. It would be good to let readers know about
it/more about him as I think a fair amount of readers don't know much about the
comics creators beyond say Barks, Rosa, etc. Even I don't know as much as I
would like, so it would be nice if something was included about his
life/passing.

The Vacation Parade 2 ad in WDC 653 and US 338 is great. Like an ad for old
serial movie. :)

Congratulations to Gemstone on DDA's tenth issue. Let's face it, it's almost
impossible for anything new to make it to its 10th issue in nowadays US comic
market, so it's something of an accomplishment to reach that milestone.

Questions: What is the story code for "Duck of the Deep" in WDC 653? Also, in
the editor's corner, John Clark talks about how he bought the
work-in-progress story from the Blocks just before Gladstone went kaput in 1999. Has the
story been finished for years now or was it only recently fully completed when it
was scheduled for publication? Thanks!

Derek Smith