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Friends of DCML

This article was wrote by Mrs Denise Frossard.
Mrs Denise Frossard is a famous brazilian judge, from the land of Joe
Carioca, Rio de Janeiro , and actually is member of Brazilian Parliament.
At this moment she is investigating a very big and complex crime scheme,
involving important politics, and maybe, the Brazilian President.

In the article, "The Enrichment Show", she gives mention to Uncle Scrooge
and his number one coin, in a very sensibility way.
In my personal opinion, is a homage to Mr. Scrooge Mc Scrooge, to Mr. Keno
Don Rosa, for all Uncle Scrooge ( Tio Patinhas for me ) fans around the
world, and for all entrepreneurs that got a number one coin .

I invite all DCML friends to read :

O Globo Journal
Rio de Janeiro, 2004 June, 28

The Enrichment Show

Uncle Scrooge began his life as a shoe shiner in Scotland where
earned his number one coin, his luck coin, that greedy turned, along many
years, the bigger fortune in Duckburg history. Never one duck, live or dead,
was able to be close to the Uncle Scrooge fortune.

The big business whisper is always in it?s begin, in the number one coin, in
the luck object.

Financial sucess people got one coin number one in his entrepreneur skills,
in his sense for business, skills able to turn, on a table time, a little
greenery shop to a big supermarket net, an old car to a bus fleet, an
outpatient to a clinic, and more time, to a hospital, a little desk in a
little room to a big majestic and sucess lawyer office, an shoe shiner box
to a shoe shiner shop,
a room in a little school to, more time, a big school complex ; Patience to
an cr?che, only a few examples.

For many time, I used to help a non governmental organization to help
entrepreneurs to having acess to credit. I met many situations where the
combination of credit and, at the same time, woman?s criativity for
survival, turned little home sweets, pizzas and hand made objects production
to very profitable businesses. Who met the work of Indian Professor Muhammed
Yunus, and his example multiplied here in Brazil by organizations like The
Woman Bank, are going to know the multiplication miraculous who born from
the combination of easy credit, entrepreneur skill and aim to the work,
combination who turns in gold many fist one coins.

Many earns a luck coin in the lottery and fortunes build by relatives and
earned by heritage. they mix luck with care and greedy and are able to Keep
a comfortable life for many years, and transfer it for his grandchildren any
financing comfort.
In the sucess business and fortunes world there are people who can?t show
his luck coin to the public, because it was stolened, and stolen is a very
bad action, and is risk , it able to provocate headsicks, besides the fact
if it is discovered by the real luck coin owner, with certainly, claim for
back.

To build fortunes without a luck coin, we see many money cleaners, actually
very sucess professionals in all the world.

A big challenger for the modern society is discover stolened coins, on tax
payements, activity easier as long is possible to look and find the real
fortunes origins.

A good track for all investigators : even the less dedicated for the work :
The Police, the Public Life is not an activity able to enrich. From the
brazilian nation higher political position to the little position, salaries
are not possibilities to earn fortunes, and if a politician, if working for
government do not allow financial profitable adventures as much to produce
luxury residences, expensive touristic trips, jewels, horses, giant farms.

The politician, man or woman, who enriched while was in the politics life,
to not be put on doubt, needs to show his luck coin : The money origin, to
buy his first house or to buy the first brick to build an fantastic house.

The life of a public man or woman is by definition Public.

Denise Frossard
Federal Deputy by the Brazilian Social Democracy - PSDB - RJ

Translated by Alexandre Saramelli

> From: Tor Kinlok <tor at kinlok.name>
> Subject: Bolivar (was Re: DCML Digest Issue 19)
> Don, do I understand you correctly? Are you saying that if you
> personally missed reading an issue as a child, then somehow that
> story never happened?

As far as I knew as a kid, no, it never happened. How could it have?
And even if I had read that 1951 story then or later, I never saw that dog
in the Duck household again. So in the Duck Universe I grew up with, there
was no family dog. But I *did* grow up with several stories where the
Nephews seemed to have controlling interest in a noble and brilliant
bloodhound named General Snozzie, the Official Woodchuck Hound. Therefore,
Snozzie *is* alive in my heart and mind. I have already used Snozzie several
times in important tales, one being a story showing how important Snozzie is
in HD&L's life soon after they came to live with Donald. Snozzie is not only
the dog *I* associate with the Nephews, but he is also a hound who looks
much more like the Basset Hounds that I adore (the only dogs I've ever owned
-- had 8 so far), so given a choice of dogs in a match between a Hound and a
big furry Saint Bernard, I would take the hound as both a pet and a story
character. Maybe I love Basset Hounds because of Barks' Snozzie (a
bloodhound). So, other writers use Bolivar when they need a Duck-dog, and
I'll use Snozzie. No difference. Something for everyone. And just because I
do it that way in my miniscule share of stories certainly doesn't make it
either right or official, it just makes it the way I do it, so no problem.

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the computer font that
Gladstone used in some of Walt Disney Comics & Stories #616. It
wasn't Whizbang or the Donaldists Barks Font, although it did look
very much like a Carl Barks lettering style.

If someone could tell me where this font could be purchased or even
knows the name of it I would be very grateful.

Jeremy Macpherson

Mads Jensen wrote:

>244 is not a Christmas story

This is true, but there is another Christmas story that includes a missile:
WDC 220 "Rocket-Roasted Christmas Turkey". Hope this is useful.

Nils Petter Smeby

Santiago García wrote:

> In my opinion, Rockerduck should be aged in the middle
> between Scrooge and Donald: Scrooge usually addresses
> him as "novice", but Donald calls him "Mister", with a
> kind of respect treatment.

Interesting. In Danish translations, Donald just calls him "Rockerduck"
without the "Mister".

Fernando Ventura wrote:

> To me he's 40/50 years old! Don't ask me why! :-)

Fernando, how old do you see Donald as being?

Lars

Hey Jeremy,

> I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the computer font that
> Gladstone used in some of Walt Disney Comics & Stories #616. It wasn't
> Whizbang or the Donaldists Barks Font, although it did look very much like
> a Carl Barks lettering style.
> If someone could tell me where this font could be purchased or even knows
> the name of it I would be very grateful.
>
This font is "Plain Awful," a Macintosh Barks-alike font that I
designed at a time when the Donaldists were not yet distributing theirs.
At this point, I'd love to know why I chose to use a Barks font for
a Mickey Mouse story... but I can't always explain why I did what I did nine
years ago...

I can give it to you for free if you'd like (contact me privately),
the only stipulation being that you please credit me if you use it in a
professional publication. Thanks very much for liking it enough to enquire
after it! (-:

Best, David

Adding to Elaine Ramshaw's list, I am aware of 3 more Barks
Christmas stories; all long stories:
US47 "The Thrifty Spendthrift", Feb.1964. A hypnotized
Scrooge gives the gifts from the 12 days of Christmas song.
Christmas Parade #9, "Christmas in Duckburg" Dec. '58.
Donald and HDL go to Canada to get a very tall tree for
Duckburg's Christmas display. Beagle Boys damage the tree.
Christmas Parade #26, "Christmas Cha Cha" Dec. '59.
Scrooge offers a prize for a dance contest, but wins it himself
with his partner, a professional dance teacher.
Something very strange happened to the numbering of
the "Christmas Parade" album series, as #9 was followed the
very next year by #26.
I checked WDC&S #232 and #244, and neither is a
Christmas story.
Best wishes, Larry Giver.

Hello everyone,
acording to the press release published on www.ultimatedisney.com, the
second volume of "The Chronological Donald" will contain "'The Art and
Animation of Carl Barks' - a new featurette about Disney's legendary Donald
Duck artist". I think it's very nice of Disney Company that they iclude such
a gem for all comic book fans in their Treasures series. I hope Disney will
put something similar on the DuckTales DVDs.

Best wishes,
Mateusz Lis