Hello all,
Can anyone tell me when/if Don Rosa is
planning/drawing/submitting a new story?
I haven't been following the Mailing List too closely
for the last few months, but when I come across news
of Don Rosa, he is on tour, or visiting some comic
conference. I don't think he has time to think about
new stories while he is being feted upon like this.
I look forward to his stories so much. I'm hoping he
hasn't run out of enthusiasm for story telling, I seem
to get that from his tone in some posts that he feels
this way.
Can anyone (even Mr Rosa) enlighten me? I'll never
give up waiting.
Mark Small
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Mark Small
Rosa's next story?
Message 31 -
2006-10-20 at 14:03:14
Olaf Moriarty Solstrand
Spies on story Have Gun, Will Dance?
Message 32 -
2006-10-20 at 14:04:43
Timo Ronkainen <timoro at hotmail.com> skreiv Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:24:10 +0200
> Question: I have no acces at the moment to english language original
> Barks
> story W WDC 278-02 "Have Gun, Will Dance", and I need answer pretty soon.
>> From what country were spies who tried to steal weapons? Brutopia? They
> dance Russian way in the end of the story. Cold War era story. In Finnish
> translation they come from "Kapinamaa" which would be "Mutiny- or
> Revoltland"
Page 2: ?Heh! *Cheap* traitor! *I* got *ten* thousand for selling the
plans to *Brutopia*! Heh!?
Page 8: ?Hands up, guard! *We* are taking over your cargo for our
revolution in Coco Nutsia!?
Page 10: ?The Brutopian spies get deported -- that is, they will when they
finish their trepaka hopaka!?
So they're Brutopian.
Olaf
> Question: I have no acces at the moment to english language original
> Barks
> story W WDC 278-02 "Have Gun, Will Dance", and I need answer pretty soon.
>> From what country were spies who tried to steal weapons? Brutopia? They
> dance Russian way in the end of the story. Cold War era story. In Finnish
> translation they come from "Kapinamaa" which would be "Mutiny- or
> Revoltland"
Page 2: ?Heh! *Cheap* traitor! *I* got *ten* thousand for selling the
plans to *Brutopia*! Heh!?
Page 8: ?Hands up, guard! *We* are taking over your cargo for our
revolution in Coco Nutsia!?
Page 10: ?The Brutopian spies get deported -- that is, they will when they
finish their trepaka hopaka!?
So they're Brutopian.
Olaf
Timo Ronkainen
Spies on story Have Gun, Will Dance?
Message 33 -
2006-10-20 at 18:18:02
Hello!
Brutopians after all! Thanks for quick answer!
Timo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Olaf Moriarty Solstrand" <olaf.solstrand at andebyonline.com>
To: "Timo Ronkainen" <timoro at hotmail.com>; <dcml at nafsk.se>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Spies on story Have Gun, Will Dance?
> Page 2: ?Heh! *Cheap* traitor! *I* got *ten* thousand for selling the
> plans to *Brutopia*! Heh!?
> Page 8: ?Hands up, guard! *We* are taking over your cargo for our
> revolution in Coco Nutsia!?
> Page 10: ?The Brutopian spies get deported -- that is, they will when they
> finish their trepaka hopaka!?
>
> So they're Brutopian.
>
>
>
> Olaf
>
>
Brutopians after all! Thanks for quick answer!
Timo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Olaf Moriarty Solstrand" <olaf.solstrand at andebyonline.com>
To: "Timo Ronkainen" <timoro at hotmail.com>; <dcml at nafsk.se>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Spies on story Have Gun, Will Dance?
> Page 2: ?Heh! *Cheap* traitor! *I* got *ten* thousand for selling the
> plans to *Brutopia*! Heh!?
> Page 8: ?Hands up, guard! *We* are taking over your cargo for our
> revolution in Coco Nutsia!?
> Page 10: ?The Brutopian spies get deported -- that is, they will when they
> finish their trepaka hopaka!?
>
> So they're Brutopian.
>
>
>
> Olaf
>
>
UNDBKB
Don Rosa in San Diego
Message 34 -
2006-10-20 at 20:20:26
I know it is a little late but I just had these developed (Old School)
The pictures are as follows:
Don Rosa and 2 Norwegian fans at a CGC gathering.
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/donnorwegians
Don Rosa, Barry Branvold (Me) and Scott McAdam
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/donscott
Don Rosa and Maggie Thompson at CGC
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/donmaggie
Don Rosa at the Gemstone Booth
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/dongemstone
Don Rosa in a classic pose:
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/donclassic
Thanks for sharing the pictures from Germany.
Barry
The pictures are as follows:
Don Rosa and 2 Norwegian fans at a CGC gathering.
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/donnorwegians
Don Rosa, Barry Branvold (Me) and Scott McAdam
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/donscott
Don Rosa and Maggie Thompson at CGC
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/donmaggie
Don Rosa at the Gemstone Booth
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/dongemstone
Don Rosa in a classic pose:
http://members.aol.com:/undbkb/donclassic
Thanks for sharing the pictures from Germany.
Barry
Goofy313g
Disney exhibition in Paris ! ! ! You guys must see that!
Message 35 -
2006-10-21 at 13:55:56
I went to this exhibition last weekend, I've never seen such an interresting
and fresh look at Disney's work.
First because of the huge work of research (most of the exhibition is about
Disney's influences for his films from Snow white to Jungle Book, and also in
his early b/w cartoons. So you get to see great canvas from various artists
and periods (including a wonderful one by Philippe Rousseau), and also lots of
books Disney used to bring back from his travels in Europe and that
countains illustrations with anthropomized animals, such as Granville and Teniel and
Rackham.
Then the setting is also fabulous! Wonderful decoration, (some documents are
shown in golden snw-white like glass coffins), great organisations for the
videos displaying (in one room you have two big screens, one with extracted
sequences from bw MM , and the other with sequences from early 1920's horror
movies (Murnau's Faust, Frankenstein, King Kong,...) Disney used for his
inspiration. These greatly synchronized video parallel are also used a few times
further in the exhibition (fir instance Gertie the Dinosaur / the dinosaur
sequence in Fantasia).
Of course, Disney fans all knew about those influences, but AFAIK, it had
never been concretized that way, and I don't think it had been explored that
deeply so far.
There are also lots of figurines animators used for shadows and 3d vision of
the characters (you get to see some of those in "The Reluctant Dragon), lots
of beautiful studies and backgrounds from Disney movies (my favorite ones
were one from Pinocchio and another beautiful study of Sleeping Beauty's house
in the woods by Eyvind Earle). You can also see a scaled model of Disneyland
Paris' Sleeping Beauty Castle.
One of the things I really enjoyed watching was the projection of the
Dali/Disney surreal project that was never finished, and which was re-made in
digital animation in 2001, Destino, which is not even available on eMule (except
if you're looking for bad quality porn), and which has only been shown in
festivals, and before a projection of "Les Triplettes de Belleville" in the USA,
even though they planned to do a dvd which was never released. And there's
even a few sketches by Dali himself which I really enjoyed (my favorite one is a
swan near a tree, and their reflect in water is an elephant, the swan'w neck
becomes the elephant's nose).
Then, the last room was dedicated to contemporary artists that were
influenced, with really good choices, there's aven a Warhol Donald Duck canvas, and
also a beautiful piece of Gottfried Helnwein which I happen to have been
loving for years, "American Dream". I also loved Bertrand Lavier's work : he
reproduced abstract canvas and sculptures seen in an old Mickey Mouse comicbook
gag!!! That's somehting I always thought about doing so I appreciated it a lot!
I think barks also used to show silly abstract sculptures, so that guy could
have choose his work instead...
As a conclusion I'd say that besides giving you that never before seen look
at Disney's work, and overflow your heart with flashbacks from your childhood,
It really explains to people and especially artists that no matter how
talented you are, you can hardly produce something that imortally goes through
times if you don't have inspirations, and that culture is not something static,
its made of a superposition of layers communicating with eachother, a little
bit like cellos :-) Everything is linked.
That's too bad, I thought I would be able to see Interduck's Duckomenta as
well, as it used to be not far of the Grand Palais, but it finished in the end
of September... :-(
About the medias, there is indeed a DVD, with the great Arte program related
to the exhibition, a very complete book that costs about 45 euros if I
recall well, and Olivier, you probably also want to get the Telerama hors s?rie
about it :-) It's also really good. In the Grand Palais shop you also have lots
of books related to Disney and reeditions of old books Disney brought back
from his travels, such as "Le Roman du Renard"...
The queue wasn't very long, but there was lots of people inside, including
children, which was a bit annoying :-)
Gilles R. Maurice
_http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/_
(http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/)
and fresh look at Disney's work.
First because of the huge work of research (most of the exhibition is about
Disney's influences for his films from Snow white to Jungle Book, and also in
his early b/w cartoons. So you get to see great canvas from various artists
and periods (including a wonderful one by Philippe Rousseau), and also lots of
books Disney used to bring back from his travels in Europe and that
countains illustrations with anthropomized animals, such as Granville and Teniel and
Rackham.
Then the setting is also fabulous! Wonderful decoration, (some documents are
shown in golden snw-white like glass coffins), great organisations for the
videos displaying (in one room you have two big screens, one with extracted
sequences from bw MM , and the other with sequences from early 1920's horror
movies (Murnau's Faust, Frankenstein, King Kong,...) Disney used for his
inspiration. These greatly synchronized video parallel are also used a few times
further in the exhibition (fir instance Gertie the Dinosaur / the dinosaur
sequence in Fantasia).
Of course, Disney fans all knew about those influences, but AFAIK, it had
never been concretized that way, and I don't think it had been explored that
deeply so far.
There are also lots of figurines animators used for shadows and 3d vision of
the characters (you get to see some of those in "The Reluctant Dragon), lots
of beautiful studies and backgrounds from Disney movies (my favorite ones
were one from Pinocchio and another beautiful study of Sleeping Beauty's house
in the woods by Eyvind Earle). You can also see a scaled model of Disneyland
Paris' Sleeping Beauty Castle.
One of the things I really enjoyed watching was the projection of the
Dali/Disney surreal project that was never finished, and which was re-made in
digital animation in 2001, Destino, which is not even available on eMule (except
if you're looking for bad quality porn), and which has only been shown in
festivals, and before a projection of "Les Triplettes de Belleville" in the USA,
even though they planned to do a dvd which was never released. And there's
even a few sketches by Dali himself which I really enjoyed (my favorite one is a
swan near a tree, and their reflect in water is an elephant, the swan'w neck
becomes the elephant's nose).
Then, the last room was dedicated to contemporary artists that were
influenced, with really good choices, there's aven a Warhol Donald Duck canvas, and
also a beautiful piece of Gottfried Helnwein which I happen to have been
loving for years, "American Dream". I also loved Bertrand Lavier's work : he
reproduced abstract canvas and sculptures seen in an old Mickey Mouse comicbook
gag!!! That's somehting I always thought about doing so I appreciated it a lot!
I think barks also used to show silly abstract sculptures, so that guy could
have choose his work instead...
As a conclusion I'd say that besides giving you that never before seen look
at Disney's work, and overflow your heart with flashbacks from your childhood,
It really explains to people and especially artists that no matter how
talented you are, you can hardly produce something that imortally goes through
times if you don't have inspirations, and that culture is not something static,
its made of a superposition of layers communicating with eachother, a little
bit like cellos :-) Everything is linked.
That's too bad, I thought I would be able to see Interduck's Duckomenta as
well, as it used to be not far of the Grand Palais, but it finished in the end
of September... :-(
About the medias, there is indeed a DVD, with the great Arte program related
to the exhibition, a very complete book that costs about 45 euros if I
recall well, and Olivier, you probably also want to get the Telerama hors s?rie
about it :-) It's also really good. In the Grand Palais shop you also have lots
of books related to Disney and reeditions of old books Disney brought back
from his travels, such as "Le Roman du Renard"...
The queue wasn't very long, but there was lots of people inside, including
children, which was a bit annoying :-)
Gilles R. Maurice
_http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/_
(http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/)
Timo Ronkainen
Disney exhibition in Paris ! ! ! You guys must see that!
Message 36 -
2006-10-22 at 04:22:34
Thanks, Gilles, for your report on exhibition! Very interesting.
I instantly started to google for Bertnard Lavier's Disney inspired sculptures you mentioned. I found this:
>Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
>Bertrand Lavier
>WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS
>1947-1995, n. 1 1995
>cellulose painting on
>polyester resin
>Bertrand Lavier: Walt Disney Productions,explores the tenuous realm between high art and the everyday. Lavier's series, Walt Disney
>Productions, was inspired by a 1947 Disney cartoon that reflects a sophisticated play with the clich? of Modernism. The original cartoon, entitled,
>"Very Abstract Lines," shows Minnie Mouse defending modern art to a skeptical Mickey as they visit an art museum in which caricatures of
>Modernist painting and sculpture abound. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Lavier usurped the artworks pictured in the cartoon, enlarging them and
>further manipulating them in the form of Cibachrome photographs imprinted on aluminum, aquatints, black-and-white photographs, photogravures,
>inkjet on canvas, and three-dimensional polyester sculptures, continuing to find in this theme new and fascinating permutations. Removed from the
>intentionally ironic atmosphere of the comic strip, these artworks hover between formal elegance and out-of-whack surrealism.
You can see also small picture there: http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/archives/archive_lavier.html
I wonder if there's some error, since I couldn't find any cartoons with that title. Or were his sculptures actually derived from comic strip or comic book story? Nevertheless, Inducks finds nothing with the given title.
Can anybody recall any Mickey Mouse comics that goes with description above?
Timo
----- Original Message -----
From: Goofy313g at aol.com
To: dcml at nafsk.se
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:55 PM
Subject: Disney exhibition in Paris ! ! ! You guys must see that!
I went to this exhibition last weekend, I've never seen such an interresting and fresh look at Disney's work.
I instantly started to google for Bertnard Lavier's Disney inspired sculptures you mentioned. I found this:
>Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
>Bertrand Lavier
>WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS
>1947-1995, n. 1 1995
>cellulose painting on
>polyester resin
>Bertrand Lavier: Walt Disney Productions,explores the tenuous realm between high art and the everyday. Lavier's series, Walt Disney
>Productions, was inspired by a 1947 Disney cartoon that reflects a sophisticated play with the clich? of Modernism. The original cartoon, entitled,
>"Very Abstract Lines," shows Minnie Mouse defending modern art to a skeptical Mickey as they visit an art museum in which caricatures of
>Modernist painting and sculpture abound. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Lavier usurped the artworks pictured in the cartoon, enlarging them and
>further manipulating them in the form of Cibachrome photographs imprinted on aluminum, aquatints, black-and-white photographs, photogravures,
>inkjet on canvas, and three-dimensional polyester sculptures, continuing to find in this theme new and fascinating permutations. Removed from the
>intentionally ironic atmosphere of the comic strip, these artworks hover between formal elegance and out-of-whack surrealism.
You can see also small picture there: http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/archives/archive_lavier.html
I wonder if there's some error, since I couldn't find any cartoons with that title. Or were his sculptures actually derived from comic strip or comic book story? Nevertheless, Inducks finds nothing with the given title.
Can anybody recall any Mickey Mouse comics that goes with description above?
Timo
----- Original Message -----
From: Goofy313g at aol.com
To: dcml at nafsk.se
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 1:55 PM
Subject: Disney exhibition in Paris ! ! ! You guys must see that!
I went to this exhibition last weekend, I've never seen such an interresting and fresh look at Disney's work.
Germund Von Wowern
Duckomenta again
Message 37 -
2006-10-22 at 13:53:24
Goofy313g at aol.com wrote:
> That's too bad, I thought I would be able to see Interduck's
> Duckomenta as well, as it used to be not far of the Grand
> Palais, but it finished in the end of September... :-(
As I wrote a few days ago, Duckomenta is currently on display in Malm?, Sweden, just across the bridge from Copenhagen. Closes November 4. A little too far away for most, I guess, but there are quite a few Scandinavians on the list and it's really worth seeing.
/Germund
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> That's too bad, I thought I would be able to see Interduck's
> Duckomenta as well, as it used to be not far of the Grand
> Palais, but it finished in the end of September... :-(
As I wrote a few days ago, Duckomenta is currently on display in Malm?, Sweden, just across the bridge from Copenhagen. Closes November 4. A little too far away for most, I guess, but there are quite a few Scandinavians on the list and it's really worth seeing.
/Germund
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DCML Digest, Vol 44, Issue 15
Message 38 -
2006-10-22 at 18:14:30
From: Mark Small <smalley58au at yahoo.com>
>>>>> when I come across news of Don Rosa, he is on tour, or visiting some
comic conference. I don't think he has time to think about new stories while
he is being feted upon like this.
...Can anyone (even Mr Rosa) enlighten me?
Gosh, that's the way my life has been for about the last 15 years, not just
lately! Does it leave me time to do ANYTHING? Not much! Consider that when
any other author or cartoonist gets this popular (for whatever weird reason)
& busy... and other Americans in this situation who spring to mind and with
whom I'm often at European conventions would be Neil Gaiman and Jeff
Smith... they hire an assistant(s) to take care of most things for them. But
that's not an option to me working in this system. I still answer 100% of
my own mail everyday, personally see about all that's needed from me by
Egmont or Gemstone or any other publisher, do all my own organizing & travel
planning with convention sponsors, publishers, etc., deal with my own
lawyers, as well as try to keep up with my *normal* life as much as I should
in continuing with my comics, books, music, movie collections, and running
my own household which includes maintaining a 25 acre (10 hectare) estate
like a national park with trails and meadows. How can their be time for all
that?! There *hasn't been* for 15 years, but I always put the Ducks first.
Lately circumstances have caused me to place everything on a more even keel,
so I am taking care of my own life a bit better than I have in the past two
decades... not being an iota less busy, but just channeling the work % in
different directions... I'm still missing far too much of all the things I
always expected to do in life which I see I'm not getting done as the years
roll past. Plus my wife is retired (schoolteacher) now and would VERY much
like me to simply start selling my comics collections and retire with her so
we can both enjoy ourselves, travel, etc., rather than me locking myself to
the drawing board so earnestly for 3-4 months nonstop on each project. I
sold just a fraction of my comic collection last year, just the "new" stuff,
1970-1985 stuff, and (with the help of friends) I made more $ in 6 months
than I made in 6-7 *years* of doing Duck comics. So you can imagine how I'm
torn between what to do next. There's no pension waiting for anyone who
spends their life making comics, but I have a pension waiting my use in my
collections of "stuff". Just waiting. But I love making $crooge stories!
But.... but...
But I'm still working on the two projects that Egmont tells me are most
urgent at the moment -- I am completing my contributions to the 4th ROSA
HALL OF FAME book for one Egmont division, while for another division I am
creating a series of 12 posters for the 60th anniversary of Carl Barks'
$crooge McDuck in 2007. And yesterday a big mucky-muck in another Egmont
division called me about another special project being considered for next
Spring. When I get those projects done, then I can see about a new
story......
>>>>> when I come across news of Don Rosa, he is on tour, or visiting some
comic conference. I don't think he has time to think about new stories while
he is being feted upon like this.
...Can anyone (even Mr Rosa) enlighten me?
Gosh, that's the way my life has been for about the last 15 years, not just
lately! Does it leave me time to do ANYTHING? Not much! Consider that when
any other author or cartoonist gets this popular (for whatever weird reason)
& busy... and other Americans in this situation who spring to mind and with
whom I'm often at European conventions would be Neil Gaiman and Jeff
Smith... they hire an assistant(s) to take care of most things for them. But
that's not an option to me working in this system. I still answer 100% of
my own mail everyday, personally see about all that's needed from me by
Egmont or Gemstone or any other publisher, do all my own organizing & travel
planning with convention sponsors, publishers, etc., deal with my own
lawyers, as well as try to keep up with my *normal* life as much as I should
in continuing with my comics, books, music, movie collections, and running
my own household which includes maintaining a 25 acre (10 hectare) estate
like a national park with trails and meadows. How can their be time for all
that?! There *hasn't been* for 15 years, but I always put the Ducks first.
Lately circumstances have caused me to place everything on a more even keel,
so I am taking care of my own life a bit better than I have in the past two
decades... not being an iota less busy, but just channeling the work % in
different directions... I'm still missing far too much of all the things I
always expected to do in life which I see I'm not getting done as the years
roll past. Plus my wife is retired (schoolteacher) now and would VERY much
like me to simply start selling my comics collections and retire with her so
we can both enjoy ourselves, travel, etc., rather than me locking myself to
the drawing board so earnestly for 3-4 months nonstop on each project. I
sold just a fraction of my comic collection last year, just the "new" stuff,
1970-1985 stuff, and (with the help of friends) I made more $ in 6 months
than I made in 6-7 *years* of doing Duck comics. So you can imagine how I'm
torn between what to do next. There's no pension waiting for anyone who
spends their life making comics, but I have a pension waiting my use in my
collections of "stuff". Just waiting. But I love making $crooge stories!
But.... but...
But I'm still working on the two projects that Egmont tells me are most
urgent at the moment -- I am completing my contributions to the 4th ROSA
HALL OF FAME book for one Egmont division, while for another division I am
creating a series of 12 posters for the 60th anniversary of Carl Barks'
$crooge McDuck in 2007. And yesterday a big mucky-muck in another Egmont
division called me about another special project being considered for next
Spring. When I get those projects done, then I can see about a new
story......
Rich
Mickey & the Red Wasp
Message 39 -
2006-10-23 at 14:50:39
Hi. I was pleasantly surprised by the latest issue of MICKEY MOUSE & FRIENDS
reprinting of "THE MYSTERY OF THE RED WASP!" (even though I do own the original
publication). The reprinting gives me some hope that it will appeal to modern
Disney collectors and, as mentioned in the inside cover's editorial comments (by
David Gerstein), the call is out for those who might be interested in
seeing "more" of the Red Wasp. David even mentioned his team-ups with Super Goof
& Duck Avenger and the Duckburg Super-Hero Club.
I guess it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyhow, I would be counted among
those who would definitely love to see more of the Red Wasp (as well as the Duck
Avenger and Super-Goof & Super Gilly).
That said, however, I wonder how likely it would be for the USA to see printings
of OTHER Disney supers like the Red Bat (Fethry), the Purple Butterfly (Gloria,
Fethry's girlfriend, whom I'm not sure has even been introduced in her civilian ID
to the USA, yet), Daisy (in her super-ID, whatever name English name might be
used), and even the Green Bat (Jose Carioca) and any others that might be relevant
(I'm not a big fan of Scrooge and Chief O'Hara as super-heroes), what is the
likelihood that these would be introduced to the US market?
I know the first story that introduced all the heroes as the Super-Hero Club also
included a very obvious knock-off of Superman on the team, which I would assume
would either exclude the pubication of that story, or some definite rewrite would
have to be done.
I think it would be fun to see a story featuring the Three Caballeros in a super-
hero tale, but that would mean creating an alter-ego for Panchito.
Thanks,
Rich
(Email removed)
"Life is meant to be lived in Eternal Joy, Infinite Freedom, Unconditional Love
and Unbounded Awareness. Any other life is utterly missing the point of being born
a human." -MSI
---- Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/
reprinting of "THE MYSTERY OF THE RED WASP!" (even though I do own the original
publication). The reprinting gives me some hope that it will appeal to modern
Disney collectors and, as mentioned in the inside cover's editorial comments (by
David Gerstein), the call is out for those who might be interested in
seeing "more" of the Red Wasp. David even mentioned his team-ups with Super Goof
& Duck Avenger and the Duckburg Super-Hero Club.
I guess it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyhow, I would be counted among
those who would definitely love to see more of the Red Wasp (as well as the Duck
Avenger and Super-Goof & Super Gilly).
That said, however, I wonder how likely it would be for the USA to see printings
of OTHER Disney supers like the Red Bat (Fethry), the Purple Butterfly (Gloria,
Fethry's girlfriend, whom I'm not sure has even been introduced in her civilian ID
to the USA, yet), Daisy (in her super-ID, whatever name English name might be
used), and even the Green Bat (Jose Carioca) and any others that might be relevant
(I'm not a big fan of Scrooge and Chief O'Hara as super-heroes), what is the
likelihood that these would be introduced to the US market?
I know the first story that introduced all the heroes as the Super-Hero Club also
included a very obvious knock-off of Superman on the team, which I would assume
would either exclude the pubication of that story, or some definite rewrite would
have to be done.
I think it would be fun to see a story featuring the Three Caballeros in a super-
hero tale, but that would mean creating an alter-ego for Panchito.
Thanks,
Rich
(Email removed)
"Life is meant to be lived in Eternal Joy, Infinite Freedom, Unconditional Love
and Unbounded Awareness. Any other life is utterly missing the point of being born
a human." -MSI
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GGK
Duck Tales Movie and Barks "Piramide Shame"
Message 40 -
2006-10-24 at 00:00:04
Hello
I don't know was this mention before, but I discover this rith now and I
like to share it with you :
In "Duck Tales The Movie - Tresure of the Lost Lamp" the part where the
Ducks find the Piramid in the sand on the destert and dig it-up is
apperently taken from one of Carl Barks short storys "Piramide Shame".
Main diffrence is theat in the Barks story Scrooge hire a whole staff to
dig-it-up while in the movie it only took 7 people...
Link to the On-line comics for people who would like to compare
http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/1959/pyramid/Thumbnails.html
I wonder, if there were more plot-part borow from Barks Comic books in this
Movie...
Yours
Maciek
I don't know was this mention before, but I discover this rith now and I
like to share it with you :
In "Duck Tales The Movie - Tresure of the Lost Lamp" the part where the
Ducks find the Piramid in the sand on the destert and dig it-up is
apperently taken from one of Carl Barks short storys "Piramide Shame".
Main diffrence is theat in the Barks story Scrooge hire a whole staff to
dig-it-up while in the movie it only took 7 people...
Link to the On-line comics for people who would like to compare
http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/1959/pyramid/Thumbnails.html
I wonder, if there were more plot-part borow from Barks Comic books in this
Movie...
Yours
Maciek
ZeldasTriforce
Donaldist Publications on CD
Message 41 -
2006-10-24 at 04:53:51
Hi all!
I've noticed that D.O.N.A.L.D., the German Donaldist group has a CD
collecting the various issues of their journal/fanzine from 1976 to 1985. As far as I
know, this is the only instance of this happening among the various Donaldist
groups that have publications. Are their any plans for more of this? I really
think this would be a great thing, not only as a way to have the mass of issues
readily avaliable, but as a source of revenue (though probably not alot) for
the various groups as well.
I myself, am currently in the mist of doing something similiar for Studies In
Popular Culture (from the Popular Culture Association in the South). Though
that's more a case of scanning the issues to put them on PCAS' website rather
than as a CD (since all back issues are still avaliable for purchase).
Anyway, I've just been thinking about it lately, seeing that so many
Donaldist publications have been made, but only a relative handful of the issues seem
to be avaliable for purchase and that CD's would be a great way to make them
available (though that requires a ton of scanning, obviously).
Derek Smith
I've noticed that D.O.N.A.L.D., the German Donaldist group has a CD
collecting the various issues of their journal/fanzine from 1976 to 1985. As far as I
know, this is the only instance of this happening among the various Donaldist
groups that have publications. Are their any plans for more of this? I really
think this would be a great thing, not only as a way to have the mass of issues
readily avaliable, but as a source of revenue (though probably not alot) for
the various groups as well.
I myself, am currently in the mist of doing something similiar for Studies In
Popular Culture (from the Popular Culture Association in the South). Though
that's more a case of scanning the issues to put them on PCAS' website rather
than as a CD (since all back issues are still avaliable for purchase).
Anyway, I've just been thinking about it lately, seeing that so many
Donaldist publications have been made, but only a relative handful of the issues seem
to be avaliable for purchase and that CD's would be a great way to make them
available (though that requires a ton of scanning, obviously).
Derek Smith
ZeldasTriforce
Gemstone Cancellations
Message 42 -
2006-10-25 at 10:11:08
I feel about as happy as Donald Duck in a knitting circle, read on....
To be run in the November-shipped issues of Gemstone comics:
You?ve stuck with us through several years of good news, readers?news about
exciting stories, modern and classic writers and artists, comics and specials
we?ve been bringing to market. Unfortunately, now we?ve got some bad news to
deliver. We?re hoping you?ll stick with us through this, too.
It all starts?like a lot of bad news?with the almighty dollar. Paper prices
are going up... in fact, they?ve been going up for awhile. Until now we?ve
dealt with the fallout as best we could, but at last it?s "put up or shut up"
time: we must either take an unfeasible price hike on our $2.95 32-page comics
and $7.95 Take-Along books, or else cease publishing Mickey Mouse and Friends,
Donald Duck and Friends, Mickey Mouse Adventures and Donald Duck Adventures
for right now.
After serious cogitating, we?ve decided to take the latter option. Should
paper prices fall, or better marketing opportunities present themselves, we might
return to some of the suspended series. In the meantime, though, be of good
cheer. For we have good news, too.
Firstly, our prestige titles?Uncle Scrooge, Walt Disney?s Comics and Stories
, and various specials?are as successful as ever, and the economics of
publishing in this format are such that we can get away with a relatively small price
hike: the first since 1997, and only a matter of fifty-five cents per book
(from $6.95 to $7.50, starting in two months).
Secondly, we're moving full steam ahead with plans to make our Walt Disney
Treasures TPBs an ongoing series; to introduce two new 80-page annuals; and to
release several thick-but-inexpensive Shonen Jump-style black and white books
per year?some specially targeted to collectors, others to all ages. Bringing t
hese onto the schedule means that we?ll actually be publishing more Donald and
Mickey in 2007 than we did in 2006!
Watch for news about our new titles in the coming months. And look forward to
the future; we do, even when?as Carl Barks once put it?"Times are tough,
huh, bud?"
- The Gemstone Staff
---------------------------------------------------
I think I could curse enough to make Scrooge in his Klondike days look like a
nun, but I'll refrain. @#^Q!%!$%!
This isn't nearly as bad as the dark days of 1999-2003, but it is unsettling
to say the least. It's a struggle to type coherent sentences. *insert
ineffable cry here*
Let's pray for a collapse in paper prices. Because if the last three years
are any indication, marketing opportunities will appear only by Herculean
effort, luck, and/or a miracle. And even then, it would be doubtful.
How high would the prices of the $2.95 and $7.95 books have gone if they had
continued? Unless it was to be more than say $3.50 and $8.95 respectively, I
say keep going! We're already paying top dollar (except the 32 pagers, they
were priced in line with other companies' comics), another dollar wouldn't kill
me surely.
Argh!!! I mean, yes, there is good news! Treasures will be a regular series.
Hurray! :) And a couple of new 80-page annuals will be released (I guess
they'll be at least $8.95, but hey, no more DDA/MMA so money's freed up there. :p
) And there will be several black-and-white collections forthcoming (though I
wonder what the paper quality on those will be).
So there'll be more Disney comics in the future than there were before. Great
news, just delivered in a slightly depression-inducing way.
So I know I'm overreacting, but when you've bought every single solid,
Gemstone Disney comic ever produced and you find out that some of your favorite
titles have been cancelled, it's just awful. That because some American or
Canadian or whatever, deforestor thinks their wood/paper is worth 50% or whatever
more than it was last year, thus contributing to cancellation.
This reminds me of the Gladstone days, where first they went to cheaper
covers, then to canceling all but two titles, then even those two. While the
Gemstone situation is more akin to taking away, but giving back as well, it's still
a bit unsettling.
I have an idea. As a way to raise money for Gemstone, maybe they should
publish some ultra-rare, variant, CGC-graded editions of Disney comics. Something
that'd go for like $5,000-$10,000 each. Those buyers are the discerning-type.
But make sure it's a 9.8 and not 9.6. A 9.6 would result in at least a 95% drop
in value. :p
Anyway, to wrap this email up, thanks to the Gemstone staff for all they've
done and will continue to do. I'll still keep buying everything that comes out.
But it's still a sad day as far as I'm concerned.
Derek Smith
To be run in the November-shipped issues of Gemstone comics:
You?ve stuck with us through several years of good news, readers?news about
exciting stories, modern and classic writers and artists, comics and specials
we?ve been bringing to market. Unfortunately, now we?ve got some bad news to
deliver. We?re hoping you?ll stick with us through this, too.
It all starts?like a lot of bad news?with the almighty dollar. Paper prices
are going up... in fact, they?ve been going up for awhile. Until now we?ve
dealt with the fallout as best we could, but at last it?s "put up or shut up"
time: we must either take an unfeasible price hike on our $2.95 32-page comics
and $7.95 Take-Along books, or else cease publishing Mickey Mouse and Friends,
Donald Duck and Friends, Mickey Mouse Adventures and Donald Duck Adventures
for right now.
After serious cogitating, we?ve decided to take the latter option. Should
paper prices fall, or better marketing opportunities present themselves, we might
return to some of the suspended series. In the meantime, though, be of good
cheer. For we have good news, too.
Firstly, our prestige titles?Uncle Scrooge, Walt Disney?s Comics and Stories
, and various specials?are as successful as ever, and the economics of
publishing in this format are such that we can get away with a relatively small price
hike: the first since 1997, and only a matter of fifty-five cents per book
(from $6.95 to $7.50, starting in two months).
Secondly, we're moving full steam ahead with plans to make our Walt Disney
Treasures TPBs an ongoing series; to introduce two new 80-page annuals; and to
release several thick-but-inexpensive Shonen Jump-style black and white books
per year?some specially targeted to collectors, others to all ages. Bringing t
hese onto the schedule means that we?ll actually be publishing more Donald and
Mickey in 2007 than we did in 2006!
Watch for news about our new titles in the coming months. And look forward to
the future; we do, even when?as Carl Barks once put it?"Times are tough,
huh, bud?"
- The Gemstone Staff
---------------------------------------------------
I think I could curse enough to make Scrooge in his Klondike days look like a
nun, but I'll refrain. @#^Q!%!$%!
This isn't nearly as bad as the dark days of 1999-2003, but it is unsettling
to say the least. It's a struggle to type coherent sentences. *insert
ineffable cry here*
Let's pray for a collapse in paper prices. Because if the last three years
are any indication, marketing opportunities will appear only by Herculean
effort, luck, and/or a miracle. And even then, it would be doubtful.
How high would the prices of the $2.95 and $7.95 books have gone if they had
continued? Unless it was to be more than say $3.50 and $8.95 respectively, I
say keep going! We're already paying top dollar (except the 32 pagers, they
were priced in line with other companies' comics), another dollar wouldn't kill
me surely.
Argh!!! I mean, yes, there is good news! Treasures will be a regular series.
Hurray! :) And a couple of new 80-page annuals will be released (I guess
they'll be at least $8.95, but hey, no more DDA/MMA so money's freed up there. :p
) And there will be several black-and-white collections forthcoming (though I
wonder what the paper quality on those will be).
So there'll be more Disney comics in the future than there were before. Great
news, just delivered in a slightly depression-inducing way.
So I know I'm overreacting, but when you've bought every single solid,
Gemstone Disney comic ever produced and you find out that some of your favorite
titles have been cancelled, it's just awful. That because some American or
Canadian or whatever, deforestor thinks their wood/paper is worth 50% or whatever
more than it was last year, thus contributing to cancellation.
This reminds me of the Gladstone days, where first they went to cheaper
covers, then to canceling all but two titles, then even those two. While the
Gemstone situation is more akin to taking away, but giving back as well, it's still
a bit unsettling.
I have an idea. As a way to raise money for Gemstone, maybe they should
publish some ultra-rare, variant, CGC-graded editions of Disney comics. Something
that'd go for like $5,000-$10,000 each. Those buyers are the discerning-type.
But make sure it's a 9.8 and not 9.6. A 9.6 would result in at least a 95% drop
in value. :p
Anyway, to wrap this email up, thanks to the Gemstone staff for all they've
done and will continue to do. I'll still keep buying everything that comes out.
But it's still a sad day as far as I'm concerned.
Derek Smith
Olaf Moriarty Solstrand
Don Christensen 1916-2006
Message 43 -
2006-10-26 at 02:01:17
Sad news, friends,
Don Christensen passed away Wednesday October 18th, aged 90. He really was
a good writer, and I'm sure he's made an impression on about all of us.
Rest in peace, Don.
Don Christensen passed away Wednesday October 18th, aged 90. He really was
a good writer, and I'm sure he's made an impression on about all of us.
Rest in peace, Don.
Olaf Moriarty Solstrand
Don Christensen 1916-2006
Message 44 -
2006-10-26 at 02:03:20
Sad news, friends,
Don Christensen passed away Wednesday October 18th, aged 90. He really was
a good writer, and I'm sure he's made an impression on about all of us.
Rest in peace, Don.
(Sorry if this mail arrived twice, I sent it to the old list address by
mistake the first time.)
Don Christensen passed away Wednesday October 18th, aged 90. He really was
a good writer, and I'm sure he's made an impression on about all of us.
Rest in peace, Don.
(Sorry if this mail arrived twice, I sent it to the old list address by
mistake the first time.)
SRoweCanoe
Don Christensen 1916-2006
Message 45 -
2006-10-26 at 03:30:38
In a message dated 10/25/2006 7:05:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
olaf.solstrand at andebyonline.com writes:
Don Christensen passed away Wednesday October 18th, aged 90. He really was
a good writer, and I'm sure he's made an impression on about all of us.
Rest in peace, Don.
thanks for the heads up -
at one time I had a correspondence with Don - (Im the one who stopped
writing)
where we talked about his career, mostly his pre-Disney artwork. he gave me
a copy of his work record - and I passed it on to others, which is why we
know what Disney stories he wrote. and one day why we'll know what other
comics he wrote (other than Magnus).
It's nice to know what he actually did,,,,
RIP Don,
olaf.solstrand at andebyonline.com writes:
Don Christensen passed away Wednesday October 18th, aged 90. He really was
a good writer, and I'm sure he's made an impression on about all of us.
Rest in peace, Don.
thanks for the heads up -
at one time I had a correspondence with Don - (Im the one who stopped
writing)
where we talked about his career, mostly his pre-Disney artwork. he gave me
a copy of his work record - and I passed it on to others, which is why we
know what Disney stories he wrote. and one day why we'll know what other
comics he wrote (other than Magnus).
It's nice to know what he actually did,,,,
RIP Don,