Hi
I was attending the Twin Cities comic convention FALLCON this last weekend
promoting TwinLUG, our local Adult LEGO Users Group and was happily
surprised to see Don Rosa there. I hadn't looked at the guest list of
course. Don had a nice question and answer session and signed books and
prints at his table. I was happy to attend the Q&A and get my copy of The
Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck signed.
You can see a nice picture of Don on my blog. I wasn't sure if I could
attach a picture to this email and I already had this one up on my blog.
http://garth.typepad.com/primitive_screwheads/2008/10/twinlug-at-fallcon-10-4-5-2008.html
The post is mostly about our group at the con but meeting Don was almost as
good as seeing the excited exclamations and happy smiles on the faces of the
kids who came by to look at our LEGO display. Getting my books autographed,
and a signed print, was the icing on a very fattening cake. YUMMM!!!
garth danielson.
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Garth Danielson
Don Rosa at FALLCON Oct 4 & 5, 2008
Message 16 -
2008-10-07 at 00:00:13
Olaf Moriarty Solstrand
HD&L's parents
Message 17 -
2008-10-07 at 08:39:25
GGK wrote:
>> The hint points to their being in the vicinity of Tralla La.
>> That would account for their being out of contact with Calisota and the
>> rest
>> of the world.
>
> This idea makes sence to me, and I like it.
But if that was the case, why wouldn't Huey, Dewey and Louie MOVE to
Tralla La the moment they figured it out?
There is a slight difference between Disney Comics and The Simpsons. Sure,
both involve a lazy main character taking care of three kids and working
for a greedy old man with extreme amounts of money, but in STYLE they are
vastly different. What works in Simpsons doesn't work in Disney Comics.
Elaine wrote:
>> (My godson at age 10 wanted the parents to have had to go into outer
>> space
>> for some reason to save the world;
The bizarre thing is that that idea actually works. I mean, the whole
save-the-world-thingy is not very Disneyesque, but if they are astronauts,
that explains everything. That explains why they leave their children with
Donald, and in that explanation they COULD even show up in a story and
then have to leave again later without bringing the kids along because,
hey, bringing children with you to live in outer space would be cruel.
That's the best idea I've heard so far. Not sure I want to read it, but
it's better than them living happily on the greatest place on Earth. If
they moved to Tralla La, it makes no sense whatsoever that they didn't
bring the kids.
>> The hint points to their being in the vicinity of Tralla La.
>> That would account for their being out of contact with Calisota and the
>> rest
>> of the world.
>
> This idea makes sence to me, and I like it.
But if that was the case, why wouldn't Huey, Dewey and Louie MOVE to
Tralla La the moment they figured it out?
There is a slight difference between Disney Comics and The Simpsons. Sure,
both involve a lazy main character taking care of three kids and working
for a greedy old man with extreme amounts of money, but in STYLE they are
vastly different. What works in Simpsons doesn't work in Disney Comics.
Elaine wrote:
>> (My godson at age 10 wanted the parents to have had to go into outer
>> space
>> for some reason to save the world;
The bizarre thing is that that idea actually works. I mean, the whole
save-the-world-thingy is not very Disneyesque, but if they are astronauts,
that explains everything. That explains why they leave their children with
Donald, and in that explanation they COULD even show up in a story and
then have to leave again later without bringing the kids along because,
hey, bringing children with you to live in outer space would be cruel.
That's the best idea I've heard so far. Not sure I want to read it, but
it's better than them living happily on the greatest place on Earth. If
they moved to Tralla La, it makes no sense whatsoever that they didn't
bring the kids.
Kriton Kyrimis
HD&L's parents
Message 18 -
2008-10-07 at 10:38:01
OLAF:
> There is a slight difference between Disney Comics and The Simpsons.
> Sure, both involve a lazy main character taking care of three kids and
> working for a greedy old man with extreme amounts of money,
In the case of Donald, a *sometimes* lazy main character! In many stories
Donald is very hardworking, either as a master in whatever his
craft-of-the-day is, or risking life and limb for his uncle, at 10 cents an hour!
Kriton.
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> There is a slight difference between Disney Comics and The Simpsons.
> Sure, both involve a lazy main character taking care of three kids and
> working for a greedy old man with extreme amounts of money,
In the case of Donald, a *sometimes* lazy main character! In many stories
Donald is very hardworking, either as a master in whatever his
craft-of-the-day is, or risking life and limb for his uncle, at 10 cents an hour!
Kriton.
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Leo Schulte
La De Dah
Message 19 -
2008-10-07 at 14:56:21
Greetings!
To "GGK" of Poland who writes:
"Lahdee Dah" sounds a bit like a anaram for "Della"... Or I just got
obsesive? ;)
No, probably not an anagram: in American English "La De Dah" or "La Dee
Da" are simply nonsense syllables used when you don't know the words to a
song, like Tra La La. It is also used in Southern American English
to express either mild disgust or outrage: "Well La...Dee...Dah!"
Pausing slightly between the syllables and pronouncing them very
emphatically is important! The longer the pauses and the more emphasis
the greater the outrage or disgust!
On the parents of HD &L: I agree it would be difficult to address the
question in "happy-ending" way. Not impossible to reconcile the triplets
with the permanent absence of their parents and with staying with two
bachelor uncles, obviously!
On Donald Duck vs. Homer Simpson: Homer has raised sloth and goofing off
to a life's principle! Donald suffers more from Attention Deficit
Syndrome which might explain his constant changing of careers
interspersed with periods of unemployment and poverty ("A Christmas for
Shacktown").
Best Wishes!
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To "GGK" of Poland who writes:
"Lahdee Dah" sounds a bit like a anaram for "Della"... Or I just got
obsesive? ;)
No, probably not an anagram: in American English "La De Dah" or "La Dee
Da" are simply nonsense syllables used when you don't know the words to a
song, like Tra La La. It is also used in Southern American English
to express either mild disgust or outrage: "Well La...Dee...Dah!"
Pausing slightly between the syllables and pronouncing them very
emphatically is important! The longer the pauses and the more emphasis
the greater the outrage or disgust!
On the parents of HD &L: I agree it would be difficult to address the
question in "happy-ending" way. Not impossible to reconcile the triplets
with the permanent absence of their parents and with staying with two
bachelor uncles, obviously!
On Donald Duck vs. Homer Simpson: Homer has raised sloth and goofing off
to a life's principle! Donald suffers more from Attention Deficit
Syndrome which might explain his constant changing of careers
interspersed with periods of unemployment and poverty ("A Christmas for
Shacktown").
Best Wishes!
L. Schulte
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Gary Leach
Parents In Space!
Message 20 -
2008-10-07 at 23:07:59
Elaine,
> (My godson at age 10 wanted the parents to have had to go into
> outer space
> for some reason to save the world; this plot similarly keeps them
> alive in a
> place where no contact was possible.
When I was 10 I would have thought that was the coolest idea in the
world! The US space program was in high gear, shifting from Gemini to
Apollo with every kid on the block aching to see if we'd really make
it to the Moon in the time Kennedy promised. And with Duckburg so
plainly ahead of the rest of the world in space technology - for me,
Island In the Sky was as legitimate a story as any of the others by
that "good Duck artist", and still is - having the nephews' parents
out there doing grand things in the Final Frontier would have been a
great basis for a whole series of stories.
Funny thing, though, I never thought of it as a possibility back
then. It just never, ever occurred to me. Hmph!
Gary
> (My godson at age 10 wanted the parents to have had to go into
> outer space
> for some reason to save the world; this plot similarly keeps them
> alive in a
> place where no contact was possible.
When I was 10 I would have thought that was the coolest idea in the
world! The US space program was in high gear, shifting from Gemini to
Apollo with every kid on the block aching to see if we'd really make
it to the Moon in the time Kennedy promised. And with Duckburg so
plainly ahead of the rest of the world in space technology - for me,
Island In the Sky was as legitimate a story as any of the others by
that "good Duck artist", and still is - having the nephews' parents
out there doing grand things in the Final Frontier would have been a
great basis for a whole series of stories.
Funny thing, though, I never thought of it as a possibility back
then. It just never, ever occurred to me. Hmph!
Gary
Dan Cunningham
HD&L's Parents/Parents In Space?
Message 21 -
2008-10-08 at 00:41:09
Hi, all:
Been reading the threads and would like to throw in my thoughts:
Gary makes a great point about the space concept. I think the time frame of
Don Rosa's Duckburg events would fit nicely with the evolving U.S. space
program! I never considered the idea of their parents as astronauts myself,
but that would make for a ripping yarn... plus Donald, Scrooge and the kids
are no strangers to the stars as we've seen from the pen of many artists and
writers, including Barks himself.
I personally thought that since HD&L are such bold and successful Junior
Woodchucks, they come from military bloodlines on their father's (Daisy's
Brother) side. It would make sense if their Dad was stationed overseas as a
higher-up General or such, Della and Hortense would be there with him.
Leaving Donald the only logical person other than Grandma Duck to raise the
kids back in the states. Threats of war or hostile conditions are not the
best conditions to raise 3 boys, after all. That's just another concept, and
Don Rosa or anyone who has the rights can use it!
I'd also love to see Matilda visit Duckburg and introduce her husband as
Ludwig Von Drake! A true duck family reunion would make for an awesome
book-length story! But I hope everyone holds Barks as Barks, Rosa as Rosa,
VanHorn as Van Horn, etc. There are lots of ways to depict these characters,
and the essence of who they are is their personalities, not their back
story! After all, Mickey Mouse can be a suburban dweller, a detective, and a
movie star all at once or in different realities. Everyone has an opinion,
and the Ducks are anything we want them to be.
Thanks - Dan
Been reading the threads and would like to throw in my thoughts:
Gary makes a great point about the space concept. I think the time frame of
Don Rosa's Duckburg events would fit nicely with the evolving U.S. space
program! I never considered the idea of their parents as astronauts myself,
but that would make for a ripping yarn... plus Donald, Scrooge and the kids
are no strangers to the stars as we've seen from the pen of many artists and
writers, including Barks himself.
I personally thought that since HD&L are such bold and successful Junior
Woodchucks, they come from military bloodlines on their father's (Daisy's
Brother) side. It would make sense if their Dad was stationed overseas as a
higher-up General or such, Della and Hortense would be there with him.
Leaving Donald the only logical person other than Grandma Duck to raise the
kids back in the states. Threats of war or hostile conditions are not the
best conditions to raise 3 boys, after all. That's just another concept, and
Don Rosa or anyone who has the rights can use it!
I'd also love to see Matilda visit Duckburg and introduce her husband as
Ludwig Von Drake! A true duck family reunion would make for an awesome
book-length story! But I hope everyone holds Barks as Barks, Rosa as Rosa,
VanHorn as Van Horn, etc. There are lots of ways to depict these characters,
and the essence of who they are is their personalities, not their back
story! After all, Mickey Mouse can be a suburban dweller, a detective, and a
movie star all at once or in different realities. Everyone has an opinion,
and the Ducks are anything we want them to be.
Thanks - Dan
Garth Danielson
Don Rosa at Fallcon
Message 22 -
2008-10-08 at 13:37:40
I added some more pics of Don Rosa at his table at Fallcon here in the twin cities. Oct 4 & 5, 2008
http://garth.typepad.com/primitive_screwheads/2008/10/dona-rosa-at-fallcon-oct-4-5-2008.html
http://garth.typepad.com/primitive_screwheads/2008/10/dona-rosa-at-fallcon-oct-4-5-2008.html
JTorci3511
Attention Deficit Donald!
Message 23 -
2008-10-08 at 14:04:17
Everyone:
Leo wrote:
"On Donald Duck vs. Homer Simpson: Homer has raised sloth and goofing off
to a life's principle! Donald suffers more from Attention Deficit
Syndrome which might explain his constant changing of careers
interspersed with periods of unemployment and poverty ("A Christmas for
Shacktown")."
Leo, that my be one of the best summations of the comic book Donald I've
ever seen!
Yet, even Homer and his Family Guy counterpart, Peter Griffin, occasionally
become very successful "masters" at something, before their inevitable fall
and return to the Nuclear Plant and "whatever Peter does these days"
(brewery?), respectively. Just a convention of comedic series fiction, I suppose...
Joe Torcivia.
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Leo wrote:
"On Donald Duck vs. Homer Simpson: Homer has raised sloth and goofing off
to a life's principle! Donald suffers more from Attention Deficit
Syndrome which might explain his constant changing of careers
interspersed with periods of unemployment and poverty ("A Christmas for
Shacktown")."
Leo, that my be one of the best summations of the comic book Donald I've
ever seen!
Yet, even Homer and his Family Guy counterpart, Peter Griffin, occasionally
become very successful "masters" at something, before their inevitable fall
and return to the Nuclear Plant and "whatever Peter does these days"
(brewery?), respectively. Just a convention of comedic series fiction, I suppose...
Joe Torcivia.
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Elaine Ramshaw
"Aunt Daisy"
Message 24 -
2008-10-10 at 05:54:05
On the siblings-marrying-siblings front: I am pleased to find out what the
reason is behind the Greek legal prohibition. But I myself have never gone
along with the idea that Daisy is HD&L's father's sister. As Rosa himself
allowed, the fact that the kids call her "Aunt Daisy" may not mean anything.
In the 1950's in this country children often called their parents' close
friends "Aunt First-name" or "Uncle First-name" as a polite form of address
that was less formal than "Mrs./Mr. Last-name." (Nowadays most American kids
call their parents' adult friends by their first names, but that would not
have been thought proper in my childhood.) I myself had an "Aunt Mary" who
was my grandmother's best friend.
It occurs to me, in fact, that this form of address may have been confusing
to people who read the stories in translation, if the translation had the
kids calling her "Aunt Daisy" but that was *not* a form of address used by
children in that culture for unrelated friend-of-the-family adults. I have
heard, for instance, that in parts of Italy in the recent past kids used the
terms "godmother" and "godfather" for this purpose (to politely address
their parents' close friends, even if they weren't the kid's godparents).
(This came up in an interview of Mario Puzo, who said that he had created
"godfather" as a Mafia term out of this memory of using "godfather" as an
honorific for unrelated adults.) So if the Italian translation had HD&L
calling Daisy "Aunt Daisy" (that is, the literal equivalent of that in
Italian) that would have been misleading. And today, in fact, the use of
"Aunt Daisy" by the kids would be misleading even to American readers below
a certain age. They would think that Daisy must actually be related to the
kids.
Elaine
reason is behind the Greek legal prohibition. But I myself have never gone
along with the idea that Daisy is HD&L's father's sister. As Rosa himself
allowed, the fact that the kids call her "Aunt Daisy" may not mean anything.
In the 1950's in this country children often called their parents' close
friends "Aunt First-name" or "Uncle First-name" as a polite form of address
that was less formal than "Mrs./Mr. Last-name." (Nowadays most American kids
call their parents' adult friends by their first names, but that would not
have been thought proper in my childhood.) I myself had an "Aunt Mary" who
was my grandmother's best friend.
It occurs to me, in fact, that this form of address may have been confusing
to people who read the stories in translation, if the translation had the
kids calling her "Aunt Daisy" but that was *not* a form of address used by
children in that culture for unrelated friend-of-the-family adults. I have
heard, for instance, that in parts of Italy in the recent past kids used the
terms "godmother" and "godfather" for this purpose (to politely address
their parents' close friends, even if they weren't the kid's godparents).
(This came up in an interview of Mario Puzo, who said that he had created
"godfather" as a Mafia term out of this memory of using "godfather" as an
honorific for unrelated adults.) So if the Italian translation had HD&L
calling Daisy "Aunt Daisy" (that is, the literal equivalent of that in
Italian) that would have been misleading. And today, in fact, the use of
"Aunt Daisy" by the kids would be misleading even to American readers below
a certain age. They would think that Daisy must actually be related to the
kids.
Elaine
Elaine Ramshaw
HD&L's parents; la-dee-dah
Message 25 -
2008-10-10 at 05:54:16
Glad to hear that some of you like my godson's idea of Parents in Space; I
will pass your reactions on to him! And I should credit him by name--his
name is David Williams. The "save the world" aspect of the plot was only
there because there would have to be some Really Good Reason to get parents
to leave their kids for years on end. If they are saving/protecting the
planet, they are really doing what is best also for their own children!
Perhaps, for some combination of reasons, they were the best possible
ambassadors to an alien race that was debating how to encounter us.
And on the matter of the Really Good Reason....Olaf, clearly the Tralla La
idea would have depended on working out a plot to get the parents there and
keep them there (perhaps longer than originally intended). Not just a
vacation, or a move to a happier place that unfortunately required them to
dump the offspring! And then, if they are still alive when HD&L find out
what became of them, you'd have to figure out what would happen then.
Rosa wrote on DCML in June 2001 (in response to a question from Olaf, in
fact, asking if Rosa was indeed going to write a story on the kids' father)
that "the problem is that there's no possible happy ending, not that I have
thus far been able to figure out.
Ending 1: HD&L seek their parents and find them, and go to live with them
rather than Unca Donald? No.
Ending B: HD&L seek their parents and find them, and DON'T go to live with
them? No, that's sad.
Ending III: HD&L seek their parents and find out they're dead?! Nonono!
Ending four: HD&L seek their parents and don't find them. Eh. Wuzza point?
So, once I figure out that 5th possible ending, I'll go full steam ahead.
Well, I've had one idea in my head for 10 years now... But it's a bit
contrived and I'm not sure I like it. There's probably a better notion
floatin' around out there..."
Perhaps when he put the hint in the draft of "Return to Xanadu", Rosa had an
idea for a plot that would both explain what had brought the parents to
Tralla La in the first place and provide a fifth and more satisfactory
ending.
On "lahdee dah," I have only one thing to add to Leo Schulte's explanation.
Rosa is fond of references to movies, and in "Annie Hall" Diane Keaton says
"Well, la-dee-da."
Elaine
will pass your reactions on to him! And I should credit him by name--his
name is David Williams. The "save the world" aspect of the plot was only
there because there would have to be some Really Good Reason to get parents
to leave their kids for years on end. If they are saving/protecting the
planet, they are really doing what is best also for their own children!
Perhaps, for some combination of reasons, they were the best possible
ambassadors to an alien race that was debating how to encounter us.
And on the matter of the Really Good Reason....Olaf, clearly the Tralla La
idea would have depended on working out a plot to get the parents there and
keep them there (perhaps longer than originally intended). Not just a
vacation, or a move to a happier place that unfortunately required them to
dump the offspring! And then, if they are still alive when HD&L find out
what became of them, you'd have to figure out what would happen then.
Rosa wrote on DCML in June 2001 (in response to a question from Olaf, in
fact, asking if Rosa was indeed going to write a story on the kids' father)
that "the problem is that there's no possible happy ending, not that I have
thus far been able to figure out.
Ending 1: HD&L seek their parents and find them, and go to live with them
rather than Unca Donald? No.
Ending B: HD&L seek their parents and find them, and DON'T go to live with
them? No, that's sad.
Ending III: HD&L seek their parents and find out they're dead?! Nonono!
Ending four: HD&L seek their parents and don't find them. Eh. Wuzza point?
So, once I figure out that 5th possible ending, I'll go full steam ahead.
Well, I've had one idea in my head for 10 years now... But it's a bit
contrived and I'm not sure I like it. There's probably a better notion
floatin' around out there..."
Perhaps when he put the hint in the draft of "Return to Xanadu", Rosa had an
idea for a plot that would both explain what had brought the parents to
Tralla La in the first place and provide a fifth and more satisfactory
ending.
On "lahdee dah," I have only one thing to add to Leo Schulte's explanation.
Rosa is fond of references to movies, and in "Annie Hall" Diane Keaton says
"Well, la-dee-da."
Elaine
Stefan Persson
HD&L's parents; la-dee-dah
Message 26 -
2008-10-10 at 13:19:55
Elaine Ramshaw wrote:
> Rosa wrote on DCML in June 2001 (in response to a question from Olaf, in
> fact, asking if Rosa was indeed going to write a story on the kids' father)
> that "the problem is that there's no possible happy ending, not that I have
> thus far been able to figure out.
Interestingly, there are no stories with HDL's parents (except for
Rosa's Life of Scrooge, where you see Dumbella as a child). However,
there are lots of recent Egmont stories with MF's mother. What's
preventing people from using HDL's parents, while they can use MF's mother?
Stefan
> Rosa wrote on DCML in June 2001 (in response to a question from Olaf, in
> fact, asking if Rosa was indeed going to write a story on the kids' father)
> that "the problem is that there's no possible happy ending, not that I have
> thus far been able to figure out.
Interestingly, there are no stories with HDL's parents (except for
Rosa's Life of Scrooge, where you see Dumbella as a child). However,
there are lots of recent Egmont stories with MF's mother. What's
preventing people from using HDL's parents, while they can use MF's mother?
Stefan
Timo Ronkainen
Don Rosa at Fallcon
Message 27 -
2008-10-11 at 16:59:58
Hi all!
Don is at the moment in Finland.
If you wish to see how popular Don Rosa is here, check my video:http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3687139/10150340Lines are really long! He is in this video at the shopping mall City Market, just four hours ago (10.10.2008/13:00 pm).
And there were no new books or even any calendars published this year.Timo^^''*''^^ Cartoonist - writer - donaldist --- Timo Ronkainen ---------------- - YO-kyl? 52 A 26 ----------------- 20540 Turku --------------------- Finland -------------------------- - 041 489 77 81------------------ - timoro at hotmail.com timoro2 at yahoo.com ?? Personal: http://www.geocities.com/timoro2/ ?? Ankkalinnan Pamaus: http://www.perunamaa.net/ankistit/ ?? Kvaak-sarjakuvaportaali: http://www.kvaak.fi "Rumble on, buxom bumble bee! Go sit on a cowslip - far from me!"
From: gedanielson at earthlink.netTo: dcml at nafsk.seSubject: Don Rosa at Fallcon Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 05:37:40 -0500
I added some more pics of Don Rosa at his table at Fallcon here in the twin cities. Oct 4 & 5, 2008
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Don is at the moment in Finland.
If you wish to see how popular Don Rosa is here, check my video:http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3687139/10150340Lines are really long! He is in this video at the shopping mall City Market, just four hours ago (10.10.2008/13:00 pm).
And there were no new books or even any calendars published this year.Timo^^''*''^^ Cartoonist - writer - donaldist --- Timo Ronkainen ---------------- - YO-kyl? 52 A 26 ----------------- 20540 Turku --------------------- Finland -------------------------- - 041 489 77 81------------------ - timoro at hotmail.com timoro2 at yahoo.com ?? Personal: http://www.geocities.com/timoro2/ ?? Ankkalinnan Pamaus: http://www.perunamaa.net/ankistit/ ?? Kvaak-sarjakuvaportaali: http://www.kvaak.fi "Rumble on, buxom bumble bee! Go sit on a cowslip - far from me!"
From: gedanielson at earthlink.netTo: dcml at nafsk.seSubject: Don Rosa at Fallcon Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 05:37:40 -0500
I added some more pics of Don Rosa at his table at Fallcon here in the twin cities. Oct 4 & 5, 2008
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Don Rosa at Fallcon
Message 28 -
2008-10-12 at 15:17:57
Thank you timo ronkainen for viedo and pictures :)
Last night, while re-reding "A Letter from home", I got the idea (since apparently Steven Spilberg is working on "Indiana Jones 5 ") - "Hey! Why, Don Rosa would be a perfect man to write the script for the next Indiana Jones movie!". Affter all Carl Barks stories did inspaierd Lucas and Spliberg in their works...
Yours
Maciek Kur :)
Last night, while re-reding "A Letter from home", I got the idea (since apparently Steven Spilberg is working on "Indiana Jones 5 ") - "Hey! Why, Don Rosa would be a perfect man to write the script for the next Indiana Jones movie!". Affter all Carl Barks stories did inspaierd Lucas and Spliberg in their works...
Yours
Maciek Kur :)
Frank Stajano
Don Rosa at Fallcon
Message 29 -
2008-10-13 at 02:52:34
Very glad to see that the list is discussing Don Rosa again! I have just
uploaded another piece of my interview with him:
http://comicspodcast.blogspot.com
Although he rarely writes on this list these days, and he has largely
given up on private email correspondence with fans, I know he is still
very happy to read about people discussing his comics. If you have any
comments about what he says in the interview, please post them, either
here or on the blog itself. Even though he probably won't reply, he'll
certainly appreciate it. Just about the reason he goes to these
conventions that people mentioned here is because he likes to meet the
people who appreciate his work.
--
Frank Stajano http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/fms27/
uploaded another piece of my interview with him:
http://comicspodcast.blogspot.com
Although he rarely writes on this list these days, and he has largely
given up on private email correspondence with fans, I know he is still
very happy to read about people discussing his comics. If you have any
comments about what he says in the interview, please post them, either
here or on the blog itself. Even though he probably won't reply, he'll
certainly appreciate it. Just about the reason he goes to these
conventions that people mentioned here is because he likes to meet the
people who appreciate his work.
--
Frank Stajano http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/fms27/
Rui Lima
DCML Digest, Vol 68, Issue 11
Message 30 -
2008-10-13 at 13:42:39
Well, i?m a recent subscriber of these e-mail digests and only because
i was searching the web for information on Don Rosa?s work.
This came up on his wikipedia page.
I?m 30, from Portugal and i?ve read with pleasure Disney comics almost
all my life. Back in the old days there were no Portuguese editions of
Disney comics and the magazines we had came from Brazil where they
were very popular.
I was "blessed" to have a relative that was also an avid reader and
collector so i managed to read many 60?s and 70?s editions of comics
on their golden age.
in the 80?s they started being published in Portugal and i started
reading the Portuguese magazines. When i got old enough to make my own
money, one of the first things i did was to subscribe all editions of
Disney comics in Portugal. I received the magazines for some years
until a couple of years ago, they were all cancelled in Portugal
"because there were no conditions to keep going".
This came as a shock to me having grown surrounded with Donald Duck,
etc. The thought that one day my kids would grow in a place where
there were no Disney comics being published was scary to say the least.
As a kid, i obvioulsy did not follow authors and there were no names
on the stories. but i did start to notice that some stories were in
different levels than others and noticing patterns in drawings, etc.
With time, i got to know the name Carl Barks along with others.
Recently, with the magazines i subscribed, i started reading Don
Rosa?s stories. It was the first time i thought EPIC stories came back
to comics since Barks... i also enjoy very much VICAR?s style.
The Portuguese publishing house made a series of Don?s Life and Times
of $crooge McDuck and i got them all. Then they started publishing the
complete works of Carl Barks and that was interrupted on the 4th
number when they ceased printing all magazines.
Well, i don?t know if Don reads this or not or any other author... To
all, i just want to say THANK YOU.
Thank you from the deep of my heart for making my (ours) life(s) a
little better.
I like to think that i am a better person because of your (all of you) work.
All i can do now is re-read the magazines i have, but i?ll treasure
them forever.
________________________________________________________________________________
Cart?o de cr?dito Citi: Adira e receba GR?TIS uma m?quina de caf?.
Pe?a aqui o seu http://www.iol.pt/correio/rodape.php?dst=0805131
i was searching the web for information on Don Rosa?s work.
This came up on his wikipedia page.
I?m 30, from Portugal and i?ve read with pleasure Disney comics almost
all my life. Back in the old days there were no Portuguese editions of
Disney comics and the magazines we had came from Brazil where they
were very popular.
I was "blessed" to have a relative that was also an avid reader and
collector so i managed to read many 60?s and 70?s editions of comics
on their golden age.
in the 80?s they started being published in Portugal and i started
reading the Portuguese magazines. When i got old enough to make my own
money, one of the first things i did was to subscribe all editions of
Disney comics in Portugal. I received the magazines for some years
until a couple of years ago, they were all cancelled in Portugal
"because there were no conditions to keep going".
This came as a shock to me having grown surrounded with Donald Duck,
etc. The thought that one day my kids would grow in a place where
there were no Disney comics being published was scary to say the least.
As a kid, i obvioulsy did not follow authors and there were no names
on the stories. but i did start to notice that some stories were in
different levels than others and noticing patterns in drawings, etc.
With time, i got to know the name Carl Barks along with others.
Recently, with the magazines i subscribed, i started reading Don
Rosa?s stories. It was the first time i thought EPIC stories came back
to comics since Barks... i also enjoy very much VICAR?s style.
The Portuguese publishing house made a series of Don?s Life and Times
of $crooge McDuck and i got them all. Then they started publishing the
complete works of Carl Barks and that was interrupted on the 4th
number when they ceased printing all magazines.
Well, i don?t know if Don reads this or not or any other author... To
all, i just want to say THANK YOU.
Thank you from the deep of my heart for making my (ours) life(s) a
little better.
I like to think that i am a better person because of your (all of you) work.
All i can do now is re-read the magazines i have, but i?ll treasure
them forever.
________________________________________________________________________________
Cart?o de cr?dito Citi: Adira e receba GR?TIS uma m?quina de caf?.
Pe?a aqui o seu http://www.iol.pt/correio/rodape.php?dst=0805131