> For my holidays this year I'm trying to visit Scandinavian countries, and
> I'd like to have the opportunity to spend some time in visiting comic shops
Thank you all for your kind answer, they were very useful to add to my
journey some Disney-related souvenirs! :-)
I've been at Tromso's Bruktbokhande, a very nice place with a lot of
comics (not only Disney) in an apparent mess, but I like these shops
where it almost seems that you've got no room to walk because of the
comics stored in it! :-)
Then in Stockholm I visited Comics Heaven and the Nobel Museum, where
I tried to explain them how much deserved would be a Nobel to
Paperinik stories.
Finally in Finland where I had the chance to visit three different comics shops.
What did really made me enthusiastic was the great availability of
comics at newsstands: not only the current issues, but also the old
ones, something closer to a bookshop, where you can find not only the
newest books, than to the newsstands: in Italy if you miss a number of
Topolino there aren't many chances to find it somewhere else....
There are some pics:
http://www.papersera.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1340728148/54#54
Thank you,
- Paolo
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Paolo Castagno
Stockholm and Helsinki: second hand comic shops?
Message 1 -
2012-09-05 at 11:43:37
Nils
Ants
Message 2 -
2012-09-10 at 14:11:10
A certain book is being planned, celebrating ... the ant!, from
various cultural perspectives. There will be book chapters
contributed by different specialists, "the ant in literature",
"the ant from an anthropological perspective", etc. I have
agreed to write one of these chapters, on "the ant in comics".
I haven't really decided on precisely how I am going to
meet this challenge, apart, perhaps, from NOT attempting
any lexicographic thing listing hundreds of comic book
stories featuring ants. But of course I have to describe
and to some extent analyse the three (?) Barks stories
with ants, along with the Mickey & Goofy story with the Battle
Against the Giant Ants (1950?).
But I may need a bit of help from the learned members of this
congregation! So please mention any ant ideas that may
come to your mind, or give us pointers to anything related
to ants in comics!
(And yes, of course I need to mention the Swedish prog-rock
band Hoola Bandoola.)
Nils Lid Hjort
various cultural perspectives. There will be book chapters
contributed by different specialists, "the ant in literature",
"the ant from an anthropological perspective", etc. I have
agreed to write one of these chapters, on "the ant in comics".
I haven't really decided on precisely how I am going to
meet this challenge, apart, perhaps, from NOT attempting
any lexicographic thing listing hundreds of comic book
stories featuring ants. But of course I have to describe
and to some extent analyse the three (?) Barks stories
with ants, along with the Mickey & Goofy story with the Battle
Against the Giant Ants (1950?).
But I may need a bit of help from the learned members of this
congregation! So please mention any ant ideas that may
come to your mind, or give us pointers to anything related
to ants in comics!
(And yes, of course I need to mention the Swedish prog-rock
band Hoola Bandoola.)
Nils Lid Hjort
NIKOS PANAGIOTOPOYLOS
I added five more frames to my webcomic
Message 3 -
2012-09-10 at 16:33:13
hi ,
I added 5 more frames in my webcomic,
please view it and tell me your opinions
Thank you.
I added 5 more frames in my webcomic,
please view it and tell me your opinions
Thank you.
Cato Elder
Review of Complete Carl Barks
Message 4 -
2012-09-15 at 14:59:20
Greetings!
The Wall Street Journal (September 15/16, 2012) has a 5-star review of
the Fantagraphics edition of Carl Barks:
An excerpt:
"Reading stories like "Back to the Klondike" or "The Secret of Atlantis,"
the first thing you notice, even if you already knew it, is what an
efficient draftsman and storyteller Barks was. In the latter story, Barks
takes six panels to establish everything you need to know: These include
one shot of Scrooge sitting on a pile of money, one of him walking in the
groove he has worn in the floor of his Worry Room, and one of him
scowling majestically over the prospect of putting a debt collector on
the trail of Donald, who owes him a dime. The story quickly expands to
take in Scrooge tricking Donald into collecting the dime from himself, a
scheme to buy up every 1916 quarter in the world, a fight in the Atlas
Pie Co., and the revelation that Atlantis is peopled by descendants of
the ancient Egyptians, who use electric eels to power jukeboxes. It all
flows like a brook."
See:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577536983017017266.html
Best Wishes!
L. Schulte
--
The Wall Street Journal (September 15/16, 2012) has a 5-star review of
the Fantagraphics edition of Carl Barks:
An excerpt:
"Reading stories like "Back to the Klondike" or "The Secret of Atlantis,"
the first thing you notice, even if you already knew it, is what an
efficient draftsman and storyteller Barks was. In the latter story, Barks
takes six panels to establish everything you need to know: These include
one shot of Scrooge sitting on a pile of money, one of him walking in the
groove he has worn in the floor of his Worry Room, and one of him
scowling majestically over the prospect of putting a debt collector on
the trail of Donald, who owes him a dime. The story quickly expands to
take in Scrooge tricking Donald into collecting the dime from himself, a
scheme to buy up every 1916 quarter in the world, a fight in the Atlas
Pie Co., and the revelation that Atlantis is peopled by descendants of
the ancient Egyptians, who use electric eels to power jukeboxes. It all
flows like a brook."
See:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577536983017017266.html
Best Wishes!
L. Schulte
--
ELAINE RAMSHAW
Thanks for the store recommendations
Message 5 -
2012-09-17 at 04:33:20
S?ren Krarup Olesen:
Thanks so much?for the recommendations of the two comics stores in Copenhagen!
One was half a block from my friend's hotel, the other a block or two from the
place where she was teaching. And she found most of the pre-2009 issues of
Anders And I had on my "want list" (she was told that it's very hard to find
back-issues published since 2009, because the stores have had to send back all
unsold copies right away). Best of all, the two issues from 1988 which had the
Halas/Angus/Branca story "Bananas" ("Amanda fra Bandango"), where Grandma Duck
gets the lead in a globe-trotting adventure. I had this story in French (a
language I can actually read, unlike Danish!), but in the old-style Journal de
Mickey where they printed stories in fewer pages by putting more panels on the
page. I love the story, and I really wanted to have a copy with the art printed
"full-size" (and the page breaks where they should be). Then there were other
goodies, including a few stories I wanted to see that haven't been printed in
English, French or German (and which I am struggling my way through with
GoogleTranslate). I ask myself, why didn't the American educational system teach
me some really *useful* language, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish, or Finnish, or
Dutch, or Italian? No consideration for the needs of a Duck fan. :-)
Leo Schulte:
Thanks for the link to the Wall Street Journal review!
Elaine
Thanks so much?for the recommendations of the two comics stores in Copenhagen!
One was half a block from my friend's hotel, the other a block or two from the
place where she was teaching. And she found most of the pre-2009 issues of
Anders And I had on my "want list" (she was told that it's very hard to find
back-issues published since 2009, because the stores have had to send back all
unsold copies right away). Best of all, the two issues from 1988 which had the
Halas/Angus/Branca story "Bananas" ("Amanda fra Bandango"), where Grandma Duck
gets the lead in a globe-trotting adventure. I had this story in French (a
language I can actually read, unlike Danish!), but in the old-style Journal de
Mickey where they printed stories in fewer pages by putting more panels on the
page. I love the story, and I really wanted to have a copy with the art printed
"full-size" (and the page breaks where they should be). Then there were other
goodies, including a few stories I wanted to see that haven't been printed in
English, French or German (and which I am struggling my way through with
GoogleTranslate). I ask myself, why didn't the American educational system teach
me some really *useful* language, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish, or Finnish, or
Dutch, or Italian? No consideration for the needs of a Duck fan. :-)
Leo Schulte:
Thanks for the link to the Wall Street Journal review!
Elaine
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