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On 2018-03-13 22:16 +0000, gary Pantzer wrote:
> I have not received an email from the DCML in a long time. Is it still
> in use?

I have not received any emails from the list lately either, but your
message made it through.

This month, for the first time in a while, I got a monthly password
reminder from the mailing list server behind DCML.

--
Nuno Silva

It does seem to be mostly unused nowadays.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:29 AM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> On 2018-03-13 22:16 +0000, gary Pantzer wrote:
> > I have not received an email from the DCML in a long time. Is it still
> > in use?
>
> I have not received any emails from the list lately either, but your
> message made it through.
>
> This month, for the first time in a while, I got a monthly password
> reminder from the mailing list server behind DCML.
>
> --
> Nuno Silva
> _______________________________________________
> https://lists.nafsk.se/mailman/listinfo/dcml
>

I am a Carl Barks fan - always have been, always will be. I've got three
boxes full of Donald Duck comics and several Scrooge comics. They are
wrapped and stored in my garage. Hardly a fitting location for them. They
belonged to my father, and he started receiving them when he was a boy, in
the early 1940's. The collection goes to the early 1960's.

My Dad became a college professor - English - but he never stopped
appreciating the work of Carl Barks. In fact, when he was a young man, he
wrote to Barks. The first letter was answered by the publishing company. His
second letter, however, was answered by Carl Barks himself. Along with the
letter, Barks sent a small 5" x 7" drawing of the "old" Donald. The caption
- "Quack, quack, Professor Burnett. Remember when Donald looked like this?"
I still have both the letter and the drawing - both prized possessions.

I'll tell you a story. My mother died six years ago. It was a sudden death
after years of a healthy life. Not too long after her death, I was sitting
on a bench in the library. Two large bookshelves held all the recently
acquired books - ranging the whole Dewey decimal system. The first several
books were on death and dying and life after death. Naturally, I was drawn
to the topic. As I read of people's experiences, I felt so very sad that I
had never experienced an encounter with a loved one who had passed on. When
my father died 15 years earlier, I felt no presence, no vision, no
connection. I never have. To be honest, it all seemed a bit hooey to me.

So there I was, sitting in the library, reading about death, crying and
feeling that I had lost something that could never be replaced - not in form
nor in deed. I looked up, and my eyes went immediately to one of the newly
acquired books. It was "Donald Duck - Lost in the Andes" by Carl Barks. I
was stunned, shocked, to say the least. It wasn't just Donald Duck; it was
Carl Barks, too. It wasn't just Carl Barks, it was "Lost in the Andes." I
had that very comic - had read it dozens of time.

At that moment, I knew my mother was with me. Donald Duck comics were a
common language growing up in my family. We referenced life as it related to
a Barks story. The "sign" couldn't have been more clear. It was the one
thing that I would absolutely, positively know that it was meant for me. I
knew my mother would always be with me.

I kept the book. Stole it, I guess, but I did replace it.

From: DCML <dcml-bounces at nafsk.se> On Behalf Of Matthew Yaklin
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 10:43 AM
To: Professor Hipponiex <professorhipponiex at gmail.com>; dcml at nafsk.se
Subject: Re: DCML emails

I always enjoyed reading people's emails. I did not have much to say though.

Most of my duck comics have been given away to children and while I stop
into a comic store every few months I really do not see much that interests
me in the way of duck material. Is that the problem for most? I miss Rosa.

Matt

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From: DCML <dcml-bounces at nafsk.se <mailto:dcml-bounces at nafsk.se> > on behalf
of Professor Hipponiex <professorhipponiex at gmail.com
<mailto:professorhipponiex at gmail.com> >
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 6:46:08 PM
To: dcml at nafsk.se <mailto:dcml at nafsk.se>
Subject: Re: DCML emails

It does seem to be mostly unused nowadays.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:29 AM, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt
<mailto:nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt> > wrote:

On 2018-03-13 22:16 +0000, gary Pantzer wrote:
> I have not received an email from the DCML in a long time. Is it still
> in use?

I have not received any emails from the list lately either, but your
message made it through.

This month, for the first time in a while, I got a monthly password
reminder from the mailing list server behind DCML.

--
Nuno Silva
_______________________________________________
https://lists.nafsk.se/mailman/listinfo/dcml

On 2018-03-15 15:43 +0000, Matthew Yaklin wrote:
> I always enjoyed reading people's emails. I did not have much to say
> though.
>
> Most of my duck comics have been given away to children and while I
> stop into a comic store every few months I really do not see much that
> interests me in the way of duck material. Is that the problem for
> most? I miss Rosa.

Currently, I am not reading new disney comics magazines. Last I checked,
Portuguese comics (from Goody) seemed to have mostly new italian
stories, with styles that do not interest me.

But I have not yet read any issue from the new Uncle Scrooge series
Goody launched some time ago, maybe those are different?

--
Nuno Silva

Just this month, and for the first time in years, I find myself coloring some Cark Barks stories for publication, using the limited color chart by which I did my first coloring for Gladstone back in those dim, dark days of the late 1980s. Of course, back then it was by ?traditional? methods: painting color guides using Dr. Martin?s dyes, doing color call-outs on same and then sending them to Chemical Color to make the actual color separations. Today it?s almost all happening right on my iMac. Much tidier, but it lacks some of the ?romance? this sort of work once had.

Barks still reads great though!

Best,
Gary Leach
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I like, how the DCML is always there although it stays silent sometimes for longer periods.

Here in Germany we still have enaugh publications. However the weekly "Micky Maus" is no longer a weekly issue but biweekly. This makes me fear the next step might be a monthy release someday. And after that...? Meanwhile, they even changed Mickey´s Head on the cover with Donald´s while keeping the name. (Approximately to attract childrens attention a bit more?) I´am collecting the weekly since a was 8 (forty years ago). While our daughters share my passion for Disney in general they just don´t like to read comic books. (Seemingly it can be this now even when you grow up between piles of books.) While the weekly suffers the monthly pocket book is very popular.

"I always enjoyed reading people's emails. I did not have much to say
though.

Most of my duck comics have been given away to children and while I stop
into a comic store every few months I really do not see much that interests
me in the way of duck material. Is that the problem for most? I miss Rosa."

Personally, I really like the new Disney comics from IDW. I can see why
some might not, though.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 9:22 PM, Carl Lund <clund at cox.net> wrote:

> This is my problem too. I am very disappointed in the choices being made
> by IDW. I still buy them to support the Ducks, but I feel like it?s a duty
> not a joy.
>
> I hope for the next Rosa to emerge, but it?s a faint hope.
>
> -Carl
>
> On Mar 15, 2018, at 10:43 AM, Matthew Yaklin <myaklin at firstlight.net>
> wrote:
>
> I always enjoyed reading people's emails. I did not have much to say
> though.
>
> Most of my duck comics have been given away to children and while I stop
> into a comic store every few months I really do not see much that interests
> me in the way of duck material. Is that the problem for most? I miss Rosa.
>
>
> Matt
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