Keskustelujen arkisto

Started out as an avid reader when I was about 9. Then after a hiatus of many years I began collecting in the mid-late 90s. I read too, but I collected with a passion for about a dozen years (Gladstone and Gemstone) and only recently stopped due mostly to the poor quality of stories in Boom. I was doing some reading during this time, too. For awhile I purchased 2 copies of the new issue, one to read and one to bag and board. I have a hand-selected, very high end collection of mostly Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comic books sitting in several acid-free comic book boxes. Recently I haven't had much interest in reading. (If I had English translations of those great, lengthy Italian stories from the 50s I would certainly read those!) Generally I find today's fare published in the USA??post-Rosa??rather uninteresting.
Collecting, too, has lost some of its luster for me. Something about a book, unread, sitting in plastic, in a box forever.

Like most people I read and collect. My main interest is the ducks but I also read and collect comics with the other main characters and the earlier creations of the Disney Afternoon - Ducktales, Rescue Rangers, Talespin and Darkwing Duck.
I read anything I collect, which primarily consists of comics from 86-now. Though with time (and money) I am expanding into earlier copies.

Quote from user: David KopsI read/collect and write/draw!
Welkom!

For whom do you write and draw? I like your drawing of Ludwig von Drake, and your drawing of Daisy on McDrake.NL.

Quote from user: David KopsVery late, indeed.

And yes. But they don't have the time and place to do something with new people at the moment, so they are always dependent on Gulien and brothers Heijmans. I hope that will change soon - for myself of course but also for the Dutch weekly in general.
Time changes and people move on. Ben Verhagen moved to drawing for advertising and other clients. Dan Jippes moved to Egmont and non-Disney characters. Mau is working on Non-Disney characters. Henrieke has started a bit of work with Sanoma. McDuck Menu is almost ready to follow. I am sure there will be openings for new artists. I hope to get my drawing up to speed to join in as well (some time before I am too old to hold a pencil, pen and brush!).

Keep drawing and have faith in your talent and creativity. Good results will come.

Quote from user: Robb_KTime changes and people move on. Ben Verhagen moved to drawing for advertising and other clients. Dan Jippes moved to Egmont and non-Disney characters. Mau is working on Non-Disney characters. Henrieke has started a bit of work with Sanoma. McDuck Menu is almost ready to follow. I am sure there will be openings for new artists. I hope to get my drawing up to speed to join in as well (some time before I am too old to hold a pencil, pen and brush!).
Ah, Barks still held his brush at age 96. You said recently that you'd be around to see the end of Barks' Fantagraphics Collection, so don't worry about that.
Also, the bulk of people working for the Dutch Disney team now are either (former) ComicUp Studio people or really unknown people whose names I just don't know. But then there's Bernardo. He's a former ComicUp Studio member, but his stories (mostly Mad Madam Mim) are really good.
Quote from user: Robb_KKeep drawing and have faith in your talent and creativity. Good results will come.
I couldn't agree more, Robb. Although it might take up some time...
Quote from user: David KopsBut maybe you can give me some extra advice, as an experienced Barksist? If you have the time for it, of course. I have read the whole cbarks.dk to learn more and more about the Barks technique, storybuilding, page constructions, etc but now the only thing left for me is self-studying and feedback from other people, I think.
If you've read through the entire Barks.dk site, I think you're well on your way. You must know a lot about Barks already. Some advice I can give you from my own experience, is that you should try to write enthusiastic. It mostly means: put an exclamation mark behind everything! It works, believe me!

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderQuote from user: Robb_KTime changes and people move on. Ben Verhagen moved to drawing for advertising and other clients. Dan Jippes moved to Egmont and non-Disney characters. Mau is working on Non-Disney characters. Henrieke has started a bit of work with Sanoma. McDuck Menu is almost ready to follow. I am sure there will be openings for new artists. I hope to get my drawing up to speed to join in as well (some time before I am too old to hold a pencil, pen and brush!).
Ah, Barks still held his brush at age 96. You said recently that you'd be around to see the end of Barks' Fantagraphics Collection, so don't worry about that.
Also, the bulk of people working for the Dutch Disney team now are either (former) ComicUp Studio people or really unknown people whose names I just don't know. But then there's Bernardo. He's a former ComicUp Studio member, but his stories (mostly Mad Madam Mim) are really good.
McDuck Menu(Tim Artz) and I have a story printed in this week's Donald Duck Speciale Uitgeven. Voor ?¬ 3,95, find out if Donald finally marries Daisy, and see Gus Goose (Gijs Gans) finally have a girlfriend (in OUR story)! Is heel Duckstad verliefd?

Quote from user: Matilda< see Gus Goose finally have a girlfriend >

I'd be happy to see the girlfriend in your story, Rob, but I also want to give a shout-out to Gus's love interest Cissy Swann, created by Michael T. Gilbert. I got to read her first story (Lazy Luck, D 2994-028) in the German LTB--English Edition 3, and her second outing, Fashionable Farmer (D 2004-302), in which Cissy convinces Gus to modernize the farm while Grandma Duck is away, in Super Picsou Geant.
Well, fan my brow and call me farmer! There's nothing new under The Sun, eh? And here I rhought I was coming up with something new. Well, I did write and storyboard it in 1990. It was rejected over and over, because Gus Goose COULDN'T have a girlfriend. He could only be a glutton lusting after food, or be a lazybones, trying hard to avoid work. That is what I was to;d, both by Gutenberghus (now Egmont), and by Oberon (now Sanoma Uiygevers). Well, now I've got artists interested in drawing my stories of Uncle Scrooge getting married, and Gyro Gearloose dating a woman. Contrary to popular belief, they are NOT Gay, nor members of an Augustinian Cloister.

Quote from user: ramapithQuote from user: Robb_KWell, now I've got artists interested in drawing my stories of Uncle Scrooge getting married, and Gyro Gearloose dating a woman. Contrary to popular belief, they are NOT Gay, nor members of an Augustinian Cloister.
Sorry to disappoint you, Rob, but Gyro is already dating a woman. (Not saying he could never date someone new, but you might want to make sure your character isn't too much like this.)
My love interest is a fellow inventor he met at an inventors' convention. Do you think that will be a problem because of that previous "girlfriend"?

In any case, I don't think that the existence of an Egmont Gyro love interest will preclude my story's salability to Sanoma's editors. Have stories with that character been printed in The Netherlands?