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These messages were originally in the "introDUCKtion thread", but I'll move them here as it seems this subject deserves a topic of its own.

============= Robb_K

There was also a Strobl story with Scrooge desiring scones from the same recipe that he ate from as a child. So Donald goes to Scotland to get the recipe. the Beagle Boys were also involved.

============= sirredknee

Quote from user: LadyQuacklyI don't think I've ever read that Tony Strobl story about Scrooge's nephew and cousin, though---sounds interesting! :)
It's this one:
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=W+DD+++65-01
A must-read out of Strobl's best era, as far as I am concerned.

============= Lady Quackly

Thank you. :) I hope they can do some serious reprints of Strobl's work in the future, since I imagine
the original comics would cost an arm and a leg. There might be a few stories of his lurking around
out there, though.

Quote from user: Robb_KThere was also a Strobl story with Scrooge desiring scones from the same recipe that he ate from as a child. So Donald goes to Scotland to get the recipe. the Beagle Boys were also involved.
Sounds like a fun read! :)

============= Mexican fan
Quote from user: LadyQuacklyOh, "Wha daur meddle wi' me?" is the Scottish rendering of the Latin Nemo me impune lacessit, "No one touches me with impunity", the motto of the Order of the Thistle and three Scottish regiments of the British Army. I reckon it's Scottish for "Don't mess with me!" ;)

(Scrooge should have inscribed that on his money bin. :) )
hope someone here use that idea!

============= Robb_K
Here is the first page of the story with Cousin "Wee" Angus McDuck:

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/5680/oneforwhammymn6.jpg

Here is the first page of the story,"A Bucket of Scones":

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9193/bucketosconesta7.jpg

============= Lady Quackly
Thanks for the pics, Robb. And MAN, does Scrooge love those scones! :)

Besides "One for the Whammy" I have especially fond memories of "Secret of the Sargasso Sea", also written by Bob Gregory:
http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=W+DD+++72-01
Gregory was a good author, but I never cared for his artwork. And for my money John Liggera was Strobl's best inker. Later works looked a bit stiff.

Quote from user: ramapithAt Gemstone, we don't have "Whammy" or "Sargasso Sea" on the menu yet, but next spring we'll have "The Big Race" (a 1960s S-code that was Strobl's favorite self-written story) and the long-requested "Fabulous Fiddlesticks."
Strobl is admittedly a creator whom lots of readers are cool to in our market, but we do want to do right by his fans... and we will. I hope people caught our reprint of "Getting That Healthy, Wealthy Feeling," too.
A lot of those who don't like Strobl's work may be mostly unfamiliar with his earlier work 1947-1958, whose artwork is much more pleasant to the eye than his later work, which suffered from being inked by less talented inkers, on poorer quality paper. They should be exposed to his longer better drawn stories from the early 1950s.

Charming indeed. Some dislike the simple and rigorous style of Strobl's lines, but I think his drawings are full of life and expression, even when he and/or his inkers kept it down to a few strokes in each panel. In a way the art of saying much in a few words is transferred to drawing in some of these comics. Less is more.
Notice how you can always tell a Strobl comic by the eyes of the ducks; I don't think anyone else makes eyes and eyebrows like these.. though maybe De Lara's ducks has something of the same "feel".

[quote=LadyQuackly]The nice man who runs Beru's Disney Comics sent me scans
That nice man is a thief.

Quote from user: ramapithAt Gemstone, we don't have "Whammy" or "Sargasso Sea" on the menu yet, but next spring we'll have "The Big Race" (a 1960s S-code that was Strobl's favorite self-written story)
I have only dim memories of a "false thumb" concerning that story, but for my money, Strobl is actually one of very few artists (besides Hubbard) who did memorable S-code-stuff. In the 70s he provided a Duck universe quite of its own, with Donald and Fethry working for Scrooge's newspaper, Daisy as a policewoman and Hard Haid Moe popping in now and again to cause trouble. Plus, Strobl was about the only US artist able to draw a nice and convincing Rockerduck.

Quote:Strobl is admittedly a creator whom lots of readers are cool to in our market
Yes, when visiting German Disney comic forums I always get the impression Strobl reprints don't seem to be of any use for the kids. Maybe a certain amount of nostalgia IS necessary to really appreciate his work - in Strobl's heyday, the mid-50s to the mid-70s, there haven't really been a lot of other great Duck comic artists (apart from Italy), as far as I'm concerned. After that period, of course, we all got spoiled. ;) Besides, Strobl has probably been the single most productive Disney comic artist of all time, so his work is littered with a LOT of mediocre stuff, too...

Quote from user: sirredkneein Strobl's heyday, the mid-50s to the mid-70s, there haven't really been a lot of other great Duck comic artists (apart from Italy), as far as I'm concerned.
Hmm.. wouldn't Strobl's "heyday" also have been the heyday of e.g. Jack Bradbury, Vic Lockman and Bill Wright, just to name a few great artists from Strobl's country?

Quote from user: LadyQuacklyQuote from user: Lars Jensen[quote=LadyQuackly]The nice man who runs Beru's Disney Comics sent me scans
That nice man is a thief.
Well, if he is a thief, that's apparently my fault: I had complimented him on his website and lamented the fact that there was next to nothing about Ludwig von Drake in those comics. I also mentioned having all four LVD issues, but they were getting pretty ragged. He had some issues of his own and scanned them for me. He immediately deleted his scans afterwards and has not posted them. (And it's a cinch that I won't, either. :/ )
Fair enough.