From RoC

[Harry Fluks]

Ole (RoC) wrote:

> Specifically requesting Gottfredson compatibility is a funny attitude,
> when they have been literally ignoring him for the last 20 years! That's
> Ignoring with a capital I! Except for a 40$ hardcover book and a couple
> of Pluto sundays *nothing* has been reprinted here! "Kids" like me have
> been brain-washed with countless reruns of "classics" into accepting
> that Paul Murry is the Grand Old Mouse.

Maybe it's the influence of Byron Erickson and Bob Foster? 
BTW: does anyone know what Foster _is_ doing at Egmont?

It's unbelievable there weren't more Gottfredson reprints in Denmark!
In Holland, France and (not to forget) Italy, there are even special
series with the oldest Gottfredson stories. I would expect that they
were reprinted all over Europe...

> CARL BARKS & CO.
> Don asked if others had the new CB&Co. You and everybody who didn't
> catch the Anders' Ant joke in the latest WDC are welcome to ask specific
> questions about it, or, if you all beg on your knees, I just *might*
> translate some of the articles :)

OK, here it comes: (ahem) Ole, would you? Pleeeeeease?

> NONNA PAPERA [about Grandma]
> [...] only news to me was that her car is a 1920'es Detroit Electric.

Which brings me to the next question: who invented Grandma's car? Was it in
the Taliaferro strips as well?

> FAMOUS LAST WORDS
> Badalamenti is an artist who will not appear in any of our lists. He's a
> composer. The only thing that bothers me about this net thing is that you
> can't write in italics. So I let off steam by ending with an italicism.
> Like this:
> 
> Morricone.
 
OK, I'll follow you, using the name of another famous Italian:

Gadducci.

--Harry.