+Postage Due+Disney-comics digest #158.

Don Rosa 72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM
Tue Nov 16 04:47:44 CET 1993


David:
	Yes... you are correct when you guess WHO I think is behind the
instigation of the German article. Same force as was behind Lustig's
letter in CBG. That force is also objecting to Egmont for how much
publicity I get in Europe.
	Oh, I don't mind for an instant when a reviewer objects to my
art style or to the whole idea of this Lo$ or my sequels in general!
That's a legitimate expression of opinion, and an opinion I agree with
more than not! I HATE my artstyle! However, what I DO object to is the
malicious twisting of facts and outright lies which this article deals
in for no conceivable reason. Why would anyone do this? I can only guess
based on other things I see going on that I'm not completely at liberty
to discuss.

	As for DUCK DAZE, Jymn Magon called me about helping with that
show over a year ago, but I politely told him that TV just wasn't my
cuppa tea. But I think you're going overboard in your reaction. I
thought DUCKTALES was also a very corrupted version of the "true"
$crooge McDuck, but I never cared. It's not really $crooge McDuck...
it's just Disney's adaptation of a property that they own but never
contributed toward the creation or development of. I thought it was
better than most TV cartoons even though it had little to do with
$crooge McDuck, but I knew that it would soon fade away, which it now
has done. Same goes for DUCK DAZE. No matter what it's like, it will
soon fade away and leave no impression on the comic books.
	What I DID jump all over Tad Stones about when I learned of it
was DARKWING DUCK! When I first learned of that show about a year before
it was released, I assumed it was Disney turning Donald into typical
American super-hero parody crap; this would have been more than a
misinterpretation which would soon fade from view -- I saw it as a
supreme insult to a character that was light years above what it was
being reduced to. Of course, as it turned out, DARKWING DUCK was not
Donald, and it was more influenced by the Shadow than the X-Men. And it,
too, shall pass into oblivion is another year or two, while Barks'
Donald & $crooge will endure in perpetuity.





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