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Per Starback starback at Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE
Thu Sep 23 02:03:44 CEST 1993


Minnie's Nieces
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David:
> First of all, I saw a Paul Murry story in some 1970s issue of
> MM -- the nadir of Mouse material -- in which Minnie's nieces appeared
> with the names Pammy and Tammy.  Is everyone confused now?

Not very.  I think Rich Bellacera (not on the list anymore) also had
read that, because he kept talking about Minnie having two nieces but
couldn't remember their names.  Nadir?  I seems like the idea of
nieces for Minnie has a tendency to appear when bad Mouse stories are
made.  The only reason this Molly (a single niece) is remembered here
is because the Norwegian book Donaldismen (The Donaldism) by Jon Gisle
made her the symbol of the bad stories in Scandinavia in the
mid-sixties.


Favourite stories
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David had a couple of 10-pagers in his list and James explicitly said
that he preferred the shorter stories, so I'd like to make clear
that what I set out to do in my list was to list my favourite *long*
(more than 10 pages) stories by Barks.  I'd have a harder time to come
up with my favourite 10-pagers, and I think it's hard to compare them,
so making one single top list would be still harder.  (I'll try to
come up with my favourite 10-pagers soon though.)

David> Well, that's all for now.  I'd like to hear what others'
David> favorite Barks and Gottfredson stories are!!!

Sorry, no Gottfredson list here, but I would also be interested in
seeing more folks' lists of favourites.  Up to now the lists haven't
looked very much like one another which I think is pretty interesting.

Me, Myself, and I
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Gilbert:
> ... but I still don't know that much about Per (and we exchange
> e-mail letters!!).. so come on Pal, get in this too.  I am condignly
> inviting/appealing to EVERYONE, to tell at least a little something
> about themselves and to post something else, from time to time!

Well, hmm, I think I wrote something about that'd it be interesting if
people on the list said something about themselves way back, so I
guess I should oblige myself...

I'm 28 years old.  I have studied computer science and lingustics (and
a little of this and that besides that) at the university here, where
I'm now working (at the dept. of linguistics).  As a kid I read more
books than comics, but I did read a lot of comics as well.  I read
almost no super heroes though, and I read absolutely no realistically
drawn black and white adventure strips and that type of thing.  My
eyes just passed over them as if they didn't exist.
(Characteristically the super hero comic I read the most of was the
somewhat cartoony Shazam.)  So what I did read was mostly Disney and
other funny animals and European comics like Tintin, Lucky Luke, and
Asterix.  Later I added underground comix and post-underground comics
and lots of non-kiddie comics, but that was after joining Swedish
duckdom which sort of made me yet more interested in comics in
general.

I was specially interested in Disney (both animation and comics), and
I read what I could find on the subject.  The first time I learned
about Carl Barks was in the (largely erratic) foreword to _Jag Kalle
Anka_ (the Swedish version of Abbeville's big white book _Donald
Duck_, originally of Italian origin).  That book was really a treat
back then, even though I nowadays really wouldn't like anyone to meet
those stories in that severely butchered form.  I also read everything
on comics I could find in my local public library, and that's where I
found _Donaldismen_ (mentioned earlier in this post).  Then I knew
that there at least *had been* Duck fans once upon a time in Oslo.
Later, in high school, I and a couple of my friends got to know about
NAFS(k), the Swedish Donaldist Association, immediately joined, and
suddenly the collected wisdom and knowledge of international duckdom
was available to me. :-)

Nowadays I've cut down on my comics reading a lot.  I recently started
subscribing to the American Disney comics again after not having them
through the Disney era, but I will probably let them go again, as I
can't afford them, and the only other comic book I subscribe to now is
Yummy Fur.  Discussions on this very mailing list have made me re-read
lots of stories that I haven't read for some years, which I thank you
all for, as it's always good to find that those old stories still really
are so good.  My main pursuit nowadays is otherwise to learn to juggle
five balls.

Hmm, time to sleep.  I'll get back to the rest of the subjects I
intended to comment on some other time.
--       "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden.  email: starback at student.docs.uu.se
 "Life is but a gamble!  Let flipism chart your ramble!"



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