Disney-comics digest #473.

[Don Rosa]

JORGEN:
	You told "Realistforeningen" that I was coming and they said
they'd DO something about it. Since I haven't the slightest idea who
that is, you have me a bit worried. That's not some group of
fundamentalist Islamic terrorists or something, is it? Now I'm not sure
if I should leave home.
	This is rather a trivial point, but just so you don't
misunderstand something you might be seeking to understand clearly:
Brer' Rabbit is neither supposed to be black or a "hillbilly". He's
supposed to be a rural deep-southerner. "Hillbillies" live quite a bit
further north (supposedly here in Kentucky, actually). A hillbilly is
someone who lives so far back in inaccessible hills (such as in the
Applalacian Mountains) that his contact with "civilisation" is minimal.
Brer Rabbit is just supposed to resemble some poor person in Louisiana
or Mississippi... not someone who lives far from the city necessarilly,
just poor and uneducated. Whether or not he's supposed to be BLACK... I
don't think so. His story is being told by a black man so it's told from
his viewpoint... but I think the critters in those stories are just
supposed to be critters. I mean, now, the crows in DUMBO... now, THEY
were clearly intended to be as BLACK as the Ace o' Spades!

HARRY:
	You seemed to be saying that Gladstone had made Hortense's bill
actually BIGGER instead of smaller... so I got out the different
editions and compared. I'm glad I did this, and I owe Gladstone a big
apology (for a comment they never saw anyway). Gladstone indeed DID make
Hortense's bill smaller, just as I asked them to -- they just didn't
make it small enough. But they did a GREAT job compared with the way
they redrew $crooge's beak in that panel in part 3! I couldn't tell it'd
been touched. But I drew Hortense's bill SO BIG in the original version
that even when they shrank it, it was still too big. But... were you
actually saying that Gladstone made the bill bigger? You must have
gotten quite mixed up as to which version was which.

	Anyway, I won't see your answer to that. This is my last contact
with you all for the next two weeks. Hope to see a few of you in
Scandanavia -- identify yourself to me if you get a chance! Bye.