Disney-comics digest #719.

[Mike Pohjola]

DON:
	In Lo$#5 I think you implied quite strongly towards Christian 
mythology with that "Heaven" part. I don't know any other way of showing
a place like that, but didn't the editors think it a bit offensive to 
some groups?

>        We are just beginning to think about the cover of my hardback
>Finnish collection, and their first idea is the Ducks finding some sort of
>trove of books with some Finnish titles (and I haven't even asked them what
>the titles mean that they've given me). But we might do something entirely
>different... though I still don't know how I could do any sort of scene that
>would be anything but an abstract deal like the book finding. I mean, I
>can't do scenes from any stories since there'll be too many.

	Interesting idea, but quite boring in such. "Finding books!" Couldn't
the Ducks _go_ to Finland?! Or are they thinking this would seem odd to very
young readers, who think they live there already? If you'll have a chance to
meet them, ask them to bring with them a copy of Aleksi Gallen-Kallela's
painting "Sammon Ryosto" ("Theft of Sampo"). It is part of the illustration of
Kalevala (The Finnish Epic, I mentioned it to you earlier) and shows 
Vainamoinen (the hero, an old shaman) in a boat covering some of his people
and Sampo (the money-making machine) with his body and fighting Louhi (a 
withcess, has some general likeness towards the harpyias of the Barks story)
and her troops with a sword. It would look just great if Vainamoinen was
Scrooge and his people were Ducks and Louhi was Magica and and and... This
would not only look absolutely magnificient and recognizable to Finns, but
would also be possible to make part of the highly-unlikely story set in 
Finland, which you once mentioned giving me some long sleepless nights.
	"Finding books"!!! What were the titles in Finnish? How boring can
you get? If a duck-artist - if THE duck-artist will make a cover about
Ducks and Finland, I sure would like it to look _good_. And interesting.
And like that he's really made some research for it. If Markku Kivekas or
whoever it is that is suggesting this to you, has an e-mail address, please
ask him to talk with me. (and then Vito, "Scar" and Little Ed can perhaps
talk him out of it, right)

HARRY:

>He needed the prune part to "prepare" the ending of the story.

	But it was all stupid! He gave everybody a million clues and still
only the readers realized they actually were Beagle Boys. And the whole
BB idea felt kinda like it was glued on the top to give the story some
adventure (which it didn't have). I think it would've been better if there
had only been a wooden horse, where BB would've hid much earlier.

	Thanks for the Netherlands info. I did know the word "Dutch" but say,
you don't speak Flemish in Holland? That's new to me. 

>I said on this list that De Geillustreerde Pers (GP) is looking for short
>non-DUCK stories. But last week I heard they were also looking for short
>Duck-stories. I don't think they want a long Beagle Boys story. But I'm
>not sure; please contact GP before you put too much effort in a story they
>don't want.

	I also have four Big Bad Wolf/Three Little Pigs stories coming. The
problem with making non-Duck stories is that the characters have so very
little personalities. And I'm such an individualist that in the BB story
I decided to make them the Hungry guy, the Stupid guy and the Boss. Was
it that way? Is the stupid one also strong? Or is that just DuckTales? I
think somebody once mentioned here they had some personality.. 
	I think I might also make some Duck stories just to show my bad
stories aren't because of me but because of the low number of characters.
	Still about that BB story, I think it will come out quite a good
one, but since I have never made a 'professional' script before, I don't
know how much (if any) I should write about the looks of new characters 
and how some panels should be drawn. Also I'd like to know the following 
English words:
	- the little boxes that say "Suddenly" or "Soon..." or "As he was
	  rolling on the floor laughing, something happened in Hiroshima"
	- word balloons that are ment for thinking or whispering
	- the boxes that have the action (usually there are eight in one
 	  page)
	
>(BTW: it would be great to see a Pohjola story in Dutch DD!)

	Thanks. I'll try not to let you down.

DANIEL:
>Don't think xeroxing is a lot of trouble for me, but I don't have a 

	Then please, do xerox the story for me. And if there's anything
I can do for you, just ask, ok?


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	Mike - The Finnish Trekkie