DCML digest, Vol 1 #141 - 7 msgs

[Jakob Soederbaum]

Don:

> It can't be in the panel you suggest because it would appear,
> left to right, *after* the word balloon containing where you wish to place
> the off-screen person's reaction to hearing it.

And it couldn't be excused with Donald being the "central" person (in several
ways) in the same panel?Just wondering (at least not beating "my" dead horse).

> Cripes, why keep trying to figure this out?

Because I'm interested in "the mind behind". Ever since I read the first of your
stories as a kid I've been trying to understand the art of comics. Like a bolt
out of the blue it became so obvious to me that there is lots more into it than
just writing and drawing. Thanks for taking time - now as well as all the other
times. I truly appreciate that.

> >>>>Assuming, of course,
> Grette/Kerstin/Mildred, also known as "the Fuckin' Sec" (a perfectly
> timed movie reference, btw - but can *you* recognize it??),
>
> Nope... I don't think that sounds like a line from anything on *my*
> "favorite films" list... unless... that isn't what Humphrey Bogart called
> Lee Patrick in "The Maltese Falcon", is it? (I think not.)

It isn't. It's from "Analyze This", starring Robert de Niro and Billy Crystal
(from last year, I think). It's definitely a movie of your taste, being a
semi-parody of older maffia-movies (even with a great "in-movie reference" to
the Godfather #3) and yet with a story of its own, full of gags that still
doesn't make the movie itself nor the maffia-concept silly. It's not even a pure
comedy. Anyway, in one scene Billy Crystal's character (who is a psychiatrist)
needs to introduce himself to the bosses. After a long weird and meaningless
explanation he comes up with a few of his (faked) aliases and sums up: "...also
known as The Fuckin' Doc". I couldn't keep from drawing a parallell to our
discussion about the "sec". I'm sure you understand (drat, here I go again! ;)
).

/Jakob Soederbaum