Don Rosa and Picsou

[Stefan Persson]

Why are some people sending messages in Swedish to DCML?

Magnus Bark (Farbror Skojskoj, en av de tjocka farbröderna) @ DCML (-) 
Disney Comics Mailing List (import) wrote:

>Den gode Stefan Diös har länge bedrivit en kampanj för att göra
>Nafs(k) fånigare. "Det är viktigt att vara fånig".
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> / Magnus Bark (Farbror Skojskoj, en av de tjocka farbröderna)
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>>2003-03-18 18:43:
>>Subject: Re: Don Rosa and Picsou
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>>[Goofy313g at aol.com wondered if Picsou could publish Rosa-stories about
>>subjects like HDL's parents that are "banned" in Egmont.]
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>>Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. replied:
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>>>There are at least two reasons Don Rosa might not want to work for
>>>Picsou right now:
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>>>1) The old editor of Picsou, apparently a friend of his, was replaced
>>>with people who seems to give a damn about his work. The pin-ups are 
>>>gone, and they printed the wrong version of "Gyro's First Invention".
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>>Really? I think the old editor is still there. Please tell me if I´m wrong.
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>>As most of publishers makes those errors with stories every now and 
>>then, I´m sure Don will not start to punish anyone because of that. He 
>>or any other artist/writer could not work for anybody with that kind of 
>>mentality. To err is human.
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>>>2) The French are not very popular in the USA nowadays, as many
>>>Americans now apparently sees the French as Saddam Husseins "useful 
>>>idiots".
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>>I´m sure that Picsou people are not involved in their country´s 
>>Iraq-policy. Nor that it would matter anyway, since Don is not the kind 
>>of guy to let that type of issues to make any difference. (I´m not 
>>judging the French policy here, I can certainly understand why they 
>>would make such a choice, but lets not talk about politics here.)
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>>>My guess is thus that Don Rosa for the time being, would prefer to
>>>Work for Gemstone before Picsou.
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>>Don is probably thrilled at the opportunity to work for Gemstone as you 
>>can guess. Gemstone is unfortunately just starting, so they might not be 
>>in a position to buy whole new stories just now. They can make better 
>>profits with older Rosa-stuff at first. Picsou might be in a better 
>>position as would other non-Egmont publishers.
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>>Still, since Don works slowly, he might want to consider who pays best 
>>for his work, and that is Egmont. Makes more sense to me than any 
>>political or staff-related reasons. There are bills to pay after all.
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>>Oh, and I completely agree with you about it being only Egmont´s policy 
>>to not use HDL´s parents etc. Picsou and others could certainly use such 
>>a story if they wanted.
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>>-- 
>>- Kai Saarto
>>http://www.perunamaa.net/donrosa
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