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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi DCmailians!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm Gilles MAURICE, the french fan DonRosa spoke
you about a few times.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I didn't know this section of the site, just the
characters', the stories' and the artists', but when DonRosa showed my work
here, I realised that it was too bad not to become a part of that! I have so
many questions that don't find answers in sites or in the few comics I've got...
( Don't worry, I won't annoy you with Disney cartoons!...). You know, it's very
difficult to work with french names, or non-english names, because you can do a
lot of mistake because of the first translators' mistakes (for instance, I saw
in a german family tree that Gladstone and Gus were brothers, only because
they've the same name! What a pity!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll ask you questions later, here I just want to
say HI !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I answer the few questions which have been asked
about my work:</FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>I made Don and Della bear in 1920 because Sigvald
did in his Who's Who, and it was perfect (he would have done his first film
aged 14, met his uncle aged 10, take his nephews aged 22...)</FONT></LI></UL>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The date 3/13 came from things I've just heard, and
the film "Los tres caballeros", the only cartoon DonRosa think good, in
which</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>is showed on Donald's birthday present's sticker
that the scene took place on a 3/13. I don't know if it is a friday, because I
haven't got a 1920 calendar!... but if somebody knows all the friday 3/13 arond
1920, he is welcome!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's IMPOSSIBLE for him to bear on 1934, how could
he meet his uncle in 1930 ?(Lo$ 11), so why keep this date of june
9th?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, the egg(s) could have been layed on 3/13 and
hatched on 6/9, around 1920...</FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>About the verb "hatch", yes, it would be more
appropriate. I don't like this idea about Ducks hatching from eggs, because,
as DonRosa says, the Ducks are human beings, in fact, so I think it's very
silly, but on another hand, many cartoons, an episode of QuackPack, this old
comic from 1984 and even "The Fountain of Youth" from Barks show or evoque
that the Ducks bear in eggs. Althought DonRosa consider that as a joke, in the
fountain of youth, when it's said to Donald: "If you stay too long in this
water, you'll become an egg!", I maintain this Idea.But if those characters
are human beings, so BadWolf and Li'l Pigs too?... When Disney is involved in
the cannibalism problem...</FONT></LI></UL>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry, but I don't know anything about
astrology...</FONT></LI></UL>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some things have changed in my tree, since I first
sent it to DonRosa, and some other stayed:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Since DonRosa told me:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>"""I also dislike seeing Donald's sister being named
Dumbella -- that's such a<BR>stupid name. These characters don't have dopey
names like that. (I assume<BR>you know the English word "dumbbell" and what it
means. Donald's twin<BR>sister would not be a dumbbell!) But I see you do try
to include all the names a<BR>character has been referred to by even if they
are confusing and<BR>self-contradictory. Okay, that would solve this problem.
Della would be her<BR>real first name, and her mean brother Donald might have
called her<BR>"Dumbella" to annoy her. You have her "nickname" as "Della"
which sounds<BR>like a normal name, not a nickname. "Dumbella" sounds like a
nickname. You<BR>should change her listing to: Della "Dumbella" Thelma Duck,
don't you<BR>agree?""", I changed the "" place.I thought that "Della" was a
diminutive for "Dumbella"!...</FONT></DIV></FONT></LI>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>DonRosa:"""Naturally I don't object to seeing a tree
featuring characters other than<BR>those created or used by Barks, which was
the sole purpose of my tree. But<BR>you have one brief moment when you
recognize the "Ducktales" TV series<BR>characters, which really goes against
my grain! It was generally not a bad<BR>show, but I think it should be ignored
and forgotten as having anything to<BR>do with the Duck Universe of the comic
books! But that's up to you.<BR>But similarly, I think it's a big mistake to
pull any Duck characters from<BR>animated Disney cartoons. Disney treats these
characters as *actors*<BR>filling whatever role is needed in any film. The
unnamed triplet Ducks in<BR>"Donald's Diary" were Huey, Dewey and Louie acting
as other characters.<BR>(Generally, I dislike seeing ANY Disney work being
made part of the Disney<BR>Duck comic book Universe, something they NEVER
contributed to and should<BR>not share any portion of the credit
for!)"""</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Me:Ok, cartoons are *films* with *actors*, but, to me,
if there are an "Aunt Gertie" in "Stuck on Christmas" and some brothers in
"Donald's Diary", it's, to me, because they've really existed. They took
actors who looked very much like the real Gertie and the others. But I 'll
explain that in a "Duck history" that I'm making (not yet finished, I'm adding
pictures... :-)) I'll send you when finished.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>It's the same thing for Bentina and Webbigail, but I've
removed Johnny Genie and Bubba, who are, to me, non-existents
characters.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I added Sgrizzo Papero only now, because I wanted to put
him before, but I didn't know where, and when I saw in a website , that his
English name was Kildare Coot, I know now where to put him! So I added his
parents too .(I made Kildare "Sgrizzo" Coot, son of Betty Broodhen and Combout
Coot, son of Casey Coot)</FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></LI></UL><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>See you soon !<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
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