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Contents:
David Gerstein German supplements
Torsten Adair Re: German supplements
Don Rosa +Postage Due+Disney-comics digest #170.
Harry Fluks new files on ftp
Geir Hasnes The great libraries story
Even Flood Re: The great library story
Kjetil T. Homme +Postage Due+Disney-comics digest #170.
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 19:53:41 -0500
From: David A Gerstein <David.A.Gerstein at williams.edu>
Subject: German supplements
Dear Folks,
Don Rosa, discussing Disney comics in Germany, stated that
there, like Finland and Sweden, their weekly comic "also do[es]n't have
supplement issues."
Actually, Ehapa *does* put out supplements, but they simply do
it about half as often as other Egmont affiliates (about once every
two months, rather than once a month).
There have been such specials as:
"Micky Maus Super-Sommer-Sonderheft" (including the Barks MM
story "Riddle of the Red Hat" and some Danish Ducks);
"DuckTales" (actually a collection of Barks Scrooge shorts,
despite its title);
"Bundesliga-Stars 1992" (I kid you not, a full 32 pages of
photographs of soccer stars);
"Zurueck nach dem Steinzeit" (one of the three 44-page Egmont
time travel stories, by Vicar, published alone... I don't think the
other two have ever seen print there. This one wasn't printed with
the new Dutch opening and closing, though... just as it was originally
made, even though it felt incomplete);
and undoubtedly the best:
"Micky Maus und der Geist der Gorillas" (or: In Search of
Jungle Treasure, a Gottfredson story banned over here, presented
COMPLETE in the issue, in its original strip form (the book reads
oblong), together with a long article about Gottfredson). Talk about
a special... and all this for a mere 75 cents more than the regular
edition!)
So you see, there are special supplements in Germany. So why
did the Germans not make the Lo$ into the supplement that Egmont
offered them? Simple... they were planning to wait to print ANY Lo$
until they could launch it as an album series. It was not originally
to appear in the weekly comic. But eventually they decided it was
better to run it in the weekly first... why not make *MORE* money,
especially when in Deutschland people will buy ANYTHING with a Duck or
Mouse on it?
(BTW: Mickey has equal popularity to Donald in Germany... the
German weekly has battled the problem of too few Egmont MM stories by
re-reprinting many Paul Murry stories, and often the Germans won't
print the cover Egmont offers them in favor of doing their own MM
cover for the weekly... a good idea, but usually terribly drawn! In
Germany two of the three regular comics have Mickey's name in the
title, and as of this decade have given MM equal exposure on the
cover.)
Zassall for now...
Your pal,
David Gerstein
"The only way to get ahead of Mickey Mouse is to *run* in
*front* of him!"
<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 19:13:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Torsten Wesley Adair <torsten at cwis.unomaha.edu>
Subject: Re: German supplements
On Mon, 29 Nov 1993, David A Gerstein wrote:
> Dear Folks,
> Don Rosa, discussing Disney comics in Germany, stated that
> there, like Finland and Sweden, their weekly comic "also do[es]n't have
> supplement issues."
> Actually, Ehapa *does* put out supplements, but they simply do
> it about half as often as other Egmont affiliates (about once every
> two months, rather than once a month).
> There have been such specials as:
[...]
> "Bundesliga-Stars 1992" (I kid you not, a full 32 pages of
> photographs of soccer stars);
Hey, if Gladstone (actually, it's some other name, starts with an "H") can
publish "Charles Barkley and the Referee Murders", then why not a book of
Bundesliga stars? I'm surprised someone hasn't done the same here with
the NFL, NBA, NHL, NBL, ETC.
> So you see, there are special supplements in Germany. So why
> did the Germans not make the Lo$ into the supplement that Egmont
> offered them? Simple... they were planning to wait to print ANY Lo$
> until they could launch it as an album series. It was not originally
> to appear in the weekly comic. But eventually they decided it was
> better to run it in the weekly first... why not make *MORE* money,
> especially when in Deutschland people will buy ANYTHING with a Duck or
> Mouse on it?
Or a Rabbit, or a bug. putt-putt-putt...
> (BTW: Mickey has equal popularity to Donald in Germany... the
> German weekly has battled the problem of too few Egmont MM stories by
> re-reprinting many Paul Murry stories, and often the Germans won't
> print the cover Egmont offers them in favor of doing their own MM
> cover for the weekly... a good idea, but usually terribly drawn! In
> Germany two of the three regular comics have Mickey's name in the
> title, and as of this decade have given MM equal exposure on the
> cover.)
I've noticed the awful MM artwork inside. The covers, however, have been
very professional and "on model". I thought the Donald Duck cover with
the baby dinosaur was cute. (sorry Don, I'll won't use that word again.)
So, what did the German readers think of the undersea voyage of Donald Duck?
I liked the story, but isn't it Standard Operating Procedure for Donald to
loose in the end? Or is it acceptable for Donald to win by sheer dumb
luck? I thought that was Goofy's domain. I would have expanded the story
by having whats-her-name sweet-talk Donald into doing dangerous things,
like going into a shark cage and filming sharks underwater.
Torsten Adair torsten at cwis.unomaha.edu Omaha, NE, USA
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Date: 30 Nov 93 00:48:01 EST
From: Don Rosa <72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM>
Subject: +Postage Due+Disney-comics digest #170.
David:
Are you telling me that it is permitted to use PERIODS in a
Disney comic??? When did that start? Lordy, two panels never go by that
I wish I was allowed to use a period instead of an exclamation! But
all-exclamations are the tradition.
And please take it easy on this "count down" to U$ #285! The
first chapter of Lo$ is only 15 pages and it's been said it's kinduva
slow start-off. You'll work yourself up into expecting WAR AND PEACE and
you'll be very disappointed in me!
And do you think an ape would NOT eat a flea if he found one?
Besides, lice are banned because Injuns have 'em.
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:00:30 +0100
From: Harry Fluks <H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl>
Subject: new files on ftp
On ftp.lysator.liu.se:/pub/comics/disney there are some new versions of our
index files. I put the Gladstone index and the Disney Comics index in one file:
gladstone-disney.index. The 'creators' file has also been adjusted.
Gladstone's 1st period is now almost complete!
Thanks to Mark Semich and David Gerstein.
There are a few other updates to come:
- a new version of the Danish index by Ole Reichstein Nielsen
- a new version of the file 'story-codes' (at last).
Per hasn't put these files on the ftp site yet, but I expect they will be
there soon.
--Harry.
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:02:21 +0100
From: Geir.Hasnes at DELAB.SINTEF.no
Subject: The great libraries story
I include a letter I got from a friend working in the National Library
Service of Norway. He is representing Norway in an international committee
on standards for paper so that it can be preserved. I hunger for your
comments, Don!
"To Geir Hasnes:
I received the special Donald Duck edition from Statsbygg (Norwegian State
Buidings institution), and was ordered to study it closely. Some people
there opinionated that 7 shelves of books were too much for as short a
person as Scrooge McDuck.
I have given this comment:
The National Library Service has studied closely the problems with seven
heights of shelves in the underground book store. The usual solution would
be an aeroplane stairway like tree construction, normally done in mahogany,
that can be moved around the store. If one chooses this underground as a
standard, and furnishes the libraries with mobile scaffolding, in oak or
other cheaper materials, one has to reckon with a distance of four meters
between the shelves to give room for manouvering. Eventually one may have
to organize separate courses in stairway manouvering.
Normally, rats and other rodents will concentrate on leather, parchment and
sugary book binder glue. Ruminants, on the other hand, can utilize
cellulose as nourishment. There must have been a special crossing of
cow/sheep and rat that has created the special Duckburg breed that has
preferred to digest the cellulose and until now has not touched the binding
materials. I look forward to learning more about the basis for this
sensational zoological development, that may be taken as yet one
confirmation of Darwinism."
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 15:24:31 +0200 (METDST)
From: Even Flood <Even.Flood at due.unit.no>
Subject: Re: The great library story
In <2dfcps$l03 at ifi.uio.no>, Geir.Hasnes at DELAB.SINTEF.no writes:
>I include a letter I got from a friend working in the National Library
>Service of Norway. He is representing Norway in an international committee
A comment: The correct name is
National Office for Specialist and Research Libraries.
The "Friend" mentioned is one of the experts on
preservation of books and written material.
BTW, that was the organization Don visited when he was in
Norway and had dinner with the head, National Librarian Ben
Rugaas. They are also my employers, so I had to respond to that....
>Normally, rats and other rodents will concentrate on leather, parchment and
>sugary book binder glue. Ruminants, on the other hand, can utilize
>cellulose as nourishment.
Mayby the rodents do not eat paper, but they certainly
*can* chew it into small pieces, and they do! I know from
personal experience and have seen the sad remains of
several issues of Chemical Abstracts after mice got into
the basement in the University library in Tromso.
So that part of the story was sadly accurate.
Even
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 15:39:19 +0100
From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho at ifi.uio.no>
Subject: +Postage Due+Disney-comics digest #170.
+--- Don Rosa:
| Are you telling me that it is permitted to use PERIODS in a
| Disney comic??? When did that start? Lordy, two panels never go by
| that I wish I was allowed to use a period instead of an exclamation!
| But all-exclamations are the tradition.
+-------
My goodness! Here in Norway the all-exclamation style is reserved for
the super-heroes! Well, not strictly true, you can use either
ellipsis, question marks or exclamation marks! Fortunately, in Donald
Duck we are spared that style which I personally find very tiring to
read! Mind you, there are still more exclamation marks in Donald than
in your ordinary prose!
Kjetil T!
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(End of digest.)
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