Acting up

[Per Starback]

Mattias wrote:
> Also, Tryg: I don't see no reason for you to go lurking again, just because
> we've had some subjects under discussion before;

I absolutely agree.  Certainly you aren't supposed to read through our
old ramblings just so that you don't happen to ask something that
already has been covered here.  And besides there will always be more
to say about a question like "Where is Duckburg?" anyway.

There has been some talk about the characters as actors, and Wilmer
remembered that Four Color comic book where the real Goofy, as seen in
the comics, was acting in the cartoons.  Of course the cartoons aren't
real---every sane person knows that!  What most of them don't know is
that the comics *are* for real!  There is really a difference.  In the
comics a world was gradually created around the characters, but
the cartoons are very much like other comedy films with recurring
actors---the settings vary wildly, but the characters remain more or
less the same.

That Goofy comic is not the only time the comics showed the gang as
actors doing the cartoons, by the way.  Gottfredson has Mickey talking
to Unca Walt himself on the phone about a role in a new cartoon!
--       "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden.  email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
 "Roll out the velvet carpet!  Sound the klaxons!  The master actor of
  the ages has arrived!" (Donald in WDC 128)

PS: What is a klaxon, by the way?