Digest #31

Don Rosa 72260.2635 at CompuServe.COM
Fri May 28 15:17:52 CEST 1993


COMMENTS TO #31:

	I agree with Harry to being puzzled by people who can't recognize my art at 20 paces! I'm often at comic shows doing sketches 
signing stuff and so forth, and I can always separate the men from the boys (or the true Duck fans from the people who just want 
to invest in signed comics) by what their comments to me are. When someone says that they just can't tell my artwork apart from 
Barks' it's just so wunnerful... I know they've never even looked at one of my stories.

	Banned ROSA stories? "War of the Wendigo" is the only one so far. But when we get to certain chapters of "The Life and Times of 
$crooge McDuck", Disney may not allow Gladstone to use the chapters without deleting pages of very UN-DISNEYlike goins-ons. I've
 done some stuff in $crooge's life story, especially toward the end when he's getting more mean and ornery with each passing year, 
that are light-years away from ANYTHING that's ever been in any Disney comic! And right now in part 11 I'm doing a 24-pager whose 
central plot involves $crooge's original encounters with Bombie the Zombie, and this whole chapter might be nixed by Disney. (Or 
they'll make Gladstone call him Bombie the Ugly Bad Guy or something).
	Speaking of Bombie and any ideas that I'm revising ANY Barks Duck-fact, I managed to use everything in "Voodoo Hoodoo" ver batim 
EXCEPT the stuff about $crooge's African experiences taking place "75 years ago"; that was pretty goofy even for Barks to have said 
back in the original issue -- $crooge would have had to have been at least 100 years old in "Voodoo Hoodoo". Anyway, I change the 
time frame to 1906, which would be about 50 years ago in my timescape.

Andrew K.: No, I don't have "War of the Wendigo" typed up into a computer file. I never could find a use for computers in my writing 
as long as they still make spiral notebooks (which are FAR handier to use, no matter what any computer-nerd can claim). But I can 
always send out copies of the script (which is done up with illustrations like a simulated comic page). However, I'm not keen on 
people reading the script with that sloppy art without having the FINISHED comic to also look at. If Andrew (or anyone) can get 
aholt of a foreign edition of "Wendigo", I'll mail them the script. I can't supply those comics because, as I've said, I have a 
devil of a time getting one copy just for ME.




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