Aloha!

[Tom Tanida]

Chris Lawton said:
>    I'm also a sometimes reader/poster to rec.arts.disney.  I find that I have
>    mixed feelings about the comments by Don Rosa.  I find that I skip over
>    ~95% of the articles.  I agree with Don that most of the bandwidth there
>    is wasted (i.e. "Oh - Ariel is sooo cute!" for hundreds of messages gets

I can agree with this, and I do the FAQ for that group.  Still, there is
some valuable information there, if you can find it. :-)  I worry for
the future of the Internet (there's a million new members a month)-
these days, the same subjects come up often (I could make the FAQ
longer, as if 150K isn't big enough ;-)), 90% of some messages are included
from previous messages, etc. etc.  But there are some Disney insiders
there (and on the FLORIDA forum on Compuserve) which make it generally
worthwhile (plus I'm writing some custom software to help me weed info
out).  It's nice to have the quiet little Disney Comics mailing list
to turn to (though what's with all the "subscribe me please" messages
sent to the list recently?!? :-(  Yeah, I know.)

and:

>P.S.   Don - If you feel a little unappriecated by the folks at Disney, please
>       try to not let it get you down.  There's still lots of people who do
>       like the work you do here in the U.S.

I'll vouch for that.  I love Don's work (when I can find it! arggh!)
and I've been collecting his comics.  I grew up with Barks, and only Don
can compare (if he doesn't mind the useless comparisons- I don't think
it's really very appropriate to compare artists, movies, etc.- each should
stand alone).  It's too bad the US market is bent more on comics with
mindless violence.

A friend of mine also loves Don's work- she pores over every frame to
examine the great detail put in to each one.  In fact, she even thinks Barks'
art is not as good, and reads Don's stories almost exclusively!

-Tom