Disney-comics digest #313.

[Don Rosa]

ANDREW:
	Newsstand copies of Gladstone comics are handled by Marvel, and
if Marvels are on the stands in Australia/New Zealand, then it must be
Marvel's job to distribute the Gladstones there. However, even though
I'm sure Gladstone AND DISNEY are expecting Marvel to be living up to
their agreement, I very, very seldom see the "Disney Comics distributed
by Marvel" Gladstones on the American newsstands next to the other
Marvels. They sell out before I see them? Yeah, right. No, it may be
Marvel falling down on the job, or even the local distributors or stand
owners who know what a waste of time it is to set out the Disney comics
since, after all, "they're not like normal comics" and that most
American kids shun them like books or good music or black & white
movies.

MIKKO:
	There's no reason to mention anything to your Finnish Egmont
branch about the coloring of their comics. The coloring is all done on
computers in Copenhagen and sent to the branches on disc or something.
Your publisher has no control over those colors -- if the color is good
or bad in one Egmont country, it will be identicle in ALL Egmont
countries... and even in many other publishers who use Egmont's computer
coloring (like Oberon).
	Doggone -- what is it I try to remember to call Oberon now? QV
or something?

HARRY:
	QV?
	What color did I intend the Beagle Boys' sweaters to be, before
or after incarceration? Uh... I don't think I even considered it. I
think I would say that I figured their clothing beforehand to be
completely different since I show it to be ragged with patches. In fact,
did you notice that each of the three Beagles had a different set of
patches on his knees and elbows? One had squares, one had circles, and
one had both. (Hm... actually, if that WAS the case, the result would be
that the patches on the identicle Beagles would seem completely random.
What a waste of my time!) Anyway, I figured that the later clothing was
new prison-issue -- I didn't think the patches healed.
	S'funny that the Egmont coloring looked better to you... but I
think I see your point. The Egmont colorists are not "artists" and
never tried to be very creative with shading or such, nor did they
worry too much about what color things should be. But they DID seem to
spend more time coloring the details. That might put them and me in the
same league -- I'm not such a refined cartoonist, so I try to make up
for it by putting in all that extra detail.

SIGURDUR:
	So, do you want Icelandic copies or American copies of the Lo$
#1? BOTH would be a problem. It's very unlikely that I have an extra
Iceland issue, and I hafta fight to get the very few American issues I
have. I usually have plenty of Norwegian copies, Norway being the ONLY
publisher who sends me copies. Well... Denmark sends ONE and Gladstone
sends TWO, which ain't many, but then everyone else on earth sends NIL.
Which remonds me -- Harry, what story of mine has Oberon-QV-whateveritis
published lately???
	Sigurdur, your best bet is to send me a copy to be signed. Is
that okay? (Of course, this goes for EVERYBODY, anytime.)