Disney-comics digest ?264.

[bjorn-are.davidsen@s.televerket.tele.no]

Don

You asked about the Norwegian Donald Duck & Co #10/94:
"What is going on... on pages 24 & 25? It seems to be some 
sort of contest with the prize being a signed & numbered  
limited edition lithograph of my DD Family Tree... Does this 
contest have something to do with the approach of DD&CO 
#2000 in about 5 weeks? And what is that puzzle story that 
precedes the prize pages?"

Page 25 is as you thought a competition (which has nothing 
to do with page 26) with 5 "numbered and signed by Don 
Rosa" limited editions of the Famliy Tree. The competion 
itself is meant for somewhat younger readers who are asked 
to put together the various pictures on that page according to 
some rules. 

The "puzzle story" between page 24 and 25 is the first part 
of "Duck Burg Citizens" ("Andeby-boere") which is meant as 
a (very) short "picture gallery" of events from the life of it's 
most famous residents. This first part is titled "Uncle 
Scrooge looks back" and the (commercial) point is that the 
next issues of DD&Co will contain pictures the readers can 
put into this book. Of course the whole thing is just to sell 
more issues of DD&Co and has no artistic value whatever. 
The next to get a "picture gallery" will be Donald and then 
Mickey.

Your comment on my comment on the Dramatic picture in 
Lo$ 10 was very interesting. I had to go back and look. You 
are right in describing the battleships as beeing kind of 2D. 
However - due to the "surprise factor", the dramatic "climax" 
 - the way that panel functioned in it's context - I quite simple 
DID NOT NOTICE IT. I just gasped and marvelled at the line 
up of forces, and read on to see what happened next. That's 
what happen when the storyline/plot is so powerfull that you 
hardly notice the drawings on your first reading (or at least I 
don't).

Bjorn Are