Disney-comics digest #723.

[Mike Pohjola]

MIKKO:
>Ahh, I really loved the story. As my local comic-book retailer said

	Where did you buy the book? Good Fellows? What was the price?

PER:
	I kinda liked the idea of having this little list here with some
fifty persons (is that even near?) reading it and even less writing to it.
That, in a way, gave me the idea that I'm someone special getting a chance
to discuss the thing I discuss here with Disney comics fans and makers 
from all over the world. I mean, in Saturday's digest, there was even 
opinions coming from Australia. Exactly from the other side of the world!
Now making this that open and subscribing Bullseye, it would make this, in
my humble opinion, a bit too public. Couldn't we simply send a FAQ or an
index there? And, there's a lot of stuff discussed here (including these
messages about whether to allow Bullseye or not) that people not personally
subscribing wouldn't give a dime for. Although I would hope fandom of Disney
comics to reach as many people as possible, my vote is a slight no. Maybe
I'm just being selfish, I don't know...

DON:
>        The Finnish issues are billing "ODaDaD" as "fresh" Rosa art? They
>have no way of knowing I did that story 4 years ago.

	No. I did though. And if I, a simple amateur, can know such thing,
then how come editors do not? And they should know they hardly ever get any
_fresh_ stuff from Denmark, anyway. I think I'll send the editor a letter
telling him this. What is your next story to be published by Egmont and how
old is that?

>        I don't have a copy of a Euro printing of that tale where I sit now,
>so I'm not sure what I may have drawn wrong about Magica's chest.

	I deleted that dirty joke (Was it that dirty? Was it meant to be a
joke?) about the shape of the lady ducks.. The treasure-chest is what I 
meant! The big wooden box where she kept the candle.

	I'm probably proving myself to be a total jerk and an idiot incompetent
even to understand something like that, but by "chest" I meant the big wooden
box where she kept her thing. There, I ridiculed myself, didn't I?

>        Neither am I sure what you mean about the candle. I seem to recall
>that I had the candle burning down a set distance page by page, regardless
>of the amount of time that was supposed to be passing -- I was using the
>candle more as a visual gimmick than a real measurement of time passed. But

	Oh, that explains it. I just thought it should be in the half way
when half of the time had passed. But in that way it wouldn't have looked 
as nice as it did now.

>        I always pictured $crooge, no matter how young, as having white
>hair. I see ALL male Ducks as having white hair.

	Really? I always thought this was pretty strange, before I saw 
your stories and got the impression that it was a mere coincidence and almost
all the other Ducks had their hair as yellow, brown or black. Most of the
female Ducks (not counting Daisy and Grandma) have colored hair, but there
are people like Gladstone, Fethry, the founder of Duckburg and the strong
log-cousin who are male and have colored hair. That's pretty nit-picking, 
so I won't continue. But the coloring looked nicer anyway than if it would've
been white. 
	It has actually always bothered me that all the ducks looked so
similar. Without the clothing and the hair they would almost all look the
same. It is very nice to see the nice work you have done with especially
the eyes and the bills of the ducks. But most of the male McDucks look
exactly like Scrooge or Donald. Now when looking at the big family-tree,
is father of Grandma Duck related to Ludwig Von Drake?

>        Are you asking me for advice on how to do a comic script? You'd be
>better off checking with someone who knows how to deal with lots of editors
>and has made a study of how professionals do this sort of thing. I'm not a

	Well, I make study of how professionals do this sort of thing. YOU
for example are in my point of view (in most people's, I believe) a 
professional. And I deeply thank you for the advice you gave me. And 
engouragement. If they ever ask me how I got into making comics, I'm gonna
mention your name.

>mind... and you don't need to be able to draw to do that much.

	D-oh! I have already made four versions of the same half-page
trying to make a big chase where a detective, a copper and a police-man
run after BB whom of one is dressed as a fransiscane monk, one is wearing
an armor and a one is fihting on a horse with a fat guy. In the back-ground
an alien is chased by reporters, trying to make that look as chaotic and
farcial as possible.

>You KNOW you can do better than that stuff, right? Go ahead then!

	Thanks! If they ever publish my stories, I'll send you a copy!


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	Mike - The Finnish Trekkie