About KOMIX articles

[Apostolis Trikourakis]

Luca Boschi wrote:

> But if a magazine, like "Komix", translates 'em
> in another language, and translates things NOT published in Disney comic
> books (like our "Blue Book", published by Alessandro Distribuzioni in
> Bologna) or takes things from Internet newssgroups (with their authors
well
> indicated)... Well, what can you say about such guys?

Don Rosa wrote:

> Ah, yes, if that's the case, they *are* stealing. A year or two ago I told
> KOMIX they should stop doing that, and maybe that's why they hired their
> new text writer. If that's still going on, it's happening only in the
texts
> that he does not supply.

Like Archontis Pantsios wrote in a previous mail, if you want to write an
article you must have a experience. Carl Barks, Don Rosa, Romano Scarpa and
all the other artists was unknow in Greece until the beginning of Komix'
publication in 1988. There was no articles from 1966 to 1988 about Disney,
the artists and the characters, no interviews, not even credits or a simple
note in each story (apart from the code, maybe).
When Komix started publishing stories, there was not even one text writer
with an experience to those stories. So, they started translating articles
from other magazines (mostly American and Italian). In the middle of 98',
Komix started publishing original articles [like the survey about Don's
hidden Mickeys (ok, I know that all the images from those 2 articles have
been taken from Thomass Lauritsen' page)] and interviews by Don Rosa.
I think that Komix writers have now learned a lot of things about Disney
comics and specially for both Carl's and Don's stories, and they're ready to
write original articles.
So, can we forgive them? I cannot think that they was trying to "steal" the
other writers' work.
Best Wishes and Merry Christmas

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Apostolis Trikourakis, Athens
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