Komix #151

[Kriton Kyrimis]

Here's what's in next(!) month's issue of Komix, which was published a
week earlier than announced:

* Cover by Carl Barks. I have put a scan in
  http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis/pics/komix151.jpg
* A two-page article titled "Christmas with the Ducks", subtitled
  "Carl Barks' holiday album.
* Carl Barks' "A Christmas for Shacktown".
* A three(!) page article titled "The world of the Dinosaur", subtitled
  "Digital filming in the time of the dinosaurs".
* "Christmas Tree Tangle" (D3685) drawn by Vicar and written by Jim Kenner.
* A two-page "The news of Komix" article. See note below.
* Carl Barks' "The Know-It-All Machine".
* A one-page article titled "Strategy and imagination", subtitled "From
  role-playing games to card games, conveniently placed next to add
  about RPG games and trading cards in the inside back cover.
* Last but not least a phantomias/paperinic/superduck/whatever-he's-called
  deck of playing cards, jacking up the price of ths month's comic
  book to almost three times the normal price. I have put a scan of
  the folded box for the cards and the top of the deck side by side at
  http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis/pics/cards.jpg


One of the items in the "news of Komix" article is the
following [comments in square brackets are mine]:

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TRUE... THOUGH NOT INCREDIBLE!

[The title alludes to the Greek expression "incredible, but true",
which is often used to render the English phrase "believe it or not".]

Each year, more than two billion people on the planet read Disney
comics. It seems incredible, especially if you subtract from this number
those who can't read or are too young or too old to read, then almost the
entire planet is having fun with the stories about Mickey and Donald. If
you want to learn more about the titles of these magazines, then you
can visit the page that Arthur De Wolf, a Dutch comics fan, has set up
in the Internet. At the address www.wolfstad.com/dcw you will find the
complete list of all the Disney publications that are being published. In
the first page of Arthur's database, figures the cover of ours, _Komix_:
it is the magazine whose page has had the most visitors! This is another
Greek first, which, however, should not come as a surprise. _Komix_ is the
magazine which publishes the wonderful stories of the two greatest artists
in the Disney world: the great Carl Barks, and the charismatic Don Rosa!

[The article appears next to a side panel containing a B&W screen dump
of the top-10 item in Arthur's page, showing Komix in the first place
with 182 clicks. At the time of this writing, Komix is still first, with
589 clicks.]

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Cheers,
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	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
	      	(WWW:    http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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