By public demand, and next week

[Anders Christian Siveb¾k]

Hi 
I once read an article on Barks called By public demand. It was about
reprints of Barks's stories, possibly in european issues. 
You know the kliche of certain stories, where the crook explains why he
became a crook? The classical story of how a dane became a donaldist in
the 60'es or 70'es is that he read the stories in danish known as "En
udvalgt historie" (A chosen story). (In the earlier years than those it
was usually by self-descovering a genius, and later those become
donaldists - they called him the good artist)

The term chosen story both indicates that: 
1. The story is chosen, by an editor who on one hand knew what he was
doing (On the other hand he didn't as some of the stories are cut or
censored). 
2. The story has been printed before (I'm not sure if that always counted,
maybe a Barks-story would even be chosen if it hadn't be published before,
eg. if they printed it in the 80'es, just to show the knowing reader that
this was special)

I know that the expression is called Favorit i Repris in swedish (favorite
being published again). 

My reason to write this posting is that I find this expression has
devaluated (lost some of it's meaning). You see, two of the most known
danish duck publications, the weekly Anders And & Co. and the Extra,
monthly, Anders And Extra, have been printing chosen stories that aren't
by Barks for some time now. To save money I guess, so egmont doesn't have
to make so many new stories. - 

Or becuase the local editors don't find some stories good enough for
printing - I eg. saw a story in the greek Minnie summer special from 1999
that hasn't been printed here. 

As said I call that devaluation, but as a fan of certain drawers I hate it
most when the extra is filled with reprints of stories by Vicar or Branca.
Usually there's also a french Mickey-story, and I don't find them as
sparkling as the ones from Egmont. Overmore there was a short dutch story
by Freddy Milton, of whom I'm also a fan. 
Vicar and Barnca stories are also reprinted in the weekly, as said because
they don't have enough stories. The extras have been like I pointed out
since 1999. 

Some will probably find it double moralic that I don't mind them
reprinting Don Rosa's story, but I really don't mind, not as long as they
reprint in a better way than the first - Treasure under Glass was
republished last summer, with new coloring and in some special paper
quality. - Last Sled to Dawson came out in a A4-format extra for the
hioliday we have in week 7 - and now I both see on the back of the weekly,
and read somewhere that Barks Pigmy Indian-story is coming out upside-down
together with Rosas War of the Wendio. 

second subject: 
As I said, next week there will be an extra with the weekly. I know this
from the second last page of the weekly. I think it has been the way since
the beginning of the 80'es, that you can always see in the end of the
issue what is next week. 
In Denmark they weight the stories in the next issue most, show what the
special gift is (preferably (IMO) an extra-comic, a calendar or some child
play thing, and show the cover of the next weekly. I think this is how
they do in all the "pure" egmont countries (I think of Scandinavia and
Eastern Europe - I'm not sure about China and Japan). In Germany they
weight the special gift the most, they might not even mention the stories
in the next issue - this is at least how it was in Germany in the issues I
remember from the 90'es. 
In Greece I know that the next issue of the magazine Komix is mentioned on
one of the first pages of the mag. 
I wanted to know: Is this a known phenomenon in the once-oublished
american duck comics too? I completely don't remember. 
I do remember that it was more usual to see ads for other issues in a mag,
ads for Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck-comic books in WDC or so. 
It's only the weekly and the girl's magazine, as speaking of
disney/duck-magazines that does this in Denmark. 

Hilsen/Yours
Anders Christian Sivebæk
Donaldist