My trip to Rome, 2nd part

Anders Christian Siveb¾k anders_sivebaek at nns.dk
Wed Apr 18 16:04:20 CEST 2001


Back to my travel report. 
As we know from our friendly italians here, the Barks-inspired story,
written by Lustig and drawn by Pat Block is published in the Zio Paperone
(great italian US-comic book). Somewhere in Nowhere is a story that we've
known of for some time and finally I have it now. 
I also bought the Italian weekly, which is a pocket. I am not strong in
Italian, but I find the stories looking nice, and look forward to maybe
see them here in some years. The issue contained an ad and an issue of the
magazine Mouse, which is about computers. A special edition of the comic
which I didn't buy, includes a cd-rom with a 101 dalmations game or
something - I don't read italian that well, and I'm more into emails and
such than games. 
I also finally got my own MMMM (Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine). It is
about Mickey living in Anderville, being a dedective I think. The style is
new and wild, to those who know the new paperinik it resembles a bit. It's
the same format and cover-style at least. 

On tuesday I bought the wonderful Minnie mag, which I also saw in Greece.
The stories are added to girls I think, and some of them are reprints. 
As a note to friends Thomas and Duco I bought to extra issues of ZP on
this day. 
I also found Tesori tree which is a book printing again somwhere in
Nowhere in a softcover book. It has both the enbglish version in black and
white and the colored italian version. PLus articles and 2 two long
stories and a one-pager. 

Already on wednesay I was able to find this weeks issue of Topolino (It's
suppsoed to come out on tuesday's right?) This confuses me, as I heard
before of comics hitting the stands  earlier in Norway and Sweden too.
It's illegal in Denmark and a store will not be allowed to sell anymore,
say weeklies, if they sell them too early. 
This day where we wnt to the Vataican we also visited Mondadori and I
found there a book from a series of Comic Book classics. It's with Huey
Dewey and Louie. It shows their origin by Taliaferro, some great stories
by Barks, and some by some italians, and the actual reason I bought it: it
cotains 4 Rosas in b/w. Don draws the stories in b/w - that's the reason
stories (by him and others) are miscolored from time to time, but I hope
you all new that. The stories are The lost library of Alexandria, The
charts of Columbus, WHADDALOTTAJARGON and a story I think is known by
"Methaphoricly Spanking". At this store I also saw a hard cover version of
the tresori tre, with somewhere in nowhere. 

On thursday I bought an Asterix t-shirt with Rome on it. As mentioned I'm
an fan of that charecter too. I also bought a comic called Mega 3000. Only
as a curiosty as it carries d-coded stories I already saw. But they're
changed in format, even though the cover says unedited. I hate when a
story is changed from 4 to 3-tier-format, from 3 to 4-tier format or from
4 to 6-tier format as it has happened in pocket-books, extras from DK and
in those big white books that has seen light in many places. 

On friday I bought a Topolino-issue from a box at a frech drinks- stand,
where I also bought an issue of the Grande Storie Disney-series. It
carries Gottfredsons Gorilla-story which I think I have seen before in
Murry's reddrawing. I'll have to check this tomorrow. 
On saturday it literally poured down, so there was no market to go to. 
I did buy, though new issue of Zio paperone, with Barks' great old Volcano
Valley story. IT also has Don's Nobody's Business story. In this issue
there is a question which I remember as something about the family tree,
concerning the fatherr of HDL, and also if Don would make a story of this
and a chapter 11b for the LO$. I didn't quite understand the answer and I
thoughtlessly didn't bring the issue to the place where I go to school and
live. But I guess it was something with Don decides himself what stories
to make. I hope I hereby brought on twom pleeds as to what stories a
certain italian reader would like Don to do next. 
I hope you know Cicero, a great roman speaker, a book sotre was named
after him and I also visited there. I browsed another book from the series
of classic comics, with Scrooge. It contained among many Barks and italian
stories two by Don, Xanadu and A little Something Special. I thought I had
book enough allready and left it. 
Same day we also found, by accident actually, the disney store. And as I
expected there was absolutely no figurines or anything with my favorite
Scrooge. Though there was a wall-painting, by some artist unknown to me,
but unluckily they had no postcards of it, and I didn't care to take my
camera and confuse everyone. 
 
This mail didn't get so long after all, but I ausre you I had a great
trip,and it was unnecessary to worry if ny roman robber would rob us. We
had non of the kind

Hilsen/Yours
Anders Christian Sivebæk
Donaldist




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