digest #364

[Don Rosa]

> From: "Fabio Blanco" <longtom at oeste.com.ar>
> I just read in the Picsou mag #342 the
> Barks history about Ponce de Leon and the fountain of the youth> I need
more... I want know what did happens with the two spanish soldiers,
> Pedro and Pablo. After the last page, I did wish make a call to Don Rosa
and
> make it the question direct to he: "Hey, Don, what they did go? To Spain?
To
> Duckburg? They did need adventures? C'mon Don, tell me. Sure you know!"
;)

My guess is that they went home to Spain and bought huge haciendas and
enormous estates and sat back to finally grow old. With their originally
meager bank accounts earning compounded interest for 400 years, as well as
the vast amount of military backpay owed to them by the government, they
would be the two richest men is Spain.

> From: John Chadwick <wolfsong at mpinet.net>
> I was glad to see Carl Barks remembered in this weeks memorial issue of
> Entertainment Weekly, especially after my disappointment that he was
> omitted in Life's Year in Review issue.  But what was the deal with
> their listing for an essential work?  It just said DONALD DUCK (1987).
> Kind of vague, huh?  Does it refer to a Gladstone album perhaps,

No, it obviously refers to the fact that the ET people really had no clue
as to who Barks was.
But someone also told me that on last Sunday's year-end review on that CBS
Sunday Morning show, whatever it's called, SUNDAY MORNING or somesuch,
Barks was mentioned, but I don't know if the reference showed any clearer
understanding of who he was than that ET mention.
You'd need to go to Europe for any knowledgeable public appreciations of
Carl Barks.