Barks celebration stories

[Simo Malinen]

>>>>Who wouldn't? :-) BTW. When are we going to see these celebration
>>>>stories in print? I can hardly wait.
>>>>

>>>First one in Finland was just printed in Aku Ankka (17). It was Ferioli's 
>>>Gladstone Gander -story. I think it was great. Surprisingly great. He did 
>>>the script himself, and it was quite barksian story. It had couple of 
>>>references to old Barks-stories and to at least one money bin -painting. 
>>>Wonderful. And he drew ducks quite well.
>>>There was also a list of stories to come, with writers. Branca, Rota, Vicar 
>>>and Esteban has scripters. Others have done their own stories.
>>>Writers are Geoffrey Blum for Branca; Pat & Carol McGreal for Rota and 
>>>Esteban; and John Lustig for Vicar.
>>>

>>About the first, among the Barks celebration stories, that was printed in
>>Aku Ankka (17), can you tell us its story code? How many pages is it long?
>>

>Code is: D 2000-189. It has 12 pages.
>


That Ferioli's Gladstone Gander -story was not the very first 
published Barks celebration story in the world - William Van 
Horn's 6-pager Gyro Gearloose -story (D 2000-144) was already 
seen in Swedish and Danish weeklies n:o 12/2001.

These highly informative lines are from Swedish Inducks -file:
2001-12d    D 2000-144     6 4b     WVH WVH     GY  Inget nytt under solarna [/startpage:5] [/endpage:10] [xapp:HLP,GY] [/code:D 2000-144] [trans:SDi] [ser:Arvet från Barks] [/phero:OJ]
2001-17c    D 2000-189    12 4b     CFe CFe     GL  Porträtt av en turanka [/startpage:5] [/endpage:16] [xapp:GL,DD,DA,HDL] [/code:D 2000-189] [trans:SDi] [ser:Arvet från Barks] [/phero:AL]


And here's the full list of celebration stories, artists and 
writers again:

Romano Scarpa: Uncle Scrooge
Ferioli: Gladstone Gander
William Van Horn: Gyro Gearloose 
Marco Rota + Pat & Carol McGreal: Gyro's Helper
Estéban + Pat & Carol McGreal: April, May and June
Kari Korhonen: The Junior Woodchucks
Daan Jippes: Mr. Jones
Don Rosa: The Beagle Boys and The Money Bin
Daniel Branca + Geoffry Blum: Magica De Spell
Vicar + John Lustig: Flintheart Glomgold


 - Simo