Reactions to DCML vol. 3 issue 20 (May)

[Anders Christian Sivebæk]

Hi all
I decided to read my dcml-mails from the last couple of months - so more reactions might come - but here's one. 

Mon, 12 May 2003 19:05:20 
Mr. Prior wrote: 
>Scrooge may meet actual historical persons like Czar 
>Nicholas II and John Jacob Astor (both died under awful 
>circumstances) and yet he doesn't seem to live in a world 
>where Auschwitz has happened.

I don't agree - in the world Don Rosa depicts, where Scrooge meets Nicolas II and Astor, why
wouldn't Auschwitz have taken place there, as awful an event as it, and what happened in all 
other camps at the time were? 
I'm not sure I would want Don or another artist to draw a story like this - after all many readers 
are kids, and there are other ways to find out about these events than duck comics .. ?
But surely WWII has taken place in the world the ducks I prefer to read about live - 
We've seen spies, we've seen Mein Kampf lying on a garbage area and so on. 
Even though it hasn't been described, it doesn't meen it hasn't taken place. 
I just finished reading Donald Aults "Carl Barks Conversations" and Barks once said that of
course Gladstone existed before he was in the first story - there was a whole town of people, 
and chrecters would be shown when he needed them. 
Remember that The Ducks where in Viet Nam? In a world where Titanic sank, the Russian 
revolution took place and later the Viet Nam war - why would WWII have taken place?

Michael also wropte: 
> Try and compare Donald and Scrooge to Vladek
> Spiegelman.
Sigvald replies
>Vladek who? I guess that character is not well known in Norway.
The artist Art Spiegelman made a comic where he depicts his parents,
who were in Auschwitz, as mice - but mice that looks more than humans
than scrooge does. 
Sigvald, you should read the comic - and so should I, but luckily I knew about it. 

Sigvald wrote, in the same reply: 
>This is *not* entirely correct. WW2 is indeed mentioned as 
>"The big war" in Don Rosa's "Return to Plain Awful".
Are you sure the biog war was WWII there? I remember it is mentioned, 
and then the indian fellow asks: there has been 2??

All for now from me
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