Several subjects

Tue Oct 21 22:18:22 CEST 2003

 From: "Dan Shane" <danshane at bellsouth.net>
Subject: RE: Easily understood ducks
> Maybe they all have Babel fish stuck in their ears. 

What are Babel fish? Did I miss something while I was Disney comic deprived?

From: Klartekst   
Subject: Duckburg
> 
> I think Duckburg is like Toon Town in "Roger Rabbit". Definitely in the US, 
> but sort of in another dimension. I know this, because I have been there. 
> For an account of the trip, see 
> http://stp.ling.uu.se/pipermail/dcml/2002-February/018130.html. 
> 
> Nils Smeby 

Yeah. A lot of things don't seem to add up.

As for where Duckburg is, Duckburg should still be in the United States. They might be printed in different languages, but they still behave and think like Americans. Not to mention the fact that Duckburg looks like an American community. I may have lived in different countries, but that doesn't make me any less American. My home is the States, and the same goes for the Ducks.

 From: "deanmary" 
 Subject: Age of the Nephews 
> I was wondering what list members thoughts were on this question: 
> When you read a Disney Duck story how old do you feel Huey, Dewey, 
> and Louie are? 

I have always thought of them as being the ages 10-12. They don't look like teens, but they don't act like 9 year olds and under.

 From: "Don Rosa" 
Subject: DCML Digest Issue 43 

> > And if artistic license allows us to have Spartacus talk in English so 
> > he can be understood by modern moviegoers: Couldn't the same artistic 
> > license be the reason why Duckburg is located in North-America in 
> > stories written in the U.S.? And located in Italy in stories written in 
> > Italy? 
> 
> Your reasoning evades me, especially when you try to draw a comparison to 
> Spartacus. Sparty spoke in English, yes, but did the American producer 
> transpose the setting to taking place in Detroit? Why should he? 
> And you use a bad example when you bring up Italy. These comics are as 
> popular in Italy as anywhere in the world... in fact, Italy was creating new 
> Duck comics, and Duck comics NOT based on Barks' work, before America was 
> doing so. And yet in Italian stories, Duckburg is in America. Apparently 
> they like it being in America. Why not? 
> I'm not *insisting* that all Egmont writers should set their Duckburg 
> stories in America where they originated, but there's no reason why they 
> can't -- the stories would be just as good and their readers would still 
> understand them and enjoy them just as much. Or they could simply avoid the 
> subject, which is easy enough to write around. 
> (Besides, I've been told by innumerable Euro fans that they always knew 
> Duckburg was in America simply by the American-style mail boxes. You'd need 
> to find yourself a European to explain that -- apparently our horizontal 
> half-barrell-onna-pole shaped mail depositories are very distinctive. Same 
> for our fire hydrants. In fact, several European newspapers have requested 
> photos of me with my *mailbox* or the nearest fire hydrant to visually prove 
> that I live in America.) 
> When I did my "Lo$", I had no choice (nor would I have had any reason to 
> avoid) but to set Duckburg in America as it was meant to be. And surely I 
> have as much right to do that as another Egmont writer has to set Duckburg 
> in Denmark or Germany (as it was not originally meant to be). That's all a 
> story detail that takes place in the writer/reader's mind, just like the 
> fact that my stories take place in the 1950's. That's a detail not essential 
> to the story. 
> 
> 
I remember having only a little slot for a locked box next to the gate, but I didn't realize that the mailboxes in the States were so distinctive. Even so, they still resorted to the old tricks. We once found a rotten egg in the box after Halloween. They had a lot of American holidays because so many Americans lived in Hong Kong. I forgot what the firehydrants look like. I'm not even sure we had firehydrants. I'll try to find out from one of my family members who might have a better memory.

From: JTorci3511 at aol.com 
Subject: How old are HD&L? 

> Joe Torcivia (...not revealing his own age to anyone!) 

Ha ha. Not even if we cajoled?

From: "timo ronkainen" 
Subject: Re: Goofy's Origin Part 2 
> 
> >From: "L. Schulte": 
> >I am now thinking perhaps that the Goofy story with his origins 
> >as "Dippy Dawg" was NOT in a comic book, 
> 
> But it was. http://coa.inducks.org/coa/c1/story.php/0/W+OS++702-02 
> One scene shows studio personnel thinking of new name for Dippy. 
> 
> Timo 

I haven't seen that, but I heard about the origins of Goofy in a book describing the history of Disney. I heard the animators begged Walt to keep Dippy Dawg because Dippy was so much fun to draw. Walt agreed on the conditions that he be given a better name and a better personality. They all refered to him as the goof; so they decided to call him Goofy.

Disneyfan June (June isn't my real name.)

"I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing-that it was all started by a mouse."
-Walt Disney (and a man)
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