DCML Digest Issue 10

[donrosa@iglou.com]

> From: "Mickey" <mickey at iol.it>
> Subject: Lo$ Italian Reprint
> Mister Rosa,
> have you seen the latest reprint of your Life and Times here in Italy,

No, I have not seen it, I know nothing about it, I was not contacted by 
the publishers, whoever they are, about the use of my name or my 
signature or my texts (if they are mine... sometimes they print texts 
that they attribute to me with my signature but which I did not 
contribute or authorize), or about whether they have the correct material 
or not. The last Italian book of my Lo$ used lots of unauthorized 
material, wrong versions of the art, and included, with no 
explanation, "The Dutchman's Secret" which has nothing to do with the Lo$ 
other than making a one-panel reference to something that happened in 
$crooge's past life, as do dozens or hundreds of other stories. The only 
thing I know about this book is that our friend Luca Boschi told/warned 
me it was on the way. Well, on the bright side, si, it will introduce 
many new readers to Zio Paperone stories (if anyone in Italy doesn't know 
about them already, which I doubt), and the Italian versions of my comics 
are always well colored and lettered since the Italians know more about 
comics and how to produce them properly than any people on this planet.
Now I just hope I can get my hands on a copy or two so I can at least see 
what it looks like... hopefully from Luca who always does me these great 
favors.
(This comes to you from an airport lounge computer as I travel home from 
the Raptus Comics Festival in Bergen, Norway.)