Dutch comic distributors (Re: Rosa)

Harry Fluks H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl
Fri Aug 6 11:53:02 CEST 1993


Don:
> 	What sort of distributor are you talking about? You mean a local
> comic shop? I infer that they are automatically holding issues for you
> but have no extra later on when you inquire?

In Holland, the comics and comic albums are distributed by a company that
also distributes most weekly/monthly magazines. That company takes care that
those magazines are in the shops in time, and that subscribers get a copy
in their mailbox. E.g. my copy of Donald Duck weekly is delivered every
saturday, while it is available in the shops from the next monday.

So: I don't need a comic shop to hold issues for me, because: 1. the 
distributor delivers them, 2. they are for sale on almost every street
corner (book stores, supermarkets, warehouses, etc.)

The _comic_ shop in my town ("Panda" in Den Haag) doesn't even have DD Weekly
or DD Extra, because one can get them anywhere else! They only sell comic
ALBUMS and some foreign comics.

I'm going to Rotterdam in the weekend to look for Rosa stuff in a shop
that is specialised in 2nd hand comics ("used comics" 8-).

> (...) I haven't had so much fun lately as the
> American dollar gains strength and my income drops by ten-fifteen grand!

That reminds me of a question I wanted to ask for a while: is writing
and drawing Scrooge stories your _only_ profession? I thought I read
somewhere in the early Gladstone comics that it was only your hobby then.
Did you do something else?
And you are paid in Danish money now?

> 	And you're saying that ALL the DD EXTRAs for '93 have had one of
> my stories as a lead, along with a new cover based on it??? Gawrsh. 

Well, "only" #1-7 and 11-12. The other ones will have Van Horn, Rota or Branca
lead stories.

> And what are these albums and "special issues" you mention? What stories
> have they used???

I will send you at least one, so you will see. The "special issues" are
"Vacation Books" and "Winter Books", 296-page books with comic stories,
puzzles and text stories, partly in b/w.

I'll send you a copy of our 'don-rosa' index in private mail. I have
the impression that you have never seen it...

--Harry.



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