My Egmont stories

[David A Gerstein]

	Folks:

	My first Egmont story, "Two in One" (which pits Uncle Scrooge
against Magica de Spell), has not been drawn yet, so is not officially
"finished".  (I won't be doing the artwork;  I am a cartoonist but not very
experienced with the Ducks as yet.)  It won't be published for near a
year after that.  So I think we'll see it probably sometime in the
summer or fall of 1994.

	I'll be doing a whole lot of stories for them over this
summer, so there may be a break between publication of "Two in One"
and the succeeding stories, but when those start they ought to be more
frequent.

	I sold three dialogs for Daniel Branca and Fred Milton stories
to Disney last year, but they were not printed before the shutdown.
Gladstone's John Clark plans to print them, and I'll tell you about a
schedule when one is made known to me.

	To another recent discussion:
Please, fellow Barks fans, Paul Murry's Mickey may be boring
to you, but he isn't the same as Gottfredson's version.  Take a look
at "Sky Island" in WDC&S 582-583, and you'll see just what I mean.  Do
you think that (to quote a recent example) this Mickey would stand by
while Pete raped Minnie?

	(That is such an unpleasant thought that I really don't even
like to write about it.  Villain that Pete was, he didn't champion the
one night stand; in fact, he wanted to marry Minnie and retire from
his life of crime amid "twitterin' boidies" in 1934's _Captive
Castaways_.)

	Please send your opinions of Mickey to Gladstone, folks.  Be
constructive:  say just what you've said here about what you think is
wrong with Mickey, and I'm sure they'll take it to heart.  I don't
think they realize just what a lot of you think of the more prominent
"comic-book" Mouse (that's a good term for the Moores/Murry Mickey,
don't you think?  Gottfredson's wasn't originally for comic books).
That will also influence their choices of MM material.

	(Please don't just say that all Mickey stories are bad, folks!
>From what you write, it sounds like you haven't given Gottfredson
enough of a chance.)

	Your friend,

	David Gerstein.