Disney-comics digest #486.

H.W. Fluks fluks at pcssdc.pttnwb.nl
Wed Nov 9 12:06:31 CET 1994


The Walt Disney Theater
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David:
> It was made in 1965 as one of a series, "The Walt Disney Theatre."

Is it the fact that you're in Britain now, or _did_ they spell "Theatre"
that way in the series?

Most stories in the series were drawn by Paul Murry. I remember only
one story by a different artist: about the dog of the Baskervilles by
Tony Strobl.

About money
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Don (welcome back):
> 	I just spent 1 anna half hours reading the backlog of Disney
> Digests that piled up on me! (I hate to think what that cost me!)

You're not keeping contact with Compuserve while you READ the digests,
I hope? You should be able to save them on your local PC and read them
as slowly as you like, without any costs except the electrisicky.

Goofy in a Duck story
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I fully agree with Don: I won't be pleased at all to see Goofy in a Duck
story. And it would have been VERY weird if it was the 1930s Goofy.
As far as I'm concerned, the Black Forest is very big, and Mouseton 
inhabitants never get a chance to visit Duckburg.
I haven't seen Pat Block's story yet of course, but I think the appearance
of Goofy might spoil the entire story for me.

Comic conventions 1: Breda
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Don:
> I just received a letter from a Dutch fan who visited the recent big (?)
> comic convention in Holland, "de Stripdagen"

It's the biggest comic convention in the Dutch talking part of Europe,
held in Breda.
I have been there myself and was a bit disappointed to see only Nadorp,
Heymans and Van Schuylenburg, making drawings for little kids. In previous
years, I got the chance to talk with Jippes and Thom Roep.
I didn't even take the effort to have a talk with the artists this time.

BTW: if this Dutch fan is a big Rosa fan, maybe I can send him a printout
of your comments on this list (as gathered in the ftp file "don-rosa")?
If you return a letter to him, maybe you can put my address somewhere?

> He said they expressed a distinct dislike of my stuff as being
> "not in the Disney style".

The Dutch editors and artists are very biased: they mostly look at the art
of a story. That has been the case since the 70s, when Jippes was the art
director. And they think your art looks too "underground" for a Disney
story; too much details.
Then they forget the excellent _stories_ that are "behind" the drawings.

This attitude may be the cause that Don Rosa is quite unknown in Holland,
as opposed to Scandinavia.

It's not unusual for Dutch artists to comment on each other's work.
They also think quite bad about the Italian stuff, and about the work
of one of their own artists from the early 70s: Carol Voges.

Comic conventions 2: Lucca
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If I understood Fabio well enough, the Italian comic convention in Lucca
has taken place now. Well Fabio: any news? About Becattini perhaps?
Did part 2 of his Western comics index come out yet?

Sokrates
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Jo/rgen:
> Sokrates looks like a miniature version of Gus Goose, with glasses.

This character was first seen in a series of daily Donald Duck strips
by Taliaferro. In Dutch he was named Aristoteles, for short "Stoot".
In the 80s, the Taliaferro strips were reprinted, and I guess the
character was so popular that Egmont made some stories with him.
The story Jo/rgen mentioned is the only one I remember, though.

--Harry.



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