Disney-comics digest #854.

[Don Rosa]

DAVID:
        I don't recall what my original dialogue was where Disney used
"awesome". My studio/office is far from this computer or I'd check my
original script. But it was surely something like "swell" or somesuch.
        The comment HDL make about their parents was in one of those last
panels where I had them say something like "And Unca Donald raised his
orphaned nephews..." But I'm glad they changed that -- perhaps someday I or
someone else will figure out a way to do a story about their lost parents,
at which point it might be decided they are only missing or something.

MIKE:
        The "Barks children's book" you describe was sorta like a Little
Golden Book in size, shape and lay-out, with text accompanying the drawings.
(I hope my memory is serving me on this one -- again, my "vault" of this
stuff is far from this station). It was different from a L.G.B. in that it
had soft covers, like one of Western's coloring books or such. The art was
reprinted from the WDC&S Barks 10-pager from 1955 where Donald takes
Grandma's tired old bull to the fair and it goes berserk because someone
pins a blue-ribbon between its eyes, and blue drives it wild. 

TODD:
        You're lucky -- the Digest arrived in my computer late today, so
I'll postpone any comments about my Finland visit till tomorrow. Fingers
away from the scroll buttons... false alarm!