digest #162

[Don Rosa]

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Santiago_Garcia_Ba=F1os
>>>Would you tell me in which issue number was published the Kalevala
story?

Did someone say it was? Not yet. But it's scheduled to appear in about 3 or
4 months... it's on the list of subjects that PICSOU sent me for my pin-up
page.

From: "Anders Christian Sivebaek"
>>>Kriton Kyrimis
Thanks for telling about the new Komix. It sounds as a very nice issue.
I'll want to see that cover tonight.

Well, in case you think the cover was something special, relax. It was a
cover I did for Gladstone's reprint albums in 1989. It was sent back to me
at that time because I was told it was rejected by Disney because it
depicted a scene not in the album and they were worried that a reader would
be upset by that. Hm? Sounds like a spurious complaint? You say you notice
that Dell/Whitman/Western put gag covers on thousands of Disney comics for
about 50 years and neither Disney or that reader objected? Well, this is
the sort of thing poor Gladstone had to put up with until the straw that
broke the duck's back.
Anyway, the cover (to my surprise!) popped up on one of the last issues of
WDC&S, so you've already seen it. It's the one with Donald and $crooge and
Mickey on a jungle expedition. It's such an old drawing... I want to reach
out and redraw $crooge's head and hat... they're all outta whack. But...
Donald's hat looks like a balloon! That's not how I drew it -- the KOMIX
people monkeyed with it for some reason. Odd.
But I do see what looks like "Ntov Pooa" mentioned on the cover ... that
was nice of them. (That's how they spell "Don Rosa" in Greek!)

From: "Georgios Balanikas"
>>>You already know from Kriton's posting that the new KOMIX #144 has the
Rosa's story "The Last Lord of Eldorado". The editors have a two-page
article titled :Scrooge in Eldorado, where they have noticed the surprising
similarities of the truck which  Donald drives with that one in the
Henri-Georges Clouzot 1953 movie "Le salaire de la peur" (English title:
Wages of Fear) and Yves Montand was driving.
I would like to ask Don if this is true or it's a simple but amazing
coincidence.

That would have been one hum-dinger of a coincidence! The truck in my story
even had the "SOC" ("Southern Oil Company") logo on the door just like in
the movie. It had everything except Yves Montand. I mean, what are the
odds?!
Both stories were about moving loads across the Andes, so I figured I'd use
the same truck that made it about the same year my story takes place.