digest #333: missing messages?

[Don Rosa]

Hm! Two of the messages I sent yesterday were skipped over and not in that
last Digest! That's odd. I'll post them again:
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A different subject.
I'm getting the impression that hardly anyone is finding that COMICS
JOURNAL from last month with the Barks tribute. Too bad -- I thought TCJs
were easier to locate -- it's the best English-language comic-art magazine
what am, after all. I'd hate to think that even in Europe a piece of crap
like WIZARD is easier to locate.
Anyway, my very (very) longtime friend Jim Vadeboncoeur, my choice for the
world's foremost authority on comic artists and magazine illustrators, sent
me an e-mail asking permission to put my text from that TCJ issue onto his
website where he has just added a Carl Barks entry into his database of
history's greatest illustrators. I don't suggest that my piece is the only
one from TCJ that's worth reading, or that it *is* worth reading, but it's
the only thing in that issue I can help direct interested parties toward.
You can see it on his website http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm ... and
while you're there, read all you want about all the other great cartoonists
and magazine illustrators! The people at TCJ would never have the time to
offer reports on all of these masters, and the people at WIZARD have never
heard of any of them.
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From: "Santiago Garcia Banhos"
>>>Don:
I think you should add rooms to show how Scrooge is mean. For example, he
could have a huge room oriented to RECICLYNG all the papers, pencils' chip,
and so, used in his office.

Believe it or not, I already have that in my plans (suggested by Duckfan
extrodinaire Elli Kotovirta, the Finnish-girl-with-braids who is
responsible for me doing that Kalevala story).

From: "Apostolis Trikourakis"
>>>That'll be nice of you :-) Nobody will be displeased then!

Hahahahahaha!!! You should be me for a day! One thing I've learned is that
no matter WHAT you do, you won't please the people who are determined to
not be pleased. That's life...

>>>But I'm confused
with the number of floors the Bin have. Is it 2-3 or 10-12 or more?

Well, I wasn't gonna criticize the plans you sketched, but I was sorta
shocked to see only 3 floors! You thought the Bin might be only about 30
feet tall? How could that hold 100 ft. of cash? There's more than 30 ft.
just *above* the money level.
And, as I calculate there is about 30 ft. above the 100 ft. of money, my
plans call for either 12 or 13 stories. And I already have enough stuff to
fill almost all those. Yes, several floors are just vast seas of office
workers or files or such. (Be forewarned: my Bin plans will be interesting,
but NOT very exciting!)

From: Blasco Pisapia
>>>To DON ROSA:
Concerning the Bin's dimensions, we have two conflicting evidences:
           1- the depth gauge is 100 feet high, hence the vault should
measure
              about 120 feet in height;
           2- in the Bin there are 3 cubic acres of cash;
  Of course, 3 cubic acres is not a real measure, but if it were, then
the Bin should be about 3 times as big: 360 feet.
You seem to have chosen the evidence of the depth gauge, ignoring the
other fact. Is it so? Or is there a way to respect both statements?

Yes, I go by the depth guage since that has been used so often, so clearly,
I could hardly ignore it. And I think Barks' exterior views of the Bin have
always looked like they were of an approximately 12 +- story structure. If
anyone can think of how to also respect the 3 cubic acres of cash bit,
lemmee know.

>>>What if he had designed in there sort of a scenography, portraying
the places he loved best, such as The Blackjack Ballroom, McDuck
Castle, and so on.

In his bedroom is one particular little "shrine" with an eternal flame. But
wait... you'll see.

From: "Apostolis Trikourakis"
>>>The Golden Fleecing: On page 10, panel 2, we can see Scrooge saying
(according to the Greek translation): "I don't believe you. We are in the
20th floor!".

Oh, jeeze! I need to check that one! (But if it's true, I'll need to just
ignore it! I can't see the place being so tall.)

>>>Island in the Sky: On page 1, panel 1, we can see a door to the roof.
It's
in the middle of the roof.

Got it. I've always drawn it that way.

>>>The Money Champ (US 27): On page 4, panels 7 & 8, and on page 5, panel
1, we
can see a Diamond's fountain and a skier's racetrack (but I'm sure that the
Bin doesn't have a fountain and a racetrack!)

Right!

>>>The Mines of King Solomon (US 19): On page 1, panels 1,2 and 4, we can
see
an "Army" of employees. So, the Bin must have a lot of offices

Nope. $crooge does it in 1902 style. Single room floors with seas of desks.

>>>Microducks from Outer Space (US 65): There is a small safe with samples
from
Scrooge's plantations (page 7, panel 3).

Safes are like furniture, not structural elements.