Re.502

[Anders Christian Siveb¾k]

PETRI
>The problem is that I got my first
>experiance with Gottfredson when my Disney interest was subsiding. It just
>wasn't cool to be 14 and a Disney-fan. So I didn't get to know he's works
>too well at that time.
Hmm. Neither when I was 14. But I don't think I would have survived at the
time, without Duckburg. Being mobbed from 1st to 10th grade isn't
something that brings many friends, so my friends where in Duckburg. what
did I care if it was in or out to read about ducks. 

Sad thoughts go away!

KRITON
>Does anyone know the name of Barks' *first* wife? 
I will be able to find it, in the weekend, as I believe I have a contact
who is daughter of either her or the second wife. I'm almost sure she's
from the first mariage. 
I on the other hand thought the Sharkie-reference to lawyers was a result
of the 2nd divorce. Then Barks would have found Gare as he was doing US 4,
about Hawaii, and that's where Garè (?) is from. 

>> I promise that my story will contain tons of sweet details.
>Although this is something to look forward to for us older fans, make
>sure that the story does not hinge on them, and that someone unfamiliar
>with them will stil enjoy it.
Good point. But that's something an artist or writer has to decide - if
you really want to have many references you should. 

Nice list of inventions Olivier!
and you're right, the inventions would maybe have to be from before that
time. 

Shelley (?): 
>
>"Doggone it" is and has been for many years a common slang expression -- a
>mild exclamation, equal to "darn it" -- which is a non-profane way to say
>"Damn it." It is not considered cursing, and saying "doggone it" to native
>English speakers now would indicate that you are VERY outdated in American
>slang -- or that you have watched a lot of Westerns. (John Wayne and other
>cowboy heroes have been known to say "doggone it.")
It's a good expression anyway. This makes me think of Superman (I) when
Clark uses the word swell, that was old at the time too I suppose, at
least Lois looked like it was. 
>
KRISTIAN
>One
>of them is "Oh my stars and little comets!".

DON
>
>I think that's my own personal favorite, and one that Barks invented -- at
>least I've never seen or heard it elsewhere. 
I could tell that when I read the PP and CK books. I got the feeling it
was one of Lance's favorite expressions, now I know where it's from. 

>Another favorite is "Great
>howling crashwagons!" I don't even know what a "crashwagon" is, but one
>that is great and is howling sounds *really* scary! When I first started
>writing U$ stories for Gladstone in 1986, I made a long list of Barksisms
>to use in my dialogue, but I don't think I ever used more than a few of my
>favorites, like those two.
I see. 
Well, I often wondered about the crashwagons, when I read Cash Flow, where
the ducks are in the car saying that. 
Another expression you have used is ... forgot it, but it's in Once and
Future duck part 2, at the very last panel. Donald used the same line in
one of the earlies WDC's by Barks, the knight in armor/snow-story. 

Daniel: 
>and in that page in Ataaaaaack when the beagle-boys
>are breaking into the cellar(?) in the moneybing there
>are in the background a painting of Matilda!!!
And Hortense is there too. behind. 
What confused me was to see her have red hair in the danish coloring. It's
a saying that red-haired's a hot-tempered, so it's possible. It's just
that her hair is brown in the US and Picsou-versions. In Denmark it was
usually yellow, greenish yellow  (!) or brown. Yes, I didn't think
hair-colorings where invented back then. It's a colorist-problem. 

Yours
AC