Disney-comics digest #809.

Don Rosa donrosa at iglou.com
Mon Oct 9 13:44:00 CET 1995


PER:
        I found my download problem! Don't resend #809 if you haven't
already. The problem was triggered by #809 being such a LOOOONG Digest that
my computer rejected it until I made an adjustment. I'm sure glad I'm no
longer paying by the word to read this stuff like I did up to a few months
ago! (Still, I think members should refrain from reposting entire messages
from previous Digests. Reprinting a line to show a referenced topic is one
thing, but there's no reason to resend entire multi-page letters, I
shouldn't think.)

MIKE:
        Is modern American coinage the same as 1955? Hm. At a quick glance,
YES, it is. That's odd when you think about it, eh? Not being a coin
collector, I'm not sure when they changed the obverse side of the Lincoln
penny, but that was a tiny change. The quarters have copper edges now, but
that's a tiny detail as well. Yeah, a fistfill of American coins would look
about the same now as 40 years ago, unless you looked at dates and such.
        They used the oil-tanker gag, but didn't say it was PINK? That shows
how the translator and the writer don't see the material the same. To me,
99% of the gag was the idea of a PINK oil-tanker. I mean, what's funny about
an oil-tanker? This is what I try to avoid in Gladstone editions.
        How do I add a half-page to a story? Naturally, I can only add full
pages, or the equivalent of full pages in loose panels. When did I say I'd
added only a half-page? Perhaps I was referring to the new half-pages that
*take the place* of the half-page splash-panels.

FRANK:
        Sadly, the beautiful coloring on "Hearts of the Yukon" cannot be
reused by any Egmont company. Gladstone preserves all that coloring on
"film", Egmont needs computer discs. But let's even say they COULD use
Gladstone's film. Still no go, because Gladstone has SHRUNK all my word
balloons as well as colored in sound effects and signage and so forth. If a
SINGLE thing needs to be changed on that film, the entire film is useless,
and they must start from scratch.
        I've never said Egmont's coloring is "bad". It's... uninspired? At
the rate they turn that stuff out, it's the best they are able to take time
to do. But maybe they can look at one of Gladstone's copies as a guide while
they do their own coloring? I NEVER interfere in that part of their
business... I don't see it as my place. But... maybe I'll send somebody a
copy of WD GIANT #1 and see what they want to do.
        To make a photostat of a comic, all you need to do is lay it open on
the machine doohickey. Gravity holds it down. It would seem unlikely that an
old comic would have so much "body" left that the spine would refuse to open
nice and smoothly, but I guess a piece of glass could be gently placed over
the thing, but not so as to crush it. But I was truly curious -- what does a
"scanner" do? Do you feed stuff in, or does it work like this photostat thingie?
        You drastically misunderstand Gladstone's situation as regards the
hardback CBL. When that license expired, they had to stop producing new
volumes, stop selling any old volumes, and (I'm told) destroy all unsold
volumes. This is not something you should hold against them in the least.

"The Incredible Shrinking Tightwad" closet: Let me try to get this out of
the way!
        In order of appearance, here's what I have coming out of that junk
closet. The (restored)ball of string from "Second Richest Duck", CFK's sled,
the crown from "His Majesty McDuck", the atom-subtractor from "Billions in
the Hole", the aligator purse from "The Crocodile Collector", $crooge's old
shoeshine box, his trunk from "Lo$"(containing ?), a Peeweegah peacepipe, a
didgeridoo, Sir Francis Drake's plaque from "His Majesty McDuck", the
ray-guns from "Cash Flow", the bear costume from "Christmas on Bear
Mountain", the square glasses from "Return to Plain Awful", the Qwak Qwak
tribe drum (just seen in "Lo$" XI as well), the telescoping coffeecup and
sponge doughnut, the sled from "Last Sled to Dawson", ate-up books from the
Lost Library, the flattened 1916 quarter from the Atlantis story, $crooge's
carpetbag from the "Lo$"; in part two I add a copy of JOLT magazine from
"North of the Yukon" and the Maltese Falcon. Also there are guns and saddles
and other items that $crooge might have used at many times in the early
days. Did I miss any of my own in-jokes?




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