Various replies (Ellsworth)

Alexgoe@aol.com Alexgoe at aol.com
Wed Aug 16 17:27:20 CEST 2000


David wrote:

>   EVERYONE (ESPECIALLY GERMANS) DISCUSSING ELLSWORTH :-)
>   Ellsworth = Maxi Smart = Moses.
>   Moses is the earliest name I saw him with in a German publication,
>but it isn't the one they've stuck with. They're not two different birds;
>they're one and the same, and it appears that the name will be Maxi Smart
>from this point on (considering that they've splashed the name all over
>their covers).
>   We should update the dcml interlingual file so that the German name
>of the character is listed as Maxi Smart (same goes for Neighbor Jones, who
>is now permanently called Zorngiebel).
>   Lars Jensen's data, BTW, comes from the original Sunday strip.
>There, Goofy really does *buy* Ellsworth! (The French, perhaps not
>remembering this, did an alternative origin story for Ellsworth involving
>some Arab country and Professors Ecks and Doublex as the villains, but I
>can't help that.)

Strange, strange, strange... ;-) Maxi Smart is also called "Bruno" in some
stories. They're also written and drawn by Scarpa and these two look totally
equal...

Alex




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