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    Re: Don Rosa
    Risposta #3780: Sabato 21 Apr 2012, 20:54:07
    Where did Don go?

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      Re: Don Rosa
      Risposta #3781: Domenica 22 Apr 2012, 02:07:19
      Where did Don go?

      My guess is that he's still scared of my 2-page long post that he promised to reply to.

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        Re: Don Rosa
        Risposta #3782: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 00:42:55
        paolobar:
        >>>>>Where did Don go?

        Well... I'm always right here, with a few trips to American comic cons and to Europe events.
        But my schedule does not make it easy to stay focused on certain websites, even one as dear to my heart as THIS one. This Spring has been *particularly* difficult for me on my 10 hectare nature preserve. Due to Global Warming, all my May chores of mowing and spraying and planting and so on all came on me suddenly 2 months early in March! So, the spare time I usually spend browsing this forum disappeared. As did all my time for all the camping and canoeing activities that I had been planning all winter! And I'm the sort who is a creature of habit... of a certain schedule. So, I stopped having an hour or two in the early evening to browse sites like this -- I was busy in the yard. And MUCH of my life suffered! I have not been patroling eBay for all my collector needs for months now. And my e-mails to even old pals have really fallen behind.

        I am only slightly beginning to get caught up on yard chores, and in between trips. And the main thing I have long intended to deal with was my presence on this beloved forum.

        So, even though I still have many yard chores and duties owed to this new Egmont DON ROSA COLLECTION book set (that I wish my Italian countrymen could see, but I fear they won't), and I still have not done any Spring camping, I want to try to get back to having a presence on this site, the only comics fan forum in the world on which I want to have a presence.

        ... that is, IF anyone needs me here. That's the main question. I only respond to direct questions. I never indulge in self promotion.

        But I also recall questions had dropped off (which is OKAY! I should only be involved if I am invited). And most correspondence was from a nice non-Italian fan, which I was not sure was appreciated by the forum -- why should a non-Italian be questioning an American here on a forum that belongs to Italian comic fans? I don't wish to be an intruder.

        So, okay, let's see if anyone needs anything just now....
        « Ultima modifica: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 09:10:21 da Don_Rosa »

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          Re: Don Rosa
          Risposta #3783: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 01:07:50
          Przemyslaw:

          First of all, THANK YOU for all the nice comments!!!!

          >>>>>1) In "Hound of the Whiskervilles", Unca $crooge states that he has never before seen the clan McDuck tartan: "Nay, Donald! The kilts and plaids of the McDucks were lost, along with their other possessions, in the dreadful years of the hound!" Yet, the beautiful tartan is shown in e.g. chapters 1, 9 and 12 of "The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck. How is that?

          Si, I've replied to this matter elsewhere. Obviously, the McDuck tartan needed to be prominent in the telling of the McDuck history in my "Life of $crooge" series. But I also knew that Barks' $crooge said he had no memory of the tartan.
          Well, it's really simple. I can assume he forgot it, as he says in other stories that he has forgotten other things in his past. He was maybe 35 when he last saw it, and 85 when he said he had no memory of it. I'm only 60, and I sure wish I recall everything I knew when I was 35!!! Si, this is a "convenient justification". So... what's wrong with a plausible "convenient justification"? The important thing is that I used the tartan in his life story.

          >>>>>>2) In "September Scrimmage" (from Mickey Mouse Almanac 1, 1957), Unca $crooge mentions that he was once a student (or at least played football) at Webfoot Tech. "back in the 80's". Do you acknowledge this piece of Barks trivia to be canon, and if so, why is this not mentioned in any chapter of "The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck"?

          I only need to refer to what Barks had previously written about $crooge's pas: He was a poor shoeshine boy in Glasgow. He made his first money as a 30-something sourdough in the Yukon in 1898. He moved to Duckburg years after that. Why on Earth would he attend college at that point? I either -- A) dismiss this as a fib or a "throwaway gag". B) This story appeared in a "special" issue of Dell comics, and not in one of the main titles like WDC&S, DONALD DUCK or UNCLE $CROOGE -- Barks often only drew and did not write these stories (perhaps never?). So I might decide this is not an actual Barks fact. C) It is a Barks fact, like a very few others, that is self-contradictory to other previously established Barks facts, so I openly choose to ignore it as impossible.
          For any one, or all three, of these reasons, I dismiss the idea that $crooge ever went to college, *especially* in Duckburg, as clearly false.

          3) Why is Poncey de Loon not part of your famous and exquisite Duck Family Tree? He is, after all, mentioned by Grandma Duck to be "a distant cousin of us Ducks" in the opening panel of "That's No Fable!". And could not General Stonewall Duck too be an ancestor of Donald (even though this is not explicitly said in "The Village Blacksmith")?

          A "distant cousin" is quite vague and problematic to know where it could be included on such a limited Tree that I was asked to design. I "cheated" a bit even when I sprinkled the McDuck ancestors on the trunk of the McDuck Clan tree, mainly because they were mentioned in such a famous story as "The Old Castle's Secret" --  the way I jammed them haphazardly onto the trunk was quite improper for a Family Tree. Another Barks-mentioned Duck relative that I purposely chose to delete (out of necessity!) was one mentioned in "The Gilded Man".
          Another thing you would see in Egmont publications is my article on how I constructed that Family Tree, what I included, what I left out, and what I changed after getting new revisions of his own ideas directly from Mr. Barks. As you know, a *complete* family trees would be vastly more complex than that simplified one I designed at Egmont's request. (I never knew it would become perhaps the most FAMOUS single thing I ever did... especially in Italia!)
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            Re: Don Rosa
            Risposta #3784: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 01:11:21
            TlatoSMD:
            >>>>>My guess is that he's still scared of my 2-page long post that he promised to reply to.

            That was quite a while ago! Before I spend all the time to reply to that message, please restate all the questions that you still need answered.
            Grazie.

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              Re: Don Rosa
              Risposta #3785: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 01:34:31
              Cornelius Coot 1818:
              >>>>>connecting with the recent Women's Day (march 8), how was your relationship with the Disney's feminine characters? I red you liked writing stories about Goldie and Magica; I don't know your thinking about Daisy, Grandma Duck, Miss Quackfaster or April, May and June too. Have you ever thought to create some new feminine characters?

              Believe it or not, I just spent about 35 minutes writing a PROFOUND reply to this. But then there was a computer malfunction and my reply text disappeared. I'll try it again tomorrow!

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                Re: Don Rosa
                Risposta #3786: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 01:38:47
                Stronghold:
                >>>>>etc.

                And then there are WONDERFULLY nice messages like this!!! This might even be another reason I hesitate to be active on such a forum, because I have NO idea how to reply to such WONDERFUL compliments!

                GRAZIE! That's all I can say.

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                  Re: Don Rosa
                  Risposta #3787: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 16:03:24
                  paolobar:
                  >>>>>Dove è andato Don?

                  Beh... sono sempre qui, con un po' di viaggi per convention di fumetti americane e per alcuni eventi in Europa.
                  Ma i miei impegni non rendono facile il restare concentrato su certi siti, perfino per uno tanto caro al mio cuore come QUESTO. Questa Primavera è stata *particolarmente* difficile per me nella mia riserva di natura di 10 ettari. A causa del Riscaldamento Globale, tutti i miei lavori di Maggio, di tagliare l'erba, irrorare e piantare mi sono piombati addosso con due mesi di anticipo in Marzo! Così, il tempo libero che di solito dedico guardando questo forum è scomparso. Così come tutto il tempo per le attività di campeggio e canoa che avevo pianificato per tutto l'inverno! E io sono un tipo abitudinario... con un certo programma. E così non ho più avuto una o due ore al mattino presto per navigare siti come questo -- ero occupato nel prato. E la mia vita ne ha risentito MOLTO! Non pattuglio eBay per le mie necessità di collezionista da mesi ormai. E anche le mie email ad amici anche di vecchia data sono rimaste parecchio in arretrato.

                  Sto a malapena iniziando a mettermi in pari con i lavori per il prato, e i viaggi nel mezzo. E la cosa principale che volevo curare da lungo era la mia presenza in questo amato forum.

                  Quindi, anche se ho ancora da fare parecchi lavori al prato e altri impegni per questa nuova serie di libri Egmont DON ROSA COLLECTION (che vorrei i miei concittadini italiani potessero vedere, ma temo che non potranno), e anche se non ho ancora fatto campeggio di Primavera, voglio provare a tornare presente su questo sito, l'unico forum di fan di fumetti dove voglio essere presente.

                  ... voglio dire, SE qualcuno ha bisogno di me qui. Questa è la domanda principale. Io rispondo solo alle domande, non mi abbandono all'autopromozione.

                  Ma vedo che le domande sono crollate (il che va BENE! Io dovrei essere coinvolto solo se sono invitato). E la maggior parte della corrispondenza era da parte di un gentile fan non italiano, la qual cosa non so se sarà apprezzata dal forum -- perché un non italiano dovrebbe far domande ad un americano qui su un forum che appartiene ai fan italiani? Non voglio essere un intruso.

                  Così, okay, vediamo se qualcuno ha bisogno di qualcosa ora...
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                    Re: Don Rosa
                    Risposta #3788: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 16:03:44
                    Przemyslaw:

                    Anzitutto, GRAZIE per tutti i gentili commenti!!!!

                    >>>>>1) Ne "Il mastino dei Whiskerville", Zio Paperone dice di non aver mai visto il tartan dei McDuck: "No, Paperino! I kilt e i plaid dei De Paperoni sono andati perduti, assieme a tutti i loro averi, nei terribili anni del mastine!" Eppure, il bellissimo tartan ci viene mostrato as esempio nei capitoli 1, 9 e 12 della Saga. Come mai?

                    Si, ho risposto a questa domanda da qualche altra parte. Ovviamente, il tartan dei De Paperoni doveva essere prominente nel raccontare la storia dei De Paperoni nella mia $aga. Ma sapevo che il Paperone di Barks aveva detto di non ricordarsi del tartan.
                    Ebbene, è molto semplice. Posso presumere che se ne sia scordato, come dice in altre storie di aver dimenticato altre cose del suo passato. Aveva forse 35 anni l'ultima volta che lo ha visto, e 85 quando disse di non ricordarselo. Io ho solo 60 anni, e quanto vorrei ricordarmi tutte le cose che sapevo quando ne avevo 35!!! Si, questa è una "spiegazione comoda". E allora... cosa c'è di sbagliato in una "spiegazione comoda" e plausibile? La cosa importante è che ho usato il tartan nella storia della sua vita.

                    >>>>>>2) In "Zio Paperone e il gioco vecchio stile" (da Mickey Mouse Almanac 1, 1957), Zio Paperone dice di essere stato studente (o almeno di aver giocato a football) al Webfoot Tech. "negli anno 80". Consideri questa informazione barksiana come canonica, e in tal caso, come mai non viene citata in nessun capitolo della $aga?

                    Ho bisogno di fare riferimento a quello che Barks aveva scritto in precedenza sul passato di Paperone: era un povero lustrascarpe di Glasgow. Guadagnò i primi soldi come cercatore nello Yukon nel 1898, quando aveva 30 e qualcosa anni. Si trasferì a Paperopoli anni dopo. Per quale motivo avrebbe dovuto frequentare un college in quel momento? Io o --
                    A) scarto questa affermazione come una fandonia o una battuta buttata lì. B) Questa storia apparve su in numero "speciale" di Dell Comics, e non in una delle testate principali come WDC&S, DONALD DUCK o UNCLE $CROOGE -- spesso (forse sempre?) Barks si limitava a disegnare quelle storie e non le scriveva. Quindi potrei decidere che non è un vero fatto barksiano. C) È un fatto barksiano, come pochi altri, che è in contraddizione con altri fatti stabiliti in precedenza, e così decido di ignorarlo come impossibile.
                    Per una qualsiasi, o per tutte e tre, di queste ragioni, io scarto l'idea che Paperone sia mai andato al college, *specialmente* a Paperopoli, come chiaramente falsa.

                    3) Come mao Poncey de Loon non fa parte del tuo celebre e squidito albero genealogico? Dopo tutto viene citato da Nonna Papera come un "lontano cugino" dei paperi nel pannello dia apertura di not part of your famous and exquisite Duck Family Tree? He is, after all, mentioned by Grandma Duck to be "a distant cousin of us Ducks" in the opening panel of "Paperino e la fonte della giovinezza". E il generale Stonewall Duck non potrebbe essere pure lui un antenato di Paperino (anche se la cosa non viene esplicitamente detta in "Paperino fabbro del villaggio ")?

                    Un "lontano cugino" è abbastanza vago e sarebbe problematico inserirlo in un albero così limitato come quello che mi era stato chiesto di fare. Ho "barato" un po' anche quando ho sparpagliato gli antenati dei De Paperoni sul tronco del Clan De Paperoni, sopratutto perché erano stati citati in una storia famosa come "Il segreto del vecchio castello" -- il modo in cui li ho sbattuti a casaccio sul tronco era piuttosto inappropriata per un albero genealogico. Un altro parente citato da Barks che ho deliberatamente rimossi (per necessità) era uno citato ne "L'uomo d'oro".
                    Un'altra cosa che potresti vedere nelle pubblicazioni Egmont è il mio articolo su come ho costruito l'albero, cosa ho incluso, cosa ho lasciato fuori, e cosa ho cambiato dopo aver ricevuto nuove revisioni delle sue idee dal signor Barks. Come sapete, un albero genealogico *completo* sarebbe molto più complesso di quello semplificato che ho progettato su richiesta della Egmont. (non sapevo che sarebbe diventato forse la cosa più FAMOSA che io abbia mai fatto... specialmente in Italia!)
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                      Re: Don Rosa
                      Risposta #3789: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 16:15:31
                      TlatoSMD:
                      >>>>>Immagino che sia ancora spaventato dal mio post lungo due pagine a cui aveva promesso di rispondere.

                      Era un bel po' di tempo fa! Prima che io ci metta tutto il tempo a rispondere a quel messaggio, per favore riformula tutte le domande a cui devo ancora rispondere.
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                        Re: Don Rosa
                        Risposta #3790: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 16:15:45
                        Cornelius Coot 1818:
                        >>>>>collegandoci con la recente Festa della Donna, (8 MArzo), come era la tua relazione con i personaggi femminili Disney? Ho letto che ti piaceva scrivere storie su Doretta e Amelia; non so che ne pensi di Paperina, Nonna Papera, Miss Paperett o Emy, Ely e Evy. Hai mai pensato di creare qualche nuovo personaggio femminile?

                        Credici o no, ho appena passato circa 35 minuti a scrivere una PROFONDA risposta a questa domanda. Ma poi c'è stato un guasto del computer e il testo della mia risposta è sparito. Ci riproverò domani!!
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                          Risposta #3791: Venerdì 4 Mag 2012, 16:15:56
                          Stronghold:
                          >>>>>etc.

                          E poi ci sono messaggi MERAVIGLIOSAMENTE gentili come questo!!! Questa potrebbe addirittura essere una ragione per cui esito a essere attivo su un forum come questo, perché non ho NESSUNA idea su come rispondere a dei complimenti tanto MERAVIGLIOSI!

                          GRAZIE! È tutto quello che posso dire.
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                            Re: Don Rosa
                            Risposta #3792: Sabato 5 Mag 2012, 07:20:42
                            TlatoSMD:
                            >>>>>My guess is that he's still scared of my 2-page long post that he promised to reply to.

                            That was quite a while ago! Before I spend all the time to reply to that message, please restate all the questions that you still need answered.
                            Grazie.

                            Well, my original long post with questions to you is here: http://www.papersera.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=2673/3615 Gonna sum it up now, so if a question doesn't make sense here, there's the original background that it came from.

                            First I told you I've been your fan since the mid-90s, and that at least a quarter of the current English-language Wikipedia article on you came from my keyboard.

                            Then, as a Monty Python fan, I mentioned your two Python references I've spotted (in A little something special and The Three Caballeros Ride Again), and I asked you if there's any more Python references in your work that I've missed out on. As he's pretty much a TV junkie in your stories, and he's the one uttering one of the two references, I asked whether you'd think if Donald would be a Python fan circa 15-20 years later when they'll be around, or if you think it wouldn't be his kinda humor.

                            I also mentioned surprise about your Python references:

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                            Also, the Python references have surprised me a bit. Based upon all that I know about your tastes from interviews, editorials, and this thread, you seem to be more of a fan of the times of "classic Hollywood" films and TV series circa 1930s-1950s where men were still tough and all that, which being as, uh, elegant and majestic as it was, was certainly a different generation than the whacky, unconventional, and irreverent countercultural types of the Woodstock Generation that was also epitomized in the Pythons and their humor.

                            I also remember that you said in the The Life and Times of Don Rosa documentary that this Woodstock Generation didn't have much of an impact on you, even though it was happening at the time you were in college

                            And from there I led over to the issue of underground comics:

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                            I'm pretty certain if I had the time and energy, I could copy-paste single characters drawn by Shelton (with his two inkers/collaborators Dave Sheridan and Paul Mavrides), put them next to your Ducks (and partly Beagle Boys, too), and see some obvious likenesses in poses, grimaces, and style of drawing ankles and facial wrinkles.

                            So, regarding your "wicked" "underground" style, your one very-underground-in-themes parody way back in college, and in spite of your often saying that Crumb and the Woodstock Generation never had much of an influence on you, I've been wondering if maybe people just kept asking the wrong question and maybe it was Shelton rather than Crumb who at least had some influence on your way of drawing the Ducks?

                            While already at the topic of underground comics, I said that your shadows really make your comics shine, that not even Crumb made such masterful use of them, and that your technique of how you're hatching your shadows reminded me of William Hogarth, Gustave Doré, Honoré Daumier, and Albrecht Dürer.

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                            So, your shadows have kept me wondering what influence artists such as Hogarth, Dürer, or Doré might have had on your style?

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                            And while we're still more or less on the topic of underground comics, has Howard the Duck had any influence upon your drawing style? Of course, I'm talking about the comic, not that awful, awful movie. I'm also a huge fan of the comic, especially the b/w Howard the Duck magazine which had art by Gene Colan, for instance.

                            Next I asked you about that, to me, very sudden change in your drawing style that occurred just when you started on Lo$. Super Snooper strikes again was still your old style that, even though you'd certainly refined it since The Son of the Sun, had always remained of the same "breed" or "school". Then suddenly, this weird quantum leap happened, and since Of Ducks and Dimes and Destinies and The Last of the Clan McDuck, your style was my favorite Duck style of all time.

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                            My question is, how did this sudden change, this fundamental quantum leap in your style come about so abruptly between two stories? Did you purposefully clean it up beforehand, practicing and practicing again, before you went to start on The Last of the Clan McDuck, so you could do justice to Unca Carl's legacy as one of 20th century's greatest creators and storytellers also in the visual department? I think this change is so undeniable, and yet you've said that you never noticed much change in your style; and yet I've never come across anybody else beside me mentioning this sudden change between Super Snooper Strikes Again and Of Ducks and Diems and Destinies/The Last of the Clan McDuck even among other Rosa fans.

                            (Granted, it's changed again later-on due to your eye trouble, which I think begins to show in your stories around 1997-'99, which pains me at times when I see how your brilliance in panel and page composition even still kept growing but your eye trouble kept you from executing your designs to their full potential in the exact proportions and details, to a degree that your Ducks seemed to look more and more, um, pointy or angular?)

                            Next I said a few things on the coloring of your stories, and how to me, Gladstone's marvellous work during the 1990s in that department has never been equalled by any other other of your publishers, and that Gemstone was second to them there, with Gladstone's colors looking slightly warmer, and Gemstone's colors a little cooler. And that I wish that we in Europe could have an equivalent for your work of the soft-cover Carl Barks Library in Color that was brought out by Gladstone during the 1990s, and over here in Europe even with Gladstone's original colors. We don't have anything like that, a complete collection of your work WITH GLADSTONE'S/GEMSTONE'S ORIGINAL COLORS here, and the CBLC was even affordable for the average Duck fan at an original cover price of circa 8.50 Euros (or circa $10) per volume, so even if you couldn't afford the whole set at once, you could gradually build up your collection.

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                            I remember you said in The Life and Times of Don Rosa that you've met your wife at a Star Wars convention, and that she seems just as nerdy as you about some things. If that's not too private a question, how does she feel about your Barks and Ducks fandom, where you seem to fill your house with Barks and Ducks paraphernalia, and that even led you to become one of the most celebrated Duck artists? I think I remember a few photos where she didn't seem too happy about fans invading your house and leaving their footprints everywhere.

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                            You've recently said that you dislike drawing so much that by the time you got to finish a story, you absolutely hated it for all the hard drudgery and labor it's been on you, giving particular examples every time you mentioned this fact. Are there any stories that you hated less towards the event of finishing them? Also, so many of your stories exhibit so much love and passion for the characters and attention to detail and thrilling action that it comes as a surprise to think of your words whenever reading your narratives.

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                            in spite of your criticisms of superhero comics, you seem to be collecting them just as eagerly in your fabled basement collection. How does that work out?

                            And because you obviously deemed it improper to leave out stuff that I thought was either widely known, irrelevant, or wrong from my translation of the German Wikipedia article on your style and techniques, I'm hereby filling the gaps to give you a chance to decide whether my original cuts were justified or not:

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                            Because Rosa has never received a formal drawing education and not even took art classes in school, his drawing style in comparison to other Disney artists appears unusually dirty and edgy. His works therefore strongly resemble underground comics. Denying being that much of a huge fan of, for instance, Robert Crumb, he regards this fact about his style as being due to his lack of formal drawing education, saying that he "just cannot draw any better than this". For his first stories, he traced all the characters from Carl Barks, and it was only after gaining practice that way that he started developing his own style.

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                            A single comic page takes Rosa one day to draw, and prior research will take him another day per page. Wherever possible, Rosa uses techniques from his engineering background, such as using templates for curves and circles.

                            Don Rosa's panels usually show a high amount of things happening at once, including much of text, mostly several speech bubbles per panel, more background personnel than in Barks's stories, small subplots occuring in backgrounds, and highly detailled backgrounds in general. According to Rosa himself, this is also due to his lack in education that makes him "stuff as many things as he can" into his backgrounds in order to be as entertaining as he can. Most of the time, these background subplots are mere gags with no connection to the main plot.

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                            Klaus Piber contends that the high amount of things happening in Rosa's panels diminishes their functionality for being bloated, however a basic functionality of the panels remains. For instance, Rosa squeezes several events into the same panel, and while that provides for a richness of detail and complex plots on 34 pages or less, his panel compositions suffer from severe lack of space. In spite of all that, his panel compositions do work, albeit sacrificing lots of efficiency. The richness of detail in his backgrounds distracts the reader from the main plot, but also invites one to glance over the scenery. Still, many of his background gags and subplots are indeed amusing and lighten up the atmosphere. According to Piber, Rosa's drawing style is acceptable while not reaching the quality of Barks, as Rosa's lines are often shaky, of varying thickness, and lack energy, and his proportions don't always work out either.

                            (The latter sentence I regard as due to your failing eyesight since the late 1990s.)
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                              Re: Don Rosa
                              Risposta #3793: Sabato 5 Mag 2012, 20:10:38
                              Whaddaya know Don! I've been over at Duck Comics Revue and saw a detailled review and recommendation for one of the stories I suggested translating for you months ago, That missing candelabra, complete with translated excerpts from the comic itself in English that can give you an idea of Carpi's art and the story's basics: http://duckcomicsrevue.blogspot.de/2012/01/that-missing-candelabra.html

                              Duck Comics Revue also recently published a rather negative review of your Guardians of the Lost Library: http://duckcomicsrevue.blogspot.de/2012/04/guardians-of-lost-library.html

                              I've read there that you yourself regard the JWC Guidebook ultimately as a piece of unrealistic fantasy because you don't believe that all that vast information could be compressed into one tiny book. Is that true Don? My take on this has always been that the Guidebook must be written in a secret, abridged code, script, and cipher. That would not only solve the space issue, but could also safeguard the Guidebook against exploitation by unauthorized use on the side of non-JWC forces.

                              The review mentions Unca Carl's Island in the sky which posits that the Guidebook also contains an exclusive dictionary for at least one existing extra-terrestrial language. As your Guardians pretty much says that all content exclusive to the Guidebook most likely comes from the Library of Alexandria, the commenters over at Duck Comics Review said that together with your Guardians, this seems to suggest an ancient extra-terrestrial contact story that yielded an extra-terrestrial dictionary present at the Librabry of Alexandria that was preserved by the Guidebook.

                              Do you think you'd enjoy a story capitalizing on this idea fusing your Guardians with Island in the Sky? After all, Attack of the Hideous Space-Varmints as well as your posts here prove that you're not opposed to alien stories. It also makes me wonder if even said ancient contact is mentioned in the Guidebook.

                              Another interesting issue that was brought up in the comments to the review on Guardians of the Lost Library over at Duck Comics Revue is whether Unca Carl, with the JWC Guidebook, pretty much anticipated the iPhone/iPad's invention. What do you think, as another fan of Unca Carl's? Is the iPad the Guidebook come true?
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                                Re: Don Rosa
                                Risposta #3794: Sabato 5 Mag 2012, 20:29:33
                                Stronghold:
                                >>>>>etc.

                                And then there are WONDERFULLY nice messages like this!!! This might even be another reason I hesitate to be active on such a forum, because I have NO idea how to reply to such WONDERFUL compliments!

                                GRAZIE! That's all I can say.

                                Indeed, no reply could have been any better! I'm happy just knowing you've read my messagge, and even happier if it made you smile :)

                                Invero, nessuna risposta avrebbe potuto essere migliore! Sono felice già solo di sapere che hai letto il mio messaggio, ed ancora di più se ti ha fatto sorridere :)

                                 

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