tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post1968954700241203247..comments2024-03-28T03:15:52.497-04:00Comments on Duck Comics Revue: "The Bleep-Bleep 15"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-28090129245118636122013-03-28T16:16:20.260-04:002013-03-28T16:16:20.260-04:00Scarpa's Asian characters are remarkably unste...Scarpa's Asian characters are remarkably unstereotypical for the era. Think, for instance, of Jubal Pomp's techie in "The Secret of Success" (our version in UNCLE SCROOGE 338).<br />There is often a match between the characters and hi-tech/martial arts themes, but grotesque features and bumpkin-like behavior are happily absent. It's better than fair for its day.ramapithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01751343744514656549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-38256853140750883752013-03-28T10:44:33.632-04:002013-03-28T10:44:33.632-04:00Thank you so much, Elaine! You’ve made my day!
...Thank you so much, Elaine! You’ve made my day! <br /><br />Interesting idea on having a study of printing / reprinting patterns over the years. <br /><br />Your kind comments on scripting bring another notion to mind…<br /><br />DC Comics once did a feature where they had a penciled drawing of Green Arrow (I think, it was Green Arrow) and had several different inkers ink it – to show how different it would look. <br /><br />Imagine there’s a foreign Disney comics story, and different persons take a shot at scripting it. Geoffrey Blum, Garry Leach, John Clark, Bob Foster, Annette Roman (whose dialogue I liked, but whom I know nothing about), David Gerstein, Jonathan Gray, myself, Thad Komorowski, Chris Barat, Geo X – and anyone who would like to try. <br /><br />Wouldn’t it be fun to read what emerges? Some of us would be “further out there” and some of us less so. I’d especially like to see how each of us diverges from all but the most basic main plot points! (I always throw-in stuff of my own, that was not in the original script!) I’m certain your comparison between Blum and me would be born out – and I’d love to see how.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-44052213524643188112013-03-28T09:42:38.068-04:002013-03-28T09:42:38.068-04:00Ah, but I'm glad you scripted Pirate Gold Agai...Ah, but I'm glad you scripted Pirate Gold Again, Joe--you have a lighter touch than Blum. His scripts are rich in literary and classic-comics references, but they are heavier on the page. Yours are funnier, and more buoyant.<br /><br />Somebody really should do an academic study of Disney comics focusing on how/why stories do or don't get reprinted in other countries/time periods. Is there any comparable international data base of commercial narrative sharing? Well, there's data on movies, I guess, but there are different issues operating there.Elainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-30244818319884153622013-03-27T22:24:07.267-04:002013-03-27T22:24:07.267-04:00No on forgets “Der Fuhrer’s Face”! It was “Comman...No on forgets “Der Fuhrer’s Face”! It was “Commando Duck” (1944) that I was thinking of. Check THAT ONE out, in comparison! And I probably didn’t recall the title because I was thinking of the more innocuous “Daffy the Commando”. <br /><br />Now, on the other hand (though, I still feel the “Japanese WW II thing” is a valid possibility), I suppose a story CAN simply slip into obscurity on its own. <br /><br />Take the “Pirate Gold” 1962 sequel I called “Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold Again”. Why did it languish for so long, when Gladstone Series I could have printed it in the mid-to-late eighties? Somewhere after their 1986 printing of the original “Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold”, and around the time they were starting to give us Scarpa stories. <br /><br />Yet, we didn't see it here until 2011! <br /><br />A sequel to one of the most famous Duck stories of all should have been a natural for Gladstone I – and you would have had Geoffrey Blum script it, instead of me!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-33618322813298345072013-03-27T21:45:47.767-04:002013-03-27T21:45:47.767-04:00Joe,
Are you talking about Der Fuehrer's Face...Joe,<br /><br />Are you talking about Der Fuehrer's Face? BB Nips the Nips would seem to be a lot more problematic than THAT. As for this story, the Japanese character doesn't seem to be problematic AT ALL. Maybe this one simply slipped through the cracks...<br /><br />ChrisChris Barathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06845538037091279990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-19465945387734712742013-03-27T13:02:57.816-04:002013-03-27T13:02:57.816-04:00It’s a funny thing about WW II stuff…
I just had ...It’s a funny thing about WW II stuff…<br /><br />I just had this discussion with the instructor of an Adult-Ed film class I’ve been taking, who grew up when-and-where I did… ‘60s New York. <br /><br />In 2008, there was suddenly lots of WW II era stuff released to DVD, for Looney Tunes, Popeye, and The Three Stooges… almost all at once, in fact. <br /><br />Some of it, I was actually seeing for the first time, and the rest, I first saw in the eighties (when home video began), or on Cartoon Network, when it didn’t suck. I began to wonder why someone like me – who spent way too much time watching this stuff – didn’t see these back then, when I saw damned near everything else. <br /><br />We both agreed that most (nearly all) of this stuff did not play in rotation in the ‘60s (when we were kids) on WPIX 11 and WNEW (now FOX-5) – and we arrived at the conclusion that we were still too close in time to WW II for most of this stuff to be run. <br /><br />A lot of it’s not a big deal now. Who hasn’t seen “Hare Meets Herr”, and “Daffy the Commando” – but ya didn’t seem ‘em in my childhood! That said, “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips” and the like (including a Donald Duck, from the Army WW II period – the title of which eludes me right now) seem to occupy a different level. Rightly so, I’d say. <br /><br />That same thinking could have been at work at the time this story was not-often printed in various countries – and then, maybe later, the story just fell into obscurity and was forgotten. We’ll never know, of course… <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-28876795494921415672013-03-27T12:03:12.291-04:002013-03-27T12:03:12.291-04:00Well, probably. But I don't find it especiall...Well, probably. But I don't find it especially problematic; the story doesn't really push his ethnicity that hard, and certainly not in what I would consider an offensive way--though one's mileage may vary, surely.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-65095173085101475882013-03-27T04:05:22.263-04:002013-03-27T04:05:22.263-04:00Regular Geo writes:
“Or stuff like this. The idea...Regular Geo writes:<br /><br />“Or stuff like this. The idea here is that Pete forces Atomo to work for him by deploying this Japanese henchman here, Kamura, to constantly survey Mickey and kill him if Atomo disobeys. Which, ultimately, leads to a fun fight scene involving the above. I actually laughed out loud at the bottom left panel there.”<br /><br />I think we can check this off as ONE reason it hasn’t appeared in the US. <br /><br />And, possibly consider its “original proximity” to WW II (as close as Y2K is to us now?), and there may have been a general reluctance to use it overall.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.com