tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post2258340585495779023..comments2024-03-28T03:15:52.497-04:00Comments on Duck Comics Revue: "Donald Meets Baron Münchausen"GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-23732178587008070822021-03-24T17:35:19.558-04:002021-03-24T17:35:19.558-04:00As a big fan of the Baron, this was a great surpri...As a big fan of the Baron, this was a great surprise! Most fans know that the Baron’s fave wine is Tokay. In the 1950’s & 1960’s this wine was a mainstay in every U.S. household. Now if you go to 30 wine stores, you may find one bottle! The Baron would be quite upset!Carloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03452777765570365636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-33766305091109503802020-08-04T09:22:15.122-04:002020-08-04T09:22:15.122-04:00"as for the tall-tale-y bits that don't s..."as for the tall-tale-y bits that don't seem to involve the Baron in any way--like the lion jumping out of its skin or the musical notes coagulating from the heat--I just have no idea."<br /><br />These bits are present where I first read about the Baron of Münchhausen, a Brazilian book of his tales, when I was a kid in the 1960s. I still have the book, and your post has prompted me to research about its origins.Ayrton Mugnaini Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11914156865538041751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-428024455523585882018-02-18T21:25:08.197-05:002018-02-18T21:25:08.197-05:00Thanks! Easy to see how that would've been di...Thanks! Easy to see how that would've been difficult to explain in a tiny text box.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-27290928450378947462018-02-18T16:53:47.717-05:002018-02-18T16:53:47.717-05:00The horse and steeple bit is from when the Baron a...The horse and steeple bit is from when the Baron arrived hitched his horse to a pole that was embedded in the thick layer of snow blanketing the landscape. He then made camp for the night. When he woke up, he discovered that the (now melted or blown away) snow had been covering an entire town, and the pole was the top of the church's steeple. His horse was thus dangling from the roof of the church.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-29281888140941158292014-09-06T10:44:07.211-04:002014-09-06T10:44:07.211-04:00There is this Munchausen Chech movie I strongly re...There is this Munchausen Chech movie I strongly recomend. Gilliam's animation style in Monthy Python is strongly inspired by it...<br /><br />http://panmilus.blogspot.com/2013/04/przygody-munchhausena-karel-zeman-1961.html<br />Pan Miluśhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364446151493198587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-8221446848512420812014-01-27T13:04:54.819-05:002014-01-27T13:04:54.819-05:00Whoops, that's my own dopey misreading. BUT W...Whoops, that's my own dopey misreading. BUT WOULDN'T IT BE COOL?!?GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-13466859426337714512014-01-27T12:05:32.155-05:002014-01-27T12:05:32.155-05:00Oh sorry, Wikipedia calls the Russian folk tale an...Oh sorry, Wikipedia calls the Russian folk tale an influence on Gilliam's movie, not the Martina comic.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-85305052038281541842014-01-26T17:53:56.368-05:002014-01-26T17:53:56.368-05:00Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you liked i...Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you liked it. You're probably right about the source for the fast guy; I've read that sundry formerly-unrelated stories became associated with the Baron.<br /><br />As for the notion that this comic influenced Gilliam's film, I'm skeptical, but if true, HOLY CRAP. Someone needs to ask him about that at the closest opportunity.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-22962154685654912782014-01-26T15:54:43.636-05:002014-01-26T15:54:43.636-05:00Thanks for the translation, I always enjoy them hu...Thanks for the translation, I always enjoy them hugely.<br /><br />@ "The Baron's speedy servant", I think the source is, or is related to, a Russian fairy tale that Wikipedia calls 'The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship', where the fool is on a quest to marry the tsar's daughter and the speedy runner is one of the people he meets and subsequently help him with his tasks. He also meets an archer who always hits his mark, which is also a character in the Gilliam version. The servant in the Nazi Germany version amalgamates both characters, apparently. I have no idea whether this is the earliest introduction of the fairy or folk tale motif in the Munchhausen story.<br /><br />According to Wikipedia, this tale influenced the Gilliam version., but no cites are given. <br /><br />Coincidentally, I read a comic adaption of this folk tale, though not with the Ducks, unfortunately, in (the dutch) 'Donald Duck Magazine'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-56149595998182118692014-01-20T21:20:47.297-05:002014-01-20T21:20:47.297-05:00The narration box thing comes from me, but "é...The narration box thing comes from me, but "élan" was in the French version.<br /><br />"The Butterflies of Columbus" didn't do much for me the first time, but it may be necessary to revisit it.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-49694513660883581382014-01-20T18:48:40.573-05:002014-01-20T18:48:40.573-05:00Nice to get a new-to-me duck comic stoy on the hol...Nice to get a new-to-me duck comic stoy on the holiday weekend! I enjoyed this, but I think I lot of my enjoyment actually came from your script, which gave me many chuckles. I don't have much interest in completely fantastic duck stories...though I'd agree that intentional zaniness is far preferable to the usual "I didn't apparently put much thought into this ahead of time" zaniness of Scarpa & Co. That's one of the reasons why my favorite Scarpa story is "the butterflies of Columbus"--there, too, the zaniness (a different variety of zaniness) is legitimately the point of the story. <br /><br />I liked Mr. Speedy being "too filled with élan to stop speeding." And does the meta moment where Donald comments on the narrative box come from Martina?Elainenoreply@blogger.com