And wasn't there a Marco Rota story that reused the premise of Voodoo Hoodoo? Except Donald was actually shrinking after being exposed to an old African mystic ball?
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This story was almost completely reused as a "Spiff and Hercules" comic in Pif Magazine. Plot was by François Corteggiani, and he mostly replaced Donald with Hercules. The ending is totally similar.
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Hey, Orora! So cool to see you *as we know you* on the cover of Picsou Soir! And I've come to know your love of the 80's/90's French Disney mag covers, so it's also great to see your own homage to that style.
Thank you very much Matilda!! I am very glad to have expressed this love, and showing it to others!
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This issue has interviews with French Disney artists Olivier Fiquet and Patrice Croci, who illustrated the covers of French Disney magazines in the 80s and 90s. I love their work which has been very influential to me. So, it was a honor for me to draw this cover, where I tried my best to emulate their style! Drawing them as an anthro cockatoo/chicken and duck, too! Of course, also starring good old Donald Duck as a painted painter... and the Sleeping Beauty in the Stars, who represents myself as "Orora" on Disney forums!
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That sounds like an interesting question! I don't recall Scrooge sleeping on the coin pool, usually just relaxing and swimming there. Though I guess he could.
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I just found another one on Inducks, though I haven't read it yet, so I can't say if it's a *good* story. Arthur Faria's Contrafeitiços, in which apparently Daisy is the only one who can retrieve the stolen #1 dime from Magica's castle. Not going to make it into my headcanon, because my Magica neither dwells in a castle nor rooms with Mim! But I still might be able to convince myself into buying Journal de Mickey 2022 (1991) from French eBay to read it. Do you have access to that issue, Orora?
The Inducks rating is not high, but on the other hand, it's something that a Brazilian ten-pager even *has* a rating on Inducks, and that five people voted.
Ah, I do have it! I am going to take a look at it.
Well, it's an okay/decent story. But Daisy and Magica themselves barely interact with each other, only when Magica does the basic steps of her "evil plan"... but Magica casts a spell/curse on Daisy that she uses to both her advantage... and disadvantage, which is the most interesting part.
And this Inducks rating is quite basic; I feel that the average story there goes around 7.2/10!
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So I am looking into this "Duck Daze"... so, it was the original concept for "Quack Pack" where it would have been more faithful to the old Donald franchise?
Indeed it was. Here’s what Jymn Magon said about it during a Q&A about 10 years ago:
Not an official spin-off, no. Simply several years after Duck Tales. Donald is back from the Navy... and the boys have grown into teens.
[...] However, [Scrooge] WAS actually part of the original premise. He wanted Donald to "grow up," cuz he knew that Donald would inherit the McDuck fortune someday... and would probably lose it all. So the series started off as a "test" to see if Donald could handle the job. On-the-job training, so to speak. I think we had Donald moving from department to department in the McDuck corporation, and he screwed up all the time... but the nephews kept helping Unca Donald out. Yes, that was the ORIGINAL Duck Daze series idea. I recall now. That's what I pitched. Donald was definitely the star... but he took a backseat later in the development.)
Quack Pack’s animation was actually very good for a Tv budget—better than the original DuckTales, I’d say. Too bad it was kinda wasted on such a mediocre show. I wonder if any concept/pitch art for the original (and far more interesting) “Duck Daze” concept has survived.
That's a pity... I am usually a big fan of 90s "kewl" pop culture, but it's a shame this worked against Duck Daze.
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I like Soccermania as well. The cartoon’s humor and animation are great (by relatively low-budget tv standards, of course), and it’s probably the closest animated adaptation of comics-Duckburg as we’ve ever gotten; it’s crazy how virtually every other faithful adaptation of Duck comics ended up being shelved or cancelled for whatever reason (think “Duck Daze”, “Epic Donald” and Barks’ Scrooge short from the ‘50s). I wish Gladstone Gander’s scenes weren’t cut from the final film though—I would have loved to have seen how they adapted him from the comics, as they did such good jobs with Scrooge and the Beagles.
As for the “1984 theatrical release”, this article pullingarabbitoutofahat.com/commercials-television-shorts-and-sequels/sport-goofy-in-soccermania/ confirms that it was indeed intended for a release in 1984, to coincide with the 1984 Olympics. However, it was released much later, as the original film was heavily edited and partially rewritten as it was considered too zany/bizarre for release—which explains the deleted scenes.
So I am looking into this "Duck Daze"... so, it was the original concept for "Quack Pack" where it would have been more faithful to the old Donald franchise?
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I posted this comparison below of The Last of the Clan McDuck to tell that I really like the "muddy" colors of the Uncle Scrooge-panels from the 90s. They look dirty and more realistic. I'm not a fan of the digital look of TheDon Rosa Library. These panels look too flat and fake for my taste.
When it comes to Scrooge's money bin, I prefer it to be fully gray, including the $-insignia. It's made out of concrete, and Scrooge is cheap - I doubt he'd spend money on painting it. As for his coins, I like when there's variation. Gold, silver, copper. It's supposed to be money he has collected from all over the world, not just American currency, right?
I agree, that texture and those subdued hues give it personality.
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As much as I enjoy these comic stories, it really is heartbreaking to read what the artists have to say sometimes regarding their creation and how the talent is treated. You really have to wonder how they keep anyone working for them at all.
It's not a job you do for the money, you get started in it for the passion. You might have remembered how Don Rosa didn't earn much from his Disney comics, he did it for the love of the art.
I find it interesting how De Vita compares the sleeping epidemic in "Sleeping Beauty in the Stars" to this year's coronavirus epidemic and lockdown.
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Thank you, crazycatlord! I'll check this when I can.
And I am also looking for a story where Donald and HDL go in a junkyard with many piles of trash and metal where there is a mysterious person wrapped in old clothes "haunting" the place, with an old radio telling ominous things about how he is a threatening force... Donald and HDL try to fight and escape this junkyard phantom, and when he falls and is unmasked, they are surprised to find out "he" is a woman. Donald: "you... you're..." Junkyard phantom: "Yes, a woman, so what?" And then she explains herself and why she did this, and at some point puts on a record that reminds her of an old lover.
I think this story was published in a 90s "Journal de Mickey" and the art on the woman was kinda Romano-Scarpa, but I am not sure. (Scarpa stories were rarely published in the Journal de Mickey).
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