A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe

Description: Contains one article about the at that time still unsolved legal dispute between Barks, his managers and Bruce Hamilton; and a couple of reviews (Uncle Scrooge 50 years anniversary album and The Unexpurgated Carl Barks".

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Article about great Italian Disney-artist Romano Scarpa, who had been completely unknown to Finnish audience of Disney comics lovers, until now; almost simultaneously with this zine came out first Finnish collection of Scarpa's Mickey Mouse comics.
Also a look into foreign fanzines and Disney fandom on Internet
P.A. Manninen's article takes a view on production values and conditions in Disney Company.
Briefly introduced are artists (Vicar, Branca, Jippes etc) whose works are influenced by Carl Barks' superb comics.
News about the lawsuit (and countersuit) between Barks and Hamilton.
Reviews, especially on facsimilé edition of Finnish D-comic book Aku Ankka 1954 issues compilation. It contains rarely seen Mickey Mouse comic An Education for Thursday. Also a book of pre-Disney Barks: Unexpurgated Carl Barks.

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- Ankkalinnan Pamaus, issue 2 (1/1999)

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Publication date: 1999, summer(?)
Type: fanzine

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Description: Article about Barks translations in Finnish (for example "Screaming Cowboy" changed into "itkevä merimies", which means "Crying Seaman"); and an article about censorship and political correctness in Barks reprints.

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Vesa Kataisto's article about translating Disney comics into Finnish
Selected list of best remembered Barks-translations [into Finnish] with comments by Timo Ronkainen
View on censorship and political correctness in Barks reprints.
Vesa Höijer takes a look on history of American Disney comic books and their publishers.
Long histori of Italian produced Disney comics are under observation in article by Timo Ronkainen.
A known Disney collector Pentti Hauhiala gives tips and important addresses to beginner in collecting.
Reminiscences of the first Aku Ankka (Donald Duck) magazines read by Timo Ronkainen (in early 1970's) made him reread stories and find some of the artists.
Also a news column

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- Ankkalinnan Pamaus, issue 3 (2/1999)

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Publication date: 2000
Type: fanzine

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Description: Contains article about highly popular Finnish-dialect interpretation of Barks' tenpagers collection (all characters speak dialect that is spoken in Turku, south-west of Finland).

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Vesa Kataisto interviews Don Rosa, who visited november 1999 in Finland promoting his new collection of Duck-stories Sammon salaisuus (Quest for Kalevala). The book was sold out within few days and the fourth printing came out pretty soon.
Timo Ronkainen takes look on Disney's newspaper comics, other than Mickey or Donald. Most of them are based on Disney movies - live action or animated.
Disney's copyright control and policy is under observation on Timo Ronkainen's article. Copyright infringements, harsh lawsuits, excessive control - conditions for fair use of copyrighted material is sometimes blur. Writer comes into conclusion that few overdoings on the matter probably dates back to Disney's personal loss over ownership on Oswald the Rabbit-character in 1920's.
Swedish donaldists (Nationella Ankistförbundet i Sverige) and their fanzine NafS(K) are introduced by Timo Ronkainen.
Vesa Höijer checks the Swedish (half-)parody of Donald Duck, Arne Anka. Arne's creator was forced by Disney to change the appearance of his hero to less "donaldesque"
Barks' heirs Pat Block, Volker Reiche and Ben Verhagen are briefly introduced in article by Timo Ronkainen.
Ari Seppi remembers his first Aku Ankka comic books - part two in series of 'nostalgic-reminiscintive' articles.
Lots of hints for Disney-fan-netsurfers are collected on every number of AP.
Reviews column: Swedish facsimilé-edition of first Kalle Anka books-collection, Rosa's hardback collection Sammon salaisuus and highly popular dialect interpretation of Barks' tenpagers-collection (all characters speaks dialect, that is spoken in Turku, south-west of Finland) are under examination.
Column for reader's letters and opinions is officially opened.

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- Ankkalinnan Pamaus, issue 5 (1/2000)

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Publication date: 2000
Type: fanzine

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Description: Officially the first issue of the year 2000. All Barks issue.

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Carl Barks did his most respected works in a medium that was in his working times one of the least respected: funny animal genre comic books. In early days of comic books, comic book artists among fellow cartoonists were considered being in lowest level, while newspaper cartoonists were the most respected. Funny animal books gained no, or little recognition while superhero and other genres came in. Most funny animal books were done quite hastily and routinely. Carl Barks“ work stood out clearly, since he put much more effort in his comics than others. Burdensome work paid off, and his comics are now part of the pantheon of comics. Article by Timo Ronkainen
Juri Nummelin found influences of film noir in Barks“ stories. Originally the term film noir was coined by French film critics describing American crime movies made during 1940“s and '50“s. Recently the term have been attached almost to anything with any kind of connection with original film noir. Film noir has literary roots in pulp fiction novels and short stories, which were models to many comics during 1940“s. Barks was influenced by almost everything done in popular culture, and bits of noir found their way in his comics too.
Lots of links as usual. This time about Carl Barks of course.
Barks bibliography. Assorted collection of literary on subject of Barks and his work.
Development of Uncle-Scrooge. The way how Barks built up his most important character, Scrooge McDuck, could be seen as an evolutionary story in literal sense. As Scrooge came back after his first appearance, and got eventually his own title, Barks was forced to make his cheapskate duck a bit softer, more humane and more complex to get him more appealing. Barks could have done it by overnight manner without explaining, but he prefered to do it properly by weaving a character history for his old millionaire. The story Back to the Klondike formed a turning point in Scrooges life, that is where Scrooge became an integral part of the Duck family - getting back in his youth during that story, made irascible Scrooge grow a bit. Lengthy freeform essay type article by Timo Ronkainen.
Carl Barks worked in Disney animation studios between 1935 and 1942. First he was assigned to do inbetween animation, but after six months he became a gag and story writer. In those years, working with seasoned story man Harry Reeves he learned pacing and constructing a story in most efficient fashion. In story sketches that still remains, one can see similarities in his animation works and later comic book stories. Article by Daniėl van Eijmeren and Timo Ronkainen.
Barks filmography lists all shorts Barks worked with that were produced and also those that were never gone further after scripting.
Some Barks stories were printed in Aku Ankan Taskukirja (Donald Duck“s Paperback), which normally publishes italian Disney-comics. Overview on those is written by Ari Seppi.
Few changes were done in some older Finnish translations of Barks“ comics while there were reprinted. The language and world around us has changed after 50 years, when first Finnish translations were done. They were clearly aimed for younger audience than translations done today, and some way they reflect the long gone world of '50“s.
Plus the usual pages with reviews, news and stuff.

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- Ankkalinnan Pamaus, issue 6? (2/2000)

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Type: fanzine

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Description: Contains memories, anecdotes, comments about Barks by fans, friends and fellow artists. Detailed information

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- Sarjainfo, issue 25, 4/1979

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Publisher: [Finnish Comics Society]
Publication date: 1979
Country: Finland
Language: [Finnish]
Type: fanzine
Width: [21?] cm
Height: [29,6?] cm
Pages: [28? 68?]

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Description: Carl Barks special. Illustrated by Vesa Niskanen.

Contents:

8 and a half pages of "Trick or Treat", cut from the published version of 1952;
an index, by Aku Ankkas' editor in chief Markku Kivekäs;
a short introductive biography of Barks, by Markku Kivekäs;
article "Unknown Barks", about non-disney illustrations;
and the analysis "Barks, minä & Aku Ankka" (translation: Barks, me and Donald Duck), by Vesa Niskanen, about Barks“ storytelling.

Sarjainfo was the first magazine in world to print 8 and a half pages of cut material from "Trick or Treat". The pages were printed in a small size: three pages on one.

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- Sarjainfo, issue 48, 3/1985

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Publisher: [Finnish Comics Society]
Publication date: 1985
Country: Finland
Language: [Finnish]
Type: fanzine
Width: [21?] cm
Height: [29,6?] cm
Pages: [28? 68?]

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Description: Carl Barks special. Contains an interview with Aku Ankkas' editor in chief Markku Kivekäs and an update of his accurate Barks index; and some rare sketched drawings.

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