Maik:
>>>>>One thing that always made me wonder is the dates Scrooge mentioned in "A little something special" when he was hiting Blackhearth Beagle in the head. All the dates he say refrance the actuall stories exept for one... 1908, but since "Invader of the fort Duckburg" was set in 1902 and Scrooge mentiones that date as well I guess some Scrooge-Bealge clash happend at that point... Very mysterious...
Yes, it is! Good question. I checked my original storyboard-script and those panels with the saucer-bike fight are not even there. I sometimes changed my own stories during the drawing stage.
I guess I added 1908 to make a reference to another "Life of $crooge" meeting with the original Beagle Boys in the early-20th-Century. In my notes I had ideas for a story set in Africa with $crooge and Teddy Roosevelt during T.R.'s famous safari after his presidential terms, but that took place in 1909. However, another idea I had... and one involving an event that is all over the news today!... was set in Siberia in 1908 and involved the "Tunguska Event" when the asteroid exploded. It would involve Gyro's grandfather again, and maybe I had the idea to get the Beagles there to be more familiar faces. But I never tried to figure out any plot logistics. I think I eventually decided that there could be very little character involvement with a single giant explosion in the middle of a wilderness.
>>>>>>When Your on conventions and make drawings for the fans, how often people ask You to drawn character that You don't use in Your stories? (Fethry, Brigitta, Rockerduck, Goofy... or maybe even characters like Paperetta, Goldie's granddouther from Romano Scarpa stories or Lunchpad from DuckTales ) I wonder do You take the request like that and what where the most bizzare/obscure characters people ask You to drawn
At every signing I get asked to do a few unusual drawings. Sometimes it is a character that shows me the customer has no idea who I am (Mickey, Minnie, Lion King, etc.) and I tell them, sorry, I can't help them with that request.
Other times it is an Italian Duck character, for whom I have much respect but no experience. I will always draw such a character if the customer can supply me with some small reference image. (You see some here on this forum, eh?)
Yes, I also sometimes get asked by people who don't know what I do for a drawing of a "Ducktales" character. I think that was an excellent series, but NOT the "real thing", so I have no reason to try to draw the characters even if given a reference. I just decline and offer another idea.
And other times the customer proves to me they are a GREAT fan and asks me for a character that I may have created but never looked back at in 20 years, and for which I embarrassingly also need a reference image. These include characters off the Family Tree or who appeared in one of the fan's favorite stories. And one of the best such requests I've had came just 2 weeks ago in Angouleme when a fan asked me for a drawing of the aborigine shaman in chapter 8 of the "Life of $crooge". That was fun! I was so pleased I did the drawing in full color.
But none of those are truly "bizarre" requests... only perhaps sometimes "misdirected". The bizarre requests always come at the American conventions where few people know me or even know Disney comics. Someone might ask me for "Donald Duck as Wolverine" or "Daisy Duck as a vampire" or idiot ideas like that -- obviously I politely (I hope) tell them, no, I am there to do drawings for Donald Duck fans, not for Wolverine or vampire fans.
But I recall years ago one person wanted $crooge holding a Bible. That I also declined to do -- these are secular characters, and I was suspicious of what that person might have been up to.
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