i watch it on dvd, and whenever my sister downloads it from the internet. i haven't seen that episode. i just remembered how a few years ago natasha's site was hacked, and they replaced the home page with a photo of a screaming man whose mouth was covered with a dollar bill. why lenin of all people? :)
I met a second or whatever cousin at my father's funeral, and one I used to spend holidays with as a kid. He mentioned he'd been looking through his old Walt Disney comics recently and one must've been mine as it had my name on it! I told him to return it, but I don't expect he will... :-(
My generation learnt a lot from those comics I think - though mainly about the American POV with regards to economics. ;-) I didn't know it at the time, (and probably didn't even consider the question), but they were mostly drawn by Carl Barks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks). I do remember when the comics changed and Donald's neck seemed all wrong though.
it's funny how comics don't exist in russia as a cultural phenomenon while they are such an important part of western life. the only comics i remember looking at as a kid are those by bidstrup. a socialist, of course.
Comics for kids and soviet-style communism just wouldn't work, I suspect. Comic publishers in the West only had to worry about whether their comics would sell, (as long as they weren't pornographic). I assume in the Soviet Union though that you'd have to convince a state-run publisher that your comic would be good for children before they'd consider publishing it. And any that passed that test the kids probably wouldn't want to buy...
In NZ we got both American and UK comics, so along with the Disney ones there was the likes of Archie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Comics) (from the US) and The Beano (http://www2.prestel.co.uk/grayling/beano/beano.html) and Battler Briton (http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Battler%20Britton%22) from the UK. (The latter seems to have a cult following outside of the English-speaking world, going by Google image results.)
Plus lots of others in simliar genres, and the US fantasy ones you'd know about, though I can't remember me reading them. I preferred the Disney ones!
'The Simpson' would be the closest feel to the Disney comics, in that they're both set in modern America suburbia. Except in Disneys' world the 'families' are made up of uncles and nephews and the like, not parents and children. Plus they're ducks.
Still, Disney comics from the 50s and The Simpsons from the 90s nicely show the decline in US values. Uncle Scrooge may be the richest duck in the world and a tightwad, but there's never any suggestion he made his millions by any other means than hard work and clever thinking. Compare with how Mr. Burns is portrayed in The Simpsons.
And Donald tries hard, whether honestly or otherwise, whereas Homer doesn't try hard, whether honestly or otherwise. Cynicism rules.
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Date: 2006-08-18 05:09 pm (UTC)про вторую: кого хвалить? )))
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Date: 2006-08-18 05:25 pm (UTC)2: меня: я ногти в фотошопе подчистил, они еще страшнее были!
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Date: 2006-08-18 05:40 pm (UTC)в смысле спасибо :)
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Date: 2006-08-18 05:27 pm (UTC)do you watch 'south park'? is in in russia? your photo reminds me of cartman bathing in money!
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Date: 2006-08-18 05:38 pm (UTC)why lenin of all people? :)
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I met a second or whatever cousin at my father's funeral, and one I used to spend holidays with as a kid. He mentioned he'd been looking through his old Walt Disney comics recently and one must've been mine as it had my name on it! I told him to return it, but I don't expect he will... :-(
My generation learnt a lot from those comics I think - though mainly about the American POV with regards to economics. ;-) I didn't know it at the time, (and probably didn't even consider the question), but they were mostly drawn by Carl Barks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Barks). I do remember when the comics changed and Donald's neck seemed all wrong though.
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Date: 2006-08-20 05:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-10 02:07 am (UTC)In NZ we got both American and UK comics, so along with the Disney ones there was the likes of Archie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Comics) (from the US) and The Beano (http://www2.prestel.co.uk/grayling/beano/beano.html) and Battler Briton (http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Battler%20Britton%22) from the UK. (The latter seems to have a cult following outside of the English-speaking world, going by Google image results.)
Plus lots of others in simliar genres, and the US fantasy ones you'd know about, though I can't remember me reading them. I preferred the Disney ones!
'The Simpson' would be the closest feel to the Disney comics, in that they're both set in modern America suburbia. Except in Disneys' world the 'families' are made up of uncles and nephews and the like, not parents and children. Plus they're ducks.
Still, Disney comics from the 50s and The Simpsons from the 90s nicely show the decline in US values. Uncle Scrooge may be the richest duck in the world and a tightwad, but there's never any suggestion he made his millions by any other means than hard work and clever thinking. Compare with how Mr. Burns is portrayed in The Simpsons.
And Donald tries hard, whether honestly or otherwise, whereas Homer doesn't try hard, whether honestly or otherwise. Cynicism rules.
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Date: 2006-08-18 07:04 pm (UTC)А ты я сморю таки прожил де то заграницей - слишком видок у тебя западный ))