Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no Comics. Words. Experiences. Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:27:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gladstone Gander: “The lucky John Doe” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/15/gladstone-gander-the-lucky-john-doe/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/15/gladstone-gander-the-lucky-john-doe/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:14:58 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=870 Gladstone Gander, being the lucky bastard he is, never has to work and can rely on his luck bringing him everything he wants. Still, he has to wonder: Is he missing something? What would it be like to have a normal life with a regular job? He’s about to find out – when he suddenly gets amnesia and forgets everything about who he is!

First published: September 2011
Written: 2009
Length: 9 pages
Artist: Cèsar Ferioli Pelaez

(A link to INDUCKS will be added when the story is indexed there.)

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/15/gladstone-gander-the-lucky-john-doe/feed/ 0 Gründer http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/15/grunder/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/15/grunder/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:14:47 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=874 For the Norwegian Dagbladet’s comic contest of 2011, I developed an idea and wrote scripts for fifteen comic strips called Gründer – a comic about a guy who quits his job to start his own business. For those of you who followed my 100 ideas project, you’ll possibly remember this as Idea #87. So I’m using one of them! Yay!

Before I got started drawing the comic, I fortunately found a willing and interested artist who’s a thousand times as talented as I am. That artist was (is) Karina Junker Larsen. I really love her art, and it was a thrill working with her on these fifteen strips. I think the result turned out awesome, and any part of it that’s not awesome is because of me and not because of her.

The comic strip ended up making the Top 25 of the contest, which is pretty cool. I don’t know exactly which place we ended on as that’s secret information, but I know it was not in the Top 7. One strip was published in the paper edition of Dagbladet, and we have already been contacted by others interested in publishing some of these strips, so all in all that’s not bad. It’s not completely unrealistic that we’ll make more, either.

You can read all fifteen strips (Norwegian only, sorry!) at Dagbladet or at Nettserier.no.

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/15/grunder/feed/ 0 Donald Duck: “Octopus of Time” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/donald-duck-octopus-of-time/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/donald-duck-octopus-of-time/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:15:28 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=864 Donald stays up all night to play a videogame. When he groggily gets to work the next day, dreams mix with reality and turn the situations of his life into parts of the game.

First published: March 2011
Written: 2007
Length: 8 pages
Artist: José Maria Manrique
More information: INDUCKS

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/donald-duck-octopus-of-time/feed/ 0 The Junior Woodchucks: “Robbed by the guidebook” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/the-junior-woodchucks-robbed-by-the-guidebook/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/the-junior-woodchucks-robbed-by-the-guidebook/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:11:46 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=862 An unknown villain manages to steal several copies of the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook, and uses it to start a crime wave in Duckburg.

First published: February 2011
Written: 2008
Length: 12 pages
Artist: Vicar
More information: INDUCKS

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/the-junior-woodchucks-robbed-by-the-guidebook/feed/ 0 Uncle Scrooge: “Charity of a madman” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/uncle-scrooge-charity-of-a-madman/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/uncle-scrooge-charity-of-a-madman/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:59:08 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=860 Magica De Spell puts a spell on Scrooge which turns him into a spendthrift, and he immediately starts shopping like crazy and donating money to all of the wackiest charities in Duckburg. Magica had hoped this would make him give her the Number One Dime – and it would have, if he hadn’t given it away to somebody else before she got there! Can Scrooge and his family get the coin back before Magica finds it?

First published: May 2010
Written: 2007
Length: 12 pages
Artist: Cèsar Ferioli Pelaez
More information: INDUCKS

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/uncle-scrooge-charity-of-a-madman/feed/ 0 Huey, Dewey and Louie: “The importance of being Hewie” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/huey-dewey-and-louie-the-importance-of-being-hewie/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/huey-dewey-and-louie-the-importance-of-being-hewie/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:53:37 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=848 Huey, Dewey and Louie are discovered by a TV producer who wants to make them the next big child stars. Not because they’re great actors, but because they’re triplets and can put in thrice as many hours. But since viewers don’t like triplet stars, they have to pretend to be one person. Can they do that without having sibling rivalry destroy their career?

First published: April 2010
Written: 2007
Length: 9 pages
Artist: Daniel Pérez
More information: INDUCKS

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/huey-dewey-and-louie-the-importance-of-being-hewie/feed/ 0 Donald Duck: “The margarine hotline” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/donald-duck-the-margarine-hotline/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/donald-duck-the-margarine-hotline/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:48:20 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=857 Donald convinces the manager of the margarine factory he’s working at to start a margarine helpline and let Donald man it. Donald’s motivation for this is hoping to relax all day at work. Obviously, this must go wrong…

First published: February 2010
Written: 2006
Length: 8 pages
Artist: Arild Midthun
More information: INDUCKS

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/donald-duck-the-margarine-hotline/feed/ 0 Uncle Scrooge: “Mrs. Emily Typefast-McDuck” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/uncle-scrooge-mrs-emily-typefast-mcduck/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/uncle-scrooge-mrs-emily-typefast-mcduck/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:39:31 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=851 does have a secretary...]]> Scrooge tries to make a business deal with an old-fashioned businessman who insists that all of his business partners should be married. While Scrooge doesn’t have a wife, he does have a secretary…

First published: January 2010
Written: 2007
Length: 6 pages
Artist: Maria José Sanchéz Núñez
More information: INDUCKS

In case you were wondering – no, I didn’t get the name of Scrooge’s secretary wrong :-) While it is correct that her name in American publications is Miss Quackfaster, the name is Miss Typefast in Egmont scripts. It will of course be changed if the story is ever printed in English, but I have to use the name “Miss Typefast” in my scripts so that the artist will know which character I’m talking about.

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/04/uncle-scrooge-mrs-emily-typefast-mcduck/feed/ 0 Donald Duck: “A neighbor in need” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/03/donald-duck-a-neighbor-in-need/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/03/donald-duck-a-neighbor-in-need/#comments Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:16:41 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=845 secret...]]> Donald gets one of Jones’s letters and is shocked to discover that his neighbor is about to lose his house. Since Donald doesn’t want to risk getting an even worse neighbor, he wants to help Jones through these tough time. Only problem: Since Jones is Donald’s sworn enemy, Donald has to help him in secret…

First published: September 2009
Written: 2006
Length: 17 pages
Artist: José Ramón Bernado
More information: INDUCKS

It should be noted since I’m Norwegian and probably 102 % of everybody reading this will be Norwegian that at the moment (2011), this is the only one of my published Disney comics that hasn’t been published in Norway yet.

]]> http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/03/donald-duck-a-neighbor-in-need/feed/ 0 Uncle Scrooge: “Scrooge vs. Scrooge” http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/03/uncle-scrooge-scrooge-vs-scrooge/ http://www.olafsolstrand.no/2011/07/03/uncle-scrooge-scrooge-vs-scrooge/#comments Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:58:15 +0000 Olaf Moriarty Solstrand http://www.olafsolstrand.no/?p=843 The life and times of Scrooge McDuck is one of the most interesting stories ever told, and Scrooge knows that – so he decides to make a video game based on it. And Donald, Duckburg’s greatest gamer, loves it – so much he’s sure he can beat even Scrooge in it. Soon, the bet is on: Who can beat the other in a video game based on Scrooge’s life? the video game expert – or the person who lived it?

First published: September 2009
Written: 2006
Length: 17 pages
Artist: Arild Midthun
More information: INDUCKS

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