It's great to see that even though 81 and retired, William Van Horn still writes and draws a new Duck comic occasionally. His latest, the 6-pager "Ten-Cent Panic" was released in Scandinavia exactly a month ago. inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2017-030
It's great to see that even though 81 and retired, William Van Horn still writes and draws a new Duck comic occasionally. His latest, the 6-pager "Ten-Cent Panic" was released in Scandinavia exactly a month ago. inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2017-030
It's great to see that even though 81 and retired, William Van Horn still writes and draws a new Duck comic occasionally. His latest, the 6-pager "Ten-Cent Panic" was released in Scandinavia exactly a month ago. inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2017-030
Retired? Has Van Horn announced that he's retired?
He creates fewer than 5 pages of comics per year nowadays. If that isn't retirement, I don't know what is. As for an announcement, it's safe to say that he will never announce his retirement, considering that ... you know... he has never announced anything since the Big Bang.
The story code is 2017-30, that means Van Horn hasn’t written any stories since early 2017. So he must have been retired for several years now.
Not necessarily. For example his story with the code D 2016-310 wasn't released until 2018. So it's not impossible that he is working on a story right now that has a story code starting with "D 2020-" but won't be published until 2022/2023.
(Btw, I am assuming by "retiring" you mean "has completely stopped creating new comics", while when I used "retired" earlier I meant "has significantly slowed down when it comes to creating comics".)
The story code is 2017-30, that means Van Horn hasn’t written any stories since early 2017. So he must have been retired for several years now.
Not necessarily. For example his story with the code D 2016-310 wasn't released until 2018. So it's not impossible that he is working on a story right now that has a story code starting with "D 2020-" but won't be published until 2022/2023.
(Btw, I am assuming by "retiring" you mean "has completely stopped creating new comics", while when I used "retired" earlier I meant "has significantly slowed down when it comes to creating comics".)
I think that's how most people use the word "retired", though. If he's still doing Disney comics, I'd say he's not retired, even though his production has undoubtedly slowed down.
But considering that Egmont can keep some comics in their archives for years before publishing them, it's hard to tell how active he's been for the past few years.
I spent a bit of time with William Van Horn at a convention once, in the late 1980s, and was surprised he was aware of and interested in the '40s Fran Hopper comics I was collecting at the time. I had one his own Nervous Rex dinosaur character comics but didn't think of getting an autograph on it, oh well. I was working on a comic book myself that was behind schedule and was working on pages right there, which he thought was somehow a difficult thing to attempt.
I wondered then if he had any connection to a William Van Horn who was a famous personage in Canadian history for completing our trans-continental railway line. I feel bad as I still don't think I've read a Van Horn Disney comic... can anyone recommend a particularly good example late '80s/early '90s issue in English to look for? Thanks if you can! I still have many of the first Gladstone comics and digests, and even a few Whitmans, so I learned to enjoy the Daan Jippes style a lot!
I feel bad as I still don't think I've read a Van Horn Disney comic... can anyone recommend a particularly good example late '80s/early '90s issue in English to look for? Thanks if you can! I still have many of the first Gladstone comics and digests, and even a few Whitmans, so I learned to enjoy the Daan Jippes style a lot!
Is 1993 early enough? If so, then I recommend The Black Moon from Donald Duck Adventures 24. Btw, in my opinion (which I think most Van Horn fans share), his peak started in the second half of the 90s. My highest rated William Van Horn Disney comics with their storycodes and inducks links (14 favourites out of the approximately 180 WvH Disney comics):
Conversely, I much prefer Van Horn's early work. It's very animated and mercurial, whereas his later stint with Egmont is more conventional and trying to follow the Egmont standards. If you have a lot of Gladstone material around, you're bound to have read him. Some of my favorites include:
*Van Horn didn't write this one, Michael T. Gilbert did. Gilbert is usually one of my least favorite writers, but this makes me think part of that may be due to his scripts getting the wrong artists. Van Horn really makes it his own.
Thanks for all this info! I took a look through and see I do have a couple of Gladstone DD's with 1 page by Van Horn in two of them, but I'll be interested in checking out some of the early Adventures issues with longer stories. The reason for the late '80s-early '90s timeframe for me is to see what he was doing around when I met him.