Changes like this come from Disney itself. In more recent collector's editions, they have been making fewer changes, even if they need to change things for the monthly publications. Parent's groups in the US get picky about guns and smoking in kid's comics, which is why these changes get made. While it may not be ideal, it's better than having nothing but extremely dull "safe" kiddie stories that rarely go over 12 pages like the old Whitman material.
yeah, americans are much more sensitive about this, yet I grew up in a war zone and we dont ban or edit tom&jerry shorts with bombs and such stuff. Its mostly due to moms, guys dont care much, we all grew up with absurdly violent cartoons from the golden age of hollywood yet most of us are NOT serial killers and maniacs
What it is is that we live in a different time than the 40s or 50s and what may have been acceptable back then is not really the case today. What needs to be considered is that Mickey and Donald have been global icons since their creation and Disney wants to ensure that they will always appeal to an all ages audience. Scrooge smoking is a no no. Donald's cousin using a gun is a no no.
Older Tom and Jerry cartoons get away with that because they were actually made for adults, not for kids. That series wasn't really regarded as something made for kids until they started airing on television. Newer cartoons made since then don't feature any gun play or smoking like the originals did.
One other thing I will say is that the edit with the coffee pot would be a clever workaround if the pot didn't change between panels.
Something I found interesting is the change to small details. Maybe the rules changed over the years..
I compare comics from the 90s in Greece to the recent ones from IDW:
I don't understand what noticeable differences there are here (apart from the coloring). What has been censored in the new version? Something in the dialogue?
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I think it's from the same page with the panels of Fethry holding up a gun. It looks like IDW swapped the order of the panels to extend the coffee pot gag as their means of censoring the gun.
I think it's from the same page with the panels of Fethry holding up a gun. It looks like IDW swapped the order of the panels to extend the coffee pot gag as their means of censoring the gun.
The order of the panels didn't change. Demiscy just posted the greek panels in the wrong order.
The above that Orora quoted it is indeed in the dialogue - leading up to the next panel with the gun. They talked about guns and in the IDW they talked about coffee
I think this type of censorship has been present in English Disney comics for a while now. I recall a scene in "Mickey Mouse in the Delta Dimension" where Mickey pulls a gun on Atomo, but the dialogue, and re-colouring of the gun, implies that it's a water-gun (even though it clearly isn't). I personally find it fascinating to distinguish what is acceptable in an all-ages Disney comic from different parts of the world.
One of the funniest cases of censorship I can remember concerns the Gladstone reprint of "Donald in Mathmagic Land", where in one panel a beauty queen was changed into a giant ice cream soda!
Last Edit: Feb 14, 2017 19:41:15 GMT by sirredknee
This topic is about changes in comics published by IDW, but perhaps I dare post here about a change I noticed in Fantagraphics' Don Rosa Library Vol. 6. In The Treasury of Croesus, the pictograph mural of Croesus being chased by Circe differs from the European (or at least Finnish) version.
European (Finnish)
American
A small but to me quite baffling change. Is the gesture made by Croesus really considered that offensive in the States? Has it been changed in all American publications or only the Fantagraphics one?
I checked; it's changed in all american versions. I'm a bit confused, because I thaught that Fantagraphics would print the stories in the original form.
I checked; it's changed in all american versions. I'm a bit confused, because I thaught that Fantagraphics would print the stories in the original form.
Maybe it's such a major change that Rosa forgot about it?
One of the funniest cases of censorship I can remember concerns the Gladstone reprint of "Donald in Mathmagic Land", where in one panel a beauty queen was changed into a giant ice cream soda!