The new "Anders And & Co. - 60 år med danske serieskabere" aslo has articles with information about Egmont production, but I haven't had the time to read it yet and can't give any opinions on it.
Two books that I have on my want/to get list:
"La Grande Histoire du Journal de Mickey", that I think has a lot of interesting information about French comics. And "I Disney Italiani", with a history of Italian comics. But I haven't read any of the two (if anyone has, please say a few words about them!)
Another recommendation is "Disney-sarjakuvien historia 1930-2020", but that book is not just about European comics. I have partly read it, but it's a pain as I don't understand much Finnish and need to use translator apps/programs.
As for Disney comics in Afrikaans, Inducks mentions a few pages occurring in Afrikaans-language newspapers/magazines, and a few translations of Dell One Shots during the fifties: inducks.org/language.php?c=af&mode=1 . So they'll probably be hard to find, but still, they do exist.
According to this blog post and also listed in GCD, at least one more Disney comic in Afrikaans from Sebra Uitgawe/Zebra Publications exist. Looks like a reprint of WDC #113 and would probably be more fun to have in a collection than the two listed in the inducks database.
I used to collect Disney comics from different countries (guess I still am, but not actively), and have comics from somewhere between 40 and 50 different ones. But a fun sub-collection is to get different languages or scripts within those counties too.
Some of the rare ones I got include Nynorsk (New Norwegian), Lule Sami, Northern Sami and Southern Sami, all published in Norway - and comics in Faroese from Faroe Islands.
On my long list of Disney comics to get are:
The German "Disney Mundart" series (in different dialects)
New by Fantagraphics coming in April 2023: Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck
The (pre-release) cover art is now listed on Amazon:
I don't spot any volume numbering on the cover or spine, so it looks like a standalone book.
It will be 7 years between this one and the Library of American Comics (IDW) edition, and it sound like they have the same content. A bit too soon I think, it's not like Disney Princess comics where you get a completely new reader base after a few years. I guess most pepole interested in this book already have the IDW one (?)
And if they could make a new series with game adaptations, I'd be willing to pay $20+ for a print of Epic Mickey and Epic Mickey 2 (been wanting an English printed edition of those for a long time!)
[...] but I havent seen any comic adaptation of Soul or Luca. Anyone seen those published anywere in the world?
Just an update if anyone else is collecting movie adaptations:
Both Soul and Luca actaully do have a comic adaptation. Soul is available in English as an (expensive) "reinforced library bound hardcover" from ABDO. Luca I haven't seen anywhere in English yet, but it's published in Chinese at least.
They are continuing doing the volumes chronologically in the boxes, and with the same layout as before.
I wonder how these will sell after the break in doing box sets. I used to buy the boxes, but when they stopped I got volume 13-18 as single books. And now I'm not sure what to do.. and I'm probably not the only one. Getting double copies will be very expensive and I won't be able to sell the books I got for the same price I paid. But it's going to annoy me every time I look at the book shelf. Also I've stopped buying other books that potentionally could get a box in the future, like the first Disney Afternoon book. But I hope not many do like me, becasue then the first batch of single volumes won't sell and the series will be cancelled. I really think the box sets should have been sold close to the release date of the single volumes.
Counted in number of pages and not in physical size, the lagest Disney comics (according to inducks) is a series of 3 Italian books collecting two volumes of "Disney BIG" each. All with 1028 pages.
Personally I don't count "Die grosse Welt von Entenhausen" as a comic book. It's just a bunch of illustrations even if it's drawn by a comic artist.
The largest I've seen to date is The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Artist's Edition, and the smallest the Norwegian "Tommeliten McDuck" (I was at the release party for that one)
Here's a pic of some other large and small comics, with a regular size WDC&S for comparison:
Does anyone know if Barks completely finished the lost Golden Apples story before it was lost? Or did he just pencil it? Or maybe just write the plot?
Also, are there other lost completely inked (or just penciled) Barks comic pages?
According to Blum's text in the European Barks collection, yes it was fully finished and inteded to be printed in WDC 144 – but was replaced by the editors with another 10-pager originally intended for the next issue.
Another completed but never published (and lost) story is "Bobsled Race" created for WDC 196.
Scrooge is in a couple of other episodes too (with two different voice actors), and HDL is in the Halloween special.
I wrote a little blog post about this episode back in 2016 with some trivia. One interesting thing is that we get a rare appearance of Mickey's parents (but only as silhouettes).
Taschen would be perfect for doing the Carl Barks Artist's Editon that never got released by IDW – with reproduction of original artwork. But I don't think I want any oversized best-of book with comics presented the "regular" way. I just got The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition, and while it is a really nice book, the next time I want to read the entire thing again it won't be from that book! It's just too large and bulky to do a reading session from without a large book stand.