You know, I thought about this... most of Lo$ is made up of stories that can stand on their own. But not chapter 11. Rosa crams a lot of time into that one, basically two main plots and then quickly referencing LOTS of events.
I can understand why he did that but the pacing is a bit off to me.
Has anybody ever tried to flesh out some of those one/two panel sequences out into real stories that could stand well on their own, á la the additional chapters?
You mean any actual Disney writers, or us fans? I don't think the former much care about Rosa's Life of Scrooge.
Some of them definitely do: Tormod Løkling, Knut Nærum and Arild Midthun based a whole Christmas story about Scrooge on what happened between two panels in one of Rosa's Life and Times chapters.
You mean any actual Disney writers, or us fans? I don't think the former much care about Rosa's Life of Scrooge.
Some of them definitely do: Tormod Løkling, Knut Nærum and Arild Midthun based a whole Christmas story about Scrooge on what happened between two panels in one of Rosa's Life and Times chapters.
Some of them definitely do: Tormod Løkling, Knut Nærum and Arild Midthun based a whole Christmas story about Scrooge on what happened between two panels in one of Rosa's Life and Times chapters.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Oct 4, 2020 19:46:39 GMT
Isn't weird that Egmont publishes some Norwegian stories only in Norway? Correct me if I am wrong, but typically most of Egmont stories appear more or less at the same time everywhere the publisher has the Disney license. Is there a particular reason? Maybe the Norwegians users know?
Isn't weird that Egmont publishes some Norwegian stories only in Norway? Correct me if I am wrong, but typically most of Egmont stories appear more or less at the same time everywhere the publisher has the Disney license. Is there a particular reason? Maybe the Norwegians users know?
Arild Midthun and his two Norwegian writer partners create Christmas stories specifically for a yearly Norwegian Christmas publication (Donald julealbum). They started in 2010 if I remember correctly and haven't missed a year since then. So the stories usually get published in Norway first, then the folowing year they get printed in other European publications.
Yep. The Christmas annual - or "julehefte" - tradition for comics is huge here in Norway.
Does this comics tradition apply also to other comics series, or is it just a Donald Duck thing? I don't know anything about Norwegian comics. Except that this year I finally read some Jason, an author that I have always snubbed in the past. He is now one of my favourite active cartoonists.
Yep. The Christmas annual - or "julehefte" - tradition for comics is huge here in Norway.
Does this comics tradition apply also to other comics series, or is it just a Donald Duck thing? I don't know anything about Norwegian comics. Except that this year I finally read some Jason, an author that I have always snubbed in the past. He is now one of my favourite active cartoonists.
Oh, it's HUGE. It started way back in 1911 with The Katzenjammer Kids (in Norwegian, 'Knoll og Tott'), which is still to this day one of the best-selling julehefte titles, year after year. (It's currently printing classic Knerr Sunday pages from the 40s.) The julehefte publications are mainly newspaper comic strips - classics like Bringing Up Father and Blondie, modern Norwegian hits like Pondus and Lunch, older Norwegian comics like Nr. 91 Stomperud - but Disney titles have also been a big part of the julehefte market for many decades now.
The main publisher of julehefte comics is Egmont, which has also been publishing Disney comics in general in Scandinavia since 1948. Here's an advert showing most if not all of the Christmas annuals they released in 2018 (a few are literary, but the vast majority contain comics):
Wow! That is a huge selection, especially considering there are only 5 million people living in Norway.
I agree. The julehefte publications have always been one of the strongest traditions on the Norwegian comics market. In fact, for a few years now, Egmont has been releasing new Asterix albums under the 'julehefte' system in order to get better distribution in bookshops, and it has greatly increased sales.
And there are also a few julehefte publications from other companies, like Bladkompaniet, which publishes the alternative (!) version of The Katzenjammer Kids - 'The Captain and the Kids' - under the title "Kapteinens jul" (The Captain's Christmas):