Anybody know what "Fantastic Futures: Classic Tales with a 22nd Century Twist" will contain?
This is a fun one with, I think, yet-to-be-published anywhere stories, all written by Francesco Artibani and drawn by various artists. They all use various classic Disney cartoons (Lonesome Ghosts, Boat Builders, Thru the Mirror to name a few) as springboards for futuristic fantasies. If you liked the other potpourri books Fanta has done of this nature, you'll like this.
I think the first story (Lonesome Ghosts) already got published in Topolino #3502
Also, a french book, but it is nice to see the Winnie the Pooh strips finally being republished anywhere, (and yeah I know about the recent Dark Horse book). Wonder if this one has the Sir Brian strips.
Thanks for posting. I’m excited for both of those, especially more early Barks. I’ve been wanting to read The Riddle of the Red Hat for some time now so that story being included makes me happy.
Happy to see the description of the Donald’s 90th anniversary book—particularly happy that it will include the Donald Hood story. One of the very few Scarpa stories I reread, and one of the very few literary parodies (well, in this case more of a folklore parody) I enjoy. Not generally a genre of Disney comics I care much for. But this one I do like a lot. It helps me to enjoy it that it’s told as a performance of the Ducks as we know them, rather than just presenting them already in character. Also, Daisy gets a very satisfyingly active role! I have the story in French, and I’ll be pleased to have it published in English. GeoX did a very nice job dialoguing it when he reviewed the story!
I also think it was a fine idea to include a Barks adventure and its Rosa sequel, to give newbies a taste of how Rosa honored and revisited the great Barks classics—so crucial a piece of the history of the Duck comics. And each of the square egg stories shows the creator at the very top of his form. I look forward to the essay before Rota’s story, explaining that it’s only one writer’s version of Donald’s life story! I love Rota’s art, and I’ve always been bemused by the fact that this origin story has no room for any sibling who could have been the parent of Huey, Dewey and Louie…. Plus I love the art and story of Van Horn’s Black Moon—even though, as GeoX pointed out, the Ducks are all doomed in the end! :-)
Matilda Yep, Black Moon is sooo good! I wish Van Horn had made more 20 to 30 page long adventure comics. The ones he did are really good and very different from the adventure comics by Barks and Rosa.
Ramapith Since a Ellsworth Sunday strip has been republished in the 100 Years book... Any hope for a best of Manuel Gonzales book? A collection of the the handful of Sunday continuities Gonzales drew plus all of his Ellsworth strips would be an amazing companion book to Gottfredson's library.
Also, a french book, but it is nice to see the Winnie the Pooh strips finally being republished anywhere, (and yeah I know about the recent Dark Horse book). Wonder if this one has the Sir Brian strips.
I checked the preview, and it seems to be a translation of the Dark Horse book -- so no Sir Brain, and the Treasure of Classic Tales strips are re-inked.
I wonder if Disney is allowed to use Sir Brain. AFAIK when they licensed the Pooh strips to Creator Syndacate, those with Sir Brain were not republished.
At Fantagraphics, I haven't yet investigated the status of the Pooh comic strips. But I've never heard of any formal ban on the knight character. The Dark Horse best-of book originated as an Italian Disney project, and I'm assuming that there—and at Creators' Syndicate—his omission simply reflected an editorial decision to restrict the chosen strips to the better-known Pooh cast as used in other media.
By the way, the knight is Sir Brian (or "Bad Sir Brian Botany," as per Milne's original), not Sir Brain. Narf!
Looks like we’ll be getting Donald and Mickey in Faust and Metropolis next year as well.
Fantastic! I’m digging these adaptations!
I’m not sure why the Carpi Les Miserables volume wasn’t included with the Disney Masters series, but it was phenomenal… the best non-Barks stuff I’ve read in a good while. I hope they keep publishing more Carpi, who’s fast becoming one of my favorite writer/artists.
A new 4-tier comic was published recently by Egmont, that is over 20 pages long and wasn't done by Midthun (a pretty rare event nowadays): inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2023-034
A new 4-tier comic was published recently by Egmont, that is over 20 pages long and wasn't done by Midthun (a pretty rare event nowadays): inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2023-034
Ooh, a long Astrup/Ferioli story! Cool! I'll have to see whether I can get it in a language I can read.