Disney Masters 14 - Dick Kinney/Al Hubbard

[corrado]

I want to thank David Gerstein for the volume Disney Masters 14. I think it is really a Milestone in Disney Comic History and one of the best Comic books ever published (definitely one of the best Disney Comic books). I knew nearly all the comics before which were translated into Italian, French, German... But the stories get another dimension in their original language. The dialogues are extremely witty, intelligent, ironic and funny, Donald´s cat Tabby is a marvellous character worth getting famous in all over the (Disney-)world. I don´t hesitate to put the Donald-Fethry-(Tabby) Comics of Kinney/Hubbard on the same level of Bark´s 10pagers. Also wonderful is the manner of how these comics are published in the present volume: in chronological order, with beautiful handlettering, the addition of other characters created by Kinney, and a very interesting afterword by Becattini and Gerstein. I hope we will get further stuff of Kinney/Hubbard (this duo has written about 50 stories with Donald and Fethry; Dick Kinney has later on written (presumably) more than 200 further Donald-Fethry-stories which were drawn by other artists like Tony Strobl and Phil de Lara. Many of these stories take place in the "Chronicle", the journal of Duckburgh owned by Scrooge, nearly none of these stories are published in English.

[sim]

Jan 7, 2021 11:26:21 GMT corrado said:

I want to thank David Gerstein for the volume Disney Masters 14. I think it is really a Milestone in Disney Comic History and one of the best Comic books ever published (definitely one of the best Disney Comic books). I knew nearly all the comics before which were translated into Italian, French, German... But the stories get another dimension in their original language. The dialogues are extremely witty, intelligent, ironic and funny, Donald´s cat Tabby is a marvellous character worth getting famous in all over the (Disney-)world. I don´t hesitate to put the Donald-Fethry-(Tabby) Comics of Kinney/Hubbard on the same level of Bark´s 10pagers. Also wonderful is the manner of how these comics are published in the present volume: in chronological order, with beautiful handlettering, the addition of other characters created by Kinney, and a very interesting afterword by Becattini and Gerstein. I hope we will get further stuff of Kinney/Hubbard (this duo has written about 50 stories with Donald and Fethry; Dick Kinney has later on written (presumably) more than 200 further Donald-Fethry-stories which were drawn by other artists like Tony Strobl and Phil de Lara. Many of these stories take place in the "Chronicle", the journal of Duckburgh owned by Scrooge, nearly none of these stories are published in English.

Must get a copy of this issue!

[bats]

They're great fun. The Kinney/Hubbard team are the only American Duck creators from this period to have a real following, and it's easy to see why - VERY unique and memorable stories combined with instantly recognizable art made them really stand out from the crowd even if you had no idea who were producing your Disney comics.

[Mesterius]

Jan 7, 2021 17:43:31 GMT bats said:

They're great fun. The Kinney/Hubbard team are the only American Duck creators from this period to have a real following, and it's easy to see why - VERY unique and memorable stories combined with instantly recognizable art made them really stand out from the crowd even if you had no idea who were producing your Disney comics.

Of course, these were not produced by Western Publishing, but by Disney's own Studio Program for overseas publishers. That's also a reason why they stand out from the standard American fare of the time.

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Jan 7, 2021 18:32:49 GMT Mesterius said:

Jan 7, 2021 17:43:31 GMT bats said:

They're great fun. The Kinney/Hubbard team are the only American Duck creators from this period to have a real following, and it's easy to see why - VERY unique and memorable stories combined with instantly recognizable art made them really stand out from the crowd even if you had no idea who were producing your Disney comics.

Of course, these were not produced by Western Publishing, but by Disney's own Studio Program for overseas publishers. That's also a reason why they stand out from the standard American fare of the time.

Yeah, but they really stand out among the other Studio stuff too.

[Mesterius]

Jan 7, 2021 22:37:19 GMT bats said:

Jan 7, 2021 18:32:49 GMT Mesterius said:

Of course, these were not produced by Western Publishing, but by Disney's own Studio Program for overseas publishers. That's also a reason why they stand out from the standard American fare of the time.

Yeah, but they really stand out among the other Studio stuff too.

Oh, I agree with that. Hubbard and Kinney's stories are unique.

Though, the Studio did some pretty wild, inventive stuff by other creators too, like the Goofy as a famous historic person albums. Many of those are hilarious.

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Jan 7, 2021 23:42:26 GMT Mesterius said:

Jan 7, 2021 22:37:19 GMT bats said:

Yeah, but they really stand out among the other Studio stuff too.

Oh, I agree with that. Hubbard and Kinney's stories are unique.

Though, the Studio did some pretty wild, inventive stuff by other creators too, like the Goofy as a famous historic person albums. Many of those are hilarious.

Absolutely, I was mostly talking about creative teams here. Hubbard and Kinney stand out as being American duck comic creators from this era that actually have a substantial fan following, to the point you can release books like these, market them as "Hubbard/Kinney" collections, and get people excited for them. Stuff like the Goofy albums have a following as a series.