This thread is about original Disney comic art. Post anything here that is about original Disney comic pages, covers, sketches or art created for fans (such as the ones you can commission from Don Rosa.) I'll start with three set of questions:
1. About old comic strips: - Does anyone know how much of Gottfredson's original art has survived? Especially the original art of his serialised stories? - If someone wanted to buy a specific Al Talieferro strip, how could that person find out if that specific stip has survived and who its owner is?
2. About modern Egmond comics: - Egmont has produced tens of thousands of Disney comic pages in the last several decades. What happened to most of those original pages? I can't imagine there being a huge market for Disney comics drawn by Joaquín Cañizares Sanchez for example.
3. About Barks original pages: - As far as I know, only a tiny percentage of Barks' original Disney comic pages have survived. What happened to the ones that haven't? Were they simply thrown out?
Speaking to #3 only, as an avid reader of other Dell books, I can confirm that, yes, Dell simply “threw away” most of their art after it was printed. They simply had no need to hold on to any of it.
- Egmont has produced tens of thousands of Disney comic pages in the last several decades. What happened to most of those original pages? I can't imagine there being a huge market for Disney comics drawn by Joaquín Cañizares Sanchez for example.
As far as I know, Egmont is not allowed to sell original artwork. They have both a physical and digital archive of original artwork, and the tendency is that once physical artwork is digitised and cleaned up, the pieces will not return back to the physical archive (since it is deemed to be not needed anymore).
As far as I know, Egmont is not allowed to sell original artwork. They have both a physical and digital archive of original artwork, and the tendency is that once physical artwork is digitised and cleaned up, the pieces will not return back to the physical archive (since it is deemed to be not needed anymore).
Both Don Rosa and William Van Horn have sold/are selling the original art of the comics they created for Egmont. My question is: what happens to the original art of the comics created by the other artists working for Egmont?
Speaking to #3 only, as an avid reader of other Dell books, I can confirm that, yes, Dell simply “threw away” most of their art after it was printed. They simply had no need to hold on to any of it.
According to Carl and other people who worked for Western Publishing, they burned a lot of it in periodic burning fests, when they needed more storage space. Dell was simply a distributor for Western.
When Western split from Dell, Dell continued to print and sell comic books without Western's lines, who were then packaged and distributed by Western's self-owned, Gold Key Comics. Dell was a major magazine, paperback book publisher/distributor, who was very big in pulp novel sales, colouring books, puzzle books, joke books, and lots of other paperback books. Comic books was just one of their lines. They'd have still done very well without them.