The crowdfund thing couldn't actually specify that he would use the money to do fan translations. Disney would smoke his WAK faster than you could spell "M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E" I would be willing to put down the price of an IDW disney comic (3.99) for a Geo translation. We'd just hafta be sneakey about it.
I think the rules still mention "no swearing", but regardless, in forums where the option for a word filter is there, I find it better to apply it- this way anyone can happily write about any WAKing WAKty WAK thing they want, but the tone doesn't jar with the fact we're discussing WAKing children's comic books
A british Uncle Scrooge, I see them very rarely on ebay!
If you plan on getting this one, note that the "gold token" is cut out. It's supposed to look like this:
They could be cut out, collected and sent to the publiser to get stuff.
There are several other British made covers featuring Uncle Scrooge [list according to inducks], and there's a few with a Uncle Scrooge logo on the cover in the World Distributors series (but they are just reprints of American Dell comics). But the one you linked to migh actually be the only one with both British made cover art and the Uncle Scrooge logo.
Btw, maybe we should have an ebay listing page? Just an idea!
Maybe for extraordinary stuff, but there are tons of Dinsey comics being listed on eBay all the time - so what one person is looking for might not be of much interest to others.
If you can find it, it's totally worth picking up Jumbo Book #2 ("Thrills and Spills"), which contains this Goofy/Tarzan story. It's real vintage, height-of-powers Scarpa, and it's unlikely to ever appear in the US because of the truly regrettable depiction of indigenous people (which, however, is unlikely to be prevalent enough to ruin the story for you).
Hello my good sir, would you by any chance have access to the quoted names of Goofy's cousin and uncle from this very Goofy/Pippotarzan story, in the first moments of the story during the family album moment? I would expect cousin Geefy and uncle Guffy, like brother Pappo was translated Gaffy (only in some languages it's a cousin too)... Working back on a very huge Goofy family tree and the beautiful UK publications are seriously lacking from the web both for download and purchase... I might have a few other stories to check on later, scans would be amazing too but it's essentially a quest for these names.
Best regards to everyone here! Glad to be a member ^^ Gilles Maurice
If you can find it, it's totally worth picking up Jumbo Book #2 ("Thrills and Spills"), which contains this Goofy/Tarzan story. It's real vintage, height-of-powers Scarpa, and it's unlikely to ever appear in the US because of the truly regrettable depiction of indigenous people (which, however, is unlikely to be prevalent enough to ruin the story for you).
Hello my good sir, would you by any chance have access to the quoted names of Goofy's cousin and uncle from this very Goofy/Pippotarzan story, in the first moments of the story during the family album moment? I would expect cousin Geefy and uncle Guffy, like brother Pappo was translated Gaffy (only in some languages it's a cousin too)... Working back on a very huge Goofy family tree and the beautiful UK publications are seriously lacking from the web both for download and purchase... I might have a few other stories to check on later, scans would be amazing too but it's essentially a quest for these names.
Best regards to everyone here! Glad to be a member ^^ Gilles Maurice
Well there you are! Haven't heard from you in a while. I'm honored to have you with us, oh boy!
(You may recall that I sent you a large email in French a while ago, including a scan to a Goofy family tree in a story which you answered to by sending me a draft of your in-progress tree. — Sorry to be speaking so obliquely but the email was under my real name, which I don't want to make public on the Net.)
It is pretty mysterious to me too. There was once some good original British material in the thirties (including the infamous "Ten Little Mickeys", and a number of strips)… But there were still some comics, just not DUCK comics, later, published in "Mickey Mouse Weekly" I'm thinking notably of the wonderful, wonderful work of Ronald Neilson on "Alice through the Looking-Glass", which you can get scans of on the Disney Wiki (check the picture gallery of Alice). It has painted backgrounds with the characters painted on cells, to look like real animation stills, and it uses number of concept-arts from the first movie.
There was a Ronald Neilson story which we got in Germany in a pretty awful "traced" Italian version, called "The Reluctant Pirate". I've looked at the Inducks scans of the original painted panels and they look absolutely stunning!
The only comparable thing I know is Chierchini's experiments with painted panels, many years later.
Ramapith Being the researcher / archival editor you are, would you know how to get a hold of such material? Or will it be impossible to ever reprint such works in a proper format? I'd buy that in a heartbeat!
Also, what you said about the dissolution of Disney comics in the UK is very saddening