Also "The Disney Comics Story" written in five parts on icanbreakaway.blogspot.com is a must read! It covers just a few years of American Disney comics, but in details.
The best source for the history of Disney comics from Egmont is the book "Egmont & Co" (ISBN 978-8799345205) by Niels Houlberg Hansen. Unfortunately it's only available in Danish, and is sold out/out of print too I think. The book has tons of information not available anywhere else and really should get a translation some day!
I haven’t had the time to read all of "Disney Comics: The Whole Story" (ISBN 978-1683900177) by Alberto Becattini yet. But from what I’ve read so far I too can recommend that book for anyone interested in the history of Disney comics. Some parts of the book are great, but I have to add I was a bit disappointed about some parts too (ex. about British comics that I have a special interest in myself). I felt the text was mostly just a listing of the different publishers and titles, something you get more knowledge about browsing through the inducks database.
I know about Neils' book. He's a good friend of mine. It is a thorough source for the history of Egmont Comics and how they operated. I should read Alberto's book. As I know very little about Mondadori's operations and Disney Italia.
Post by Monkey_Feyerabend on Jun 22, 2017 19:39:46 GMT
For a panoramic view of the history of the Italian DC - focused on writers pre-2000 more than artists - one can have a look at this 20 pages article by Stajano:
But this made me realise that I'm not nearly as familiar with the history of Disney Comics in the States compared to Italy or Brazil, and I know basically nothing regarding the rest of Europe other than some very tiny tidbits like Fuchs' localisations or that a lot of the US talent went to Egmont (or Sanoma? What's the difference?) in the 90s.
As far as the States themselves go, this pdf was written almost fifteen years ago (about the time Gemstone was starting up) but is pretty comprehensive up to that point. Best of all, the guy who wrote it posts on this board (that being David "ramapith" Gerstein, of course): www.cartoonresearch.com/gerstein/Back-To-Long-Ago.pdf
The best source for the history of Disney comics from Egmont is the book "Egmont & Co" (ISBN 978-8799345205) by Niels Houlberg Hansen. Unfortunately it's only available in Danish, and is sold out/out of print too I think. The book has tons of information not available anywhere else and really should get a translation some day!
I haven’t had the time to read all of "Disney Comics: The Whole Story" (ISBN 978-1683900177) by Alberto Becattini yet. But from what I’ve read so far I too can recommend that book for anyone interested in the history of Disney comics. Some parts of the book are great, but I have to add I was a bit disappointed about some parts too (ex. about British comics that I have a special interest in myself). I felt the text was mostly just a listing of the different publishers and titles, something you get more knowledge about browsing through the inducks database.
The best source is Becattini´s history of Disney Comics: It´a a fantastic work and it will be the standard for many decades. Of course it´s always possible to add something but this work is great stuff and it is not true that you get more knowledge about browsing through the inducks database. I would also add that a lot of the Inducks information we are due to Becattini´s efforts.
Thanks for this clarification. I never realized that there was a Finnish Sanoma! I thought Egmont was the licensed publisher for Finland, too! But Kari Korhonen works for Egmont, doesn't he? so, is this Finnish Sanoma also producing stories or just publishing the comics journals?
I don't think that Finnish Sanoma has its own production, other than some magazine covers and advertising. I believe they get all their stories from Egmont and Dutch Sanoma. Kari Korhonan works mainly for Egmont, other than possibly a few special covers and perhaps special non-comics drawings made only for Finnish Sanoma. Perhaps one of our Finnish members can elaborate on that.
Finnish Sanoma is main owner of Dutch Sanoma Uitgaver. Sanoma bought Oberon's magazines some years ago.
And Finnish Sanoma has it's own production, somewhat.. Few special stories (D/SAN code) with stories written by renowed Finnish authors, many covers an things like that. Currently Finnish weekly is running "Suomi 100" one-pagers written by Aku Ankka editors and Kari Korhonen and drawn by Kari K. All episodes are dealing with some Finnish subject matter s, (Suomi 100 = Finland 100 years). Series so far: coa.inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Suomi+100