WDCS 739: credit where it's due

[Ramapith]

This week's Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #739 has translator Thad Komorowski's name on the cover—but not inside. What the...?!

It's our typo, folks. Thad actually translated/Americanized (Gil Turner-ized?) "Pigphobia," the great Dick Matena Big Bad Wolf story in the back of the book. He went uncredited, thanks to a blooper that I was part responsible for; and as a fellow Wolf fan of long standing, I'd like to make sure he gets his due.

My team will fix this goof for the TPB—if nobody huffs and puffs and blows my apartment down first.





(For some of Thad's non-Disney handiwork, look here. Hmm, nice font choice...)

[The KKM]

Glad to know.

[hex]

Is "Pigphobia" re-inked by Jippes for this print?

[squeakyboots]

As least his name made it to the cover.

[hex]

Jul 18, 2017 22:16:16 GMT squeakyboots said:

As least his name made it to the cover.

He also did work on "Assaulting Battery" a 1-pager in WDCS #739. (but Corteggiani and Schröder didn't get any cover credits)

[Ramapith]

Jul 18, 2017 21:40:15 GMT hex said:

Is "Pigphobia" re-inked by Jippes for this print?

No—I was simply told by Dutch editor Thom Roep, years ago, that Jippes had done some rough layout work on this and other early Matena Wolf stories, so that's why his credit is there.

The art as published is Matena's original final art, remastered directly from 1970s Dutch printing films.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Jul 18, 2017 18:46:58 GMT Ramapith said:

This week's Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #739 has translator Thad Komorowski's name on the cover—but not inside. What the...?!

It's our typo, folks. Thad actually translated/Americanized (Gil Turner-ized?) "Pigphobia," the great Dick Matena Big Bad Wolf story in the back of the book. He went uncredited, thanks to a blooper that I was part responsible for; and as a fellow Wolf fan of long standing, I'd like to make sure he gets his due.

My team will fix this goof for the TPB—if nobody huffs and puffs and blows my apartment down first.

Say, I suddenly noticed this red font in the lower right panel. How long have Disney comics been doing that? I've never seen such a thing in French or Italian prints, and I don't believe pre-IDW comics did it, either, though I might be wrong on that. Info?