Five months isn’t that long ago and now a HC for the Phantom Blot series is announced. Not the first time I’ve collected a series only to have the HC come out shortly after.
The last time I bought a comicbook was like over a year ago, because I... like... yeah, what Captain Hook did before he got eaten by the clockodile.
If Fantagraphics ever wants to market one of the Disney Masters series as a Christmas gift.... I just realized how many Christmas stories have come from Arild Midthun, Knut Nærum and/or Tormod Løkling. The Orphan's Christmas (Strathbungo), The Christmas Train, Christmas Creek, The Santa Cap Coup, Northern Blight, Spruce or Consequences, and the new one about Christmas in the Klondike. Plus Midthun wrote a couple of Christmas stories himself. A Midthun Disney Masters volume could be all Christmas stories!
While they fall outside of the Disney Masters territory, I’ve often thought that there might be a market for reprints of the various Disneyland Dell Giants (Uncle Scrooge Goes to Disneyland, Christmas in Disneyland, Disneyland Birthday Party, etc.). Disney park enthusiasts might like having a compilation of these comics.
If Fantagraphics ever wants to market one of the Disney Masters series as a Christmas gift.... I just realized how many Christmas stories have come from Arild Midthun, Knut Nærum and/or Tormod Løkling. The Orphan's Christmas (Strathbungo), The Christmas Train, Christmas Creek, The Santa Cap Coup, Northern Blight, Spruce or Consequences, and the new one about Christmas in the Klondike. Plus Midthun wrote a couple of Christmas stories himself. A Midthun Disney Masters volume could be all Christmas stories!
Yeah, they do a new 32-page issue of Christmas comics every year for the Norwegian market, as part of the long-standing "julehefte" tradition in our country. I don't think all of them are as good, but the latest one set in the Klondike was great.
If Fantagraphics ever wants to market one of the Disney Masters series as a Christmas gift.... I just realized how many Christmas stories have come from Arild Midthun, Knut Nærum and/or Tormod Løkling. The Orphan's Christmas (Strathbungo), The Christmas Train, Christmas Creek, The Santa Cap Coup, Northern Blight, Spruce or Consequences, and the new one about Christmas in the Klondike. Plus Midthun wrote a couple of Christmas stories himself. A Midthun Disney Masters volume could be all Christmas stories!
Yeah, they do a new 32-page issue of Christmas comics every year for the Norwegian market, as part of the long-standing "julehefte" tradition in our country. I don't think all of them are as good, but the latest one set in the Klondike was great.
Ah, that explains the abundance of Christmas stories from the trio! Christmas Train is quite good, too, and I noted elsewhere here that Northern Blight is distinguished by having a named female Woodchuck as a character. A volume with Orphan's Christmas, Christmas Train and the new Klondike story could easily be marketed for Christmas giving, even if the other stories were not Yule-centric. Clues of the Klondike, Robbery on Rosebud Road....
Yeah, they do a new 32-page issue of Christmas comics every year for the Norwegian market, as part of the long-standing "julehefte" tradition in our country. I don't think all of them are as good, but the latest one set in the Klondike was great.
Ah, that explains the abundance of Christmas stories from the trio! Christmas Train is quite good, too, and I noted elsewhere here that Northern Blight is distinguished by having a named female Woodchuck as a character. A volume with Orphan's Christmas, Christmas Train and the new Klondike story could easily be marketed for Christmas giving, even if the other stories were not Yule-centric. Clues of the Klondike, Robbery on Rosebud Road....
I think you'd like the 2017 issue, a collection of stories where they focused on making Daisy a more active and independent character, with a regular job as a journalist. I believe Daisy as a journalist has turned up in some stories in the weekly too after the 2017 julehefte.
Ah, that explains the abundance of Christmas stories from the trio! Christmas Train is quite good, too, and I noted elsewhere here that Northern Blight is distinguished by having a named female Woodchuck as a character. A volume with Orphan's Christmas, Christmas Train and the new Klondike story could easily be marketed for Christmas giving, even if the other stories were not Yule-centric. Clues of the Klondike, Robbery on Rosebud Road....
I think you'd like the 2017 issue, a collection of stories where they focused on making Daisy a more active and independent character, with a regular job as a journalist. I believe Daisy as a journalist has turned up in some stories in the weekly too after the 2017 julehefte.
OK, now we're off-topic, but I don't where else to say this! I looked this up, and was interested to see that the first story from this issue was printed in Germany's Anthologie-Reihe #4 Daisy Duck: Entenhausens First Lady. AND I see that that Daisy book also includes Daringly Different and Himalayan Hideout, two choices of which I heartily approve! Maybe someday the Gavegrøss story will be printed in some form I can find to buy/read. It's good to find out about it, anyway!
I think you'd like the 2017 issue, a collection of stories where they focused on making Daisy a more active and independent character, with a regular job as a journalist. I believe Daisy as a journalist has turned up in some stories in the weekly too after the 2017 julehefte.
OK, now we're off-topic, but I don't where else to say this! I looked this up, and was interested to see that the first story from this issue was printed in Germany's Anthologie-Reihe #4 Daisy Duck: Entenhausens First Lady. AND I see that that Daisy book also includes Daringly Different and Himalayan Hideout, two choices of which I heartily approve! Maybe someday the Gavegrøss story will be printed in some form I can find to buy/read. It's good to find out about it, anyway!
I've got that! (And did the inducksing...) Those five anthologies were a really good program, far beyond what Egmont used to pump out in their hardcover books. The editors (mainly Fabian Gross and Jano Rohleder) really put some thoughts into the compilation. Obviously, representing five "most important" Disney characters needed one female star, and from what I read, gathering some stories that didn't show Daisy as a complete stereotype was a bit of a challenge for the editors, but I think they more or less managed to fulfil that goal (as your comment also indicates). Sadly, it's still not the most interesting of the five books... simply because too little has been done with Daisy, if you don't only want to print newer stuff.
OK, now we're off-topic, but I don't where else to say this! I looked this up, and was interested to see that the first story from this issue was printed in Germany's Anthologie-Reihe #4 Daisy Duck: Entenhausens First Lady. AND I see that that Daisy book also includes Daringly Different and Himalayan Hideout, two choices of which I heartily approve! Maybe someday the Gavegrøss story will be printed in some form I can find to buy/read. It's good to find out about it, anyway!
I've got that! (And did the inducksing...) Those five anthologies were a really good program, far beyond what Egmont used to pump out in their hardcover books. The editors (mainly Fabian Gross and Jano Rohleder) really put some thoughts into the compilation. Obviously, representing five "most important" Disney characters needed one female star, and from what I read, gathering some stories that didn't show Daisy as a complete stereotype was a bit of a challenge for the editors, but I think they more or less managed to fulfil that goal (as your comment also indicates). Sadly, it's still not the most interesting of the five books... simply because too little has been done with Daisy, if you don't only want to print newer stuff.
Not surprised they had difficulty finding stories where the humor wasn't based on feminine stereotypes! I'm glad to hear they worked to that end. Yes, I do think they made some fine choices. Too bad they had to include so many parody stories (where the characters are playing other roles)...presumably also because the stories set in regular Duckburg where Daisy gets to shine are few and far between. I would have included a couple more Brazilian stories--they have the story of Donald and Daisy's marriage, which is not my favorite, though I do appreciate the use of Notre Duck! I would vote for A Páscoa É Nossa and one of the "New Daisy" series of the 1980's, preferably one that deals with more fantasy-based situations, like the one where Daisy encounters mermaids...the ones that deal with realistic situations are too dated (a woman can be a forest ranger! a woman can learn martial arts!). Other than that, yeah, the best ones I know of besides the ones they used are all quite recent, like Andreas Pihl's A Heart-Sized Ruby. (Here's a random mystery! That's the title of the story on the Inducks page, but if I put "heart-sized ruby" into the Inducks search I get "no story found," while if I put "heart-shaped ruby" into the Inducks search box I am brought to this story page!) And you can't put A Heart-Sized Ruby in the same book as Himalayan Hideout, because Daisy uses her camera's flash to disable the villain in both stories. :-)
But wresting this thread back on-topic...I would love to see the Gavegrøss story in a Disney Masters: Midthun volume.
checking Fantagraphics website... it seems to have been a shuffle among the titles release dates. Vol. 14 with Hubbard and Kinney is now listed for mid september Vol. 14 - Follow the fearless leader , vol. 12 with Cavazzano has been postponed to October 20 Vol. 12 - The forgetfull hero and the Murry volume, vol. 13 of the series has the new date of November 3 Vol. 13 - The sunken city . Amazon US states the same new dates except for Follow the fearless leader which they have listed for Septemer 22. Should we assume this is happening due to the civil unrest in US at the moment? I read somewhere that just the C ovid did not affect FB release schedule.
We probably shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that “civic unrest” is causing delays. My guess? COVID cases are not getting any fewer, especially not in the US, and it is probably causing shipping or printing delays with overseas printers.
I am buying the box sets when they get published, and I was just looking at the upcoming volumes. I was SO happy to notice the upcoming Fethry book by Al Hubbard and Dick Kinney. I'm HUGE fan of those stories, they are totally crazy but on the right amount. The humor is as subtle it needs to be, running jokes are everywhere, they are some of the most underrated stories out there. However, many jokes weren't transferred correctly in my language, and I guess this would be the case with many other countries as well. I was searching for those stories in English, but without an official US release, it wasn't easy. But this will change in a few months.
I never thought I'd see a good quality book just with these kind of stories, this is the stuff of dreams for me. I guess those stories are not for everyone, but as far as I'm concerned, I am extremely happy. I'm pretty confident it will be on the original 4-rows page format, right? I wouldn't expect anything less from this great series.