I am curious though if Don is on board with adding this spin off story.
If I remember right...
Don doesn't really like the fact that people are making these kind of stories, though he acknowledges that it's obviously fully within their rights to do so. The team contacted Don to get his okay before producing the story, got said okay from him, and only later learned that this was a "yes, go ahead, of course you can make this story, I don't own these characters" and not a "yes, go ahead, I really appreciate the fact that you're making this story". They wouldn't have made it had they known how Don actually felt.
Next Mickey is indeed a Scarpa (not going to confirm title or stories until Disney has finished greenlighting). We started the Zenobia cycle in our previous Scarpa book (DM #17). No plans for Codino yet, but could happen sometime...
However it is great to see The sword of ice saga get a hardcover treatment in english but I do wonder how they will fit and split the story since the all four parts adds up to a little over 300 pages (103+81+57+66=307) and the new Disney Masters volume only is listed to contain 184 pages. Perhaps the first 103 pager + other De Vita stories in this volume and later another volume with the three latter (81+57+66=204 pages)?
However it is great to see The sword of ice saga get a hardcover treatment in english but I do wonder how they will fit and split the story since the all four parts adds up to a little over 300 pages (103+81+57+66=307) and the new Disney Masters volume only is listed to contain 184 pages. Perhaps the first 103 pager + other De Vita stories in this volume and later another volume with the three latter (81+57+66=204 pages)?
I heard about that; rather surprising. I wonder how Massimo De Vita feels about it.
By the way, if I recall correctly... wasn't De Vita fired from Topolino a few years back beause the editors felt that readers preferred younger artists (with the exception of Cavazzano)?
de Vita was not fired. He could have continued working for Topolino but he chose to quit work due to extensive censorship which concerned also one of his stories.
de Vita was not fired. He could have continued working for Topolino but he chose to quit work due to extensive censorship which concerned also one of his stories.
Ohhhh... really? So then, this happened around the time when Disney started tightening the reins for the international comics production?
I read through this thread to see a neat cut-through of the series so far and what the plan is to release from various artists. While I collected the Gottfredson and Rosa libraries (and Taliaferro ones from IDW) I didn't have an interest in this series at first. Living in the Nordics and in the digital age I don't exactly have a drought of the most famous classic stories, which seemed like what this series was going to do at first. Best-of stories from the best artists. My interests are more toward getting definite collections, preferably in chronological order with historical information about the artists and the stories. The Gottfredson and Rosa libraries are gold standards here, they are absolutely suberb. But I understand that the market is not large enough to do that for most artists.
Apparently some sub-series in Disney Masters are doing the chronological collecting. If I gathered the information correctly, they go like this: - Paul Murry ones collect the Mickey serials (and one book collected the Phantom Blot comic book), with about half of them to go now? - Al Hubbard ones collect the first Fethry stories in order (with four books planned to get them all) - Van Horn ones collect his whole output (in about 8-9 books?) - Jippes & Milton one collected their collaborations into one book
I'm actually surprised that Van Horn's output wasn't that large comparatively, since when I was a kid he seemed to have stories out much more frequently than e.g. Rosa.
Then there's the Italian volumes which, excluding the Ice Sword Saga, comprise completely of anthologies. Even though I personally have little interest in them since the stories are already familiar to me, I'm glad that these stories get nice hardcover printings. Especially Casty, who I think has the most consistently great stories out of all the featured artists. Here I know that all of them, Scarpa, De Vita, Carpi, Cavazzano and also Casty by now, have so large outputs that getting anywhere close to a definite collection of their stories is impossible in the English market. As far as I know, only Scarpa got a collection even in Italy and that one was 50 books long. And these artists have mostly a very varying quality in their stories so I don't think I would be interesting in buying these hypothetical behemoth collections even if they were made. Except Casty, that one would be a dream. Or if we are dreaming I'd gladly take a curated best-of series including the historically important stories in chronological order from any of the most productive artists.
So what I want to say here to the editors is that continue the great work you are doing, and I'm thinking of helping get the chronological collections to their destination by getting them now that I have a better idea of what the subseries are going for. And maybe get the Les Mis/War and Peace one too, that one looks sweet.
Yes, I understand that my reasoning means that I'd rather buy the current Paul Murry books than Scarpa ones but the world is funny like that.
We started the Zenobia cycle in our previous Scarpa book (DM #17).
Thank you for reminding me, I had completely spaced out on that. The direct follow-up to that may just be my favourite MM comic ever. Buyers of the next issue will be in for a treat, I guess