Absolutely there is, dozen people I was talking about are just folks from my tiny country. I m pretty sure it would sell a hundred copies in a heartbeat
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Feb 23, 2018 15:15:25 GMT
Is there any chance we'll ever see the seven years' worth of gag-a-day Gottfredson dailies that were published chronologically after the last Mickey strip printed in the Gottfredson Library? Why did FantaGraphics decide not to include them in the actual Gottfredson library? I know we discussed this before, but I don't recall the details and can't find the thread; perhaps it was on the old DCF. Nevertheless, if either FantaGraphics or IDW would print these strips in some form, that'll make the completist in me very happy.
There may be life after the FGL Fantagraphics set, but it would certainly not be done with the same level of extras and commentary, which I know would suit the last twenty years of Gottfredson gags just fine. Honestly, with any other U.S. publisher (including Disney itself), the sales would've shut the series down around Vol. 7. That's why I'm eternally grateful to Fantagraphics and Gary Groth for sticking it through the entirety of the adventure strips in high-quality. (And to David Gerstein, too, of course.)
There may be life after the FGL Fantagraphics set, but it would certainly not be done with the same level of extras and commentary, which I know would suit the last twenty years of Gottfredson gags just fine.
Encouraging news! Honestly, I'd just like to be able to read and own those strips, and I'd be perfectly happy if, say, IDW would chronologically print a few of them in each issue of WDC&S or Donald and Mickey, like Gladstone II did with the Taliaferro strips in the Donald Duck title, or if a softcover collection of the strips without a lot of commentary could be put out by IDW or FantaGraphics.
I don't usually get opinionated here as a rule, but—the Gladstone II use of Taliaferro strips to fill DONALD DUCK was a deliberate effort by the publisher to save money, as it cost less to reprint them than to use new-to-USA material that required translation and relettering.
Some argued that issues filled with 16 pages of gags would sell poorly—losing more money than they saved—and that new creators were being deprived of exposure. But these arguments were met with the bad-faith claim that the haters just didn't like Taliaferro, which couldn't be farther from the truth.
Eventually sales slowed, proving the point, but the damage had been done.
While I do want to see the post-continuity Gottfredson strips reprinted, I think piling them into new magazine-format comics is a slippery slope. I'd rather bring opportunities for new stories and creators to shine (not to mention our translation team!).
According to Previews, the fist book should have hit the shelves in comic shops today. Anyone seen it on sale yet?
The digital release is currenty listed for May 23, and Amazon list the realese date as May 15.
I was excited about this series when it first was announced, but the box sets decision kind of ruined the excitement. This is a series I don't think really need box sets, but when the series do have them I want the boxes instead of the single books. I already have decided to go for the collector's boxes rather than the gift boxes, but as there are two different sets to choose from I still haven't made any pre-order for any books like I normally do for hardcovers I want. Every time I think about doing it I just think "meh" instead of "yeah", just because there are two different sets. It might sound silly, but that's how it is...
There are three stories in it. Mickey Mouse in the Delta Dimension, The Bleep-Bleep 15 and The Fabulous City of Shan-Grilla. Plus a two page long bio of Scarpa at the end of the book.
Delta Dimension was previously released in English back in 2006 in issue #11 of Gemstone's Mickey Mouse Adventures. I have no idea if they are using the same translation from there or not since I don't have that to compare. The other two stories are new to the US.
The book itself is slightly larger than the Carl Barks Library books and there is no volume number mentioned anywhere on the outside cover so these volumes can eventually go on the shelf in any order. So for instance, when Phantom Blot's Double Mystery (The next Scarpa Mickey volume in the Disney Masters series) comes out, you can sit that on your shelf next to this book with the other Disney Masters volumes in whatever order and there won't be any mixed up volume numbers. Everything else about the book physically is the same quality we've seen with Fantagraphics other Disney books.
I'll post my thoughts on the stories themselves after I've read them.
Last Edit: May 10, 2018 18:43:36 GMT by squeakyboots
Delta Dimension was previously released in English back in 2006 in issue #11 of Gemstone's Mickey Mouse Adventures. I have no idea if they are using the same translation from there or not since I don't have that to compare.
It's the same 2006 translation, but relettered with a nicer font, and adjusted slightly to be closer to Scarpa's original in a small way: a politician who plays a pivotal part in the story (as a statue!) is no longer a senator—as in the 2006 edition—but rather "Fortunius Von Broke, the great philanthropist" (English name).
Delta Dimension was previously released in English back in 2006 in issue #11 of Gemstone's Mickey Mouse Adventures. I have no idea if they are using the same translation from there or not since I don't have that to compare.
It's the same 2006 translation, but relettered with a nicer font, and adjusted slightly to be closer to Scarpa's original in a small way: a politician who plays a pivotal part in the story (as a statue!) is no longer a senator—as in the 2006 edition—but rather "Fortunius Von Broke, the great philanthropist" (English name).
Is the book the same size as the Snow White book and the Don Rosa volumes? (Sure, I COULD just wait until my own copy arrives in the mail, but what fun is that?) It'd also be nice to see a second Snow White book (but that may be pushing my luck...).
Is the book the same size as the Snow White book and the Don Rosa volumes? (Sure, I COULD just wait until my own copy arrives in the mail, but what fun is that?) It'd also be nice to see a second Snow White book (but that may be pushing my luck...).
According to the Fantagraphics website's specs, the Disney Masters are slightly smaller (8x10.5" as opposed to 8x11"). I'm looking forward to getting my copy of "Delta Dimension" in the mail. I worked on the Bottaro book so I've read its contents already, and MAN, you have never seen a Disney compilation like this. I'd take four more volumes of this insanity before anything by a dullard like Murry or Strobl.
Is the book the same size as the Snow White book and the Don Rosa volumes? (Sure, I COULD just wait until my own copy arrives in the mail, but what fun is that?) It'd also be nice to see a second Snow White book (but that may be pushing my luck...).
According to the Fantagraphics website's specs, the Disney Masters are slightly smaller (8x10.5" as opposed to 8x11"). I'm looking forward to getting my copy of "Delta Dimension" in the mail. I worked on the Bottaro book so I've read its contents already, and MAN, you have never seen a Disney compilation like this. I'd take four more volumes of this insanity before anything by a dullard like Murry or Strobl.
Has any of Bottaro's work appeared in English before? His name doesn't strike me as familiar, and I don't have any of my books handy to check them.