Classic Disney Comic Solicitations August 2018

[squeakyboots]

The only Classic Disney comic title being solicited by IDW this month is a trade release. I would imagine they're holding back on announcing anything new while they're playing catch up with all the issues that got delayed over the past few months. There's more going on with the other non-classic Disney titles.

Mickey and Donald Christmas Parade TP

www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN180710

IDW

JUN180710
(W) Abramo Barosso, Giampaolo Barosso, Giovan Carpi, Byron Erickson, Massimo Fecchi (CA) Dave Alvarez
It's a ho-ho-humongous collection of Disney Yuletide tales! Mickey and Uncle Scrooge battle Pegleg Pete and the Beagle Boys in "The Christmas Caper!" Then Daisy, Donald, and Gladstone have a not-so-jolly holiday in "Christmas Clubbing"-and Donald and Mickey save Christmas from the Phantom Blot in "'Tis No Season!"
In Shops: Sep 26, 2018
SRP: $14.99

Disney Masters Vol. 4: Donald Duck - The Great Survival Test HC

www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN181754

Fantagraphics

JUN181754
(W) Daan Jippes, Freddy Milton, Ben Verhagen, Byron Erickson
When Disney Legend Carl Barks stopped creating new Disney Duck tales in the early 1970s, Daan Jippes and Freddy Milton picked up right where Barks left off. Now, by popular demand, Fantagraphics collects Jippes and Milton's classic teamups - and "The Great Survival Test" is just the start of the mayhem! From Donald's war with lucky Gladstone in "The Briefcase Case" to Daisy's race against time in "Coat of Harms," an amazing collection of Duck Family adventures is here!
In Shops: Aug 29, 2018
SRP: $29.99

[deb]

The Daan Jippes and Freddy Milton collection looks good. I missed a few of these when Gladstone first ran them, as I was slow to pick up Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, as Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Uncle Scrooge caught my eye first.

[Spectrus]

The Erickson/Fecchi Christmas story is a good one - the good type of Egmont story, even if it has a tendency to tie your brain in knots (and some people pointed out some logical flaws).

[caballero]

As I predicted about a year ago, soon all classic Disney titles will be canceled, long before they get the chance to publish all those William Van Horn comics that have never been printed in English language before. This is exactly the reason they should have printed WVH comics on a more regular basis instead of printing those childish Italian comics nobody cares about. The editors' obsession with Italian Disney comics is something I will never understand.

As for the Disney Masters series, does anyone know what the release schedule is? This year's schedule seems pretty weird, 1 volume per month from May to August, and then 1 volume later in the year... Also, what's up with 3 of the first 5 books being dedicated to Italian artists???

[Scrooge MacDuck]

May 23, 2018 19:53:47 GMT caballero said:

As I predicted about a year ago, soon all classic Disney titles will be canceled, long before they get the chance to publish all those William Van Horn comics that have never been printed in English language before. This is exactly the reason they should have printed WVH comics on a more regular basis instead of printing those childish Italian comics nobody cares about. The editors' obsession with Italian Disney comics is something I will never understand.

Look, maybe you don't like them. That's fine. But don't act like only a couple of weirdoes here and there like them. Quite a few people on this Forum do, for one thing.

[crow]

Does anyone know if this is just a month to catch up on Uncle scrooge, or has the ax come down and its been canceled.

[deb]

I doubt that William Van Horn's work would have fared any better than anything else. In a way, the Italian work has the advantage of looking more modern and less like a reprint of a reprint of a Carl Barks story than more "traditional" comics would. Also, you have to factor in that comic books in general are not the huge sellers they once were. Disney Comics are a niche product within a niche market, rather than a mainstream product sold at supermarkets, convince stores and newsstands (are there any newsstands anywhere anymore?).

[crow]

Hope its not canceled, but i wonder if some older fans were driven away by the italian content, it wouldn't have killed them to do a few more egmont stories, I especially liked Arild Midthun's art. Heck it would have been nice to have had at least one Don Rosa reprint with a nice new to USA cover.

[deb]

I seriously doubt that "Italian content" drove anyone away. Speaking as an older fan myself, I like the IDW books.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

May 24, 2018 2:11:44 GMT deb said:

(are there any newsstands anywhere anymore?).

Can't speak for the United States of America, but actual shops (imaginatively called Newspaper Shops…) are quite common in France, though of course they don't make as good business as they used to. That's where I buy all the Franco-Belgian comics I read (both Disney and non- such as Spirou).

[komix]

I like Rosa's art especially when I was younger. However, by growing up I realised that his art is not all perfect I appreciated Barks and Italian artists art way more! One thing I started to dislike over the years is the way he draws the sometimes (too much like humans) and the the way he draws teeth for example. Unlike Barks whom I consider the ultimate Duck Master.

Art from Mottura, Cavazzano, De Vita, Gervasio, Carpi, Rota, Scarpa and Casty has a special place in my heart. Also, in America you had Rosa and Barks for almost ever... The Italian stories are something fresh. Also, I assure you, that you haven't even read the pinnaple of Italian stories too.

Rosa is great but there are Italian artists that are great too. And Rosa himself said that if he could draw in a different style then he would like to be Rota's.

[crow]

So does anyone with insider info know if uncle scrooge is canceled or not?

[squeakyboots]

May 24, 2018 4:06:19 GMT crow said:

Heck it would have been nice to have had at least one Don Rosa reprint with a nice new to USA cover.

That would've been redundant with Fantagraphics' Don Rosa Library being released at the same time. I'm glad reprints of material that had been released in English before was minimal during this IDW run. I'm sure most of us would eventually get bored if we had been getting a bunch of Barks and Rosa reprints like in the past.

The problem I think Disney Comics are having in general is that they don't really have any appeal to a mainstream audience anymore. And by that, I mean people outside of this forum. Funny cartoon animal comic books aren't as popular as they were back in the day and most comic book readers don't follow any them. (There are exceptions to this, of course. Sonic The Hedgehog has been a huge seller for IDW so far.) I think an outsider's perspective is that they see these Disney books as just a bunch of weird obscure Italian or German comics from the 60s and just pass on them. (And that is just a generalization. Saying we're getting too much of one thing or not enough of another thing doesn't help this matter.)

I honestly want to see IDW take a risk with the Disney line and come up with an original Disney comic produced entirely by their in house team. Not a new Italian comic that's being printed in the US first, not that boring drivel Disney Publishing Worldwide or whoever makes, just try something new and different that can appeal to an American audience. Just make a four issue miniseries with something and see how it goes. If the whole line were in danger of being cancelled anyway, then it's not like there's that much to lose.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

May 24, 2018 21:23:27 GMT squeakyboots said:

I honestly want to see IDW take a risk with the Disney line and come up with an original Disney comic produced entirely by their in house team. Not a new Italian comic that's being printed in the US first, not that boring drivel Disney Publishing Worldwide or whoever makes, just try something new and different that can appeal to an American audience. Just make a four issue miniseries with something and see how it goes. If the whole line were in danger of being cancelled anyway, then it's not like there's that much to lose.

My God yes. Poor Jonathan Gray has been sitting forever on that awesome Of Mice and Mysteries story of his, you've got people like Joe Torcivia just aching to finally write an actual story of their own — not to mention as-yet-completely-unofficial artists like Sarah Jolley, of which there have been a surge with DT17.

[crow]

IDW is never going to produce original content, the sales don't merit it. We should be happy they have commissioned new cover art. And the reality id Ducktales sales better, best we can hope for is a kid buys ducktales, likes it and wants more than one issue of ducks a month and starts getting uncle scrooge too.