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The upcoming Disney Masters Vol. 3

I have frequently written about Walt Disney comics throughout the years for a number of reasons. one of those reasons is there is such a riches of great material from around the world. I do not believe there is a library of characters that are more prominent world wide than the Disney steady of Mickey, Donald, as well as the cast of thousands that have been established over the last century. It has not been a 100 years yet however it is getting there soon, the Mickey mouse newspaper strip debuted in 1930 by a “Walter Disney.” To this day they are still broadening the world with their Pixar line as well as a new film residential or commercial property every few years, as well as I am not including the star Wars or marvel Universes. While the new jobs have discovered remarkable success, such as Frozen, the traditional cast is still extremely prominent around the world, in almost every country, with the possible exception of its home, the United States. almost around the world there are Disney comics being published as well as selling big numbers, especially in the Scandinavian Countries, Germany, as well as Italy. however there are likewise healthy comic sales of Disney characters throughout South America, Japan, as well as Russia. most of these countries even do brand new stories that we in America are totally oblivious of. Thus, why I like from time to time, to dedicate a blog to the newest batch of Disney material that has been reprinted right here for the very first time. These are a mix of older European comics as well as never-before reprinted newspaper strips, which Disney provided to newspapers for over 80 years. I admit I do not understand if any type of of the strips still run in newspapers as I have not seen a Disney strip in a newspaper in a long time. Thankfully business like Fantagraphics as well as IDW are doing their finest to keep us in sufficient reading material to last a lifetime as well as these books are just a few as well as the most recent releases.

Disney Masters Vol. 1: Mickey Mouse: The Delta Dimension

Disney Masters is a new series of hardcover books from Fantagraphics where each volume will spotlight a specific character as well as creator as well as reprints a number of stories by that creator as well as of that character. The very first volume just came out as well as it is called Disney Masters Vol. 1:  Mickey Mouse: The Delta dimension as well as it reprints stories by the wonderful Italian master Romano Scarpa. There are three total stories right here all written as well as drawn by Scarpa as well as inked by Rodolfo Cimino. These stories are long experience strips in the style of the Mickey mouse adventures by Floyd Gottfredson, which is intentional. These three stories are wonderful adventures that are full of humor as well as excitement. Mickey as well as his team travel from one more dimension to a hidden Himalayan civilization as well as everywhere in between. These stories do tend to be a bit more whimsical than the early Gottfredson material as well as are much better to the later stores written by expense Walsh.  The Italian creators seem to like the idea of aliens, great gadgets, as well as hidden places. I discover this is a style that appears a great deal in both the Italian Mickey mouse as well as Donald Duck stories. however to their credit, these whimsical creations do return over as well as over as well as have ended up being regulars in these tales over the years. These are beautifully reproduced stories that make a fantastic checked out for the entire household as well as for Disney fans of any type of age. There is likewise a short bio as well as history of Scarpa in the back of the book which is fascinating however I desire it was longer as well as went more into depth about the publishing history of Mickey mouse in Italy, as well as particularly stated where these three stories originally appeared. [Editor’s note: See David Gerstein’s comment below for more on this. ] At this point Fantagraphics has four more of these Disney Masters planned, two more Mickey’s as well as two Donald Duck collections. I hope they continue after these five as well as broaden out of Italy as there are some remarkable stories from around the world. A quick end note I should mention that Fantagraphics likewise has likewise done one volume (so far) of Scapa’s Snow White as well as the seven Dwarfs, likewise from Italy, where he did new stories of the Snow White as well as the gang for over forty years.

Walt Disney’s Treasury of traditional Tales Vol. 3

Walt Disney’s Treasury of traditional Tales Vol. 3 is the third collection of newspaper Sunday strips that were published from the 1950s with the 1980s. IDW has been collectingall of these strips in chronological order with this volume reaching as much as the 1960s. Each Sunday story would last as much as six months telling a story of a recent, at the time, Disney movie or sometimes it would be about a traditional character. This third volume includes adaptations of Swiss household Robinson, 101 Dalmatians, parent Trap, Darby O’Gill as well as the bit People, as well as more! These strips were written as well as drawn by Frank Reilly, Jesse Marsh, John Ushler as well as many others. most of the time these are adaptations of the films however they frequently flesh out the movies as well as add a whole new dimension to the stories even if you have seen the movies several times. even if you try as well as gather the Sunday strips individually it would take you permanently as well as expense a fortune. right here the total strips are put together in full color for your convenience. What more might you ask for? In the back of volume three they listing the contents of volume four as well as state it is coming soon, however I inspected a number of book sellers as well as they listing this as the final volume in a three volume set, let’s hope there is a fourth, as well as fifth volume……

Silly Symphonies: The total Comics Vol. 2

Silly Symphonies: The total Comics is a full color reprinting of this strip that dates back 80 years as well as is one of the earliest Disney showcases. It was a newspaper strip that would modification from time to time as to what was featured. The earliest stories were all about Bucky Bug (and all told in rhyme). As time went on the strip would function everybody from the three bit Pigs, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Clarabelle, bit Hiawatha, as well as introduced a guy named Donald (Duck) to comic strips as well as included the extremely very first appearance of his nephews Huey, Dewey, as well as Louie. These strips are all a mix of continuous stories with one character each time with comical elements as well as experience aspects added in. A strip might run for six months telling one over arcing story, however there would be humor thrown in almost every strip. When volume four comes out later this year from IDW, they will have reprinted the total Silly Symphonies strip, which I applaud for both the historical significance, in addition to exactly how entertaining it is to read. These strips are like most Disney material, whimsical as well as entertaining for all ages. I likewise discover it fascinating in reading these strips exactly how different the sensibilities are from the European stories that are in the Disney Masters series. They are the exact same characters yet you can clearly see different points of view in exactly how the tales are told as well as exactly how the characters are perceived.

Eega Beeva gets the cover spotlight on Walt Disney’s Mickey mouse Vol. 10: world Of Faceless Foes HC

This wraps it up for this time. I have a big collection of Disney comics from around the world, which is fun except that most of them I cannot read, so it is nice to see a few of these worldwide comics lastly being equated into English. Also, there is such a rich history of Disney characters in the comic strips, as Fantagraphics showed in their 12 volume collection of Floyd Gottfredson’s serial Mickey mouse newspaper strip (and two volumes of the Sundays) as well as IDW has been doing with their reprints of the Donald Duck newspaper strips. later volumes of the Gottfredson collections likewise included work by contemporary creators, many of them European, who were influenced by Gottfredson. Fantagraphics ended their series when the Mickey mouse comics changed to gag-a-day strips, so there are still close to 20 years of Gottfredson strips that stay uncollected. I am so delighted that IDW is likewise collecting these lower understand strips such as the Treasury of classics as well as Silly Symphonies which are likewise so much fun to checked out as well as are near impossible to collect. To both business I state say thanks to you.

Everything I have written right here are my thoughts as well as opinions as well as in no method shed any type of light on the thoughts of Westfield Comics or their employees. I would like to hear from you as what you believe of these books or Disney books in general. I can be reached at MFBWAY@AOL.COM or on Facebook at Wayne Markley. As always…

Thank you.