----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur"
Subject: W.i.t.c.h. and other 'girlie' Disney titles
> Hi,
>
> As you may know I have a website on Disney comics and magazines from around
> the world at http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw
>
> I get a lot of emails from people, such as:
>
> "Can you please sell W.i.t.c.h. in the United Arab Emirates?"
> "How can I get Brazilian Disney magazines in Georgia?"
> "Why did you stop Super Mickey in Egypt?"
>
> Although my site clearly mentions that it is an unofficial fan site, people
> still seem to often think that it is official. A lot of questions are about
> how to subscribe to English Disney comics or to the ones by Gemstone in
> particular. I have sent dozens of people to Gemstone's website where they
> can subscribe.
>
> I am really amazed by the popularity of W.i.t.c.h. around the world! I get a
> lot of emails about it. The recent article that Lars Jensen sent around,
> that was published in Publishers Weekly
> (http://publishersweekly.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=
> CA330761) mentions that W.i.t.c.h. is published in 42 countries around the
> world! That must make it one of the most popular 'syndicated' Disney comics
> ever! On my website visitors can rate each title from 1 to 10 and there are
> 5 publications of W.i.t.c.h. in the top 20 at the moment.
>
> As I am updating my site lately and I get information from publishers or I
> find information on publishers' websites, I get the impression that more and
> more countries are canceling Disney comic titles and only keeping the ones
> that are targeted at girls, like W.i.t.c.h and 'Princess Disney'-type
> titles. I wonder why that is happening?
>
> Kind regards,
> Arthur
>
>
>
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There are other comics besides the Gemstone one's? There's even one for the Disney Princesses? Where?!!!!! I don't see them. When did they come out? Or did they only come out in other countries?
"I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing-that it was all started by a mouse."
-Walt Disney (and a man)
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Topic: 200310
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Disneyfanjune
DCML Digest, Vol 8, Issue 57
Message 421 -
2003-10-31 at 11:42:24
L. Schulte
Disney and Lemmings
Message 422 -
2003-10-31 at 14:38:47
Of interest particularly to the Scandinavians here is an article on
lemmings today in my local newspaper (Toledo Blade) and the hoax that
Disney Studios invented in 1958 about mass suicide among lemmings. The
Disney film was produced as part of the "True Life Adventures" series, and
remains fairly fixed despite expos?s over the last 20 years about the
hoax. For some reason the producers thought lemmings occasionally
committed mass suicide as a solution to over-population: the article states
that at rare times lemmings in Norway migrate, and that at times some might
be forced off cliffs or riverbanks during the migrations. This apparently
struck the film-makers as a great cinematic episode: they hired Alaskans to
trap lemmings, then in Alberta, Canada they deliberately panicked the
lemmings and filmed them running off a riverbank, then claimed this was a
scene of the lemming mass suicide in Norway!
There is still a phrase in American English today "like lemmings to the
sea" meaning people who mindlessly follow everyone else towards disaster.
Was there not also a Duck Tales episode about lemmings rushing to the sea?
lemmings today in my local newspaper (Toledo Blade) and the hoax that
Disney Studios invented in 1958 about mass suicide among lemmings. The
Disney film was produced as part of the "True Life Adventures" series, and
remains fairly fixed despite expos?s over the last 20 years about the
hoax. For some reason the producers thought lemmings occasionally
committed mass suicide as a solution to over-population: the article states
that at rare times lemmings in Norway migrate, and that at times some might
be forced off cliffs or riverbanks during the migrations. This apparently
struck the film-makers as a great cinematic episode: they hired Alaskans to
trap lemmings, then in Alberta, Canada they deliberately panicked the
lemmings and filmed them running off a riverbank, then claimed this was a
scene of the lemming mass suicide in Norway!
There is still a phrase in American English today "like lemmings to the
sea" meaning people who mindlessly follow everyone else towards disaster.
Was there not also a Duck Tales episode about lemmings rushing to the sea?
Olaf Solstrand
Disney and Lemmings
Message 423 -
2003-10-31 at 15:17:48
> Was there not also a Duck Tales episode about lemmings rushing to the sea?
At least there was a Carl Barks story. A beautiful one. "The Lemming with the
Locket".
At least there was a Carl Barks story. A beautiful one. "The Lemming with the
Locket".
Katie Sullivan
Educational ducks
Message 424 -
2003-10-31 at 22:33:35
Matthew Williams wrote:
>I 've always believed that growing up reading Barks and Rosa
> and watching DuckTales gave
>me a leg-up as I went through college and even grad school.
>The whole world
>of the ducks brings together history, literature, and science
>quite well and
>really helped me to contextualize as I went through school.
>Even though
>some stories and details may not be 100% factual, the comics
>still inspired
>me to learn more!
Cross out the part about grad school simply because I havent'
been there (yet?) but otherwise I could have written that
statement. I wholeheartedly agree.
I'm only half-joking when I frequently say that everything I
learned in school was somehow related to the ducks. :)
P.S. In addition to the incidents I mentioned earlier, I
remembered another time I brought a duck comic to school. I
took a year of Latin in college for fun(!) and when we had to
translate part of the myth about the Minotaur and the Labrynth I
brought Barks' story to class to show my professor. ;)
Katie Sullivan
http://www.sullivanet.com/
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>I 've always believed that growing up reading Barks and Rosa
> and watching DuckTales gave
>me a leg-up as I went through college and even grad school.
>The whole world
>of the ducks brings together history, literature, and science
>quite well and
>really helped me to contextualize as I went through school.
>Even though
>some stories and details may not be 100% factual, the comics
>still inspired
>me to learn more!
Cross out the part about grad school simply because I havent'
been there (yet?) but otherwise I could have written that
statement. I wholeheartedly agree.
I'm only half-joking when I frequently say that everything I
learned in school was somehow related to the ducks. :)
P.S. In addition to the incidents I mentioned earlier, I
remembered another time I brought a duck comic to school. I
took a year of Latin in college for fun(!) and when we had to
translate part of the myth about the Minotaur and the Labrynth I
brought Barks' story to class to show my professor. ;)
Katie Sullivan
http://www.sullivanet.com/
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Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears
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