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>> Does anyone have the first three days of the strip they can point me to.

> I don't get Donald strips the same way.

The first three Donald strips:
http://d23.disney.go.com/library/images/DonaldDaily_2-7-38.jpg
http://d23.disney.go.com/library/images/DonaldDaily_2-8-38.jpg
http://d23.disney.go.com/library/images/DonaldDaily_2-9-38.jpg

// Steamboat Willie

Actually, there is a way you can see previous day's strips.

Right-click on any of the actual images. Then click Properties. You'll
notice where it says... Address (URL) this...
http://d23.disney.go.com/library/images/MickeyDaily_1-21-30.jpg

That's the actual place on the internet where the individual image is
located. At that point, if you just play with the dates you can pull up
other strips. I'm able to see and save 1-13-30 to 1-21-30 so far.

Hope that helps
- Tom

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Gunnarsson, Joakim SE - HMJ" <Joakim.Gunnarsson at egmont.se>
> To: <dcml at nafsk.se>
> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:17:08 +0100
> Subject: Disney 23 strips
> Disney's D23 site is up and running now!
> Don't miss the daily strips featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Scamp
> from the beginning.
> (Unfortunately with no archive.)
>
> http://d23.disney.go.com/comics.html
>
> /Joakim.
>
>

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:05, GGK <ggk at wp.pl> wrote:

> But today, I found this by acident :
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qssfUXASzTs

That was fast (YouTube grabbing it, I mean), it's been on Facebook
only for about two weeks now...

> Was Romano Scarpa involve in DuckTales? Can anybody give me more info/light
> on this clip?

It's an animation test, but it lead to nowhere, unfortunately!

--
Francesco

Well, it didn't even take two months, and some of you may already
know that Gemstone is not renewing the Disney comics license, and
won't be putting out any more issues since the last ones that reached
the shops (I don't recollect the issue numbers). Disney is looking
for someone else to take the license, and I believe they have some
candidates, but nothing's anything like nailed down at this point.

For Sue and myself it was close to a quarter-century run (with
hiatuses), but all good things come to an end, I guess.

Gary

>>>> some of you may already know that Gemstone is not renewing the Disney
>>>> comics license, and won't be putting out any more issues since the
>>>> last ones that reached the shops (I don't recollect the issue
>>>> numbers).
(Gary Leach)

This is obviously sad news, for (American-published) Walt Disney comics and
their fans, and for the staff that has worked on them, picking up after
Gladstone and a few (but terribly long) comic-less years.

Thank you very much to Steve Geppi & Russ Cochran for fighting to get the
licence and for publishing the comics and the books!

Lots of truly grateful thanks to the staff (in-house or freelance) that
worked hard to give us not only the usual comics but also new titles,
including the splendid "Walt Disney Treasures" collection and the gorgeous
[i]Mickey and the Gang[/i] !

I hope the wait will not be too long till the next (and hopefully
long-lived) series of Walt Disney Comics.

All my best wishes to the staff (Leonard/John, David, Susan & Gary, Susan,
Travis, ...) for this post-Disney comics-period !

Olivier

Greetings!

Rick Engle wrote concerning licensing:

"I get the feeling that Disney does not make this easy. So you really think that this time there is no chance for a return?"

Your feeling is quite right, at least according to a contact of mine in the toy-and-entertainment business in California: dealing with Disney is seen as a Kafkaesque nightmare. It almost seems that they do not want to license their characters, because of all the hassles they throw at a company.

This is contact in fact is looking into the possibility of obtaining the license, but is not very enthusiastic unless Disney changes their attitude.

It was not always this way: I recall hearing Walt Disney explain in an interview how the first Mickey Mouse license came about. A toymaker came to him and said he wanted to use Mickey Mouse as the basis for a toy, and how they could both benefit, since the toy would promote the character, and the character would over time promote the toy. Walt said this sounded like a great a idea: how much would he have to pay to the toymaker for this? The other man laughed and said Walt did not quite understand: he would be paying Disney for the rights! (Such honesty in the good old days!) Walt said that sounded even better!

Best Wishes!

L. Schulte

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It's time for grief and gratitude. Let me echo Olivier's comments in
expressing my deep appreciation to the Gemstone publishers and all the
Gemstone staff for a terrific run of excellent comics. Thank you for
enabling us to see all of Don Rosa's stories in the language in which he
wrote them. (It was so frustrating in the post-Gladstone years to know that
there were more Rosa stories we might never get to see! If all you had done
was to print Rosa's stories, it would have been "dayenu".) Thank you for
Marco Rota's Money Ocean, Egyptian Prince's Secret, Night of the Saracen and
Haunted Houses. Thank you for making available some of the best work of
other writers/artists: William and Noel Van Horn, Scarpa, Jippes, Branca,
Ferioli, Gattino, Transgaard, Geradts, Heymans, Korhonen, the McGreals et
al. Thank you for Don Markstein's Bungaloos and John Lustig's Melvin and
Janet Gilbert's Hotel Transylvania. Thank you for introducing Carl Barks to
some lucky young people of my acquaintance. Thank you (as I wrote earlier)
for single-handedly saving my godson's academic life by providing him with
attractive reading matter with a rich vocabulary. Thank you for the
excellent production values that distinguished your output. Thank you for
the "American" coloring, which I prefer to the European; you already know
from my letters that I'm a big fan of Susan's coloring in particular. Thank
you for the wonderful "Treasures" volumes, and for the archival research
(yay, David Gerstein!). Thank you for digging up and publishing obscure
fan-requested stories. Thank you for your top-flight customer relations,
which I experienced from *everyone* from editors to the person who handled
the subscriptions to the office manager (thanks, Heather, for the Halloween
giveaway comics!). As a female, over-fifty duckfan, I thank you for Uncle
Scrooge 379, which reprinted the Barks story I liked most in childhood (The
Phantom of Notre Duck) *and* included two (count 'em, two!) stories with
positively portrayed, strong older female characters: John Lustig's Miss
Quackfaster and the witch Aradia in Paul Halas' Magica story! And thank you
for Uncle Scrooge 383, which printed in prestige form my favorite comic
story ever, Rosa's Guardians of the Lost Library.

I'm in mourning that there will be no Donald Duck "Treasures" volume, no
complete set (in English) of Jippes' redrawn versions of the Barks JW
scripts, no complete set of the Barks/Rosa collection, no "prestige"
reprinting of Rosa's "Fir-Tree Fracas" or "The Duck Who Never Was" (maybe
that would have been in the Donald "Treasures"?). And acute withdrawal has
set in, in the absence of my monthly Duckburg fix. But even so, gratitude
overwhelms the grief. Thanks to one and all for six happy years in Duckburg.
And to those of you who came to Gemstone from Gladstone, thanks for all
those comic-blessed years as well.

Elaine

Thank you to Gladstone / Gemstone for all of the years
of Disney comics!

I still remember when Gladstone first started, and what
a welcome sight these comics were (on a comic rack in
a department store in Hawaii)! They re-acquainted us
with old favorites (like Carl Barks), and introduced us
to new favorites (like Don Rosa, William Van Horn,
and Floyd Gottfredson) along the way. Here in the U.S.,
we were shown Disney comics from around the world
for the first time. Countless hours were spent living
the adventures with Mickey, Gyro, Uncle Scrooge,
Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie!

Best,

Eric

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