One of the clerks at my local comics shop---he asked me not to mention his name here---told me that Joe Books now owns the publishing rights to all the old Disney Afternoon animated series: Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, DuckTales, Bonkers, Goof Troop and Chip 'N' Dale Rescue Rangers. I would love to be able to write the company but their website -- http://joebooks.com/ -- has no contact information. It doesn't have much of any kind of information. *Sigh*
Here is a February 2015 Toronto Globe story about Joe Books:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/disney-licensing-deal-helps-publisher-joe-books-write-happy-ending/article23141789/
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Topic: New Darkwing Duck Comics In 2015
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FAa
I know it's off-topic, but to follow the discussion above:
I got curious about those cinestory books and got the Frozen one. The story, including the end credits which are screen capped too, is a total of 353 pages. So instead of making a summary adaptation it seems they tried to get as much of the movie as possible into the book. I think that's a better approach than Tokyopop did with their cine-mangas, which also adapted Disney movies. They had a crazy layout with random screen grabs making it hard to follow the story.
Still, there's no way I'm actually going to read all those 353 pages, I'd much rather go re-watch the movie instead. For a retelling of the story the 48 pages comic adaptation, also published by Job Books, is a lot better IMO.
Another thing the cinestory suffers from is that a lot of the screens are way too dark to be printed. Especially when not printed on glossy paper. So it's hard to see all the details in the animation.
But it looks like it sells though. A "retro" edition for $29.99 and a HC collectors edition for $49.99 are planned. And good business is good news for us that are waiting for Darkwing Duck and more interesting projects from Joe Books.
Example from the Frozen cinestory:
How Tokyopop did it:
I got curious about those cinestory books and got the Frozen one. The story, including the end credits which are screen capped too, is a total of 353 pages. So instead of making a summary adaptation it seems they tried to get as much of the movie as possible into the book. I think that's a better approach than Tokyopop did with their cine-mangas, which also adapted Disney movies. They had a crazy layout with random screen grabs making it hard to follow the story.
Still, there's no way I'm actually going to read all those 353 pages, I'd much rather go re-watch the movie instead. For a retelling of the story the 48 pages comic adaptation, also published by Job Books, is a lot better IMO.
Another thing the cinestory suffers from is that a lot of the screens are way too dark to be printed. Especially when not printed on glossy paper. So it's hard to see all the details in the animation.
But it looks like it sells though. A "retro" edition for $29.99 and a HC collectors edition for $49.99 are planned. And good business is good news for us that are waiting for Darkwing Duck and more interesting projects from Joe Books.
Example from the Frozen cinestory:
How Tokyopop did it: