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Quote from user: WBI grew up on Rosa/Van Horn so I'm biased, but I personally LOVE the work of Cavazzano (my absolute favorite), early Scarpa (I don't really care too much for his wide-bottomed ducks of the 60's), Branca/Gattino, DeVita, Rota (Money Ocean era - his later work looks great too but I just enjoy that era more for some reason), Van Horn and I like LATE Vicar which he got more wild with his art. His earlier stuff, while very Barksish in tone all feels very samey -- at least in many of the stories we got here in the Bob Foster era.

I personally love stylization within reason -- that last bit is key. One of the best things about Disney Comics is that they're so diverse in styles. Because each country has a sort-of house style, when you put everything together it all looks fascinating. No story looks the same as another. It's part of the reason why I tend not to go for people who blatantly ape Barks because even Barks changed his own style quite a few times. As a result there's nothing else that really makes thier work stand out...if that makes any sense. Rosa is iffy with me. I **LOVE** his attention to detail, but that same detail makes his work VERY stiff. In the rare time's he's loose he's great. But... while I am in awe of his draftsmanship and the insane devotion to making sure his references are right, I think I actually prefer some sort of inbetween. A good example of this is late 90's early 2000's Van Horn which is where I feel he was at his peak. His earliest stuff is kind of WHOA and his latest stuff doesnt quite capture the same OOMPH, but it's still very good.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to any personal stylization. Although I've never been a particular Cavazzano fan (sorry!), I like Scarpa, Branca, Devita, etc., and I absolutely adore Rota and Van Horn. Somewhat agreed on Vicar. I appreciate his early adherence to the Barks look, but he could never quite live up to The Good Duck Artist so he was unable to really excel in that style.

Rota, Cavazzano, Gattino, early Branca, Ziche, Verhagen, Wm Van Horn, Ferioli, more or less in that order. Vicar when the script lets him take off. Van Horn's art I tend to like best when the story has fantastical or science fictional aspects. Rosa is in a class by himself: I love his art because it serves his stories and his humor so well, and I love his stories and his humor. His art is inseparable for me from his storytelling. I wouldn't want to see a story by Rosa illustrated by anyone else. I wouldn't want to see stories by others illustrated by Rosa.

Any chance we'll be seeing Walt Kelly's Gremlins?

Didn't Gemstone do a Gremlins release a few years back, and Dark Horse a modernized adaptation?
My memory is a little fuzzy on this one.

Quote from user: Thomps2525In 2008 on this site, someone named Timo started a thread titled "What Story?" He was trying to identify an Italian comic in which Scrooge and Rockerduck are competing comic-book publishers. Steamboat Willie---no, not that Steamboat Willie!---found the comic on the Inducks site. I would love to see this story in an upcoming IDW Uncle Scrooge comic. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease?

The thread: http://dcf.outducks.org/viewtopic.php?id=276

The Inducks page: http://coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=I+TL+1308-B
He is Finnish writer and artist, Timo Ronkainen, who is still an active member of this forum. I'm guessing he will be glad if IDW prints it. I certainly will.

I'm probably in the minority here, but I'd really like to see a Roger Rabbit book in some capacity, be it from IDW or Joe Books, even if it's only a collection of reprinted material Disney Comics put out in the 90s. I'd snap that up in a heartbeat. I don't know exactly who owns the license to the character today, but I doubt they'd be too possessive at this point. I realize Roger Rabbit may not fall under the ambit of "Disney comics" as defined by this site, but it'd be great to see the characters again.

Quote from user: king scrooge the firstHow much Daisy and/or Minnie-centric stories are there? I think an interesting idea for a hypothetical fifth book would be a female-centric one
A series like that, "Minnie & Daisy B.F.F." actually started two years ago in the USA. I'm not sure if they're still published or how many issues there are. But according to the cover scans on The Disney Wiki, at least 7 were published. Only one is indexed in inducks yet.

In Germany, Minnie has had her own series for years. The lead story is often a Minnie and Clarabelle Cow story where they are drawn in a bit more modern style than we are used to. And in e.g. the Netherlands, Daisy has her own series. There are definitively enough stories to get a sereis going if there is a market for it.

The stories in "Minnie & Daisy BFF" seemed to me to be aimed at young children, maybe 6- or 7-year-old girls.
I am someone who has actively sought out Disney comics stories (as I titled another thread) "where the gals shine." I've bought a slew of the French Minnie Mag (no longer printed) and a few Italian Minnie & Co. I've also looked for stories in the "regular" comics which feature female characters and are well rated on Inducks.
Summary findings: There are indeed a bunch of good stories featuring female characters. Minnie seems to do *much* better getting interesting treatments than Daisy does. I don't know whether this in any way goes back to the origins of the characters in comics, where Gottfredson gave Minnie a more adventurous personality, especially in the early days when she was Mickey's companion-in-arms. Maybe it doesn't go back to beginnings; maybe it's just an artifact of later choices of which character to develop. But whatever the reason, I read a bunch of Minnie stories in the "Minnie"-titled comics that I enjoyed a lot, where she was a lighthouse keeper or an adventurer in ancient Egyptian ruins or the niece of a Miss Marple-like detective, and read no memorable stories starring Daisy in the girl-focused comics. (But note: I've read French & Italian & some German girl-focused comics, all titled "Minnie something", but not the Dutch Daisy comic. Maybe Daisy does better as a character in the Netherlands.) Best recent Daisy story I read was a Daisy-and-Donald story by Laura and Mark Shaw (Pass the Parchment), which I read in Mickey Parade Géant. As FAa says, in the marketed-to-girls comics, Clarabelle Cow also got good play in stories where she's Minnie's sidekick or on her own.
After Minnie, the female character who has the best stories featuring her IMHO is Magica De Spell. In Italian stories in particular, she gets her own world, with family members, a suitor, etc. She's still after the Number One Dime, but she's filled out as a character and becomes more sympathetic.
After Minnie/Clarabelle and Magica, you get a scattering of feminist-friendly stories featuring other characters: Grandma Duck, Belle Duck, AM&J, Madam Mim, even Daisy--though the feminist-friendly Daisy stories I read are mostly "alt-Daisy" stories, with a Daisy-like person in another historical period or fantasy setting. (Gosalyn is great from a feminist POV, but she doesn't get to star often.)
Though I very much want to see stories featuring female characters in a positive light, I would not vote for a female-focused series. There might be an imagined future when a Disney comic with a female title could be marketed to males as well females (as is now happening with some superhero comics--many guys are buying Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl, and they don't think they're buying girl comics), but I don't want a "pink" marketed-to-girls comic analogous to Minnie Mag. I am thrilled that the IDW folks are bringing us Eurasia Toft, and the second appearance of Mercedes Pujol, and (according to an online interview of David Gerstein) Belle Duck. I think the best approach for now is to integrate the best of the female-focused stories into the Core Four comics.