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Quote from user: cacouHarukuro,
I have indexed for Inducks some French-Canadian comics from Heritage.
http://coa.inducks.org/country.php/x/ca
These comics are from the late 70s - beginning of the 80s and feature stories taken from Gold Key or Whitman US comics and a few French comics of the time (Picsou magazine). I haven't heard of anything else being published in Canada, except from:
- an old 30s book (apparently a remake of UK's MM annual 1933)
- newspapers from Quebec
More at: http://outducks.org/ca/
I don't count the usual Gladstone-Gemstone/Hachette comics that are sold in the English and French speaking areas of Canada.
Thanks cacou. :) I found this a while ago but it's still interesting. I usually buy Gemstone stuff on the web though.

We certainly do need a Floyd Gottfredson Library.
A Taliaferro Library would be nice, too.

Quote from user: Robb_KThere are several Gottfredson long adventure stories I don't have. And I'd like to have it all TOGETHER in a single, uniform format!
My problem is just that i know i will never get through the last 20 years of the mans career. Sure the books might look nice next to the Barks Library, but it just wouldn't be the same

Quote from user: cacouHarukuro,
I have indexed for Inducks some French-Canadian comics from Heritage.
http://coa.inducks.org/country.php/x/ca
These comics are from the late 70s - beginning of the 80s and feature stories taken from Gold Key or Whitman US comics and a few French comics of the time (Picsou magazine). I haven't heard of anything else being published in Canada, except from:
- an old 30s book (apparently a remake of UK's MM annual 1933)
- newspapers from Quebec
More at: http://outducks.org/ca/
I don't count the usual Gladstone-Gemstone/Hachette comics that are sold in the English and French speaking areas of Canada.
AHA! It must have been the Heritage books, rather than Hachette Canadian printings that I was remembering. In the 1950s we got the US Walt Disney Comics in Canada.

I'll be modest in my requests: Please let the Danish Anders And Extra distribution truck crash and burn. Then get the Norwegians to fly in disaster relief in the form of their Mikke monthly. The monthly has been a waste of paper for years, but at least the Norwegians got a little X-Mickey to spice up the 'øllebrød'.

Seriously. The Big Publisher has been cuttting the European cake into tiny language slices, most of which can barely support a weekly comic book and a monthly - not counting grrrl zines like WITCH, Princesses, et.c. What us diehard fans are asking for is not mainstream enough to sell to the average buyer in tens of thousands of copies in any county - not counting Italy. But do we crave for a local language edition of the Carl Barks Collection, the Floyd Gottfredson Goodies or the Luciano Bottaro Big Whoop?

No, I reply, most duckfans are able to read English and would probably prefer original language editions at least of the American writers, and would happily settle for English editions of stories of Italian (or Dutch or Brazilian...) origin. And suddenly, instead of a thousand fans in Denmark, 10,000 in Germany, Finland, Norway... you'd have maybe 50,000 readers Europewide, willing to buy the same print, reducing costs dramatically.
I believe there is some competition clause in the deal with Disney USA that publishers can't go worldwide, which was apparently what killed Gladstone II when they were cut off from European distribution, but I wonder if there isn't a loophole somewhere. Suppose the UK publishers went into action and published a Scarpa Library? It probably wouldn't sell a single copy in the UK(!) but the buzz would run like wildfire across the European fan forums.

Anyway, how many of you happy buyers of local Brutopian editions of the Carl Barks Collection would swap it for an international edition? Hands, please.

Quote from user: andenlife and time of scrooge McDuck published again.
Bah, humbug. With all due respect, that series has been published over and over again in every country 'round the world.

I would give half my arm* to see some more classic stories drawn by Scarpa, Bottaro, Carpi, Gatto, Capitanio and other classic italian stuff printed in danish or english - it's all the same to me, as long as I don't have to work my way through italian dialogue to read them. There are loads of material out there just waiting to be reprinted in easier understandable languages, in a publication dedicated to the classic italian stuff. And I prefer the pocket format. As far as I know, Mickey Mouse Adventures is mostly newer stories, right?

Maybe someone could just reprint the I Grandi Classici Disney pockets in english? (but without the occasional american stuff, which can be read better elsewhere) I also really like the cool Cavazzano covers on these books, although he did draw better ducks in the old (big-eyed ) days.
Gemstone has allready begun with stuff like the translation of Martina's Mickey's Inferno, and that's great! Next step a new ital-pocket series, perhaps?

*Okay, so maybe I wouldn't give my arm - but you catch my drift, right?

Quote from user: PaperOleSuppose the UK publishers went into action and published a Scarpa Library? It probably wouldn't sell a single copy in the UK(!) but the buzz would run like wildfire across the European fan forums.
That's exactly what I did when I bought on ebay uk something like 100 newspaper supplement (Daily Mirror, it was, take a look at http://coa.inducks.org/publication.php/x/uk/DMR) with Gottfredson stuff in them...

Would you believe it? They weren't in their original language, but were just a re-translation back into English from the Italian reprint of Il Messaggero (http://coa.inducks.org/publication.php/x/it/MESS)...

- Paolo