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Quote from user: WBGemstone has to order - and probably pay for - foreign stories from other publishers.
No "probably" about it. We pay. (Not a huge fee, but an understandable one... mainly, I'd just like to debunk the old rumor that we get the stories for free! It's a significant, but not painful expense.)Quote:Most of the material from the pocketbooks (the [D-coded] 3 panel stories) came from Egmont's "Jumbobog" series
And to this I can add??the Italian (I-coded) 3-panel stories, in both Gemstone's now-deceased pockets and more recent regular titles, first saw print in Italy's own TOPOLINO.Quote:The Jaime Diaz studio guys are still around but are not commissioned to do nearly as much Disney work as they once did.
I'm not absolutely certain, but I believe Jaime Diaz's studio closed in 1995. That's why you see former Diaz staffers credited with no mention of Diaz in more recent stories; they migrated to other art studios, or (as you suggest) went freelance.
Anibal Uzal began a very promising Egmont career, but unfortunately passed away several years afterward. Massaroli, whom you also mentioned, has drawn dozens of stories for Egmont and is still at it today.Quote:Quote:I also never knew there were Wuzzles comics.
They were utterly TERRIBLE studio produced comics.
You mean Tom Yakutis' stories? Hey, I liked those! (dodges volley of tomatoes)Quote:The general consensus is that individual writers and artists on the modern day stories is good. But any and all stories produced in-house at Disney Studio were BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD.
Even those written by Dick Kinney, George Davies, Ed Nofziger, and Bob Foster? Even those drawn by Paul Murry, Al Hubbard, and Romano Scarpa? For shame, brother! (-: I'm afraid I too used to judge the Studio output by its (generally) weaker 1980s creations. But there was a lot of good produced there, too.Quote:Only one Gummi Bears story has ever been created that I know of - a studio story printed in an annual - and that in and of itself is a crying shame.
Disney actually produced several dozen Gummi Bears stories; we just haven't seen them over here. The tone and style is exactly the same as the Wuzzles stories??self-conscious, toony gag stories. I thought that worked in the Wuzzles' simple world, but in the Gummis' world, with its potential for wild and rich adventure, it sort of felt to me like a wasted opportunity. The story you remember, "Hate Cuisine," was a fairly typical example.Quote:[live action films] too may be a separate license in and of itself given Gladstone I, II, Marvel, Acclaim, nor Gemstone NEVER produced any comics based on the live action movies.
Seems Marvel did have a license to adapt one live action film: a "Three Musketeers" movie of the mid-90s. They also adapted the live-action 101 DALMATIANS film. Dunno whether they ever attempted anything else remotely similar, though.

I'll be putting them up for sure. It's just a matter of preparing them first.

Quote from user: ramapithA guilty truth about the Goofy History stories??I think they're better in languages other than English.
In English, Goofy usually speaks in a "goofy" dialect; a friendly sort of countrified dialect similar to what he uses on screen. In the original English versions of the Goofy History stories (and some of the Goofy Look At stories), Goofy speaks in basic college English. In most Disney comics, Goofy is kindhearted and nearly selfless; in Goofy History, Goofy often comes across as selfish and arrogant.
For me, "parody" stories as a whole, with Disney stars playing the roles of literary and/or historical characters, only really work if the characters still act like we know them to act. If they're ill-defined actors who only seem to be Mickey, Donald, and Goofy through visual resemblance, I feel like it's a rather poor use of a Mickey, Donald, or Goofy story.
I always understood that as a kind of second degree tale. Just like: "let's play the game that Goofy is the selfish King Midas". In the tradition of Barks' master stories where Donald suddenly becomes the greatest expert at something.

Not long ago Hachette used to print, in the same issue, an 80s Brazilian comic by Soares Rodrigues, a 40s comic-book tale by Harvey Eisenberg, a Vicar story, a French Marin story, a Dutch Ellsworth gag and an old Italian story... (and some Gottfredson as well!). Such variety is puzzling sometimes, but also very refreshing. Many good stuff is created when a "shift" is operated, like for Paperinik's creation where Donald was able to defeat Gladstone and the evil Scrooge - for once?

And still the "history" stories are extremely good, by many people accounts.

I'd still be interested in seeing them all even when they aren't good. Some were okay but most stories are pretty bad.

Just to clarify a few things...

Quote from user: WBMost of the material from the pocketbooks (the 3 panel stories) all came from Egmont's "Jumbobog" series which was a weekly pocket book
The Danish Jumbobog comes out every four weeks -- and it's still being published.

Quote from user: WBEgmont seems to have a pool of freelancers that are based primarily out of Spain with the exception of Cavazzano
Cavazzano isn't really an Egmont artist. Although he has drawn a few stories for Egmont, it has (as far as I know) always been due to a special arrangement between Egmont and Disney Italy.

Quote from user: WBQuote from user: Uncle_EdI also never knew there were Wuzzles comics.
They were utterly TERRIBLE studio produced comics.
Quote from user: WBQuote from user: Uncle_EdWas there ever a Gummi Bears one?
Only one Gummi Bears story has ever been created that I know of - a studio story printed in an annual - and that in and of itself is a crying shame. Gummi Bears deserves better than that.
Actually, a small handful of Wuzzle material and a large stack of Gummi Bear stuff were produced. Check out Inducks (which is still incomplete, as regards the Gummi Bears newspaper strip, by the way).

Quote from user: Roger NorthGummi Bears with the Ducks? That sounds like a good idea for a crossover story but I'm not sure it's going to happen though.
Me neither.