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MustangRockstar
I am curious - what's the story behind these comics:
http://alphacomedy.com/gallery/media/donald-duck/53287.html
Alpha Comedy has daily strips for Donald and Mickey, with appearances by other characters.
Are they reprints? Are they a fan effort?
FAa
They are old daily strips and sunday pages.

The one you link to is the sunday page from August 19, 1962

Today's Donald Duck strip is the daily strip from February 25, 1958
Today's Mickey Mouse strip is the daily strip from June 17, 1957
MustangRockstar
Thank you for clarifying.
I wouldn't mind seeing these strips collected in a manner similar to what Fantagraphics is doing with Mickey Mouse.
FAa
The Mickey daily strips currently being published on Alpha Comedy are by Gottfredson. So I guess eventually they will be collected by Fantagraphics too. But it looks like the sunday pages are work by Manuel Gonzales, and all Donald Duck material is Al Taliaferro. I don't think we are ever going to see a printed complete collection by those two, but a book with selected work and some essays would be nice. In Norway both got a book like that in a series called "Hall of Fame". I would love to see a similar series in English.
But we might get to see more newspaper strips collected soon. According to the recent announcement by IDW, they are going to collect Disney newspaper strips in the "Library of American Comics" series next year.
Thomps2525
In 2011, Al Taliaferro was well represented in in BOOM Studio's trade paperback Disney's Four-Color Adventures, Volume 1. Unfortunately no further volumes ever came out but this one reprints two issues of Dell's Four Color comics. Issue #4 from 1940 was all Al Taliaferro and issue #13 from 1941 included The Reluctant Dragon, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Baby Weems.
http://www.amazon.com/Disneys-Four-Color-Adventures-Volume-1/dp/1608866580
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