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True, there's been a standalone Disney Comics app for quite some time. But as of today, many of those titles are also available on comiXology.
Link: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/21/disney-on-comixology/

I guess that the future of the comics industry, with no paper and only available online, at least as concerns Disney Comics in North America. The price per story is small. Let's hope that the volume of sales is larger, due to The Internet's ability to reach more people, so that the publishers will still pay enough to make it worthwhile for us writers and artists to write and draw the stories.

...well, whatever it is, I bought the first installment and read it. The verdict: pretty dire, I'm afraid. And not because it plays merry hell with any sort of Barksian continuity--although it does--but because it's dumb and borderline nonsensical with bad, sub-Cavazzano artwork and an indifferent English translation. Also, Grandma's hair, jarringly, is bright yellow. Maybe I'll blog about it one of these days. The story, not Grandma's hair.
I'm somewhat less enthusiastic than Kurt Appel about "Treasure Island" and "Sword of Ice" (the first installment of which I've read in French), but they are definitely to be recommended over this. The bigger point, though, is that I'll be disappointed if the future of Disney comics in the US is purely digital. But if that's the way it's gonna be, whoever is in charge of this enterprise REALLY needs to hire someone to select some better stories and do some better localizations. This dull, lifeless writing isn't gonna cut it in ANY format.

I have read all Scrooge McDuck's Millions stories in my language and it's a fine series to me. Should have been better. It would be great if they translated some Italian Chip 'n' Dale stories in English .

It would be cool if they could release those stories here in America. There hasn't been any stories with traditional Disney Comics Characters since November 2011.

Quote from user: GeoXAlso, Grandma's hair, jarringly, is bright yellow. Maybe I'll blog about it one of these days. The story, not Grandma's hair.
I see that again and again in Disney comics that the hair of old African, South American etc. natives, where the artist's intention clearly is to leave it white or to color it grey, is colored blonde (yellow). Some colorists really seem to be ridden by the unquenchable drive to fill every white space with color.

I don't like digital comics. I have no interest in them at all and I doubt if I ever will. I like Carl Barks and Don Rosa stories, the Fantagraphic Carl Barks Library, the larger sized Another Rainbow album series, Don Rosa's LO$, the Barks Collector, Carl Barks Conversations, Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book by Thomas Andrae, Barney Bear, Carl Barks lithographs, original drawings by Carl Barks or Don Rosa (and the great memories I have from meeting both of them), the different Dark Horse Scrooge Series figures, the Fine Art of Donald Duck, and visiting comic forums such as this one.

I'm still undecided about exploring the Fantagraphic Mickey Mouse books that everyone here recommends so highly. If I had lots and lots of money to blow I would buy original Carl Barks paintings and get all his bronzes. These are things I like. I enjoy the hunt, whether it be online or going into a comic book store. I like to hold things in my hand, see them, or have them in my bookshelves. I like the smell of comic books and to be able to move a physical statue around to see it at different angles. Digital just won't ever replace the physical thing for me.

I guess that's why, also, I don't keep my comic books in milar sleeves with backing boards. I try not to abuse them, either, but I want to be able to just easily grab a story and read it whenever I feel like it. It's mine and I want to enjoy it. I don't think digital would bring me that same happiness.

Patrick Hanifin
www.PatrickHanifin.com
www.SqueakyCleanComedy.com

I have to wonder if publishing these stories in a strictly digital format isn't the *only* plan for standard character Disney comics in the US.
With print comic sales dwindling, digital greatly minimizes the financial risk. Also, these stories are straight up reprints. I doubt it's costing Disney much of anything to make them available in a digital format.
Now, as an aside -- we publish our own comics both digitally and traditionally (see http://amzn.to/W3PQsA). Thus far, our print sales have far outnumbered our digital sales (both through Amazon and the iVerse Comics+ app). It seems to me that with comics, those paying for a copy want a tangible, physical thing, and not a "rental."
Then again, comiXology, etc. are catching on like wildfire, so who knows?