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All I want to know is this...
Will Disney Comics EVER come back to America...or does it have the same fate as Cleveland winning a Championship?

Gemstone's Walt Disney Treasures sold over 12,000 copies; Gemstone's Life of Scrooge sold over 30,000. That's perfectly acceptable for $14 trade paperbacks, and that's a profitable path any new publisher could easily take.
But first they'll have to ignore unfounded rumors that our medium is somehow inherently unprofitable; rumors that seem to fly thick and fast around the pessimistic DCF.

Please don't jump to conclusions, fellas. When classic-style product is well-advertised, the sales figures show that it can do just fine.

I don't care if Marvel or Fantagraphics publishes the Disney Comics as long as we have a company that publishes them. Hopefully the next company won't butcher the Disney Comics like Boom Studios did.

...but unfortunately you need to sustain 5,000 a month to appear in Diamond's Holy Almighty Previews Catalogue. (Unless that's been repealed)
Regardless, I agree with David. The market is there. If Archie can still be a big player, so can the Duck family.

Not meaning to sound ignorant and foolishly optimistic, but it IS indeed possible for the comics to become popular in North America (or at least kind of so). The main thing is marketing, I believe, as well as a little luck. I am a strange specimen for my age group as well as my location for liking the Disney comics. However, the truth of the matter is, I doubt that any of my friends have actually read a Disney comic before. In fact, I'm not sure if they have ever seen one before, or if they have they probably excepted cheesy stories with scripts that looked like to was ripped off of a B-rated 60's cartoon. How on earth is Disney comics going to succeed in the North American market if the market doesn't even know about them and/or expects little of them, other than people that are already fans in the first place? I admit that I am not the person that should be talking of such things because I don't actually go into comic book shops that often, but still, it was actually by chance that I read Disney comics in the first place.
In my particular case, it was not a childhood love of the comics for myself. Here (I was actually greatly surprised that it is apparently different in Europe), Disney comics is not a staple for children. Barely at all... or at least in my case and in my experiences. That means that the intended audience as a whole is not reading them at it's present time... which is bad, but again, it's not impossible to turn that around. Basically, it's putting them where parents are likely to go (though I know nothing about that type of thing of how hard that is etc.) Actually, the fact that archie comics are on newsstands and what have you is probably why it's still around.
Also another point I would like to bring up is just because Disney comics are primary intended for children, doesn't mean that it's main audience ends up being that way (as we are living proof of). One of the most popular things among 18-25 year old males where I live right now is a little girls show about colourful ponies (My little pony: Friendship is Magic... I kid you not). I doubt anyone really saw that one coming, but it somehow did. I've never seen it myself, but apparently the jokes can cross the age line (and even the gender border). We all know that the Disney comics can do that, so as I mentioned, the potential is there. It just got to get itself out there a little more than it has been. In fact, in my case, it was later on that I read Disney Comics and I was surprised at the level of storytelling in it (it's was a Carl Barks story mind you). Pretty much my point of that is that if I can become a fan of them, it is not impossible for others as well, aka, an audience outside of the intended audience can be created.
All I hope is that IF there is a new publisher whoever that will be (marvel or otherwise) will realize that, and play their cards right.
(Ah I'm really sorry if I completely missed the point or something. To tell the truth I'm a little nervous about posting this. I hope this make sense and not just me blabbing about something I know nothing about hahaha....)

Do you think that digicomics can help to reach kids? I mean not like a substitute for comics, but a new instrument to achieve this goal.

Back in the day, I purchased a copy of Donald Duck 286--the sixtieth-anniversary issue--from a tiny gift shop in a regional airport. I think that if Disney comics were again able to achieve that level of saturation, there would be no problem. But haven't people on this very board reported that you couldn't even buy then at Disney theme parks (fercrissake)? That's just unforgivable.