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Are those albums in English?

I've started writing the book, have lots of great information, and have done lots of interviews, including several interviews with Taliaferro's wife before she died and interviews with some of his co-workers. My agent hasn't found a publisher who will commit to the book yet, so we are still working on that part. I'd be interested in knowing how those on this forum feel about whether there's a good market for a book about Taliaferro. His contribution to the creation to Donald Duck is enormous, but I don't know how many people actually know that.

I've been reading Taliaferro's strips through the following link: [...]. Here in Brazil, Disney comic readers just care about Barks/Rosa, but Taliaferro owned a fantastic sense of humor indeed. Is there some prejudice against him because he just wrote comic strips and not full stories?
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Quote from user: HedbergYou shouldn't post links to illegal sites!
Not that I mind, but it's the policy here
(and I guess Lars Jensen will pop up in a moment and tell you exactly the same)

But I don't think that any of us are prejudicial against him. He just did what he did best - and in a funny way, too...
The name "Wrath of Jensen" sticks with me. :)

Quote from user: Lars JensenQuote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderThe name "Wrath of Jensen" sticks with me. :)
I have no sympathy for trolls. If I had written something like that about you or any of the other users here, I would be endlessly criticized for it.
I don't know if I completely understand it, but I'm not trying to be a troll. Somebody else gave a link to that site a while ago, on which somebody else responded something like: "Oh, great. Now you're going to invoke the Wrath of Jensen." I found it funny and it just stuck with me. Don't get me wrong, though, you're right about that the link should be removed. You won't hear endlessly critisism from me.

Quote from user: ChabacanoI've been reading Taliaferro's strips through the following link: [...]. Here in Brazil, Disney comic readers just care about Barks/Rosa, but Taliaferro owned a fantastic sense of humor indeed. Is there some prejudice against him because he just wrote comic strips and not full stories?
I don't think it's necessarily a prejudice if those short comic strips don't appeal so much to one. I do fully acknowledge and prize Karp and Taliaferro as pre-Barksian prophets of Donald Duck, but being honest I must admit that my interest for their strip work is much lower than for the work of Barks or of other great creators of long stories in later times. It's surely not the prejudice of the ignorant that is here at work; actually I do read all Taliaferro strips I come across, and I also bought the collection of sunday strips that was started (and soon ceased) here years ago. I'd say it's indeed the limited scope of the gag strip compared with the long story that makes the first one of only secondary interest for many, even if Karp and Taliaferro did excellent work on the field of the gag strip. However, I also find Barks' one- and half-pager gags comparatively "uninteresting".

Should it be among these? Clicking through the single publications, I did not come across a long Taliaferro work there, though ...