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As a survivor of many delays and disappointments on the Disney-comics-in-the-USA front, I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high...but this is exciting news.
I'd agree on the general rule that we need no more Barks or Gottfredson reprints, with the one exception of the Barks stories redrawn by Jippes which we have not seen in English (e.g. the rest of the Barks-written JW stories). In fact, it would be fine to forgo reprints in general. There is PLENTY of great material that has never been printed in the USA; I could easily come up with a list of dozens of stories I would love to see in English. Let's start with a Halloween special: Rota's terrific Nightmare Ship, Laura & Mark Shaw's Pass the Parchment, David Gerstein's The Bard's Tale, Janet Gilbert's All Tricks and No Treats, Rodolphe Jacquette's Fantôme a tous les étages.... Or a Christmas/New Year's issue: Katriens Kerstdiner, The Cake House, Billyum (but give that poor cat a better name, please!), Frank Jonker's Kerstavond, Missing the Mistletoe, and Charlie Martin's A New Year, A New Donald....plus a TPB of Byron Erickson's four-part story on Donald and the traditions of Christmas, which includes a Rosa-compatible depiction of a Christmas celebration in Scrooge's childhood in Scotland.
Best Gladstone: Party of None! Best AMJ: Per Hedman's The Substitutes. Best Bolivar: Viva Bolivar! Best Clarabelle: Le soda se boit sec. Best Goofy: Pippo e la Banda Tris. Best Grandma Duck: Bananas; On the Run; The Case of the Hungry Thief. Best Helper: Little Helper Lost. Best Daisy (and best Scarpa, for an American sensibility): Paperin Hood (already ably translated by GeoX!). This is all just off the top of my head. None ever published in the USA. Let's hire some good localizer-dialoguists and get moving!

Amazon, I hope? (I'm from Europe myself.)
Or direct from IDW?

sk

You know, I'm not sure if IDW will even be able to do this, but I would also love, besides seeing European stories printed here, the opportunity for people here in America to write NEW Disney comics. Who knows...maybe there's another Don Rosa-like person out there who has dreamed of wanting to be able to write and draw Disney comics, and this will be their chance? I don't know if anyone at IDW has a heart for writing/drawing Disney comics, but it would be awesome to see brand new works that have never been published anywhere ever (if done well by Americans who value the properties).

So, while I think it would be cool to see never-before-printed stories by Van Horn, Scarpa, Rota, etc., I also hope that IDW opens the doors for new American writers/artists to try their wings (so to speak ;) ) in publishing brand new Disney stories as well.

Talk to you later!

JDHJANUS
Josh

It would be cool to see new Disney Comic Stories that have never been released anywhere.

Look forward to reading your Ogo Pogo story, Rob. I'm very fond of my Ogopogo stamp, in that great set of stamps featuring Canadian cryptids. (And where are the stamps of American cryptids? I tell you, in comparison with Canada, this is such a lame country.) If you take Donald and the boys to Lake Okanagan, then Rawson could take Minnie and Mickey to Lake Champlain (since they fell in love with what is probably Vermont in Vacation Brake). There are overall more duck stories with lake monsters than there are mouse stories, due to Scrooge's Scottish origins.

Yes, I do know who Tsoukalis is--didn't know he had a Canadian connection. Or will he just be there on a research project?
But, back on thread topic... I'm very pleased to see, here and elsewhere, how much confidence people in the know have in the folks at IDW. The more I read, the more hopeful I become.

Quote from user: JanoQuote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderIt's one step towards regular Disney comics in the US. I like it.
It *is* regular traditional Disney comics in the US, as the highlighted paragraph above (about the monthly standard character titles) clearly says. 8)

And yes, IDW is one of the publishers with the most capable staff at the moment, so there books will surely be to the liking of the fans. We'll see.
We're all assuming that the "core four" titles (Scrooge, Donald, Mickey and WDC&S) will be resumed, preferably with their traditional numbering system, but has that actually been confirmed anywhere, or does anyone have any inside information? The press release speaks of "multiple monthly titles" featuring characters like Minnie Mouse, Pluto and Goofy (not the first names that come to mind when thinking of classic Disney comics).

Also, any further details on the newspaper strip collections that have also been announced by IDW? What era, what artist, etc.?

With "Joe Books" (whoever they are) seeming poised to publish "modern" Disney material (which I guess includes Disney Afternoon titles like Darkwing Duck) it looks like we're seeing another classic-modern dichotomy akin to the Gladstone II-Marvel apportionment of the mid-90s. Strange how history comes full circle ... even more bizarre that Disney now owns Marvel which is nowhere in the picture anymore.

It´s almost three month ago, that IDW announced the Artits edtions, but i am still waiting for the monthly disney titles to come back.
So much time gone and with no further news from IDW, i am more and more afraid, that there will be no return of the monthly classic titles.
What do you think?