Talk:Disney comics

"Disney" comics vs. "Disney Comics"
I'm not sure this page makes much sense. We do need an entry about Disney Comics, but currently that entry stands only for the publishing company that held that name some time ago.

I think a Disney_Comics_(publisher) should be created and the current references to Disney Comics moved to that. So this one could redirect to a new Disney Comics page that would contain a better version of this page. What do you think? Lazarus Long 10:52 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)


 * I did it. (no need for "publisher" since "Disney Comics" is different than "Disney comics").Lazarus Long 11:24 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Artists and schools
We should probably have some info about major artists and schools of Disney Comics, such as:

Carl Barks

Don Rosa

Floyd Gottfredson

Paul Murry

Al Taliaferro

Egmont School (Vicar, Branca et. al)

Italian School (Cavazzano, Scarpa et. al)

Dutch School (Daan Jippes et. al, Freddy Milton?(He's danish, though))

Well, these are some names and schools I could think of, for now...

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.198.149.226 (talk • contribs) 22:13, 28 November 2004

comic strips
How about a list of Disney comic strips? At one point there were quite a few, some obscure. Also maybe a brief description of the annual Christmas strip that was done with Disney characters for some years. Those often had unusual crossovers, with various chaacters interacting who seldom did (like Big Bad Wolf and the three fairies from Sleeping Beauty). Artists for this included Floyd Gottfredson and Tony Strobl. Another historically significant strip was the adaptation of the movie The Black Hole for the Sunday Disney Treasures strip drawn by Jack Kirby.

Dgabbard (talk) 18:52, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I was thinking that perhaps we should divide the section on American Disney comics into a section on comic books and a section about comic strips. 96T (talk) 20:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I've made a start at listing the comics strips. Maybe we need to provide some information on who wrote and drew these. Having separate sections sounds like a good idea. Dgabbard (talk) 01:55, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Brazil section
I know the French article's Brazil section says something like "style underground", but after checking up the artist on Inducks, the style doesn't look much like Underground Comix, but rather as popular modernist mainstream cartoon design from the same era. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 12:16, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Stories by Canini, the main Brazilian artist in early times, really have an underground flavor. Lerichard (talk) 20:31, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Depends on your definition of Underground, I guess. It's different from the standard Disney style, but it's certainly less gritty than a lot of UC. Looks more like hip cartoon design to me. (Granted, I haven't read any of his stories, just checked out his style on the Inducks galleries.) 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 01:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi! I'm from Brazil and I've sincerely never considered Disney comic stories made in Brazil as having an underground flavor, except for the stories of Jose Carioca by Renato Canini, which really are unusual for Disney comics in terms of comic script and mainly drawing style. But, in a general way, Brazilian cartoonists and comic writers rarely created something too different from the Disney comics developed outside of Brazil. Of course they used to add a Brazilian flavor to their own Disney comic stories, but I don't think this means that they should be classified as alternative ones. In addition, it's true that they also dared to change a bit the personality of characters like Daisy Duck and Hard Haid Moe, but nothing too radical. And, as you probably know, Brazilian Disney Studio was a place where many characters forgotten by American and European readers of Disney comics like Double-O Duck, Hustler Duck and Gotrocks continued being used in comic stories. These American characters were simply adopted by Brazilian Disney comic artists, who also developed some great characters, such as Dugan Duck, Firmina and Gloria (Fethry's girlfriend). Erasurian (talk) 17:26, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

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Germany
Did Germany really produce comics on their own, or did they mostly import comics from elsewhere. There has been magazines produced in many countries in the world, and I think the list should be limited to countries with a notable production on their own. Otherwise, I think the article would merely be a cluttered list of countries. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 16:12, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * They produced some comics themselves (codes start with G, see here). I agree that the current text is however slightly off-topic, as it doesn't talk about that production. Lerichard (talk) 09:30, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, yeah, that album series "Abenteuer aus Onkel Dagoberts Schatztruhe" was quite good, IIRC (even if it appears most artist behind it were Spanish or Latin Americans). Thanks for the reply. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 11:21, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 * There's one or two notable German Donald Duck artists, de:Volker Reiche and de:Jan Gulbransson. --80.187.113.170 (talk) 14:05, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

New Article
What about moving the rather voluminous section on the US to a new article Disney comics in the USA and only leaving a short summary over here? It'd make it much easier to structurize that huge bulk of information with further sub-section headings. --79.193.43.100 (talk) 03:31, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The US section seems rather verbose to me. Also, I don't find it necessary to include sections about countries with no particular production of their own. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 14:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, it would be mostly sort of a history article, sadly, what I had in mind, akin to Golden Age of Comic Books, Silver Age of Comic Books, or Bronze Age of Comic Books. All three "Ages" are definitely a thing of the past, and look at the size of their own articles! Especially considering that up until the early 1970s, funny animals publications including Disney's by far outnumbered the production and sale of superhero comics on the US market.


 * Barks, Rosa, Strobl, Murray, Van Horn would be names of creators that come to mind, and then there's publishers such as Dell, Gold Key, Whitman, Gladstone I, Disney Comics, Gladstone II, Gemstone, Boom! And then there's the 7 main titles, most of them running for decades:


 * Mickey Mouse and Friends
 * Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
 * Donald Duck Four Color
 * Uncle Scrooge
 * Huey, Dewey and Louie Junior Woodchucks
 * Uncle Scrooge Adventures
 * Donald Duck Adventures


 * So you see, there's plenty of stuff to include in an article entitled Disney comics in the USA. --37.82.147.190 (talk) 18:21, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

"Films" for reprints
The section Story code currently mentions "films or other reproducible materials to facilitate said reprinting" of a comic story. If it's put just like that, it sounds a bit confusing, as if Disney USA would send the licensee an MPEG-DVD or a projectable 35mm movie print. Could it be that what's meant here is really a microfiche copy of b/w inks? --2003:71:4E6A:B430:A401:F490:A08:533 (talk) 23:06, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

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New section
I have added a short 'Criticism' section. focusing on the book 'How to read Donald Duck: Imperialist ideology in the Disney Comic', by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart, as this seems notable. BobBadg (talk) 20:03, 15 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you, what a good idea. — Toughpigs (talk) 22:43, 15 November 2020 (UTC)