Are Disney Comiocs still being published? I can't recall the last time I saw any at my comics store
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Are Disney Comiocs still being published? I can't recall the last time I saw any at my comics store
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Since Disney bought Marvel, there have been Toy Story and Muppets comics published by them. There are a series of magazines starring various Disney characters (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Cars, Fairies, Princesses, Pirates, Phineas and Ferb) which have comics along with puzzles, games, and articles. Fantagraphics is publishing nice Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse newspaper strip collections and Carl Barks' various Donald and Scrooge comic collections.
That's amazing! Disney buys one of the top 2 comic book publishers, and decides to stop publishing comics. (I used to love Mickey Mouse Adventures in the late 1980s)
Most US Disney comics have been published by licensees. From the 40s to 1962 Disney's US publisher was Dell. The stories were produced by another company called Western Publishing, which (if I understand correctly) actually held the rights. In 1962 Dell and Western split. Western's new Gold Key line became the home of the Disney's title. Gold Key stopped publishing in 1984. According to this Wikipedia article Disney's US publisher then became Gladstone until 1990, from which point Disney briefly published its comics itself. Subsequent Disney titles have been published by a variety of companies.
The popularity of comics starring the Disney cartoon characters has apparantly held up better in some other countries than in the US, and original stories with the characters have been produced for these other markets.
And for most kids, three (at least) Disney channels, multiple Disney interactive websites, and scores of films/TV series on DVD, Netflix,etc have replaced print comics.
http://disney.go.com/disneyinsider/mobile-apps/disney-comics
Kids can pick the character that they want to read a comic about on their preferred device and go to it. Paper is dying and Disney knows it.
I should also state that I'm a fan and a stockholder.
I used to be a Marvel stockholder but lost it all in the bankruptcy; I am a Disney stockholder, too, so I have Marvel again!
...Zorro , to get more specific , the " traditional " Disney stuff - especially the " ducks and mice " , Donald and Mickey , etc. , were most recently published by Boom! Studios , who continued UNCLE SCROOGE , WDC&S , and a couple more , IIRC...Then , about a year back , they stopped appearing .
I was told by the owner at my LCS that Quesada , at Marvel , feels the tradional Disney characters ' don't suit MarveL " - Fine , in that case , why were the plugs pulled on Boom! doing it , which they were doing for a couple years or so , and decently so ? I don't know .