I am just starting Neal Gabler's lengthy biography WALT DISNEY " , of Guess Who ? - Brrr !!!!!!!!!!! - .
I'm just 10-ish pages in .
This lets me: (1) express again the question of Why are the " traditional " Disney titles now absent from the shops ?
If Marvel won't issue 'em , fine , let Boom! have them again !
I recently got , belatedly , one of the last issues of Boom!'s WDC&S...........it was good .
(2) Gabler quotes a statistic that , in his death year 1966 , " 150 million people read a Disney comic strip " ( Along with other statistics re: seeing a movie , watching a TV show - You know , trivial , secondary , blather like that !!!!!!!!! ) Ummm ,e ven assuming some inaccuracy/inflation - Worldwide ? US-side ?
Whatever , it's a bunch: But , do they mean " comic strip " in what I think is the sense in which most American comics fans/aficinados and professionals mean it , the syndicated comic strip a la King Features Syndicate , URS , etc. ?
Or , do they mean " comics story ", more generally , - especially a continuing/regularly published one anywhere , as I suspect might tend to be both the slant more in non-American English and slightly more " formal/correct " Queen's Tongue in the USA ?
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The thing is, here in the 21st century, kids are more likely to go on the Disney websites and do interactive activities featuring their favorite characters than reading a comic. Toy Story currently has a Marvel published comic. And the princess characters have their own magazine full of comics and activities...it's just not sold in comic shops.
"Disney" was less of an empire and more of a family friendly company when Walt was still overseeing things.
My how times have changed.
Lee Houston, Junior said:
Yes ... but if Disney hadn't changed with the times, it would have been absorbed by a bigger conglomerate instead of growing into the conglomerate that absorbs other small fry.
Whether you think that's good or bad is your call.
You could say that about lots of companies, including the one I currently work for,.
Lee Houston, Junior said:
...How are they " not " - or " less " , anyway - " family/friendly " now ?
Harfking back to something that was in the actual news , is this about/similar to the boycott of Disney that the Southern Baptist Convention called back in the 90s over them giving medical benefits to employee's same-sex partners ?
( Note: Yes , the SBC cited other reasons as well , but I do recall that they , specifically , cited the benefits as the #1 offense in their eyes .
Other companies - including , for instance , Heritage Foundation more-or-less #1 funder Coors - offered s-s bs even then , and did not get similarly boycotted - Though , granted , since the SBC is officially against booze , a beer company isn't the best example here !!!!! :-) The Dow Jones Company ( pre-Murdoch ) , I believe ? Anyway , the SBC eventually called off the boycott , saying " it wasn't intended to last forever " . Neither Disney nor the othe5 companies I mentioned driopped s-s bs , IIRC , as I mean , of course , for all I say here . )
Lee Houston, Junior said: