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Post by brianf on Sept 17, 2018 23:49:03 GMT -5
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Post by DubipR on Sept 18, 2018 10:03:15 GMT -5
This I'd like to see collected! |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 18, 2018 11:04:57 GMT -5
This I'd like to see collected! Disney owns it; but seems to care F-all about collecting their old comic adaptations and stuff like Barks, turning Uncle Scrooge over to Fantagraphics to reprint individual stories. You'd think they would let Marvel package the old Walt Disney's Comics and Stories stuff, as well as the tv and movie adaptations, into a line of books that would sell well in bookstores and on Amazon. Disney has always had a real hole in their thinking when it came to comics they already owned. The reason they bought Marvel was to own characters that appealed to young boys, based on the ratings of the Marvel cartoons on the Disney cable networks. Same thing for X-Men. Their other stuff was mainly favored by girls. Otherwise, they have treated comic books like licensed tissue paper, for decades. |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 18, 2018 11:27:09 GMT -5
Comic sales are literally nothing in comparison to DVD/Bluray and toy sales for Disney. IDW has been trying to push the Disney comics for the last several years with no luck in sales. They started up with a monthly Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge. Mickey and Donald were combined quickly into a Quarterly with Uncle Scrooge and Duck Tales (based on the new cartoon) added as the only monthly's now from IDW. Walt Disney Comics and Stories was a bi-monthly and had gone to Quarterly as well and is ending soon.
Disney as a corporation isn't too worried about having the Original Gangsta's of Uncle Walt getting reprints as they don't really use them for anything other than marketing to really young children in the USA. With the continued decline of readership they don't see printing comic books as economically necessary in comparison to other venues which produce larger sales.
Dare you to go out and shop for the classic early Walt Disney cartoons as well. They are difficult to find unless you shop around via internet for used copies. Disney prefers to focus on newer trends and stuff than on classic/traditional fundamentals anymore. The new Ducktales cartoon is a point in example.
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 18, 2018 17:00:31 GMT -5
Yes, Disney ****ing sucks.
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