Why does Disney have the comic licenses split between IDW (specifically stuff related to the Duck and Mouse comics, as well as a comic based off of the Tangled cartoon) and Joe Books instead of having Marvel do everything?
Why does Disney have the comic licenses split between IDW (specifically stuff related to the Duck and Mouse comics...
Liam Hernandez
Gabriel Sullivan
Because Marvel doesn't want to do kid comics anymore.
Xavier Moore
Marvel doesn't give a shit about Disney and Joe Books is dead. They're literally dying after their last few Cinestory comics. They canned Darkwing Duck and I believe all of their other movie based comics because of poor management. It's over for them. Of course, when you sell nothing but literal screenshots of movies and call them "comics", what do you expect?
In terms of IDW they're on the edge with the Disney licenses. Due to printing costs they're canning Duck Avenger after issue #5 and Walt Disney's Comics & Stories is becoming quarterly.
Honestly, Disney should start up their own publisher for the mascot comics. They have enough money, whereas the smaller publishers always struggle. It's been a mess in America in recent years and I feel we're just going to see them switching publishers every 3-4 years now.
Owen Jackson
Look at Marvels recent catalog of quality and ask that question again.
Alexander Martin
They save money not having to publish them, plus they get license money. All in all I mostly like the division. Marvel wouldn’t have localized PKNA and wouldn’t have done great collections like Fanta does with the Barks and Gottfredson books.
Carson Roberts
They're canning Duck Avenger? WTF? It's never been translated and everyone took the scanlations down when it was licensed.
Luis Davis
>they're canning Duck Avenger after issue #5
Source?
Logan Reyes
It's currently suspended because said printing costs- it basically is in profit, but by a very low margin.
That said, how the hell is printing so expensive in the USA? American floppies are overpriced by comparison in basically every other country.
Oliver Rivera
featherysociety.proboards.com
>Sadly, rising paper costs have been a problem for us since last fall, and necessitated us to put a hold on DUCK AVENGER at least for the time being—a severe disappointment to Jon Gray and myself, not to mention the rest of our team. We genuinely loved bringing PKNA to the English speaking world; we had wanted to do it for many years (and couldn't, until now, because the original PK continuity had to be established first); and I personally think Jon's PKNA translations/localizations rank with his very best Disney work.
>Other titles are affected too, but I'll need to wait till certain decisions are made before I can tell you more. All of this takes place independently of DUCKTALES, by the way (sorry, Fritz—maybe, like Launchpad himself, the brand has a knack for showing up at a difficult time, but that doesn't make it the cause!).
Alexander Morales
>Other titles are affected too,
Just Disney?
Jacob Scott
Yup. As I mentioned before, Walt Disney's Comics & Stories is becoming quarterly and I believe Uncle Scrooge is the only series safe and continuing monthly. About the other titles, I don't know. They may switch between Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck every month. We'll have to wait until the August solicitations, which shouldn't be a long wait.
Oliver Diaz
Green laws. A lot of the laws meant to protect the enviroment are just taxes on regular shit factories do that don't actually do anything for the enviroment.
Oliver Morgan
weird, given basically even the greener countries have cheaper printing costs.
Henry Bailey
>Oh well, that mean the scanlations will be posted again.
>The blog has been eliminated.
FUUUUUUUUUK.
Christian Brown
What exactly do you mean, by greener?
Greater forested areas? Then it would implies they have a greater mean of production for wood in the first place so they can produce enough to accommodate their demand locally, its more a question of proper management than environment protection.
Sebastian Perry
I still can see it
Aiden Adams
I was talking about duckbanker.blogspot.mx
Which has some stuffs from last year and was the original translator (I think), thanks anyway. I`ll download what I can.
Hudson Morgan
Ah, he has a new one.
Grayson Gomez
>IDW has the license for the Tangled TV Show comic
>Joe Books did a cinestory comic based off of Before Ever After
Henry Hughes
Thanks a lot user.
Lincoln James
I think it says something how the only non-disney comics fans to hear about Joe Books are Star vs Fans urging people to buy the star comic so we can get the later 4 issues