Disney-comics digest #298.

David A Gerstein David.A.Gerstein at williams.edu
Wed Apr 13 01:56:12 CEST 1994


	Dear Folks,

	Donald D. Markstein was responsible for the Disney Comics
Bucky Bug scripts??!  YYYES!  Now I know what really happened!  That
filled in the final link in a puzzle!

	Bucky Bug was very popular in Disney Comics' WDC&S -- so much
so that new stories were commissioned (for the first time since 1955).
When I visited Disney Comics in March 1991, I actually saw a new model
sheet for Bucky and June.  They were to have been drawn not as they
looked in the 1940s or (worse) 1950s, but as they looked in 1930s
Sunday pages.  Beautiful drawings of them.  June even had her
spit-curls back.

	But the stories were never drawn!  The Disney Comics cut-down
left Disney owning the scripts, but without funding to pay for an
artist to DRAW those stories.  (The same thing happened to some lost
MMA scripts, as well as a few for Disney TV cartoon stars.)

	And that's that, oder was?  Another -- and perhaps the most
little-known -- casualty of the Disney cutdown.
	
	FABIO:  How is Comic Art reprinting these Sunday pages?  Are
they reproduced from black-and-white proofs (with the color added
fresh), or from yellowing old newspapers?  Are the strips left in
English?  (Doesn't sound like it, since you mention Bucky being called
Buci.)
	Most important:  IF THESE STORIES ARE BEING REPRODUCED FROM
PROOFS (as were the Sunday strips in _Mickey Mouse in Color_), DOES
COMIC ART HAVE ACCESS TO ENGLISH VERSIONS?  That's presumably what
they're working from...

	Yours,

	David Gerstein

	"I'm de Fuller Brush Man!  I'm givin' g'way free semple!"
	<David.A.Gerstein at Williams.edu>



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