Fantagraphics to publish Gottfredson's daily strips

Tom Wormstedt t.wormstedt at gmail.com
Mon Jul 26 20:42:25 CEST 2010


 When I read this news I yelled out loud!  This is great, huge news!  I
still can't believe it!  I know a company in Italy got a license to reprint
all the dailies & sundays has already published several books - so this does
seem to be more realistic now.

I clicked the 'speaks briefly' link and it took me to techland.  When I
scrolled down I noticed it was a time.com website.  It seemed to be too good
to be true, so I opened up time.com in a new window and did a Mickey Mouse
search.  The article didn't come up but I was able to find the article by
clicking on techland's link from time's website - so this certainly seems
genuine.

So far it doesn't look like many major news outlets had the news yet, maybe
Disney & Fantagraphics want to keep it quiet for now and make a major
announcement when they're ready.  Thoughts anyone?


- Tom Wormstedt







> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: August Yang <wintermute at speakeasy.net>
> To: dcml at nafsk.se
> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:23:46 -0400
> Subject: Fantagraphics to publish Gottfredson's daily strips
>
> http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/07/sdcc-10-fantagraphics-disney-to-release-gottfredsons-mickey-strips/
>
> *Fantagraphics Books announced this afternoon from Comic-Con
> International, via Twitter<http://twitter.com/fantagraphics/status/19452763358>,
> that it has partnered with Disney to publish the complete Mickey Mouse comic
> strips by Floyd Gottfredson, the cartoonist renowned for his defining work
> on the character. He is to Mickey Mouse comics what Carl Barks is to Donald
> Duck comics.*
>
> *Gottfredson was 24 years old when he was assigned to the fledgling Mickey
> Mouse strip in 1930, and continued to work on it for the next 45 years.
> During his long tenure, he introduced such characters as the miserly Eli
> Squinch, Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse, Chief O'Hara and the
> Phantom Blot. Gottfredson retired in 1975, and passed away in 1986 at age
> 81.*
>
> *Fantagraphics will begin releasing the collections in May 2011. No other
> details were announced.*
>
> *Update: Douglas Wolk speaks briefly<http://techland.com/2010/07/24/fantagraphics-announces-mickey-mouse-reprints/>to Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth about the reprints.
> *
>
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