DCML Digest, Vol 123, Issue 3

[Arthur S. Bowman]

I love Disney, but can I say, I am so disappointed in them right now.
There are no Disney Comics in The U.S.  And Disney even owns Marvel now.  I
don't understand.  Ridiculous.

Art

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>    1. Format and schedule change for Donald Duck Weekly, Norway
>       (Erlend Vold Enget, Natur og viten as)
>    2. Re: Format and schedule change for Donald Duck Weekly, Norway
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> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:01:53 +0200
> From: "Erlend Vold Enget, Natur og viten as" <erlend at naturogviten.no>
> To: dcml at nafsk.se
> Subject: Format and schedule change for Donald Duck Weekly, Norway
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> Hi!
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> Right before Christmas, Egmont informed us about format and scheduling
> changes for Donald Duck & Co in Norway.
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> Sadly, sales numbers of Donald Duck & Co dictates Egmont will no longer
> publish it weekly, and changes it into a bi-weekly comic book, unless
> you?re a subscriber (as we still gets them weekly). I think about 70% goes
> to subscribers. I can get that part, but find it very sad, after all I grew
> up with the weekly purchase of ?Donald? in the local grocery store.
>
> I?d like to hear if this is also the situation from other countries. I?d
> say I hope not!
>
> Egmont also presented for us a format change, increasing the height of
> Donald Duck & Co with 10 mm. Can anyone tell me the background for this
> format change, as well as if this also occur for other countries? InDucks
> still lists the Donald Duck & Co as a B5-format in 2015.
>
> I taught myself the art of reading reading Disney comic books, and have no
> intention stop reading them now, even in my mid-forties.
>
> Erlend Vold Enget
> Norway
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> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:09:43 +0300
> From: Kriton Kyrimis <kyrimis at alumni.princeton.edu>
> To: dcml at nafsk.se
> Subject: Re: Format and schedule change for Donald Duck Weekly, Norway
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> ERLEND:
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> If I understood correctly, non-subscribers will only get to read every
> second
> issue. Very strange!
>
> Last summer, the publisher of Greek Disney comics changed, reducing the
> number
> of published titles, and increasing the size of the remaining titles, both
> in
> number of pages and in page size. This increase was not done
> proportionately,
> with the most extreme case being that of "Mickey Mouse", which became 2 cm
> taller, resulting in narrow horizontal margins and perhaps (I'm not quite
> sure) some slight vertical stretching of the content. It doesn't really
> affect
> reading the issues, but I have no idea why they did that. Perhaps they
> wanted
> to make a statement that they have nothing to do with the previous
> publisher.
> All I know is that none of the new issues fits next to the issues printed
> by
> the previous publisher!
>
> Kriton.
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Arthur S. Bowman
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