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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I clicked the 'speaks briefly' link and it took me to techland. When I scrolled down I noticed it was a <a href="http://time.com">time.com</a> website. It seemed to be too good to be true, so I opened up <a href="http://time.com">time.com</a> 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.</div>
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<div>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?</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: August Yang <<a href="mailto:wintermute@speakeasy.net" target="_blank">wintermute@speakeasy.net</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:dcml@nafsk.se" target="_blank">dcml@nafsk.se</a><br>Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:23:46 -0400<br>Subject: Fantagraphics to publish Gottfredson's daily strips<br>
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"><a href="http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/07/sdcc-10-fantagraphics-disney-to-release-gottfredsons-mickey-strips/" target="_blank">http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/07/sdcc-10-fantagraphics-disney-to-release-gottfredsons-mickey-strips/</a><br>
<p><i>Fantagraphics Books announced this afternoon from Comic-Con International, <a href="http://twitter.com/fantagraphics/status/19452763358" target="_blank">via Twitter</a>, 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.</i></p>
<p><i>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.</i></p>
<p><i>Fantagraphics will begin releasing the collections in May 2011. No other details were announced.</i></p>
<p><i><strong>Update: </strong>Douglas Wolk <a href="http://techland.com/2010/07/24/fantagraphics-announces-mickey-mouse-reprints/" target="_blank">speaks briefly</a> to Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth about the reprints.</i></p>
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