Thanks for the report. Very interesting information!<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:14 PM, August Yang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wintermute@speakeasy.net">wintermute@speakeasy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> So, as some of you may know there was a comic convention in the New York and Disney publishing was there to promote some of their own books and comics. Boom! Studios was also there to promote their books as well and I attended both panels. So here are some tidbits and information that I gleaned from those.<br>
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First the Disney Comics panel:<br>
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The first talked about the various movie tie in comics that they were doing. They mentioned the Tron Betrayal #1 that was just released last Wednesday and that the Graphic Novel would be out on Nov. 16. Tron Betrayal tells the story of what happened between the last movie and the upcoming Tron Legacy movie.<br>
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The next subject was an upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean graphic novel called Six Sea Shanties. Some of the stories will be prequels and others will tell stories between At World's End and On Stranger Tides. The artist for the cover will be Eric Powell who does the comic series "The Goon". The stories are supposedly to be written by Rob Kidd, but I just found out that is a pseudonym for a team of writers who do PotC stories. At least one story will feature the Zombie Monkey.<br>
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They also talked about Disney Digicomics. One of the projects mentioned was upcoming Muppet Motion Comics. They also mentioned an Epic Mickey digital comic project and were very proud of the fact that this is the first Disney comic project that was developed first as a digital comic. The prequel comics to the Epic Mickey game will be available, at least initially, through a free app on the iPad that will be released either on the 19th or the 20th. They said "10 days", so I'm making a guess based on the date the statement was said. The app will have the first comic for free and additional content will be uploaded as the weeks progress. The prequel comics will be written by Peter David and cover the events in the Wasteland before Mickey messes everything up at the beginning of the game and thus will primarily feature Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It is unknown if the prequel comics will see print, but they would like that to happen. They're just not sure if it will be as stand alone comics or be bundled with the Epic Mickey graphic novel. And there will be an Epic Mickey graphic novel that "covers" the game, but they stressed that the game would have a lot more content. They also mentioned that I think in 2011 there will be a book called "The Art of Epic Mickey" for those of you who would like that.<br>
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The Digicomics panelist also mentioned that they were trying to expand the digicomics line so that it would be web based so that more people could access, and obviously buy, Disney Digicomics beyond the PSP and iPhone/iPad users.<br>
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Further comics information was given about Phineas and Ferb where they had comic retellings of P&F episodes.<br>
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Of interest to mainly me was my question if Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine would be released in Digicomics format, and I was told that it "was in the pipeline", but that could mean that it'll still never see a release in the US. Still I remain hopeful as X-Mickey was released in as Digicomics. Another question asked was about the Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson collections that will be released in 2011 with Fantagraphics and they said each volume should be under $100. Of course, they didn't say how big the books would be so that may be an easy promise to make.<br>
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I believe that covers the Disney panel so I will go onto the Boom Kids panel and their Disney Comics offerings.<br>
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They are *very* happy with the sales of the Darkwing Duck comics and say that each subsequent comic seems to surpass the previous issue in sales. The next Darkwing story arc will be "Crisis of Infinite Darkwings" and Negaduck will play an important role in the story. Also, thanks to the success of Darkwing, in December they will be releasing a Rescue Rangers ongoing title. Other series may be in the pipeline, but they don't want to put out too many comic at once as that could cause the whole line to suffer in terms of sales since people need to pick and choose if a lot of titles are out.<br>
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Boom! also announced that next year will the Walt Disney Comics & Stories 70th anniversary, so they're kicking it off with two special issues. The January Issue of WDC&S will have 40 pages and contains a Don Rosa story he drew but did not write called "Forget-Me-Not". The regular cover will have art by William Van Horn and I think the Deluxe cover will have art by Daan Jippes. The Mickey Mouse and Friends comic will have a Floyd Gottfredson comic called "Pirates of Port Placid" (I think) that hasn't been reprinted in 40 years in its entirety and the Deluxe version of the cover will be a never before printed Floyd Gottfredson cover. Don't remember who did the Regular cover. Sorry.<br>
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All of these annoucements were part of the Boom! Kids 2.0 campaign that they were quite enthusiastic about and would answer questions about their Disney comic line with referrals to the website and the Boom! Kids 2.0 campaign.<br>
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Finally, this is something I did not learn about in the panels, but it may be of interest to people here. Apparently, they're collecting the Darkwing Duck stories from Disney Adventures and printing them as a TPB.<br>
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<a href="http://www.boom-kids.com/darkwing-duck-classics-vol-1-tpb.html" target="_blank">http://www.boom-kids.com/darkwing-duck-classics-vol-1-tpb.html</a><br>
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If anyone has any questions or comments, please let me know and I'll try to answer them to the best of my knowledge.<br>
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August Paul Yang<br>
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