About credits...

[Harry Fluks]

Fabio asked:
> Could someone tell what happens instead in the rest of Europe?

Some remarks in random order:

I don't know much about Dutch laws concerning this.

In the regular Dutch Disney comics, noone is ever credited for a Disney
_story_. But there have been many occasions where the (Dutch) Disney artists
did get credit: 'special' drawings like centerfolds, gag (text) pages, puzzles,
games. Even if they involved Disney characters, most of the time the text
"drawn by Carol Voges" (or whoever) was added.

Only a few artists got credits in Dutch albums: Barks, Murry, Gottfredson,
Taliaferro. But (very peculiar) in the most recent movie adaptation-albums
(Junglebook, Aladdin) all creators were named (including our lurking list
member Weiss).

Thom Roep once told me that naming all those artists in the regular comics
would be very confusing for the little kids, while only less than 5 per
cent was really interested. He was however willing to give full information
to anyone who asks for it: the information is not secret.

Most Dutch Disney artists also produce non-Disney comics. Sometimes they
appear in the Donald Duck Weekly. In the case of non-Disney material, full
credits are always given.

Sometimes, the editors put the name of a writer or artist in the story itself.
For example, some Brazilian in a Joe Carioca story is called Colomer Fonts.
On Jan Kruse's 1000th page there is a newspaper with a portrait of Kruse.
One of the movie cowboys in "Bullet Valley" is called Karel Barks.
Etcetera.

The last two years, Disney organizes 'club days': the children can meet 
Unca Donald (the real one, you know, the one you meet in Disneyland) and
other Disney characters. They had things like a "Gyro Gearloose inventor's
contest". They even had some "real Disney artists" making drawings on
command. In the DD Weekly, they sometimes print photos of a 'club day'.
That's how some of the Dutch artists got their picture in the comic (but 
without their names...)

There is only one Dutch album where the name Keno Don Rosa can be seen.
He is mentioned as the artist of the Gyro "Pied Piper" story, in album 17
of the series "All classic stories" (formerly "All stories by Carl Barks").
The Gyro story (partly scripted and penciled by Barks) is NOT printed in
the series (apparently the publisher doesn't know exactly what the word
"all" means...)

--Harry.