DCML digest, Vol 1 #203

[Danny Coenen]

Hi, guys, I am back after all these years :)

Anyhow, wouldn't it be possible for Don to make the
English dialog of his stories available? This way, one
could subscribe to a European comic book that
publishes his work, and still enjoy the original
dialog.


> I wrote:
> 
> >English-language readers deserve English-language
> Disney comics. But
> >as wonderful as it might be for some publisher to
> bite the bullet and
> >put out English-language comics without licensed
> access to the major
> >retail English-language markets, few publishers can
> afford to be that
> >wonderful.
> 
> 
> Updating what I wrote:
> English-language Disney comics are, I understand,
> published in India 
> and Singapore. India makes sense, as English is a
> very common 
> language there, but English-reading fans of Don Rosa
> would be out of 
> luck; they only publish a digest-size magazine, so
> they gravitate 
> toward digest-designed material. This might also be
> true of 
> Singapore, but I don't have any info on that.
> 
> So, there would not seem to be specific prohibitions
> on publishing in 
> the English language among Disney's worldwide
> publishing licensees, 
> only geopolitical market restrictions on retail
> distribution. Just 
> how such restrictions are established and regulated
> I won't even dare 
> to guess, particularly as consistency is not a
> hallmark of these 
> activities on an international or even national
> scale.
> -- 
> Gary
> 
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