Duckburg and Mouseton

[Gerstein, David DK - ECN]

	Mattias, Sigvald, and others:

>> When I did research for my article "Vägen till
>> Mouseton ("The Road To Mouseton") in
>> NAFS(k)uriren 23 (I think it was), I found two
>> different names used by Gottfredson for the
>> town where Mickey lives: "Hometown" and
>> "Mouseville" respectively.
>
>OK, but who introduced the name "Mouseton" then? Paul Murry?

	Paul Murry was mainly an artist, Sigvald, and almost never wrote the
stories he drew. Most recurring themes and personalities in Murry stories
were really the creations of Murry's writers- Carl Fallberg, Don Christensen
and others.
	That said, I know about the origin of Mouseton, and it has nothing
to do with Murry or his writers.

	From the 1960s to the 1980s, the S-coded Disney Studio-produced
stories set Mickey's adventures in Mouseville, taking their influence from
Gottfredson.
	And in 1990, Disney Comics, Inc., with many former S-code people on
staff, planned to keep using Mouseville in the new Mickey stories they were
starting to make at the time.
	What happened instead was that Disney ran into legal trouble with
Viacom, which had registered the name Mouseville as the home town of the
cartoon character Mighty Mouse (!). So Disney was forced to stop using it.
	Disney chose the name Mouseton as a substitute, and in some of
Disney's international publishing guides, they use it to this day.

	David