Fantagraphics to publish Gottfredson's daily strips

[August Yang]

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/07/sdcc-10-fantagraphics-disney-to-release-gottfredsons-mickey-strips/

/Fantagraphics Books announced this afternoon from Comic-Con 
International, via Twitter 
<http://twitter.com/fantagraphics/status/19452763358>, 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./

/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./

/Fantagraphics will begin releasing the collections in May 2011. No 
other details were announced./

/*Update: *Douglas Wolk speaks briefly 
<http://techland.com/2010/07/24/fantagraphics-announces-mickey-mouse-reprints/> 
to Fantagraphics Publisher Gary Groth about the reprints./

In the interview, Wolk says "My plan and my hope is to reprint it 
exactly as it was, with some explanatory text for a modern audience."  
It's the "hope" part that could be a problem for uncensored strips.

August Paul Yang

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