Disney comics
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This article is about comics starring Disney characters. For the publisher, see Disney Comics.
Disney comics are Comic books and Comic strips featuring Walt Disney characters.
Disney characters started their life in comics in 1930, with Mickey Mouse daily strips, later other characters, like Donald Duck, gained their own strip.
Comic books came later, in the 1940s, and books like Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge were very successful in the 1950s and in the 1960s in USA.
In the rest of the world Disney comics have kept being successful, especially in Europe, where stories are produced and also printed in the pocket format.
Disney comics in the USA were originally published by Western Publishing; later they were published by Gladstone and by Disney Comics, then Gladstone again (for the classic characters) and Marvel Comics (for the modern characters). In 2003, after a couple of years hiatus, publications are starting again by Gemstone Publishing.
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Notable Schools
American School
The original school of Disney comics. The original newspaper strips and comics by the likes of Carl Barks and Paul Murry were originally produced in the USA. The most notable American Disney comics books are Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge. In more recent years, Disney comics have seen a lack of popularity in their original homecountry, and many North American Disney comics artists (such as Don Rosa and William van Horn) works for European publishers.
Egmont School
Danish publisher Egmont (previously Gutenberghus) has one of the largest productions of Disney comics in the world. The Danes started publishing their own series in the early 1960s, however, a large part of Egmont's production have been made by foreign artists such as Vicar and Daniel Branca. The Scandinavian countries is, besides the Netherlands, the only countries in which Donald Duck is more popular than Mickey Mouse.
Italian (Mondadori) School
The first Italian Disney comics was published already in the early 1930s, and Federico Pedrocchi wrote and illustrated the first long Disney comic book as early as in 1937. Italy is the country of origin for some of the most famous Disney comic artists, including Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, and Giovan Battista Carpi. Italy has introuced several new characters to the Disney universe, including Paperinik. Disney's answer to manga, W.I.T.C.H., is also made in Italy.
Dutch School
Also the Netherlands has a significant school of Disney comics. The first Dutch Disney comics appeared in the 1960s, although this school didn't get much attention until the arrival of two very Carl Barks-inspired artists - Daan Jippes and the Dane Freddy Milton - in the following decade. They would soon be followed by many other artists of different quality. Oberon is the publisher of these comics.
Other schools
- Brazilian school
- British school
- French school
- Japanese school
Notable Artists