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This article is about comics starring Disney characters. Comics (via Latin from the Greek "" kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy" from kōmos "revel" For the publisher, see Disney Comics. This article is about Disney Comics a Publisher of Comic books.

Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring Walt Disney characters. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter

The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from 1930 on. In 1940, Western Publishing began producing Disney comic books in the United States. Western Publishing, also known as "Western Printing and Lithographing Co The most notable American Disney comics books are Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (WDC or WDC&S for short is an Anthology Comic book that has an assortment of Disney characters including This article is about a comic book For information on the character see Scrooge McDuck. In recent decades, Disney comics have seen a lack of popularity in their country of origin.

In the rest of the world Disney comics have been very successful, especially in Europe, where stories are produced and also printed in the pocket format.


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Production by country

United States

Comic strips

The first Disney comics appeared in daily newspapers. The Mickey Mouse daily comic strip began on January 13, 1930, featuring Mickey as an optimistic, adventure-seeking young mouse. Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. In January 1932, the Mickey Mouse strip began appearing in Sunday papers, with an extra Silly Symphony strip at the top of the page. Silly Symphonies is a series of Animated Short subjects 75 in total produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939 Donald Duck made his first comics appearance in the Silly Symphony adaptation of the 1934 Disney short The Wise Little Hen. See also Donald Duck Donald Duck, Cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company The Wise Little Hen is a Walt Disney 's Silly Symphonies Cartoon, based on the fairy tale The Little Red Hen. As Donald's popularity grew, he became the star of the Silly Symphony strip, and he got his own daily strip starting on February 7, 1938. Other Disney strips over the years included:

Also for some years a special daily strip with a holiday theme utilizing the Disney characters was offered each year. Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional Bear created by A [4] It generally ran for three weeks with the concluding strip appearing on December 25th. These were unique in that they often showcased the crossover of Disney characters that otherwise rarely interacted (e. g. the Big Bad Wolf and the fairies from Sleeping Beauty). The Big Bad Wolf is a term used to describe a fictional wolf who appears in several precautionary folkloric stories including some of Aesop's Fables and Newspaper Enterprise Association offers a similar holiday themed special strip to this day. United Media is a large editorial column and Comic strip Newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E [5]

Among the artists working on the Disney comic strips were Floyd Gottfredson (Mickey Mouse) and Al Taliaferro (Donald Duck). Arthur Floyd Gottfredson ( May 5, 1905 &mdash July 22, 1986) was an American Cartoonist best known for his defining work Charles Alfred Taliaferro ( August 29, 1905 - February 3, 1969) known simply as Al Taliaferro was a Disney comics Artist

Comic books

Comic book publisher Western Publishing brought the Disney strips to comic books in 1940, through Dell Comics Four Color title. Western Publishing, also known as "Western Printing and Lithographing Co Dell Comics was the Comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in Pulp magazines. Four Color, also known as Four Color Comics and One Shots, was an extremely prolific American Comic book The Four Color books reprinted a variety of newspaper strip material, and issue #4 featured a selection of Donald Duck strips. The Disney reprints were a big seller, and encouraged Western to convert Mickey Mouse Magazine [third series] (which had included comics along with text stories, poems, jokes, puzzles, games and full-page illustrations) into a full-fledged comic book, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, whose first issue was dated October 1940 and by the mid-1950s was the best selling comic book in America with a circulation of over three million a month. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (WDC or WDC&S for short is an Anthology Comic book that has an assortment of Disney characters including In 1961-62, Western ended its partnership with Dell and continued their comic book line under the Gold Key Comics label. Gold Key Comics was an Imprint of Western Publishing created for Comic books distributed to Newsstands History Gold Key

Disney comics in the USA were later published by Gladstone Publishing and then by Disney Comics, then Gladstone again (for the classic characters) and Marvel Comics (for the modern characters). Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. This article is about Disney Comics a Publisher of Comic books. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc In 2003, after a couple of years' hiatus, regular publication was restarted by Gemstone Publishing. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Gemstone Publishing is a US company that publishes Comic books and collectors' guides

Currently, Gemstone's two monthly Disney titles are Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (WDC or WDC&S for short is an Anthology Comic book that has an assortment of Disney characters including This article is about a comic book For information on the character see Scrooge McDuck.

Dark Horse Comics has also published occasional adaptations of the more recent Disney movies. Dark Horse Comics is one of the largest independent American Comic book publishers behind dominant publishers Marvel Comics and DC Comics

Notable American Disney comic book writers and artists include Carl Barks, Tony Strobl, Paul Murry, William Van Horn, and Don Rosa. Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 &ndash August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and Comic book creator who Anthony Joseph (Tony Strobl ( May 12 1915 &ndash December 29 1991) was an American Paul Murry ( November 25, 1911, Saint Joseph, Missouri — August 4, 1989, Palmdale, California) was William Van Horn (born February 15, 1939) has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988. Keno Don Hugo Rosa (often just called Don Rosa) (born June 29, 1951) is a comic book writer and illustrator best known for his stories about Scrooge Van Horn and Rosa now work for European publishers.

Denmark

Danish publisher Egmont (previously Gutenberghus) has one of the largest productions of Disney comics in the world. Egmont is one of the leading Media industry groups of Scandinavia. 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. Vicar, a Pseudonym for Victor Arriagada Rios (born April 16, 1934 in Santiago, Chile) is a Cartoonist and creator Daniel Branca ( December 7, 1951 &ndash January 28, 2005) was an Argentine comic artist The Scandinavian countries are among the countries in which Donald Duck is more popular than Mickey Mouse. Donald Duck is a cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company.

Italy

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. Romano Scarpa (September 27 1927 Venice - April 23 2005 Málaga) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics. Giorgio Cavazzano (born October 19, 1947, Venice) is an Italian Comic strip artist Giovan Battista Carpi ( November 16 1927 - March 3 1999) was an Italian Comics artist Italy has introduced several new characters to the Disney universe, including Donald's superhero alter ego Paperinik. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do Paperinik (also known as Phantomias, Duck Avenger, Superduck, PK, Superdonald and Phantom Duck) is a fictional Production was handled by Mondadori Editore from 1935 until 1989, when Disney Italy took over.

Recently, Disney Italy has launched several new lines, including PK (a comic book version of Paperinik), W.I.T.C.H. , and the comics published under the imprint Buena Vista Comics (including the original Monster Allergy comic series and a few other titles, such as Kylion and a comic inspired by the Alias TV show). PKNA - Paperinik New Adventures is a Disney comic published in Italy from 14 March 1996 to 20 December 2000, about Paperinik (also known as Phantomias, Duck Avenger, Superduck, PK, Superdonald and Phantom Duck) is a fictional This is about the Comic book series For the animated version of this series see W Monster Allergy is a comic book series of Disney Italy published by Buena Vista Comics now adapted into an animated television series produced by the Italian production Alias is an American " Spy-fi " television series created by J

The Netherlands

Also the Netherlands (current publisher: Sanoma) has a significant school of Disney comics. SanomaWSOY is the leading media group in the Nordic countries with operations in 20 European countries based in Helsinki. The first Dutch Disney comics appeared in 1953. In 1975, Daan Jippes became the art director for production of these comics, and created a heavily Barks-inspired line that remains the best-known Dutch Disney style. Daan Jippes (birth name Daniel Jan Jippes, born 14 October 1945 in Amsterdam) is a Cartoonist, who has worked with Disney Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 &ndash August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and Comic book creator who Donald Duck is the most popular Disney character in the Netherlands, but Sanoma also produces comics starring lesser-known characters such as Li'l Bad Wolf. Li'l Bad Wolf (or just Li'l Wolf as referred to by his friends is a Fictional character created for The Walt Disney Company.

France

French-produced stories started in 1952, as a one-pager comic published in each issue of the Journal de Mickey, drawn by Louis Santel (Tenas) and written by Pierre Fallot. After a few issues, a new series started (Mickey à travers les siècles) and continued up to 1978, drawn almost entirely by Pierre Nicolas and written by Fallot and Jean-Michel le Corfec.

Later in the beginning of the 1980s, a new production started led by Patrice Valli and Pierre Nicolas as editors with adventures of Mickey Mouse, Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck. Among the best artists, one recalls Claude Marin, or Claude Chebille (known as Gen-Clo), and Italian artists like Giorgio Cavazzano. Some of the best writers were Michel Motti and Pierre-Yves Gabrion. In the late 1980s up to now, an increasing number of Spanish artist from the Comicup studio provided the art, while the writing stayed to French authors.

Among the most popular characters in French stories are all mice characters and more exotic local characters like Ellsworth (originally created in the USA) or the Disney babies. Ellsworth is a Fictional character, created by Bill Walsh and Manuel Gonzales in 1949, in the Mickey Mouse universe for The Walt

Others

I. N. D. U. C. K. S. Database

I.N.D.U.C.K.S. is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney comics ever printed in the world. INDUCKS or Inducks (for International Network of Disney-Universe Comic Knowers and Sources) is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney comics The project started in 1992; today, the database lists Disney publication, stories, characters, authors, and much more. Most people use the I. N. D. U. C. K. S. through a search engine, browser and website abbreviated COA, which is daily updated based on I. N. D. U. C. K. S. data, and is available in a dozen languages.

Notable writers and artists

Comics published by Gold Key/Whitman

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