There never should be a world with less Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and according to Newsarama, Boom! Studios has done us all a solid.
Picking up the license previously held by Gemstone to produce Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comics, Boom! Studios’ publisher/co-founder Ross Richie added that Boom would go into a new direction with the license:
“We’re going to start to approach the Mickey and Donald material from a completely different direction, and we’re going to try to have something that at the same time is less the ‘greatest hits’ reprints and more dovetails into what the Boom Kids stuff is, which is sort of an add to and extension of, modern presence creative take on these classic characters that I think can connect with kids today.”
He went on to say that initially we would not see a relaunch or new material, and in September we will get Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories #699 (by Riccardo Secchi and Stefano Turconi) and Mickey Mouse and Friends #297.
While I’m on the whole give me some William Van Horn tip, I’d tell Americans not to worry about the Italian talent. Disney is huge here and not at all a passing nostalgia driven market in print form. Not to mention the heritage of Disney art in this country is really strong (Giorgio Cavazzano, Romano Scarpa).
Kudos to Disney and Boom!
