Disney -- Strike Lates News from AF

[timo ronkainen]

Foewarding latest news from Anonima Fumetti news:


>While in Italy the Union of the comic artists (SILF/SLC/CGIL
>www.fumetti.org/silf) is fighting against the Disney Italy for the
>recognition of the reprint rights and the property of the original
>art, Don Rosa is on strike, as reported by the last issue of Comics
>Buyer's Guide (November 15, 2002) in the article by Mike Baron: "The
>popular writer and artist of Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald
>Duck comic books has finally put his foot down, after years of
>watching big-time European publishers use his name (read the complete
>article on CBG): "I stopped work as of last June. I was getting too
>frustrated and bitter about being one of the most well-known
>cartoonists in Europe and not making a dime off it." [omissis] Rosa
>said. "They have gotten used to not dealing with me when they reprint
>my work. Aside from the lack of royalties, the results embarrass me.
>My stories are often reprinted with incorrect pages of art, the
>coloring is improper or incorrect, the lettering is poor or missing
>altogether, the computer reproduction is pixilated. And I don't even
>know what's going on in the translations of my scripts. But the
>readers, aside from naturally assuming I get compensated for the
>books, also assume I have some control and naturally blame me for the
>errors!" He continued, "The only reason I do these comics in the
>first place is because I love working with the Carl Barks characters
>and stories I grew up with. I knew I could never get rich doing
>Disney comics. It was never my master plan to be world-famous. I just
>figured I'd be one of the dozens of other writers and artists who do
>these stories published in the weekly Donald Duck comics that are in
>virtually every country in Europe and Asia. [omissis] "The Donald
>Duck & Co. weekly is not simply the best-selling comic book in most
>of Europe; in many countries it's the best-selling anything. One
>example: The Norwegian weekly sells 250,000 copies each week. No
>other publication outsells it. Per capita, that would be like a North
>American comic book selling about 80,000,000 copies every issue. And
>sales in Finland are even better, at 350,000 copies per week. One out
>of every four people reads the Donald Duck comic every week in these
>entire nations. Sales are also brisk in Sweden, Denmark, France,
>Italy, and Germany and eastward across Europe through Russia, China,
>India, Indonesia, etc., and into Japan." [omissis] "It's a very slow
>prospect dealing with publishers in Europe. I don't have legal
>representation over there. I don't know how to contact authors'
>guilds or publishers' guilds for advice. Gaining contacts and
>representation from agents who can help me decide what to do is slow.
>All I can do is shut down and see if they'll come around."
>
>Sabato, 16 Novembre 2002 - Copyright by afnews and the Poster.
>
>
>Per vedere le immagini e seguire i link: www.fumetti.org/afnews
>To see the images and the links: http://www.fumetti.org/afnews




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