Face color

Gary Leach bangfish at cableone.net
Sat Jul 15 19:44:16 CEST 2006


Jonathan:

> Why are the faces of the main and sub-characters (Mickey, Minnie,  
> Goofy, Horace, and Clarabelle) in Mickey Mouse's stories left  
> uncolored? I know that during Dell and Gladstone printing quality  
> wasnt exactly the best to pull this off, but after Disney started  
> doing it I always wondered why it never stuck.

When Disney closed down their comics and Gladstone resumed publishing  
the standard characters, we resumed doing them by what many readers  
would soon refer to as "the Gladstone way" (basically the Dell/ 
Western way with updated production techniques). Disney continued to  
approve story content, but otherwise they left us to it. When we  
started up the Gemstone line we were called upon to pick up where  
we'd left off. Being Gladstone vets, the "Gladstone way" came with us.

> In Egmont stories and everywhere else outside the USA, as fas as I  
> know, even other publishers have thier faces colored.

True enough in the Egmont weeklies. However, their pocket book  
material has the Dell-traditional-style black-and-white face schemes  
for these characters. Same for pocket book material from Disney  
Italy. Different strokes for different formats, I suppose.

Gary
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