Some old Disney comics scripts...

From 2005-2009 I was working on Disney comics, something I hadn't done since the early 1990s. This time, though, I was able to work with the classic characters, not just the Disney Afternoon titles! At that time Disney comics were only being produced by the large publisher in Denmark, Egmont.

My body of work is pretty small compared to other Disney writers, so it's unlikely that many of my stories will ever be reprinted in the United States; but I was happy with how they turned out so I thought I would post a few of the script/roughs here. Egmont called these story layouts "scribbles".

Donald Duck in Two Angry Men

Pluto in On Duty

Magica de Spell in The High Cost of Hexing

Huey, Dewey and Louie in Ready-to-Werewolf

Darkwing Duck: "Cat in a Hot Tin Suit" revisited

 

I posted the original, printed version of this story in an earlier post...for comparisons, you can read that story here.

This "Director's Cut" restores cut sight gags and missing panels...which especially helps scenes like the one on page 15, where Fluffy hits Darkwing with rockets, and DW responds, "That's a felony, mister!" Originally, Fluffy was to blow up a mailbox with those rockets, thus committing the felony. I also tried to add better clarity to some of the existing panels where it is very hard to see what is going on (the cats' invasion of the Grocerama, for example). And there were also some little details that have always bothered me, like having Al (a normal cat) run on his hind legs on page 23.

Cat in a Hot Tin Suit originally ran in Disney Adventures #3-12 (October 1993):

Darkwing Duck: "Cat in a Hot Tin Suit"

  

Here is the second story of my "Fluffy Trilogy" for Darkwing Duck...my script remained pretty much intact this time around, as did most of the action. The sequence of Darkwing's first encounter with the "new, improved" Fluffy was cut up and the panels reordered, but for the most part not much changed. My biggest disappointments came from the change in the rhythm of the pages, and from sight gags that were dropped (although I wouldn't know if the artist or the editor made the cuts from the visuals). The editor decided to drop Fluffy's lisp in this story, and I think it was a good idea. It would have gotten tiresome if Fluffy spoke with a lisp through all three stories.

The "director's cut" will have to wait for a future post; since most of the changes I want to make involve the visuals, it might take a while to draw. For now, though, here is Darkwing Duck in Cat in a Hot Tin Suit from Disney Adventures #3-12 (October 1993):