Well, it's official: it's summer alright! And to celebrate it, all the major Comic publishers here come out with their own Summer Holiday Special! Sanoma had already recently published their usual Disney books: The regular 'Donald Duck Summer Holiday 2011' comic book special (which has appeared every year since 1978) and'the 'Beagle Boys Summer Holiday 2011' comic book. They're filled with comic reprints, games and trivia and the usual coloring page, which should keep your kids busy, while you're trying get your family to your place of destination alive, at least, that's the idea!
Reprint.
The HEMA concern, a nationwide chain of department stores, which has also branched out in Germany and Belgium, teamed up with the folks at Sanoma Media to create their own line of Summer Holiday Books this year. They all have the same graphic design on the cover, sharing the title 'Op vakantie met' ('On holiday with') and focus on different characters like 'Nijntje', 'Barbapapa', 'Nickelodeon', 'Hello Kitty' and of course: 'Donald Duck' !
The HEMA concern, a nationwide chain of department stores, which has also branched out in Germany and Belgium, teamed up with the folks at Sanoma Media to create their own line of Summer Holiday Books this year. They all have the same graphic design on the cover, sharing the title 'Op vakantie met' ('On holiday with') and focus on different characters like 'Nijntje', 'Barbapapa', 'Nickelodeon', 'Hello Kitty' and of course: 'Donald Duck' !
It's nice to see the guys at Disney had chosen one of my stories for the 'Donald Duck' version. 'Gespuis in 't spookhuis', ( 'Mob of the Haunted Mansion') is a good lenghty thriller with some nice plot twists and enough laughs to cheer it all up. I can understand they wanted to reprint it again, as it keeps you to your seat long enough and definitely intices a re-read.
Originally it was 15 pages longer even, and I got it back the first time around from Tom Roep (editor in chief) saying it was way too long! (I primarely used to read the 'Barks library' books and they all have these huge stories in them, so I guess I modeled it after that).
Above: two pages from 'Mob of the Mansion' as it was first published in 2001. The Disney crew had designed their Weekly magazine around the story (the issue had black pages) with a contest winning you some cool prizes and games for your Nintendo handheld.
'Hall of Fame'.
'Mob of the Haunted Mansion' was one of the stories I did with Bas Heymans for the Donald Duck Weekly, it's a 20 page story, first printed in May 2001 and it has definitely been picked up abroad, as it was translated in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Poland and Norway. In the Netherlands, the story even made the cover of 'Donald Duck's Funniest Adventures' #4 and it also served for the cover of issue 32 of Disney's 'Hall of Fame' comic book series in Norway.
Above: two pages from 'Mob of the Mansion' as it was first published in 2001. The Disney crew had designed their Weekly magazine around the story (the issue had black pages) with a contest winning you some cool prizes and games for your Nintendo handheld.
'Hall of Fame'.
'Mob of the Haunted Mansion' was one of the stories I did with Bas Heymans for the Donald Duck Weekly, it's a 20 page story, first printed in May 2001 and it has definitely been picked up abroad, as it was translated in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Poland and Norway. In the Netherlands, the story even made the cover of 'Donald Duck's Funniest Adventures' #4 and it also served for the cover of issue 32 of Disney's 'Hall of Fame' comic book series in Norway.
One of my other stories done for Disney, 'Donald Duck: Temporarily Millionaire' (also with Bas Heymans) was published in April this year in 'Aku Ankka Ekstra' issue 156 in Finland. (the monthly 'Donald Duck Extra' magazine). Below: various covers from around the world, which published the ghost story in their respective comic magazines. The Dutch cover is the last one on the right.
The other three stories in Hema's 'Donald Duck Summer Comic Book' Special are 'The Caravan Race' by Ben Verhagen and Jan Kruse, 'Timber' by Paul Halas with Flor Collins and Vicar and 'The Egyptian Prince's Secret' by Marco Rota. The books are for sale now in all the HEMA stores and cost € 4,00 Euro's each.
HEMA has 445 department stores in The Netherlands, 62 in Belgium, 8 in Germany, 3 in Luxembourg and recently opened 4 stores in Paris, France!
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