Gemstone Publishing

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Gemstone Publishing is a U.S. company that is the current publisher of licensed Disney comic books, starting in June 2003.

The core of the experienced editorial staff (John Clark, Gary Leach and Susan Daigle-Leach) previously worked at Gladstone Publishing. Archival editor David Gerstein previously worked at Egmont and is author of Nine Lives To Live - A Classic Felix Celebration, a collection of 1920s Felix the Cat comic strips published by Fantagraphics Books.

Their current titles include:

• Walt Disney's Comics and Stories
• Uncle Scrooge
• Donald Duck Adventures
• Mickey Mouse Adventures
• Donald Duck and Friends
• Mickey Mouse and Friends

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge are in prestige format; Donald Duck and Friends and Mickey Mouse and Friends are standard titles; Donald Duck Adventures and Mickey Mouse Adventures are digest sized. It also issues annual editions of Christmas Parade, Vacation Parade and a giveaway for Free Comic Book Day plus occasional special editions. Its first book Mickey And The Gang: Classic Stories In Verse, a lavish compilation edited by David Gerstein of Disney cartoon story pages published from 1934 to 1944 in Good Housekeeping Magazine, was issued Nov. 2005

External links

• [Gemstone Publishing's Official Disney Comics site]
• [Gemstone Publishing's Monthly Titles (Squidoo Lens)]
• [interview with editor John Clark on the launch of Gemstone's Disney comics line]

 

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