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Disney Adventures Magazine... The End.
We've known for a few days, but been a bit too numb to post. After 17 years of publication, Disney Adventures has been canceled.
The magazine has been the home to two of our creator-owned projects, Little Gloomy and Kid Gravity, for the greater part of a decade. Not to mention all of the other projects we've been given the opportunity to work on, such as Tony Hawk, Kim Possible, Dave the Barbarian, Uncle Scrooge... We've worked with a lot of great people over the years on these comics; comics editor Steve Behling was often as responsible for the storytelling as we were, Rich Thomas was tremendously understanding and helpful during the assembly of the Kid Gravity trade paperback, Jesse Post never once complained about our inability to respond to emails in a timely fashion, letterist Michael Stewart was forced to endure our overly verbose dialog sequences for over two hundred pages, colorists Rusty Drake, Garry Black, Rikki Simons and Pannel Vaughn put up with our last minute deadlines to color absurd things for years, Lots of nice dinners with John Green, Art Baltazar and many others.... And Jen Darcy, the guardian of money deep within the accounting department patiently and repeatedly read our panicked emails about being on the verge of homelessness.
We're going to miss working with all of these people. We're going to miss seeing our work for sale in almost any grocery store you'd care to visit. We're going to miss the children that stumble across our tables at each and every convention, shocked to see the work they've been exposed to through Disney Adventures in full-size comic form. And most of all, we will miss making friends with fans like Jake and Sam Strick, Zoe Moss and Eva Hernandez.
We've been asked to create one last piece for the final issue, something that ties together the end of the magazine with its beginning. It's an incredible honor, and a rare opportunity to attain closure in a situation such as this. Looking at the blank page, and knowing that it will soon contain the last Disney Adventures story we will ever produce, is sobering.
To everyone involved, both on the production end of things and the readership end of this magazine, thank you. It's been a wonderful 8 years.
The magazine has been the home to two of our creator-owned projects, Little Gloomy and Kid Gravity, for the greater part of a decade. Not to mention all of the other projects we've been given the opportunity to work on, such as Tony Hawk, Kim Possible, Dave the Barbarian, Uncle Scrooge... We've worked with a lot of great people over the years on these comics; comics editor Steve Behling was often as responsible for the storytelling as we were, Rich Thomas was tremendously understanding and helpful during the assembly of the Kid Gravity trade paperback, Jesse Post never once complained about our inability to respond to emails in a timely fashion, letterist Michael Stewart was forced to endure our overly verbose dialog sequences for over two hundred pages, colorists Rusty Drake, Garry Black, Rikki Simons and Pannel Vaughn put up with our last minute deadlines to color absurd things for years, Lots of nice dinners with John Green, Art Baltazar and many others.... And Jen Darcy, the guardian of money deep within the accounting department patiently and repeatedly read our panicked emails about being on the verge of homelessness.
We're going to miss working with all of these people. We're going to miss seeing our work for sale in almost any grocery store you'd care to visit. We're going to miss the children that stumble across our tables at each and every convention, shocked to see the work they've been exposed to through Disney Adventures in full-size comic form. And most of all, we will miss making friends with fans like Jake and Sam Strick, Zoe Moss and Eva Hernandez.
We've been asked to create one last piece for the final issue, something that ties together the end of the magazine with its beginning. It's an incredible honor, and a rare opportunity to attain closure in a situation such as this. Looking at the blank page, and knowing that it will soon contain the last Disney Adventures story we will ever produce, is sobering.
To everyone involved, both on the production end of things and the readership end of this magazine, thank you. It's been a wonderful 8 years.
End of an Era
I find it hard to comprehend Disney Adventure's cancelation. I feel that maybe this is because I took the magazine for granted and always thought that it would forever remain on the shelves in super markets. A childhood delight about food shopping would be getting to see Disney Adventures in my neighborhood VONS and reading it as fast as I could before everything was paid for. Unfortunately, my parents didn't approve of me getting Disney Adventures, so I didn't always get to purchase it.. but I do have a few copies. (sadly, the "few" is limited to one maybe two copies as I've lost what I've had over time) You can bet that all I was really interested in was the comic section. And thanks to a peer of mine being into it and having the great pleasure of knowing two contributing artists, this interest was never allowed to die. In the more recent years, I would grab DAs if I saw them and look to see if there was Kid Gravity or Little Gloomy story in the back and if there was, I was happy.
It breaks my heart to hear of the end of the magazine. There were great people involved and great art. The "Lilo & Stitch" stories in particular; I am still amazed by the quality of the art featured in those stories. "Gorilla Gorilla" and "Disney's Tall Tales" are definitely favorites for their humor and charm. And of course, I loved seeing Eric's artwork colored. As you're aware, I'm definitely a fan of Kid Gravity and am saddened to see it's home base go.
To you and Eric, you have my love and support and I send nothing but good vibes your way(s). Though it is sad, it is not the end. And at the very least, the two (well, three and four including Rusty and Rikki) of you have done good for many, many readers and entertained them with your stories. And this is good to know.
I don't know if there's anything else I can say.
--Ian