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Recently Alessio Coppola (best known for being the cover artist of Paperino) has shared on instagram some studies and behind the scenes of some 90s projects. Let's see what he has unveiled.

These are concepts for the logo of Jungle Town, the one-shot that was eventually published in 2006, but this scrapped ideas are dated 2001. The story by Faraci and Cavazzano was supposed to be a series, but only the pilot survived. Rumors say that it was a way to redirect the resources from the deceased MMMM project.

Next we have some concepts starring Angus Fangus, for Pkna, dated 1997.

Originally Angus Fangus was supposed to drive an italian car.

Than some concepts from MMMM. They confirm an old rumor: Sonny Mitchell was originally supposed to be Detective Casey's brother (il fratello di Manetta). He was modeled after Walter Matthau.

And finally the biggest surprise of all: in 1997 there were ideas floating around about making Pk interact with human characters.

Have you noticed this about Odin Eidolon?

We all know Odin Eidolon, rich, elegant, poised, and eccentric, but in the 34th of PKNA "Nothing Personal" we see a side of him that we haven’t seen before: clumsy and vulnerable.

He slips on a banana peel,

he gets knocked down by Donald,

and someone actually sneaks up on him and zaps him;

this is the most vulnerable we have see Eidolon be and, for those who know his origins, this will make him the most human like he could be.

LOOK HOW PROUD HE LOOKS!

This page implies he has run headfirst into a tank before, doesn't it?

Yep, I bet he has...

TELL ME YOUR WHOLE STORY, GIVE ME YOUR SECRETS, YOU LITTLE DUCK!

I love that Stefan got to talk to ONE directly, and he is like

"Are you an alien? "

Which sounds like a wild guess, but it makes sense in the world they live in.

There is something interesting in their conversation too:

I love two things here:

I don't want to bother too much the userbase, but, I have something to ask my fellow northern, central and eastern europeans (basically everyone from a country were Disney is published by an Egmont subsidiary... plus Greece).

What's the deal with Mickey Mystery (Mickey Mysterier/Ein Fall für Micky/Dekkari-Mikki/Mikke krim/Musses mysterier/Μίκυ Μυστήριο)? What was this projects about? A handful of stories were published here in Italy too, on Topomistery, but the title mostly published italian (or Gottfredson) reprints. I can see that a lot of stories were produced, outlasting every eponimous title. Were the stories good?

I think the stories were fine. The point, I think, was that writers were allowed to go little more serious with these than in other stories that were published at the same time. While the stories were still clearly meant for kids and were funny, they had very little actual comedic moments - which is probably why Goofy was never included. Minnie and Chief O'Hara both showed up few times, but mostly it was just Mickey.

Some of the mysteries were actually clever, especially those where Mickey had to deal with either mafia or politics (or both!). There were also nice references to classic crime novels, like Mickey's detective friends Mrs. Marbles and Pericles Parrot (not a parrot, by the way) who appered in few stories.

I agree with @kiiriminna

It was a very enjoyable series with a nice noir atmosphere, but less serious and edgy than MM. All stories were standalone (or with maximum two parts). There was an interesting variety in story plots and the art was very good too.

I remember liking it very much when it was being published.

I have heard that only the chosen one who knows about even the most obscure corners of disney comics will be capable enough to understand all of these

Does anybody have any pictures of Matilda and Hortense McDuck from Kari Karhonen’s McDuck Journals series?

Not even a translation/scanlation. I just want a picture of them. Please.

Signed,

A Desperate American

Like this?

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures for Matilda. I have comics about it.

Here have more

Including pirate matilda

These are literally the most beautiful things I have ever seen

Pirate Matilda

There are no words to express my joy and gratitude right now

Thank you

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Small Stefan Vladuck :3

Misc duck doodles... gladstone gives the BIGGEST bear hugs ever he won't be stopped. Poor fethry needs a chiropractor at this point

(Also ignore that ludwig dosent have glasses I totally didn't forget ok?)

Once upon a time there where plans for a Pk manga. Not an adaptation of the series, such as the W.i.t.c.h. manga, but a one-off episode made in a japanese style. A couple of attempts were made. Maybe I'll share some panels.

(Both attempts were made during the third series, Pk-Pikappa, era)

So...

Here are all panels available. I think two blog posts will be needed.

The art on both projects was by Claudio Sciarrone (a fitting choice).

The first short story is a remake of the third series episode "Mess@ggio in codice", while the second story would have featured in a summer special that never came to be.