Raccolta adesioni per chiedere alla Disney di non imporre la censura

Della censura che Disney intende attuare su alcune storie che non verranno piu ristampate, anche storie molto belle, se ne è parlato ma poco, a mio avviso, a meno che non mi sia distratto.

È in corso una raccolta di adesioni che terminerà questo pomeriggio (domenica 19/2 ore 15:00), l'obbiettivo è far sapere alla Disney che ci sono amatori alquanto contrariati, che chiedono un ripensamento.

Se qualcuno fosse a conoscenza di iniziative analoghe magari nostrane e le condividesse sarei ben lieto di parteciparvi.


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As you may have heard, Disney has decided to censor the Disney/Donald Duck cartoons.

Among other things, two of Don Rosa's stories (and the original Bark's story) are banned because Disney believes that the zombie is an expression of racism.

Specifically, their censorship means that stories that Disney no longer cares about cannot be reprinted again.
Which again quite concretely means an eternal goodbye to e.g. Don Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck as Chapter 11 is one of the now banned stories!!!

The Danish Donaldist Society does not like that kind of censorship of our history, our culture and our beloved Ducks.

If Disney finally finds problems with individual stories, then it should be able to be handled in the same way as they do with their feature films – by coming up with a disclaimer beforehand.
We therefore intend to make an attempt to influence Disney in that direction.

Does it help?
Maybe not.
But we will not watch in silence.

We are therefore sending the following letter to Disney - for the time being on behalf of the Danish Donaldist Society, Ankistit - Finish Donaldist Society and Carl Barks Fan Club. We have also reached out to the Swedish, German and Italian Donaldists.

But we also welcome individual co-signatories - because the more we are, the more impact we have!
So if you want to put your signature on the letter - write your name and nationality below - or send me an email at [email protected]

We need to get it completed and sent off, so the deadline for submitting your signature is Sunday, February 19 at 3 p.m.

I hope many people want to put their vote in the pool!
The letter we intend to send is the following:

To The Walt Disney Company

On behalf of all the Duck societies and all the duck fans from around the globe listed at the bottom, I hereby send The Walt Disney Company a request, to reconsider the decision regarding banning certain Donald Duck stories from being published in the future.

We acknowledge that standards off which things can be viewed as offensive may differ from country to country, and we understand The Walt Disney Company’s considerations on how things may be viewed by different readers and hence which signals The Walt Disney Company is sending out to its readership.

But caution and censorship are two very different reactions and, in this situation we find that censorship is the wrong solution.

By banning stories written in the past, you take away the possibility for readers - eg. parents that read to their children - to discuss how the world has evolved and why this realization is so important.

At the same time, you take away cultural literature that has played a very important role of many peoples life particularly in Europe.

When for example you ban the 11th chapter in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck you remove an integral part of one of the most influential and important Duck comics of all time – a highly awarded and loved comic tale that actually became the survival of Donald Duck comics all over Europe and which for many of the people under the age of 40 was their introduction to the Disney comic universe.

Without this comic – and many others – on the market, the world would be a poorer place.

The world has changed and we acknowledge this, but The Walt Disney Company has already created an informative and elegant solution regarding your movies – and we only ask, that you will employ the same solution for our beloved comics.
By introducing an informative notice at your start certain comics, you will make the readers think of what they are reading and thereby stop up for a second and acknowledge the different world we live in – and how we arrived to this point in time. This would have a positive influence on the readers to come.
By withdrawing the comics from the market, you will not only remove stories loved by many people, you will also remove the opportunity to impact and teach the readers.

As we hope you will listen to our prayers – sincerely yours

Laila Jerming Graf
President
The Danish Donaldist Society

Reperito oggi un lungo commento di Don Rosa a riguardo:


Don's statement on Disney banning "The Empire-Builder from Calisota" and "The Dream of a Lifetime": "I think I have a Duck-related post for you now. No mentions of puppies or cole crops or mowing or wildflowers or Chiles.

I have not commented on this banning of two of my stories other than to keep trying to correct the various misinterpretations of what I had accurately reported in February. The fact was always that the two stories WERE BANNED, not that a “possible ban was being discussed”. The only attempts at discussions were on the part of the publishers who first told me of the situation and who thought they could reason with the licensing company. The obvious preference was to continue to use the two stories but with a disclaimer as is often done with other comics or movies or TV shows of a similar nature. The licensing corporation does this very thing with its own productions of the past.

But that corporation’s American home office has no interest or respect for comics, so refused to discuss the matter.

Furthermore, the licensed publishers are forbidden to mention the situation to their readers or publicly mention it in any way. They are only allowed to state that a new reissue of a book has been “edited for content” but cannot be specific as to exactly what has been changed or omitted. There is NO discussion of the matter allowed. Or at least none given any credence.

So HERE is the situation as it was, is and as it will remain:
“The Dream of a Lifetime” has only THREE panels of its 25 pages in which Bombie appears. Rather than ban this entire story forever due actually to only TWO of those three panels, the publishers suggested that I allow them to have Bombie redrawn. I would not allow art-tampering if my name is on the book. (I can tamper with my own art in reprints if I made some error, but I won’t allow changes forced on me.)

So, I suggested that in those two panels that were causing the banning of the entire 25-page story, that Bombie appear as he did in the FIRST panel of the sequence… as a featureless black shape. Like the Phantom Blot. Who or what Bombie is has *nothing* whatsoever to do with the plot of the story, only that he represents something or someone whom Donald remembers and is causing him to panic. Readers know who Bombie is, so how he is perceived in the dream sequence is not important to the story.

The 11th chapter of the Lo$ is rather a different problem. Bombie is the central character of that most important chapter of the series; he represents the just punishment for the one greedy & malicious act that $crooge commits in his lifetime, a crime which haunts him for decades and finally causes him to reevaluate where his life is headed and causes him to change its course. Chapter 11, in literary Shakespearean terms, is the CLIMAX of the Lo$ epic. Chapters 1 – 10 are the “rising action”. Chapter 11 is the “climax” to everything. Chapter 12 is the “falling action” leading to the final scene, completing the narrative. As such, any future publications or reprints of the collected Lo$ series as a book unto itself are now impossible.

As regards reprints of the DON ROSA LIBRARY, currently in-print in numerous countries, volume 5 will either no longer be reprinted OR there will be 25-30 missing pages due to the banning of “The Empire-Builder from Calisota” and my discussion of the creation of that story. In its place there will be a “bonus feature” of… something. Perhaps storyboard-script pages from (obviously) one of the *other* Lo$ chapters. The tricky part will be HOW the publisher can explain what’s going on since NO explanation is allowed. They can only state something like “this is a reprint of an earlier edition. Some editing has occurred”. That’s all.

My original preference was that volume 5 simply no longer be reprinted, or be reprinted with expurgated content, but without my name and texts on or in the book. That would result in there being a DON ROSA LIBRARY vol. 1-4, 6-10 and an UNCLE $CROOGE AND DONALD DUCK - volume 5. But I was convinced that would make DuckFans (as well as the licensed publishers) less happy than the other idea of replacing the banned story with some "bonus" feature.

Not allowing that entire volume of the DRL to ever be reprinted would be as extreme and unreasonable as the original problem. But of course the readers of the DRL are adults and not stupid ones. They will know what’s going on.
So… I guess that’s the best option.

And there you have it. As well as my last word on the matter."

Gli americani che sono tanto moderni e di larghe vedute, a volte si infognano in queste cazzare da bigotti integralisti che trovo veramente inconcepibili.
E poi si permettono di andare in giro per il mondo a insegnare la democrazia... quando sono fra i più intransigenti bigotti che io conosca.