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I watched a Youtube video about Don Rosa (to any Americans reading: he's a famous Donald Duck artist) today, and learned that in 2023, Disney banned two of his stories from ever being published again, effectively preventing The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck from ever being reprinted.

The two banned stories both feature the character of Bombie the Zombie, who is an African voodoo zombie created by a white guy in the 1940s and you can probably infer the rest

Apparently the modern Don Rosa collections that were published already had a content warning much like the ones Disney puts in front of their old animated features and shorts that contain ~~racist~~ outdated elements but I guess that wasn't enough. Then again, the parent Walt Disney company has never given a single fuck about their comics side and treated the artists like absolute shit so this is completely on brand

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[โ€“] RedWizard@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Funny because the new Duck Tales has a Bombi episode.

[โ€“] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I looked it up and the character was completely reworked for that show, losing any trace of his "voodoo as imagined by a white guy born in 1901 whose only experience of people and countries outside of the US was through issues of National Geographic" origins so it's not that surprising