John Green, Disney Adventures freelancer recounts the end of the magazine
— and by the way folks, he’s now looking for work and anyone who doesn’t hire him is stupid.
I can’t say it’s completely unexpected. When I started at the magazine almost ten years ago, I recall a big meeting about the fate of the magazine within my first few weeks. Basically, the decision seemed to be that the need for Disney to have a kids magazine out there was greater than the need for Disney to be making lots of money off said kids magazine. It’s subscription rate was great, and always has been, but ad sales have been on a steady decline. For a long time no one was really worried about that, though (other than of course people in the ad sales department.) So long as kids were still buying the magazine (or, parents buying their kids the magazine), Disney was going to make it for them. And if the magazine was in any real danger, the impression everyone got was that it would be reformatted, restructured, phased out, phased in, or something. At worst, I expected a “This is your last year” kind of scenario, so the “That’s it, finish what you’re doing and go home” scenario that has happened came as a bit of a shock.
Related: Drew Weing on his strip WULF AND MERL.
Maybe the fine folks at Bongo Comics can hire him, and help fill the void with their own kids magazine. They seem like the people to do it, don’t you think?
Ditto what Heidi said, big time!
Quite simply, we couldn’t have put out the DA comics section without John. That level of production wizardry is something few comics editors have on their side, and we were lucky to be of those few.
If I hear of anything I’ll let you know!
Well Heidi -
I guess we can all say: Adventure Off!!
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Coat
I guess we can’t say See You Next Issue Anymore, But We Can Say, Bye Bye!
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