This month saw the release of a new title in France, filled with 182 sudoku puzzles and 16 meters of comics: Picsoudoku, a special edition of the popular monthly Picsou Magazine.

The sudoku puzzles come in all shapes and sizes, and the magazine also includes some alternative sudoku puzzles. The comic stories run in one row of panels along the bottom of each page. (more…)

Following the DVD release of Disney’s DuckTales television series, Gemstone Publishing in the United States is releasing two special trade paperbacks titled Carl Barks’ Greatest DuckTales Stories.

The two 144-page books collect the vintage Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge adventures that were adapted to animation for DuckTales. (more…)

Sanoma Uitgevers in the Netherlands will revive the popular Italian PK stories this year, with a new series titled Super Duck starting later this month. A second issue of Super Duck featuring Donald Duck as a superhero is scheduled for October. The publisher had originally introduced PK in the Netherlands in 1997, with Duck Power, but that series was cancelled from poor sales after just two issues. (more…)

Last year, Gemstone Publishing published a reprint of the original twelve chapters of Don Rosa’s epic story The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

This September, the publisher is releasing a Companion book that will include all the pre-chapters, post-chapters and in-between chapters that were missing from the first book. (more…)

Disney is releasing the Insider Yearbook 2005, a collectibe 176-page annual publication that commemorates 2005 with beautiful full-color photos, behind-the-scenes scoop, and coverage of major events and milestones. (more…)

Ehapa in Germany launched a new magazine in January: Tooor!. It focuses around the FIFA World Cup 2006, which starts in Germany on 9 June.

The 70-page magazine is targeted at 8 to 14-year old Disney and football fans. It has many soccer-related editorials, including player portraits, highlights of the World Cup, tips from football professionals, and much more. (more…)

This week Egmont Ehapa in Germany launches the new title Disney Fairies.

The first issue of this new monthly series comes out on 17 January. The artwork of the series is based on the children books from Gail Carson Levine. Disney Fairies takes the reader back to the land of Tinkerbell, Neverland, in a series of new fairy tale stories.

The magic magazine is targetted at girls aged 7 to 9. The first 44-page issue (sold for €2,70 in Germany) had a printrun of 140,000.