Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: High Noon at Inferno Gulch
The third in the series of Mickey Mouse strip collections continues providing exciting adventure stories in serialized form. In the first story in Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: High Noon at Inferno...
View ArticleUncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man & Donald Duck: A Christmas for Shacktown
Review by KC Carlson I’ve been somewhat lax in reviewing these, intending to talk about them earlier in the year. I’ve been incredibly selfish in wanting to find quality time in my impossible schedule...
View ArticleI Love Led Zeppelin
After greatly enjoying Ellen Forney’s Marbles, I thought I’d check out her earlier book, I Love Led Zeppelin, a varied collection of short pieces. A couple of these strips were familiar to me from...
View ArticleYoung Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby’s Romance Comics
Young Romance: The Best of Simon & Kirby’s Romance Comics by the masterful team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby is a hoot to read, a real time capsule. Most of the stories reprinted here first appeared...
View ArticleRevised Edition of Castle Waiting Volume 2 Termed “Definitive”
I enjoy Linda Medley’s Castle Waiting, a modern take on a fairy tale world, a lot. In fact, the first edition of this second collection was my best graphic novel of 2010, when it was released. However,...
View ArticleWalt Disney’s Donald Duck: The Old Castle’s Secret
Review by KC Carlson Fantagraphics’ latest Carl Barks Disney Library volume stars Donald Duck and collects most of Barks’ Donald stories from 1948. For those keeping track, The Old Castle’s Secret is...
View ArticleWalt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Volume 1: Call of the Wild
After putting out four volumes reprinting the historic Mickey Mouse newspaper strip, focusing on the black-and-white daily adventures of the spunky mouse, Fantagraphics begins collecting the color...
View ArticlePeanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955
Review by KC Carlson Those of you who have been reading Fantagraphics’ exemplary Complete Peanuts series and think that the Sunday Peanuts strips included there (in black and white, and greatly reduced...
View ArticleWalt Disney’s Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain
Another end of the year, another Christmas-themed Donald Duck collection. This time, it’s historically significant — since Christmas on Bear Mountain is Uncle Scrooge’s first appearance. (His second...
View ArticleWalt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Volume 2: Robin Hood Rides Again
Floyd Gottfredson’s color Sunday comic strips from January 1936 through December 1938 are collected in Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Color Sundays Volume 2: Robin Hood Rides Again. This will be the final...
View ArticleYoung Romance 2: The Best of Simon & Kirby Romance Comics
The first Young Romance volume must have done well, because here’s a second collection of classic love stories by masters of the comic medium Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. In contrast to that volume, which...
View ArticleAn Age of License: A Travelogue
Lucy Knisley is one of my favorite comic artists. I haven’t read a book of hers I didn’t like, which means each new title comes with greater expectations. An Age of License is the first of two travel...
View ArticleDisplacement: A Travelogue
Displacement is a followup to Lucy Knisley’s previous travelogue, An Age of License, but this time, instead of portraying a young woman starting her life, she tackles the end. She describes the...
View ArticleBarnaby Volume 1
The author of the wonderfully imaginative Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, brought that creativity to the comic strip format during World War II. This first volume of Barnaby contains...
View ArticleSam Zabel and the Magic Pen
Dylan Horrocks’ Hicksville is one of the best graphic novels ever, about a world where comics are part of everyone’s daily life. At the time it came out, we hadn’t yet reached the point we’re at today,...
View ArticleRock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life
Ellen Forney’s Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me was one of the best graphic novels of 2012. An honest, unflinching exploration of her diagnosis of bipolar disorder, the book dealt with...
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