It's nice when things still hold up.



Today at work I was trying to remember the name of the german professor duck in sixties Disney cartoons. I had to call my dad, the answer is Ludwig Von Drake. This sort of lead me down a garden path to remembering how much I've always loved 50's Donald Duck comics. The majority of them were written and drawn by Carl Barks for Dell comics. Barks created the entire "Duckburg" world [later perverted in the exceedingly crappy "Ducktales" cartoon, a favorite of my youth]. I downloaded a torrent of scans of 1948-1950 comics and I'm halfway through '48. If anyone knows of a good quality softcover reprint collection, let me know, I'd love to own it. Because I'm not a "collector" I don't care at all about the original books, I'd actually prefer to have reprints.

From a little light research, people seem to be obsessed with these comics and the "Scrooge McDuck Universe" [so named because scrooge is the main focus of the comics after the mid-fifties, and all characters shift to revolve around him]. This website has a ton of covers of Disney comics from all over the world. And this one has a gigantic index of books and strips.

Fuck Mickey Mouse, he's a bitch. Donald rules.
- posted by Mason @ 11:34 AM