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Bizarro Back Issues: Donald Duck and the Tear-Harvesting Christmas Witch (1948)
Bizarro Back Issues: Donald Duck and the Tear-Harvesting Christmas Witch (1948)
Bizarro Back Issues: Donald Duck and the Tear-Harvesting Christmas Witch (1948)
Last week, I mentioned that Lost in the Andes, Fantagraphics' amazing new book Donald Duck stories by Carl Barks, had one of the weirdest Christmas stories I've ever read. And for me, that's saying something: Christmas comics are one of the few things I go out of my way to collect regardless of who the creators are and who puts them out. I love the darn things, and over the years, I've read hundreds of 'em, going back through my favorites every year. And even with all that, The Golden Christmas Tree might just take the fruitcake. After alll, most of the other Christmas stories I've read don't involve a harvest of tears or someone turning into a woodchipper.
Bizarro Back Issues: Donald Duck In ‘A Christmas For Shacktown’ (1952)
Bizarro Back Issues: Donald Duck In ‘A Christmas For Shacktown’ (1952)
Bizarro Back Issues: Donald Duck In ‘A Christmas For Shacktown’ (1952)
If you're a regular ComicsAlliance reader, then you already know that I'm pretty fascinated by the weirder comics of the past, but at Christmastime, my thoughts turn to more heartwarming tales. As soon as that calendar flips over to December, 'tis the season for Santa Claus, presents, the occasional talking Christmas tree that Wonder Woman rescued from the Nazis by holding a door shut and talking about how it felt like being spanked. I mean, yeah, they're still pretty weird, but they've got that Christmas spirit! Case in point: "A Christmas For Shacktown," the title story in the latest Fantagraphics collection of Disney Duck tales by the legendary Carl Barks. At 32 pages, it's a sprawling epic (By Barks' standards, anyway) that hits those beautiful Holiday themes of altruism and the spirit of giving. Although to be fair, it does get a little closer to cannibalism than most other Christmas comics.Our story begins as Donald Duck's three nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, are taking a shortcut home from school through Shacktown, the hard-luck side of Duckburg where Calisota's poor gather together in sub-Dickensian poverty. Now, you'd think that a city built around the most successful businessman in the history of the world would be prosperous enough that even the bad neighborhoods would be doing all right, but apparently McDuck industries isn't the proven job creator that you might expect. If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably because its owner keeps three cubic acres of cash in a gigantic bin on top of a nearby hill, but I'm no economist. That's a different Chris Sims.
Link Ink: More ‘Sherlock’ Manga Art, Tons Of TMNT And More Barks And Feldstein From Fantagraphics
Link Ink: More ‘Sherlock’ Manga Art, Tons Of TMNT And More Barks And Feldstein From Fantagraphics
Link Ink: More ‘Sherlock’ Manga Art, Tons Of TMNT And More Barks And Feldstein From Fantagraphics
Manga: The lastest issue of Young Ace dropped on October 4 in Japan and features the first installment of the BBC Sherlock manga spinoff by artist "Jay." Upcoming: Fantagraphics apparently has plenty more Carl Barks and Al Feldstein reprint projects in the pipeline...
Holiday Gift Guide: ‘Lost in the Andes’ By Carl Barks
Holiday Gift Guide: ‘Lost in the Andes’ By Carl Barks
Holiday Gift Guide: ‘Lost in the Andes’ By Carl Barks
With the holiday season upon us, we here at ComicsAlliance have decided to make things a little easier on you by highlighting some of the best presents you can get for the comic book reader on your list in our Holiday Gift Guide! Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes Published by: Fantagraphics Retail Cost: $24...
The Complete Carl Barks Coming in All New Color at Fantagraphics
The Complete Carl Barks Coming in All New Color at Fantagraphics
The Complete Carl Barks Coming in All New Color at Fantagraphics
Yesterday, Fantagraphics announced that they will be publishing the complete work of Carl Barks, the acclaimed cartoonist best known for his work on the Disney "duck books" like Donald Duck and stories in the larger Duckburg universe, including the creation of Scrooge McDuck...