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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.
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 22, 2011: Time Machines and Other Pseudoscience
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 22, 2011: Time Machines and Other Pseudoscience
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 22, 2011: Time Machines and Other Pseudoscience
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Revival house ^ I guess Pop was right % Coming of age % ALL NIGHTER #1 This David Hahn project was originally announced as a Minx graphic novel; since that line went kaput, it's turned into a five-issue Image miniseries...
‘DuckTales’ Goes Kaboom! in New Ongoing Comic Series [Preview]
‘DuckTales’ Goes Kaboom! in New Ongoing Comic Series [Preview]
‘DuckTales’ Goes Kaboom! in New Ongoing Comic Series [Preview]
On sale now from kaboom! is the first issue of DuckTales, an all-new comic book series based on Uncle Scrooge and his supporting cast of beloved Disney characters. A companion to kaboom!'s Darkwing Duck title, DuckTales is written by Warren Spector, creator of the popular Epic Mickey video game, and features artwork by Leonel Castellani, Jose Massaroli and Miquel Pujol...
Donald Duck’s Family Tree Highlights Interspecies Marriage and His Nephews’ Dubious Lineage
Donald Duck’s Family Tree Highlights Interspecies Marriage and His Nephews’ Dubious Lineage
Donald Duck’s Family Tree Highlights Interspecies Marriage and His Nephews’ Dubious Lineage
Say what you want about the depth and history that come with super-heroes, but if you want to see the most complex, rich and rewarding backstory in comics, there's only one place to go: Donald Duck. Under the pen of the legendary Carl Barks -- who most famously added to the family with the creation of Uncle Scrooge McDuck -- Donald's relatives grew into a sprawling family descended from knights,
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – March 2, 2011: Glorp! Is the Sound of the Universal Solvent
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – March 2, 2011: Glorp! Is the Sound of the Universal Solvent
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – March 2, 2011: Glorp! Is the Sound of the Universal Solvent
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Minor threat ^ Teen idles ¶ Embrace % Egg hunt ¢ Pailhead £ Fugazi £ ¢ ANNIHILATORS #1 Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's long-running, multi-series, quasi-weekly-for-a-while cosmic Marvel serial seemed to have come to a close with the recent Thanos Imperative miniseries (which is collected t