Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Monday, January 12, 2015

Book Review: WALT DISNEY'S UNCLE $CROOGE AND DONALD DUCK: THE DON ROSA LIBRARY, VOLUME 2 by Don Rosa (Fantagraphics Press, 2014)

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The "challenging" years of 1988-1990 found Don Rosa slowly and laboriously polishing his craft while coping with various physica...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Book Review: FUNNYBOOKS by Michael Barrier (University of California Press, 2014)

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What Michael Barrier did for the history of classic Hollywood studio animation in HOLLYWOOD CARTOONS , he does here for the golden years ...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Book Review: WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE, VOLUME 6: LOST IN LANDS OF LONG AGO by Floyd Gottfredson (Fantagraphics, 2014)

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We've finally hit the mother lode of the early-modern (read: "post-pie-eyed" and "pre-all-gags-all-the-time") MICK...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Book Review: WALT DISNEY'S UNCLE $CROOGE: THE SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD by Carl Barks (Fantagraphics Books, 2014)

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If this be "skimming," then at least it's mostly cream.  In his seminal CARL BARKS AND THE ART OF THE COMIC BOOK, Michael Ba...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Book Review: THE RETURN OF GEORGE WASHINGTON by Edward J. Larson (William Morrow/Harper-Collins, 2014)

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"What?" the reader may ask upon reading the title of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward Larson's new book.  "How c...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Book Review: THE COMPLETE DICK TRACY, Volume 17: 1956-57 by Chester Gould (IDW Publishing/Library of American Comics, 2014)... plus RIP Jay Maeder

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** SPOILERS ** This latest TRACY collection begins by wrapping up the "Joe Period and Flattop Jr." continuity .  The denouemen...
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Monday, November 3, 2014

Book Review: WALT DISNEY'S UNCLE $CROOGE AND DONALD DUCK: THE DON ROSA LIBRARY, VOL. 1 by Don Rosa (Fantagraphics, 2014)

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Quick turnaround time, indeed: Volume 2 of this collection just landed at my comics dealer's this past week.  (Volume 3, by contrast,...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Book Review: THE COMPLETE PEANUTS, VOLUME 21: 1991-92 by Charles M. Schulz (Fantagraphics Press, 2014)

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In this latest collection, Schulz continues to consolidate the aesthetic ground he had regained during 1989 and 1990 , when he started to ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Book Review: THE AGE OF GOLD by H. W. Brands (Anchor, 2003)

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My 900th post! "They made their fortunes by being tougher than the toughies, smarter than the smarties, shiftier than the shifties,...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

DUCKTALES RETROSPECTIVE: Final Thoughts and a Look Ahead

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A housekeeping note before I begin: I have placed links to the opening chapters of my two sets of animation retrospectives ( DuckTales an...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Book Review: THE PRESIDENTS' WAR by Chris DeRose (Lyons Press, 2014)

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When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, five of his predecessors were still alive and active, a record that still stands.  As...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Book Review: THE GREATER JOURNEY: AMERICANS IN PARIS by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, 2011)

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David McCullough 's followup to JOHN ADAMS and 1776 -- both of which were immense best-sellers and critical favorites -- received cr...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Book Review: THE GREATEST COMEBACK by Patrick J. Buchanan (Random House, 2014)

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Say what you will about the trajectory of Pat Buchanan 's political career; a narrative of how his career began was long overdue, and...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Book Review: WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE, VOLUME 5: OUTWITS THE PHANTOM BLOT by Floyd Gottfredson (Fantagraphics Press, 2014)

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By the time we run out of space in this latest Gottfredson collection, we're bumping up against what I consider to be THE ABSOLUTE pr...
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