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Quote from user: Joakim GunnarssonQuote from user: chamferIn which daily strip book will donald show up?
Check out book three for Donald!
The MM dailies were not great from the beginning, but already in vol 2 Gottfredson is showing his skills as a storyteller. In book 3-5 you'll find him at his peak. (IMO)
I think that 1936 through 1939 was his absolute peak (like Barks from 1948-1951). And 1935,and 1940 through 1946 was also at a very high level. I also like 1947-1952. 1953 through 1955 and 1934 have high quality as well (just not as high as the others mentioned. The only years of his continuities that I think are not extra special are 1930-33.

Quote from user: nikoDear David Gerstein,
thank you for this really good work!
I enjoy reading the strips every evening before going to bed.
Thank you for the kindness.
In all honesty, the world might be a better place if everyone read Gottfredson strips before going to bed. (-:
Quote from user: Gooey98Check panel 2 of page 207 of Call of the Wild. What kind of acid is coming out of the bath faucets?!?! Surely couldn't be healthy for the nephews...
They're tough little rascals??they can take it!
(In reality... seems like the 1930s colorist made the water sea-green whenever the wall above was blue, even if that made the water inconsistent from scene to scene.)Quote:Seriously though, weird coloring choices.
The 1930s colors are often a little weird, but for me that's part of their charm??and I felt it important to recreate them as accurately as we could.
Occasionally we'd fix an error (like slightly inconsistent clothing colors within an ongoing serial), but otherwise we aimed to be as close as possible.

In the Jan 2, 1938 strip (Robin Hood Rides Again, page 130) there is a color oddity that we left as-is. Morty and Ferdie appear to be taking canned tomatoes, oranges, and grapefruits out of their cans and putting them back in the grocery box loose??so when an unknowing Mickey picks up the box, the fruit spills out and makes a mess.
But wait... how could the nephews have logically gotten the fruit out of the cans so fast? And why are oranges and grapefruits in cans, anyway? And why does Mickey need to recollect the cans in the end, if the cans are now empty and the fruit is ruined?
The logic of the strip works better if the "fruits" are instead snowballs; so Morty and Ferdie are taking the unopened cans out of the box and replacing them with snowballs. In some editions, the strip has indeed been colored this way.
But I decided to leave the original??error???as originally published, because it was too interesting not to save.
Quote from user: Review Or DieI quite liked that first volume! It's much more of a freshman work, but it has a lot of really enjoyable stuff to it that I don't think should be quite so easily dismissed.
My sentiments exactly. I love the racier early conception of Mickey, as well as the primitive attempts to adapt cartoon and vaudeville humor to the strip; even if we're not in "high" Gottfredson yet.

Quote from user: Milan- bingo! Snowballs all the way! [...] So glad you've also noticed it, Dave.
If only I could have noticed everything??in Sundays Vol 1 there are a couple of one-panel color errors that still bug me (like a ping-pong ball being transparent; like Donald's body being white when the rest of him is yellow).Quote:Glad to see David & Co. always including some old Serbian/Yugoslavian covers in the bonus material section (thanks to Dejan).
Yes! Dejan is an ace. I love showing our readers what the "foreign" (to us!) covers looked like, and I'm especially glad that readers have enjoyed the results so much.Quote:P.S. @ 'niko': there already was a german edition in the early 90-ies, I still have it.
That would be the great MICKYS KLASSIKER, right? It "only" included the dailies and only ran through 1936, but that was the first Gottfredson collected series I ever owned, too (and I wrote a little bit about it in the acknowledgements for FGL Vol 2).