Category Archives: comics

From Looney Tunes #41 (Mar. 1945). Art by Tom McKimson. I think kid Bugs having only one buck tooth is adorable.

A brilliant comic by Wilfred Haughton from the UK’s Mickey Mouse Annual 6, 1935 (for 1936).

Please enjoy another Carl Barks Christmas classic. It teaches us, like Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner (so much better than that other Jimmy Stewart Christmas movie), that happiness during the holidays can be found in commercialism, instead of the usual stupid things (family, ‘better to give than receive’, baby Jesus). Yeah, those Shacktown kids are going back to poverty right after the party, dealing with abusive alcoholic fathers and C&C addicted mothers, but hey, at least they get one day of partying, right? And how about that Scrooge McDuck, he doesn’t change or learn a goddamned thing. That’s why he’s the greatest comic book character of all time. (There is a Don Rosa story that ‘tells’ how he finally got all that money out that’s actually pretty good.)

An idiot loaning insane amounts of cash to assholes who don’t deserve it, ruining the treasury? Carl Barks predicted the future!

This is not a very good reprint of this 1951 classic (it’s the first to feature Scrooge’s money swim). Apologies. This was part of a batch of Barks stories Gemstone didn’t have very good stats on, and thus resulted in some of the worst looking printings of Disney comic stories in North America ever.