Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays "Robin Hood Rides Again": Volume 2 (Vol. 2) - Hardcover

Gottfredson, Floyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 160699686X ISBN 13: 9781606996867

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2013

Synopsis

In our second book of Floyd Gottfredson’s full-color Sunday newspaper strips, Donald Duck and Goofy join Mickey Mouse in another round of adventures riffing on Robin Hood, Westerns and much more.

He’s faster than a speeding arrow... more powerful than the Sheriff of Nottingham... able to leap high taxes in a single bound! He’s Mickey Mouse! He’s back in color ― and traveling back in time: battling evil medievals in our second book of Floyd Gottfredson’s Sunday classics. Donald Duck, Goofy, and mischievous Morty and Ferdie are invited along too... if they dare! Standout stories in this volume include “The Robin Hood Adventure,” in which Mickey joins the Merry Men: swordfighting, jousting, and risking his life to rob the rich! Then Mickey faces Gold Rush gunslingers as the “Sheriff of Nugget Gulch”― and outwits the ever-sneaky Mortimer Mouse in “Mickey’s Rival!” Restored from Studio art sources and enhanced with a meticulous recreation of the strips’ original color, Robin Hood Rides Again also includes more than 30 pages of swashbuckling extra features. In this second volume, you’ll enjoy coveted non-Mouse Disney comics by Gottfredson, rare behind-the-scenes art, and commentary by a Round Table of Mickey scholars. Full color

About this title

About the Authors

Hired as a short-term replacement on the fledgling Mickey Mouse daily strip in 1930, Floyd Gottfredson (1905–1986) went on to draw the feature for the next 45 years. He created the most famous Mickey tales ever told in print. He is a Disney Legend and was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2006.

David Gerstein is an animation and comics researcher, writer, and editor best known for his work with The Walt Disney Company and its licensees. His published projects include Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library (Fantagraphics, 2014-2018) and Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History (with J.B. Kaufman; Taschen, 2018). He lives in North Carolina.

Gary Groth is the co-founder of The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle.

Reviews

This second volume of full-color Sunday newspaper strips by artist Gottfredson sees Mickey entering a more genteel phase in the late 1930s. Reflecting the domestication of his big-screen incarnation, the mischievous scamp of the earlier strips is giving way to a more decorous rodent who increasingly turns the broad humor over to his dim-witted sidekick, Goofy. In contrast to the daily episodes, which largely featured adventure-oriented story lines that extended for weeks, these Sunday installments are mostly self-contained gags. Welcome exceptions are serialized tales in which Mickey joins Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest, becomes a sheriff in the Wild West, and portrays the Brave Little Tailor in an adaptation of his then current film. The strips contain occasional appearances by Disney’s newly hatched character Donald Duck, who would soon displace Mickey as the studio’s biggest star. With their retro appeal, Gottfredson’s buoyant drawings might just look even better now than they did when they were fresh. Gottfredson’s late-1950s Sunday-strip adaptations of Disney classics like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty round out the volume. --Gordon Flagg

Edition details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160699686X
• ISBN 13: 9781606996867
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Gerstein David, Groth Gary