What The Buck?

Saturday Some More Leftovers Day.

Some time ago I shared a couple of interesting illustrations fro Mickey Mouse Club Magazine by people such as soryboard genius Bill Peet. Here is one more and another interesting feature by Dick Huemer and Phil Hartley. This might be as good a place as any to tell you I just recieved my copy of Classic Comic Press' complete reprint of Dick Huemer and Paul Murray's Buck O'Rue. I have shown some samples of this strip, but as soon as I heard Charles Pelto was doing a complete edition (with a cover by Dutch artist Gerben Valkema in a spot on Paul Murray imitation) I stopped uploading ine. Well, it's everything I hopes for, in high quality reprinting. If you remember Murray's Mickey Mouse fondly or are into parody strips, this one is great to get or ask for for any occasion.

Come And Be Merry

Thursday Story Strip Day.

There may be story strip silent sequences out there, but I did not find any. Instead I have chosen to present today a longer run of Disney's Little Hiwatha. This sunday only silent gag strip ran for about three years under the Silly Symphonies banner and if I understand it corrctly, it was even considered as a feature film subject at the time. The text is by Dick Huemer and the art by Bob Grant, who also did the Merry Menagerie series of cartoons I so much like. With all the love that is given to Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse (and rightly so) I am surprised not more people are equally impressed by Grant's animated style of this strip. Maybe because it ran for so short or because the strip was later worked into the ground in the comics?