Thursday, July 07, 2011





Another book, which will definitely make my "best Disney history books of 2011 list" is Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: "Race to Death Valley", edited by David Gerstein.

Once again David has used the opportunity of an official Disney book to release tens and tens of never-seem-before documents and to share dozens of stories that had never been released in print before. The quality of the contributors to this volume is oustanding, as we could expect: from David himself to Alberto Becattini, Thomas Andrae, Floyd Norman, and Warren Spector. Even if you are not interested in the Gottfredson strips themsleves (which would be weird, to say the least), you need to pick up this volume for the huge volume of extra content. If you read this blog, you are bound not to regret it.

I can hardly wait to get the second volume in the series, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: "Trapped on Treasure Island".

And for me, the best part is that by having helped David on some small details of these books I have managed to unearth new information which I never even knew existed. I can't thank him enough for that opportunity and for caring about Disney history with a passion.

6 comments:

Floyd Norman said...

It's a very well done book and I'm delighted to have been invited by David to be a part of this wonderful project.

Mark Sonntag said...

I love the book too. All the essays are great, makes me wonder why an Art of the Disney Comic Strip type book tracing the history, technique and relation to other Disney activities has not been done.

ramapith said...

Thanks so much, Floyd! I'm glad you were part of it, too (...and maybe you'll be part of some later volumes, too—nyah hah hah!)

ramapith said...

Oops! And while I'm at it—thanks, Didier, for being part of this, too, and for your warm words.

Didier Ghez said...

I wish that Alberto Becattini's history of Disney comics would be released in English one day.

Germund said...

Oh yes, Alberto's book about the history of Disney comics is surely worth a translation into English, as is his yellow book about Italian disney comics, which I believe would find a market at least in Europe.