Bill Peckmann &Comic Art &Disney 19 Aug 2011 06:45 am
Walt Kelly’s Walt Disney Comics
- Following up yesterday’s post of Walt Kelly’s Animal Comics, we have more of his covers for Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories. Not all of these were done by Kelly, but most are. These came fresh off of Bill Peckmann‘s hot scanner, and I thank him for sharing his amazing archive with us.
1by Walt Kelly
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by Carl Barks
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by Walt Kelly
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by Walt Kelly
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by Walt Kelly
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by Walt Kelly
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by Walt Kelly
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by Walt Kelly
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by Walt Kelly
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by Walt Kelly
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by Walt Kelly
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by Carl Buettner
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by Carl Buettner
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by Carl Buettner
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Pencils: Walt Kelly, Inking: Carl Buettner(?)
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Pencils: Walt Kelly, Inking: Carl Buettner(?)
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by Carl Barks
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by Carl Barks
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by Carl Barks
on 19 Aug 2011 at 10:05 am 1.Bill said …
Those wonderful seasonal covers meant so much to us as kids. That alternate universe might have been populated by talking animals, but by George,it did have the same season’s we did!
on 19 Aug 2011 at 12:45 pm 2.Stephen Macquignon said …
It is nice to see that Donald is not always the butt of the joke
Good use of expressions and gestures
on 19 Aug 2011 at 1:53 pm 3.Gus Goose said …
Ir seems that the fourth cover (with the doggy) was originally a Carl Barks idea for an unpublished drawing. It has been reused many times since then : http://coa.inducks.org/xref.php?c=W%20WDCM%2049-00B
on 19 Aug 2011 at 8:09 pm 4.Thad said …
The September 1949 cover by Barks, for me, is the one defining image of all that is right with Disney comic books.
on 20 Aug 2011 at 5:30 am 5.Kellie Strøm said …
I think I’d like the Kelly covers more if I wasn’t looking at them next to the Barks ones. As it is they clarify how masterful a graphic artist Barks was.
on 20 Aug 2011 at 10:31 am 6.Bill said …
Can’t say I disagree with Kellie. I think of Walt Kelly as the Norman Rockwell of Disney Comics and Carl Barks as the Robert Fawcett of Disney Comics. Now there, you have the names of four gents who have no peers.
on 20 Aug 2011 at 1:34 pm 7.The Gee said …
I agree with Thad that the cover with them on a Dinghy/ boat is a great one.
One of the things about these covers, and a lot of old comics and strips, are the artifacts that are in them. To me, it delivers kind of a charge to see that Donald beats his rugs with something made for that specific reason, or the iron/ironing board putting him in a specific dilemma. And, the thought that Donald takes baths with a rubber duckie is funny in its own right.
Check out the recurrence of Donald’s Professor glasses, when they are used it begs for a funny bit of posturing and gestures.
The ways they figured out the gags are just clever and obviously they are gags that are told well. I guess seeing the choices that are made if part of the joy of seeing these. So, thanks for sharing.