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“The Good Duck Artist,” Carl Barks excelled at both short humor comics (his ten-pagers in Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories) and longer adventure stories… in fact he did both better than just about anyone else in comics at the time he worked (using the pseudonymn of “Walt Disney”).

I have examples of both types of stories today… on the adventure side of things, Rodney Bowcock’s Comics and Stories brings us the Donald Duck classic The Gilded Man.

On the short humor strip side, courtesy of the Fortress of Fortitude we have Donald Duck in Silent Night, doing battle with his ongoing next-door nemesis in the 10-pagers, Neighbor Jones. Although drawn in 1945, this story was initially rejected for violence, and was not printed until decades later.

• Scraps & Sketches
  from Yesterday’s Papers
• Wicked Wilbert Monday Cartoon Day.
  from Those Fabuleous 50’s
• National Cartoonist Society Profile: Paul Fung Jr.
  from Dave Karlen Original Art Blog
• Zodiac
  from HOBOTOPIA
• Mr Coffee Nerves
  from The Ephemerist
• For G-Men only (with a Mickey Mouse toy)
  from The Ephemerist
• An Awesome Title Transformation
  from Comics Should Be Good!
• Riding the Moon Bats to Saturn
  from Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
• Trondheim’s Little Nothings
  from NBM Blog
• This calls for another romance comic.
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• “If Lex Luthor Were Superman’s Father!”
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Great Cartoonists — Bill Mauldin
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Kamandi ‘s world…
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Batwoman! Bat-Mite! Bathound! Together because you demanded it!
  from scans_daily: Bringing the crack since December 2
• Christmas Comic Covers – Part 6
  from Blimey! It’s another blog about comics!
• Christmas Comic Covers – Part 7: International Comics
  from Blimey! It’s another blog about comics!
• Krazy Kat 1921-04-29
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-04-28
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-05-02
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-04-30
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-05-04
  from Comic Strip Library News
• Krazy Kat 1921-05-03
  from Comic Strip Library News
• SUNDAY. EL JINETE Y SU CABALLO
  from Comics en extinción:
• GORKA GUDARI DE PALACIOS. ATISBOS DE POESÍA.
  from Comics en extinción:
• Santa Advisory, Again
  from cul de sac
• Holiday Tales Bonus! Steve Ditko “On the Day of His Return"
  from Diversions of the Groovy Kind
• The Sucker
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• The Soul Of Benjamin Sprague
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Lookin’ for some HOT STUFF baby this evenin’
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• The Timid Soul
  from Hairy Green Eyeball
• More Merry Stanley Lulu
  from Magic Carpet Burn
• Gallery Christmas Cat
  from Mark Kausler’s CatBlog
• Sven undercover poodle #6
  from Mattias Inks
• Sea Monster
  from Mattias Inks
• Zoomer: Time Out For Trouble
  from Nedor-A-Day
• Number 433 Fantastic Plastic – Jack Cole Plastic Man
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Pixie and Dixie in The Flying Meeces (Huckleberry Hound 3)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Lil’ Bad Wolf in Back To School (WDCS 60)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• Donald Duck in The Gilded Man (FC 422)
  from Rodney Bowcock’s Comics & Stories
• “Andy Panda & The Magic Hat,” from Four-Color Comics #54, 1944
  from Stanley Stories
• Herriman Saturday
  from Stripper’s Guide
• Jim Ivey’s Sunday Comics
  from Stripper’s Guide
• The Well of Fear!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Curse of Khar
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• The Screaming Skulls!
  from THE HORRORS OF IT ALL
• Will You Still Love Them When They Are 54?
  from Those Fabuleous 50’s
• Infinite Kung Fu, part 9
  from Top Shelf 2.0 Webcomics
• Tales Calculated to Drive You Bats: 4
  from Uncle Ernie’s Creature Ink
• Silent Night
  from Fortress Of Fortitude
• Number 434 Turn on your ghost light!
  from Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine
• Sven undercover poodle #7
  from Mattias Inks
• Three things you could buy
  from Neil Gaiman’s Journal
• Feedback: Zim Course
  from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
• Thirty Ways To Die Of Electrocution
  from CR Briefings
• Guest Strip by Jon Sloan
  from Introspective Comics
• Doodle Dump 004: Bored at Work
  from transatlantis
• REMAKE/REMODEL This Week: Spacehawk
  from Warren Ellis
• Afterword
  from Introspective Comics
• Sketching With Andy Singer at the MoA and the Junkyard
  from Twin Cities Sketchers
• AntiGirl Parties On, page 1
  from lupi loopy loops
• Nucleus Holiday Benefit Auction
  from Boltcity
• “The Hurry-Up Hold-Up” (1957)
  from Misce-Looney-ous
• “Bear Feat” (1951)
  from Misce-Looney-ous
• The Three Bears (1952)
  from Misce-Looney-ous
• Webcomics update for 12/12/08
  from FLOG! Entries
• El gorila magnifico!
  from Gorilla Men
• WORLD’S FINEST by Ivan Brunetti & Evan Dorkin
  from Mike Lynch Cartoons
• Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1000
  from HOBOTOPIA
• HAUNTED MANSION SHAG ART
  from SECRET FUN BLOG
• doodles done on a plane
  from Doot Doot Garden Blog
• Original Winnie The Pooh Drawings
  from BibliOdyssey
• Moist, a Dr. Horrible Comic!
  from Read Comics
• Illustration: Mad Magazine Fold-Ins
  from Martin Klasch
• Whiz Comics
  from The Ephemerist
• Post-It Note Sneak Preview
  from FLOG! Entries
• Sketchy Komiks: The Original Affluent Society
  from transatlantis