Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics

Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics is a book series which reprints Walt Disney's Silly Symphony Sunday comic strip, drawn by several different Disney artists from 1932 to 1945. The strip was published by King Features Syndicate.[1] The strip often introduced new Disney characters to the public, including its first comic character, Bucky Bug. The series was published by The Library of American Comics from 2016 to 2019.

Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics
Publication information
PublisherThe Library of American Comics
FormatHardcover
GenreAnthropomorphic animals
Adventure
Humour
Adaptation
Publication dateApril 2016 – September 2019
No. of issues4
Main character(s)Bucky Bug, Elmer Elephant, Donald Duck, The Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Ugly Duckling, Pinocchio, Pluto, Little Hiawatha, Bambi, Panchito Pistoles, José Carioca
Creative team
Written byEarl Duvall, Ted Osborne, Merrill De Maris, Hubie Karp
Artist(s)Al Taliaferro
Penciller(s)Al Taliaferro, Earl Duvall, Hank Porter, Bob Grant
Inker(s)Al Taliaferro, Floyd Gottfredson, Bob Grant
Editor(s)Dean Mullaney

Background

From 1929 to 1939, the Walt Disney Company produced 75 original animated short features under the Silly Symphony line. These shorts were designed to be standalone whimsical pieces without any reoccurring characters. These shorts helped Disney push the limits of what could be done with animation in terms of character effects and storytelling, and inspired the invention of the multiplane camera, a recording device allowing animated films to create tracking shots, which in turn made it possible to tell stories in new ways. The Silly Symphonies shorts were a great success, winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Films seven times. It also branched out to include a series of children's books, comic books and a newspaper Sunday comic strip.[2]

The comic strip was syndicated into the 1950s, the same decade when Dell Comics started to publish 100-page compilation comic books under the Silly Symphony brand, these featured new stand alone stories which was not a continuation of the material the Sunday newspaper strip had featured.[1] In total, Dell Comics published nine of these comic books.[1] The first issues of the series were initially published in black-and-white, but transitioned to color print.

In April 2016, IDW Publishing and The Library of American Comics began reprinting the Sunday comic strips.[3]

Format

The books are hardcover with a sewn binding, a sewn linen bookmark, and a dust jacket. They measure 12 × 8.5 inches, approximately 305 × 216 mm, and are set in a landscape format. This format allows each Sunday page to be as close to the original size as possible.[4]

The comics are scanned from the original Disney proofs, which have been archived in vaults located in Glendale and Burbank, California, U.S.A.[5] Each print is in full color throughout the volumes, identical to the comic strips, originally published in full color. Each volume of the series has about 210 pages, in which approximately ten pages are supplementary material including introductions by the film historian and author J. B. Kaufman.[6][7][8]

Volumes from the series were sold separately. The release schedule for the series was one volume every ten months.[9]

Volumes
Volumes
Vol. Release date Title Period Main appearances Page count ISBN Inducks link
12016-04-27Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics Vol. 11932-1935Bucky Bug, Bennie Bird, Peter Penguin, Donald Duck, Max Hare, Toby Tortoise, Ambrose, Miss Bonbon216978-1-63140-558-7SSSC 1
22017-02-08Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics Vol. 21935-1939Three Little Kittens, Elmer Elephant, The Three Little Pigs, The Big Bad Wolf, Donald Duck, Snow White, The Seven Dwarfs, Pluto, Spotty Pig224978-1-63140-804-5SSSC 2
32017-11-22Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics Vol. 31939-1942Pluto, Ugly Duckling, Pinocchio, Little Hiawatha208978-1-63140-988-2SSSC 3
42019-09-17Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics Vol. 41942-1945Bambi, José Carioca, Panchito Pistoles192978-1-68405-264-6SSSC 4

See also

References
  1. "Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Silly Symphonies". www.toonopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  2. Brewster, Mat (2017-02-18). "Book Review: Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies Vol. 2 (1935-1939)". Cinemasentries.com. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  3. https://www.outrightgeekery.com/2016/04/25/silly-symphonies-vol-1-review/ Retrieved 2019-05-30
  4. Spinney, Alan (2017-11-22). "Comic Review: Silly Symphonies, Vol. 3: The Complete Disney Classics 1939–1942 (IDW)". The Fanboy Factor. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  5. Findlay, Kurtis. "Episode 001 with special guest Bruce Canwell Library of American Comics". Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  6. "'Silly Symphonies Volume 2' delights with more classic Disney comic strips". Christian Science Monitor. 2017-03-20. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  7. "Jerry Reviews "Cartoon Roots", Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies – and the latest from Didier Ghez". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  8. https://westfieldcomics.com/blog/interviews-and-columns/rogers-comic-ramblings-the-library-of-american-comics-idws-walt-disneys-silly-symphonies-the-sunday-newspaper-comics/ Retrieved 2019-11-02
  9. "Westfield Comics Blog » Interview: Bruce Canwell on IDW's Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies Vol. 1". Retrieved 2019-03-09.
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