The first volume of Disney One Saturday Morning Adventures has now showed up at inducks
Fantagraphics descripion for volume:
Pour a bowl of cereal and dig into a nostalgic comics tribute to Disney's One Saturday Morning! From Disney Adventures and its sister magazines come classic comics based on your favorite 1990s Saturday morning block! See sideways schoolkids Doug and Pepper Ann navigate the halls of tween angst—while sneaky Spinelli of Recess is always up to tricks! Join Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Mira Nova for big space battles. Then return to the Hundred Acre Wood for The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh… and hit Mouseton for Mickey, Goofy, and (hot-cha-cha!) Mortimer in Mickey MouseWorks! Even the Emmy-Award-winning Teacher’s Pet is back in comics… back in print for the first time in decades!
When solicited I thought the book would only contain comics based on disney animation, but now at inducks I see that the volume contains a number of regular comics(mickey mouse, goofy, Donald duck), so I there someone that may enlighten me on why that is or what the concept Disney One Saturday Morning Adventures really entails - are the duck and mouse comics featured in hc volume there due to classic donald and mickey animated shorts being part of the Saturday morning adventures-segment when aired on TV?
The One Saturday Morning TV programming block included a show first called Mickey MouseWorks, later rebooted as House of Mouse, featuring a mixture of classic and (mostly) new Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto animated shorts. The Big Bad Wolf also appeared frequently in wraparound segments and, with Li'l Wolf and the Pigs, got one short to himself (literally called "Li'l Bad Wolf").
So yes, that's why those characters are here—they were an important part of the block (and, while the stories mostly aren't based directly on the shows, we gave the characters their color schemes from the shows, just for this book).
The One Saturday Morning TV programming block included a show first called Mickey MouseWorks, later rebooted as House of Mouse, featuring a mixture of classic and (mostly) new Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto animated shorts. The Big Bad Wolf also appeared frequently in wraparound segments and, with Li'l Wolf and the Pigs, got one short to himself (literally called "Li'l Bad Wolf").
So yes, that's why those characters are here—they were an important part of the block (and, while the stories aren't based directly on the shows, we gave the characters their color schemes from the shows, just for this book).
Thanks for informing me about this, as one who never watched American television. How many books in this series would be possible to publish based on the amount of available material?
Sadly, this is the only one, at least in this format. We used almost all the available Pepper Ann material and, IMHO, the best of the available Doug, Recess, Teacher's Pet, and Buzz Lightyear material.
If reactions to Winnie the Pooh are positive, we'd like to do books of those comics (not comprehensive, as quite a few are pretty weak—but there have been lots of very clever Pooh comics, too... I love the three we had in this volume).
I would like to see a book or two of Winnie the Pooh comics. I liked the book that Dark Horse put out with the newspaper strips, and I remember reading a few of the 1970s Gold Key/Whitman Pooh issues. Not all of them are masterpieces, but the best of them were enjoyable.
I can't get over the fact that one of the writers credited for the Teamo Supremo comics is named Paul Terry. That's so random.
No relation to the talent (more or less) behind Farmer Al Falfa, Mighty Mouse, and Heckle and Jeckle—it's an entirely unrelated British writer who worked on the BBC's Disney comics, where some of our One Saturday Morning material originated.
Sadly, this is the only one, at least in this format. We used almost all the available Pepper Ann material and, IMHO, the best of the available Doug, Recess, Teacher's Pet, and Buzz Lightyear material.
If reactions to Winnie the Pooh are positive, we'd like to do books of those comics (not comprehensive, as quite a few are pretty weak—but there have been lots of very clever Pooh comics, too... I love the three we had in this volume).
Could a book series collecting highlights from both the Pooh newspaper strip and comic-book stories be an idea?
I have to be honest, I enjoyed this book more than I expected. It's a real smorgasbord. The Doug and Pepper Ann stories are the most consistently creative ones, but there are some other gems in there as well. I went back and forth on the Recess and Buzz Lightyear stories, possibly because those are the cartoons I remember best from my childhood. They don't always manage to capture the spirit of the cartoons -- and John Costanza can't draw Mikey. Teacher's Pet and Teamo Supremo were decidedly not for me --- the art atyle was off-putting and the Teamo Supremo stories in particular were very weak. There wasn't enough Hercules to leave a real impression, but I love the character design and coloring!
As for the Ducks and Mice, I really enjoyed Sabotage at Sea and History Re-Petes Itself. Donald's Lighthouse featured some energetic Jippes art, but the gags were altogether too much Looney Tunes. Ah well.
Fun book. Lots of stuff that I'd otherwise never have seen.
I have to be honest, I enjoyed this book more than I expected. It's a real smorgasbord. The Doug and Pepper Ann stories are the most consistently creative ones, but there are some other gems in there as well. I went back and forth on the Recess and Buzz Lightyear stories, possibly because those are the cartoons I remember best from my childhood. They don't always manage to capture the spirit of the cartoons -- and John Costanza can't draw Mikey. Teacher's Pet and Teamo Supremo were decidedly not for me --- the art style was off-putting and the Teamo Supremo stories in particular were very weak. There wasn't enough Hercules to leave a real impression, but I love the character design and coloring!
As for the Ducks and Mice, I really enjoyed Sabotage at Sea and History Re-Petes Itself. Donald's Lighthouse featured some energetic Jippes art, but the gags were altogether too much Looney Tunes. Ah well.
Fun book. Lots of stuff that I'd otherwise never have seen.
The problem with Hercules—the reason you didn't see more of him—was that there weren't many comics actually taking place in the context of the TV show rather than the movie. (As it was, "Power of Mice" fudged it, using a scenario from the show but drawn with Herc in something more like his movie design.)
"Donald's Lighthouse" was based loosely on thisOne Saturday Morning Donald short, on which Jippes also worked. (To the best of my knowledge, it's the only example of a direct adaptation from one of those shorts, which is why it's the only such story in our book...)
The British-produced Recess story "Rhyme and Reason" didn't feel much like the cartoon, but I thought it was a happy, peaceful note to send the usually frustrated kids out on. (The other stories seemed a little more on target to me in terms of TV fidelity.)
The Pepper Ann comics might be my favorite things ever done with the characters. Printing materials were actually lost on the page of her as Eco-Gal, but an Australian collector came through with a killer scan with which we were able to restore it.
Post by Dr Ivo G Bombastus on Jul 1, 2023 3:28:42 GMT
I have very fond memories of reading the comics in Disney Adventure magazine as a kid, both those based on preexisting Disney properties and those original to the magazine (Jetpack Pets was a favorite), I'd love to read a volume like this.
Got my copy today. It's such a nostalgia hit. I'd love a collection of the Aladdin comics as well. They were always my favorite in the Disney Adventure magazines.
Got my copy today. It's such a nostalgia hit. I'd love a collection of the Aladdin comics as well. They were always my favorite in the Disney Adventure magazines.
That’s something I think I could get my wife to want to read. Were there any Timon and Pumba or Lion King stories in Disney Adventures?
Got my copy today. It's such a nostalgia hit. I'd love a collection of the Aladdin comics as well. They were always my favorite in the Disney Adventure magazines.
That’s something I think I could get my wife to want to read. Were there any Timon and Pumba or Lion King stories in Disney Adventures?
There were, but as a spin-off of the Disney Afternoon block, not One Saturday Morning.
For that reason, you'll find a Timon and Pumbaa story in Volume 2 of Fantagraphics' Disney Afternoon Adventures—but not in our One Saturday Morning collection.