stories to read when snowed in

[Matilda]

I started a thread like this on the Disney Comics Forum, but I'm always happy to hear new suggestions. Since everyone in my part of the world is snowed in today, I will be re-reading my favorite snowy stories. Here's my current list:

The Screaming Cowboy--Barks
My Lucky Valentine--Barks (and it's almost Valentine's Day!)
Operation Rescue St. Bernard--Barks
Blizzard Blues (Viva Bolivar!)--Geradts/Stavenuiter
Young Man Winter--Janet Gilbert/Vicar (I like Vicar's delighful depiction of Old Man Winter's cave home)
Creature Comforts--my second favorite of the countless snowy stories by William Van Horn (it's the one with the Fermi); my favorite is The Ghost of Kamikaze Ridge, but I read that one on the day of the first major snowfall

and two stories featuring advanced penguins' underground world:
Antarctic Antics--Andreas Phil/Flemming Anderson
The Coldest Warm Place--Korhonen

Other suggestions? What are your favorite snowy stories? Mine are predictably all Duck stories. Are there great snowy Mickey stories? They can't be Christmas stories--they have to be applicable to a February blizzard.

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

In a Topolino published a month ago, Faccini made a whole story with the ducks under the snow up to their head. I think that all along the story we  only see their hats. 

It's called ducks under snow:

coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3188-3&search=paperi%20sotto%20la%20neve

I did not read it, but it is definitively something that I would like to have a look at. Faccini is a master when it comes to this strange stuff!


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Back to the topic, I like this one by Lusting and Van Horn, well written and crazy enough:

coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=D%2095099

[Matilda]

Feb 9, 2017 22:29:52 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

In a Topolino published a month ago, Faccini made a whole story with the ducks under the snow up to their head. I think that all along the story we  only see their hats. 

It's called ducks under snow:

coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3188-3&search=paperi%20sotto%20la%20neve

I did not read it, but it is definitively something that I would like to have a look at. Faccini is a master when it comes to this strange stuff!


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Back to the topic, I like this one by Lusting and Van Horn, well written and crazy enough:

coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=D%2095099

What a fun concept! Yes, I definitely need to get that someday to add to my snow day reading list. I wonder what the colorist thought of it?

[Huwey]

I read "Topolino sotto neve" and it's really good stuff.
The whole story, you just see the hats of the Ducks over the snow, the Rest of them (body, legs, etc.) is under the snow. This was the first time, I realized, that all people from Duckburg have hats. Great work Faccini!

[RobbK1]

Feb 9, 2017 19:38:57 GMT Matilda said:

I started a thread like this on the Disney Comics Forum, but I'm always happy to hear new suggestions. Since everyone in my part of the world is snowed in today, I will be re-reading my favorite snowy stories. Here's my current list:

The Screaming Cowboy--Barks
My Lucky Valentine--Barks (and it's almost Valentine's Day!)
Operation Rescue St. Bernard--Barks
Blizzard Blues (Viva Bolivar!)--Geradts/Stavenuiter
Young Man Winter--Janet Gilbert/Vicar (I like Vicar's delighful depiction of Old Man Winter's cave home)
Creature Comforts--my second favorite of the countless snowy stories by William Van Horn (it's the one with the Fermi); my favorite is The Ghost of Kamikaze Ridge, but I read that one on the day of the first major snowfall

and two stories featuring advanced penguins' underground world:
Antarctic Antics--Andreas Phil/Flemming Anderson
The Coldest Warm Place--Korhonen

Other suggestions? What are your favorite snowy stories? Mine are predictably all Duck stories. Are there great snowy Mickey stories? They can't be Christmas stories--they have to be applicable to a February blizzard.

I like all "snow stories", especially those by Barks, because they remind me of my youth.  I like all those you mentioned, above, but, I don't think I've read the 2 about penguins.  Jan Gulbransson and I have written a story about Donald working for a professor studying penguins.  His nephews are on the trip as Jr. Woodchuck observers.  It has not been drawn yet.  I also like Barks' "The Snow Statue Contest(WDC 196)", and "The Sled Race on Hooky Hill"(from WDC 100), "Silent Night" (unpublished story originally drawn for WDC 64).  I have written several snow stories, including one drawn by Branca, 6 by Gulbransson, and one by Secuderas.  Most of them involve snow sports (skiing, ice hockey, skating, sledding, ice boating (with wind sails) and Jr. Woodchuck winter survival contests, as well as a quest for "the meaning of life" in an adventure in The Himalaya Mountains.

[RobbK1]

Feb 9, 2017 22:29:52 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

In a Topolino published a month ago, Faccini made a whole story with the ducks under the snow up to their head. I think that all along the story we  only see their hats. 

It's called ducks under snow:

coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3188-3&search=paperi%20sotto%20la%20neve

I did not read it, but it is definitively something that I would like to have a look at. Faccini is a master when it comes to this strange stuff!


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Back to the topic, I like this one by Lusting and Van Horn, well written and crazy enough:

coa.inducks.org/s.php?c=D%2095099

The first page of "Ducks under Snow" reminds me of my youth, when we awoke one morning to find our downstairs doors were blocked by piled snow, and my cousin and I had to take snow shovels from our cellar, climb out of our bedroom window, and dig a path to our front door, and also dig the snow away from the garage door.  That took several hours.  Luckily, that was during Christmas vacation.

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Feb 10, 2017 8:53:07 GMT RobbK1 said:

Feb 9, 2017 19:38:57 GMT Matilda said:

I started a thread like this on the Disney Comics Forum, but I'm always happy to hear new suggestions. Since everyone in my part of the world is snowed in today, I will be re-reading my favorite snowy stories. Here's my current list:

The Screaming Cowboy--Barks
My Lucky Valentine--Barks (and it's almost Valentine's Day!)
Operation Rescue St. Bernard--Barks
Blizzard Blues (Viva Bolivar!)--Geradts/Stavenuiter
Young Man Winter--Janet Gilbert/Vicar (I like Vicar's delighful depiction of Old Man Winter's cave home)
Creature Comforts--my second favorite of the countless snowy stories by William Van Horn (it's the one with the Fermi); my favorite is The Ghost of Kamikaze Ridge, but I read that one on the day of the first major snowfall

and two stories featuring advanced penguins' underground world:
Antarctic Antics--Andreas Phil/Flemming Anderson
The Coldest Warm Place--Korhonen

Other suggestions? What are your favorite snowy stories? Mine are predictably all Duck stories. Are there great snowy Mickey stories? They can't be Christmas stories--they have to be applicable to a February blizzard.

 I have written several snow stories, including one drawn by Branca, 6 by Gulbransson, and one by Secuderas.  Most of them involve snow sports (skiing, ice hockey, skating, sledding, ice boating (with wind sails) and Jr. Woodchuck winter survival contests, as well as a quest for "the meaning of life" in an adventure in The Himalaya Mountains. 

I read two of those stories of yours. Both drawn by Branca. They were republished in France last September in the following issue of Les Trésors de Picsou (containing many of the stories cited by Matilda, by the way):

coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=fr/TP+++36#p194

This two-pagers
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+91338
is a little masterpiece, a simple gag very well staged. Chapeau! Strangely, Branca was not really "doing Branca" here. I mean that his drawing in this one seems more inspired by Barks's style of the 50's than from the one of the 60's. But let me be clear: I am not completely aware of the development of Branca style, I have read so few drawn of his production. Did he often do this? 

This one
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+90249
is good, but less interesting. Worth reading because here Branca is doing Branca at 100% (very dynamical yet elegant drawing, that's what I mean by "doing Branca" ). Another cool thing of the story: it is clear that you had a lot of fun creating unusual page layouts (at least unusual for traditional duck comics...this was an Egmont story from 1991!). Anyhow, the plot is a bit too "thin" for my tastes.  



 

[Matilda]

Cool! I'll have to get that issue of Les Trésors de Picsou when I can. Nobody's selling it on eBay.fr at the moment who's willing to ship it to the USA. But it will show up at some point. That's a nice collection of snowy stories. Predictably, William Van Horn has more stories in it than anyone but Barks!

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Feb 10, 2017 14:37:09 GMT 1 Matilda said:
Predictably, William Van Horn has more stories in it than anyone but Barks!

That happened also when they released an issue on the dinosaurs theme!  

[RobbK1]

Feb 10, 2017 11:14:41 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

Feb 10, 2017 8:53:07 GMT RobbK1 said:

 I have written several snow stories, including one drawn by Branca, 6 by Gulbransson, and one by Secuderas.  Most of them involve snow sports (skiing, ice hockey, skating, sledding, ice boating (with wind sails) and Jr. Woodchuck winter survival contests, as well as a quest for "the meaning of life" in an adventure in The Himalaya Mountains. 

I read two of those stories of yours. Both drawn by Branca. They were republished in France last September in the following issue of Les Trésors de Picsou (containing many of the stories cited by Matilda, by the way):

coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=fr/TP+++36#p194

This two-pagers
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+91338
is a little masterpiece, a simple gag very well staged. Chapeau! Strangely, Branca was not really "doing Branca" here. I mean that his drawing in this one seems more inspired by Barks's style of the 50's than from the one of the 60's. But let me be clear: I am not completely aware of the development of Branca style, I have read so few drawn of his production. Did he often do this? 

This one
coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+90249
is good, but less interesting. Worth reading because here Branca is doing Branca at 100% (very dynamical yet elegant drawing, that's what I mean by "doing Branca" ). Another cool thing of the story: it is clear that you had a lot of fun creating unusual page layouts (at least unusual for traditional duck comics...this was an Egmont story from 1991!). Anyhow, the plot is a bit too "thin" for my tastes.  



 

It is probably because my storyboard drawings used Barks' style of the 1950s, and he kept a lot of the panels the same as my staging.  He also kept a fair amount the same in my ski race story, but changed the staging drastically in a few action scenes where he used more dramatic viewing angles.

[Hector]

Feb 9, 2017 19:38:57 GMT Matilda said:

I started a thread like this on the Disney Comics Forum, but I'm always happy to hear new suggestions. Since everyone in my part of the world is snowed in today, I will be re-reading my favorite snowy stories. Here's my current list:

The Screaming Cowboy--Barks
My Lucky Valentine--Barks (and it's almost Valentine's Day!)
Operation Rescue St. Bernard--Barks
Blizzard Blues (Viva Bolivar!)--Geradts/Stavenuiter
Young Man Winter--Janet Gilbert/Vicar (I like Vicar's delighful depiction of Old Man Winter's cave home)
Creature Comforts--my second favorite of the countless snowy stories by William Van Horn (it's the one with the Fermi); my favorite is The Ghost of Kamikaze Ridge, but I read that one on the day of the first major snowfall

and two stories featuring advanced penguins' underground world:
Antarctic Antics--Andreas Phil/Flemming Anderson
The Coldest Warm Place--Korhonen

Other suggestions? What are your favorite snowy stories? Mine are predictably all Duck stories. Are there great snowy Mickey stories? They can't be Christmas stories--they have to be applicable to a February blizzard.

I've got a better idea. When you're snowed in, read stories about summer and beaches.

[sirredknee]

There should be a Murry story in the list, because he was a master in depicting all kinds of bad weather. The first story that comes to mind is a Christmas story, but as those aren't allowed, how about "The Monster of Sawtooth Mountain"?

And what about the similar titled "The Ghost of Man-Eater Mountain" by Bill Wright?

[Matilda]

Feb 11, 2017 23:17:11 GMT sirredknee said:

There should be a Murry story in the list, because he was a master in depicting all kinds of bad weather. The first story that comes to mind is a Christmas story, but as those aren't allowed, how about "The Monster of Sawtooth Mountain"?

And what about the similar titled "The Ghost of Man-Eater Mountain" by Bill Wright?

Yes, "Sawtooth Mountain" is a good Fallberg/Murry choice. Thanks for the reminder!

[RobbK1]

Feb 10, 2017 13:37:09 GMT Matilda said:

Cool! I'll have to get that issue of Les Trésors de Picsou when I can. Nobody's selling it on eBay.fr at the moment who's willing to ship it to the USA. But it will show up at some point. That's a nice collection of snowy stories. Predictably, William Van Horn has more stories in it than anyone but Barks!

I will visit Paris in August, and will be looking for that issue.  If I find 2, I will buy one for you, and post it to you when I return to USA in The Fall.

[Matilda]

Feb 12, 2017 22:04:41 GMT RobbK1 said:

Feb 10, 2017 13:37:09 GMT Matilda said:

Cool! I'll have to get that issue of Les Trésors de Picsou when I can. Nobody's selling it on eBay.fr at the moment who's willing to ship it to the USA. But it will show up at some point. That's a nice collection of snowy stories. Predictably, William Van Horn has more stories in it than anyone but Barks!

I will visit Paris in August, and will be looking for that issue.  If I find 2, I will buy one for you, and post it to you when I return to USA in The Fall.

What a lovely offer, Rob! Let's check in just before you go--I may be able to get it myself from France or Canada by then. We could talk via the "messages" on this forum.