I think that is a female pig, just used to illustrate the gag. She looks like a female pig from the Mickey Mouse short cartoons of the mid 1930s. The gag might loosely refer to The Three Little Pigs, but not necessarily.
I think that is a female pig, just used to illustrate the gag. She looks like a female pig from the Mickey Mouse short cartoons of the mid 1930s. The gag might loosely refer to The Three Little Pigs, but not necessarily.
And what is the gag, exactly?
I think it is that The Three Little Pigs (or, at least the 2 irresponsible ones) are like young, boys', who don't want to "play with girls", and form "clubs" with clubhouses which girls are banned from entering. We saw that written on a few of Huey, Dewey, and Louie's clubhouses, and is an important plot point in John Stanley's "Little Lulu", where Tubby and his "gang" have that written on their clubhouse, and are constantly trying to keep Lulu and her girlfriends from bothering them (wanting to join their club). The Three Little Pigs have this favourite swimming hole, and don't want girls bothering them there. Not a very good gag. The author just wanted to use the word gag of "Swimmin' " and "Wimmin". Apparently, their staff having had to come up with a cover every month, simply ran out of good cover gag ideas.
Now there are two covers definitely worthy of this thread! I like how you're meant to think that Donald has sat on the IPC barcode and picked up the ink on his butt. Very meta. Does it in fact reproduce the IPC upside-down?
I forgot to credit the artists: First cover was by Flemming Andersen (of course, who else!), and the second one was drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano, but the idea came from Enrico Faccini - not so surprising knowing his humour...
Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Mar 30, 2018 18:59:36 GMT
So what exactly is the context of this cover? I've never seen the Beagle Boys look so miserable! I thought they were on good terms with Mim? Or was this from that time that still-evil Mim got a job as a particularly sadistic prison guard?
So what exactly is the context of this cover? I've never seen the Beagle Boys look so miserable! I thought they were on good terms with Mim? Or was this from that time that still-evil Mim got a job as a particularly sadistic prison guard?
Uh, context? I think the expressions on Mim and the Beagles are simply necessitated by the joke, i.e., Mim bowling with their ball-and-chains.
This was one of the comic books I bought for myself as a child (like Don Rosa, I benefited from a large stash collected by older siblings), because I really liked Mim...being hungry for a self-defined female character who wasn't, like Magica, an antagonist of the hero doomed to eternal failure. From a feminist POV, the stories in this issue are a real mixed bag! Happily, the first one, Secret of the Sphinx, is quite feminist-friendly. Mim goes along with the BBs to Egypt, but she has her own touristy agenda, and the unhappy ending for the BBs (not finding the treasure they'd hoped for) doesn't bother her in the least. On the other hand, there's the story where a caveman drags her by the hair....
This was one of the comic books I bought for myself as a child (like Don Rosa, I benefited from a large stash collected by older siblings), because I really liked Mim...being hungry for a self-defined female character who wasn't, like Magica, an antagonist of the hero doomed to eternal failure.
Had you been previously familiar with Mim through Sword in the Stone? And do you still own your original copy of this issue?
This was one of the comic books I bought for myself as a child (like Don Rosa, I benefited from a large stash collected by older siblings), because I really liked Mim...being hungry for a self-defined female character who wasn't, like Magica, an antagonist of the hero doomed to eternal failure.
Had you been previously familiar with Mim through Sword in the Stone? And do you still own your original copy of this issue?
Yup, still have it! One of the very few comics from my childhood which I do have (most of our comics were read to pieces, by our generation and then the next). Mim had been in Walt Disney's Comics & Stories before this came out, so I knew her from there (as well as from Sword in the Stone). In the movie, she was the "good guy's" antagonist, but in the comics, she became a more neutral and often sympathetic character. She hung out with the Beagle Boys a fair amount, but she wasn't motivated to steal or wreak havoc. In European comics and especially Brazilian comics, she became a positive character. A number of times in European comics she has helped out children (including AMJ). In the Brazilian comics she is paired with Magica, and sometimes they even live together. Not in my headcanon!
So what exactly is the context of this cover? I've never seen the Beagle Boys look so miserable! I thought they were on good terms with Mim? Or was this from that time that still-evil Mim got a job as a particularly sadistic prison guard?
Uh, context? I think the expressions on Mim and the Beagles are simply necessitated by the joke, i.e., Mim bowling with their ball-and-chains.
This was one of the comic books I bought for myself as a child (like Don Rosa, I benefited from a large stash collected by older siblings), because I really liked Mim...being hungry for a self-defined female character who wasn't, like Magica, an antagonist of the hero doomed to eternal failure. From a feminist POV, the stories in this issue are a real mixed bag! Happily, the first one, Secret of the Sphinx, is quite feminist-friendly. Mim goes along with the BBs to Egypt, but she has her own touristy agenda, and the unhappy ending for the BBs (not finding the treasure they'd hoped for) doesn't bother her in the least. On the other hand, there's the story where a caveman drags her by the hair....
Interesting cover! I guess we should assume that Madame Mim helped the police capture The Beagle Boys while they were attempting to perpetrate a crime. And so, part of their punishment is the painful and degrading activity of being an added weight to their balls and chains when they are being used as bowling balls by Madame Mim for her personal recreation. It's surprising to me that Western's editors allowed this idea to be used, as it is totally physically impossible (so, we must believe it is accomplished by Mim using her "magic", and secondly, it is cruel and dangerous. "Kids, do NOT try this at home!"
Interesting cover! I guess we should assume that Madame Mim helped the police capture The Beagle Boys while they were attempting to perpetrate a crime. And so, part of their punishment is the painful and degrading activity of being an added weight to their balls and chains when they are being used as bowling balls by Madame Mim for her personal recreation. It's surprising to me that Western's editors allowed this idea to be used, as it is totally physically impossible (so, we must believe it is accomplished by Mim using her "magic", and secondly, it is cruel and dangerous. "Kids, do NOT try this at home!"
That'll teach those Beagle Boys to mouth off to Detective Casey! (I refuse to believe Chief O'Hara knew anything about such police brutality.) Someone needs to alert the DCLU (Duckburg Civil Liberties Union) about this pronto!
This one (drawn by Roberto Marini) isn't even physically possible!
Daan Jippes used that gag in a cover, using The Big Bad Wolf and The 3 Little Pigs in the late 1970s. I think it was used with Donald and his nephews during the early 1940s.
Daan Jippes used that gag in a cover, using The Big Bad Wolf and The 3 Little Pigs in the late 1970s. I think it was used with Donald and his nephews during the early 1940s.
It's not the same gag. In these versions, the skiier is being pulled—against his will—"around" a tree in two directions at once; logic still applies, so we know this won't work, and a collision is imminent.
In the Goofy version, logic doesn't apply because it's Goofy. He HAS gone around the tree in both directions at once—who knows how?