Favourite Disney comics under 10 pages?

[caballero]

There are dozens (maybe hundreds) of really great short Disney comics that are 10 pages long (and not just by Barks), but I wonder, what are your favourite Disney comics under 10 pages?

Two that I love:


Close-Ups by William Van Horn: this surreal Disney comic is unliek any other

the "Mush!" one-pager by Barks: other than being funny, I love how different this is from the (self-)important comics about Scrooge's early life we are used to.

[sergei]

Interesting question! I LOVE some of the Faccini-short-stories, for example Idee... geniali! (really strange story, but exactly my humour ) and above all Paperi sotto la neve, simply HILARIOUS!! That are the stories that let me become a Disney-Fan. In addition, of course, the short Barks-stories are most very good, like Thug Busters or Horseshoe Luck (the best Onepager for me).

caballero : I really like your Barks-onepager too, mainly because of the art – actually, I think short stories mostly work on art (expressions!) and less on a genius plot (the Barks-stories I mentioned are exceptions)

[caballero]

Apr 14, 2021 17:52:52 GMT sergei said:

caballero : I really like your Barks-onepager too, mainly because of the art – actually, I think short stories mostly work on art (expressions!) and less on a genius plot (the Barks-stories I mentioned are exceptions)

Btw, compare the original version with the borderless panels to how it has been released in some countries. What the Dutch punlisher for example did with it is pure vandalism!

[Matilda]

So, when I started thinking about this today I realized that one of the reasons why I have a bunch of shorter stories on my long list of favorite Disney comics stories is that I have all my life looked for stories where the female Duck characters shine, and many of those happen to be short. To some extent that's because short stories featuring female characters have been sort of a byproduct of our main business, throwing a bone to the girl reader. More recently there are a bunch of longer stories featuring female characters in a positive way, stories where they get to go on adventures or face challenges without or along with male characters. But there are still lots of short stories featuring female characters I treasure. Here are some:

Daisy story from my childhood: Daringly Different by Gregory/Barks, 4.5 pages

Daisy story found in adulthood: A Páscoa É Nossa by Brazilian Anon., 9 pages

--that's still my favorite Daisy story of any length. Another short one, which shows the Daisy/Donald relationship in a positive light, is Missing the Mistletoe by the McGreals/Rota, 8 pages. I am also quite fond of Duckdown Abbey by the Shaws/Angel Rodriguez, 6 pages, which nicely deconstructs the adulation of the titled/entitled.

Madam Mim story from my childhood: Secret of the Sphinx by ?/Strobl, 8 pages

Madam Mim story found in adulthood: Madam Mim Moves by Anne-Marie Dester/Gil-Bao, 4 pages

Grandma Duck story from my childhood: No Trespassing by ?/McSavage, 5 pages

Grandma Duck story found in adulthood: Case of the Hungry Thief by Korhonen, 8 pages, the first of his "Grandma Duck Detective" series and my favorite of that series.

No good stories starring April, May & June in my childhood!

April, May & June story found in adulthood: Robbery on Rosebud Road by Camilla Läckberg/Midthun, 5 pages, clearly the best AMJ story of all time!

Then, a couple of female characters I didn't encounter in my childhood:

My favorite Paperetta story is longer, Stabile's "l'ultimo scrigno,"  but I'm fond of Wheels of Profit by ?/Scarpa, 8 pages, where she gets the idea that saves the day and implements it.

Likewise, my favorite Minima De Spell story is the long "The Secret Santa Spell," but I'm charmed by Amelia e il diario d'Incagliostro by Sisti/Sciarrone, 6 pages--I like the art and the basic joke.

Three more short Duck comics stories I love:

Korhonen's Sukulaissieluja--young Scrooge in the Klondike with a wonderful set of Finnish brothers, 8 pages (they find him half-frozen and revive him in their sauna which they've constructed in their Alaskan camp because of course they have)

Look for Life by Jaakko Seppälä/Daniel Pérez, 6 pages--exactly the sort of JW story I enjoy, where they find a hidden village of an unknown species

Another 6-pager, Anti Gravity Spell by Moe/Paco Rodrigues--mostly for the art, the views of Duckburg from above

I've been hoping to be able to get a copy of the German issue with the "Ducks snowed under" one sergei mentions! That same issue has a Befana story....

Then I'll mention two stories from the Mouseworld:

King of the Bungaloos by Markstein/Xavi (though I prefer the sequel, a ten-pager drawn by Ferioli, this 7-pager also tickles me)

The Poodle People by Christensen/Bradbury, more progressive in its attitude towards the native tribe than the usual mid-20th-century story!

Top ten favorite one-pagers (I'm tired of doing all the links, so...):

Barks: the original borderless Mush, Kitty-Go-Round and Sleepy Sitters

de Graaff & M Heymans: Trapdoor Trick (HDL charge kids to go down Scrooge's office chute)

Gentina: Witch in the Box (Magica delivers herself to the bin in a box pretending to be a birthday gift)

Sansone: Cerci nel grano (crop circles were formed by Scrooge worrying)

Seppälä: he beats out even Barks, with four in my top ten: three from his Advent calendar series drawn by Rota, the Gingerbread House, Decorated for Christmas & Letters to Santa, and one drawn by Lourdes Rueda Sala, A Helper for Helper