(Mostly) wordless Disney comics

[caballero]

Apologies for yet another thread by me, this will be the last for a while. I'm trying to create a comprehensive list of Disney comics that are either completely or mostly wordless (meaning dialogue and narration free, background texts and soundwords are allowed). The ones I know of:

A Quiet Day At The Beach by Erickson and Scarpa. Wordless except for the final page. 10 pages.
O Código da Trinta by Renato Vinicius Canini. Wordless except for the first page. 8 pages.
Little Helper Lost by the McGreals and Rota. Have not read this one, but mostly wordless according to an older comment in another thread. (If anyone read this, how wordless is it?)

What others do you know of? Obviously there are lots of wordless strips by Taliaferro and others, so manybe those don't count, but even one-pagers would be interesting.

EDIT: scratch that, there are way too many wordless one pagers. Let's set the lower limit at 2 pages.

[Pim]

The first person that comes into my mind when talking about wordless Disney comics is Enrico Faccini: see for example Cento milioni di anni fa and Paperoga in: Basta pensarlo!. There must be many more made by him.

EDIT Paperoga e la disfida canina, Paperoga e i calzoni exxXxxtralarge and Felicità è... are more examples, and I can easily continue with more of such (funny) wordless comic stories.

[Matilda]

The only one that sticks in my mind other than Little Helper Lost is indeed by Faccini: Notte silenziosa (Gagnor/Faccini) is a fine example. And I'll look at my copy of Little Helper Lost tonight or tomorrow and report on any stray verbiage.

[Spectrus]

inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Storie+mute

Although I think this series has not been particularly well maintained on the Inducks so far. There are definitely more...

[That Duckfan]

Jan 10, 2022 22:29:30 GMT Spectrus said:

inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Storie+mute

Although I think this series has not been particularly well maintained on the Inducks so far. There are definitely more...

This might have to do with Inducks' policy of mostly (only?) maintaining subseries that are clearly marked as such in the opening panel. I love these stories by the way. Faccini has mastered a totally unique pantomime style. If only there was enough of it to make a Disney Masters volume. A unique collection, plenty of Fethry, almost no translation work, what's not to love?

inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3368-3 (11 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3270-3 (9 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3268-3 (8 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3202-5 (7 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3199-3 (8 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+3131-2 (9 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2874-5 (16 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2873-4 (8 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2872-4 (8 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2805-4 (6 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2804-3 (13 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2803-4 (5 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2798-4 (14 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2797-3 (6 pages)
inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2787-3 (5 pages)

Single-page series (including some silents):
inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Il+pi%C3%B9+grande... (7 items)
inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Re+di+pasticci (61 items)
inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Zucche+vuote (20 items)
inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Minima+Paperalia (17 items)
inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Le+vacanze+di+Paperoga (10 items)

[Matilda]

Ah, "Silent Night" is the longest one so far! That's interesting. Also the highest rated on Inducks. And "Dog Meet Dog" was published in the USA, I'd forgotten that.

[Matilda]

Ha, found my copy of Picsou 369! Little Helper Lost has dialogue on the first page, one panel of second page, and last page. This is all Gyro speaking. The 12 pages from page 2 after its second panel through the first three panels of page 14 cover Helper's journey in the present and future Duckburg until he returns to Gyro in the present, and that journey is entirely wordless with the exception of signs and three narrative boxes which just indicate how much time has passed: "ten minutes later," "two weeks later," and "500 years later".

[caballero]

Matilda Thank you! I have been hearing great things about that story for years but did not know it was mostly wordless until a few days ago. It does sound amazing, I need to obtain a publication it appeared in.

[Mesterius]

Welp, time to submit the Glénat album "Les Vacances de Donald". Completely wordless all the way through as far as I understand... done as a homage to the classic 40s and 50s Donald Duck cartoons. So for once, a Glénat album that DOESN'T need translating.

[caballero]

Jan 11, 2022 0:25:57 GMT Matilda said:

Ha, found my copy of Picsou 369! Little Helper Lost has dialogue on the first page, one panel of second page, and last page. This is all Gyro speaking. The 12 pages from page 2 after its second panel through the first three panels of page 14 cover Helper's journey in the present and future Duckburg until he returns to Gyro in the present, and that journey is entirely wordless with the exception of signs and three narrative boxes which just indicate how much time has passed: "ten minutes later," "two weeks later," and "500 years later".

I have finally read Little Helper Lost today. What a great story! Might be my favourite non-Rosa, non-Van-Horn Disney comic of the past 40 years! Also, it's probably my favourite Disney comic ever that wasn't written and drawn by the same person. Now I am really hoping it will be included in a Marco Rota Disney Masters book.

[caballero]

I just learned that Walt Kelly's 8 Gremlins two-pagers are wordless too.

[Pim]

Two Finding Dory (almost) silent two-pager comics: Thrashed and Otterly Adorable.

Both stories involve a single sound effect (Roooooar!) and the latter the the single phrase Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr. at the end, with the 'translation' from the language of otters to a human language (so it is a bit of a grey area whether or not this one is truly silent).

[Spectrus]

Was the eleventh chapter of War of the Dragonlords mentioned yet?
inducks.org/story.php?c=D%2FD+2000-007

[farmspirit]

Reading through old Megazine, I've found this one-page with no dialogues (only a "?") segnaletica accurata

[Mesterius]

May 22, 2022 17:56:33 GMT farmspirit said:

Reading through old Megazine, I've found this one-page with no dialogues (only a "?") segnaletica accurata

Jan 10, 2022 20:46:37 GMT caballero said:

EDIT: scratch that, there are way too many wordless one pagers. Let's set the lower limit at 2 pages.