Post by caballero on Mar 6, 2024 22:52:10 GMT
There are many Disney comics involving dreams. In some, the story or part of the story being a dream is a plot twist so please don't read further if you want to avoid SPOILERS! And a note before continuing, being unconscious and imagining things (example: The New Laird Of Castle McDuck) is for all intents and purposes the same as dreaming in Disney comics, so I will treat them as one and the same thing. So, there are several ways to categorize dream stories. A couple of them:
1. Part of the story is confirmed to be a dream (example: The Dream of a Lifetime) vs. it's left ambigious whether part of the story was a dream or not (example: The New Laird Of Castle McDuck)
2. Part of the story being a dream is not a plot twist (example: Nothing Like It, in which it's revealed on like page 2 or 3 that Scrooge is dreaming) vs it is a plot twist (example: Close-Ups)
3. The dream sequence does not really have a dream like quality (example: Zio Paperone e il fatidico anniversario - I have not read this but in another thread it was mentioned some time ago that it's a fairly normal adventure comic until it's revealed that it was all a dream) vs. the dream segment is very much dream like (example: Pudding It Straight)
My favourite Disney comics involving dreams:
The Dream of a Lifetime by Don Rosa - needs no introduction. Btw, "Rocket Reverie" is another Rosa comic that involves a dream. Are that, The Dream of a Lifetime and The New Laird Of Castle McDuck (if we count that) the only three Don Rosa Duck comics involving dreams?
Pudding It Straight by William Van Horn - one of my favourite Disney comics. It's a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream. Scrooge dreams that he is Donald who has a dream in which he is Donald who has a dream in which he is Rumpus McFowl who has a dream in which he is Rumpus who has a dream in which he is Rumpus. All dream levels involving a tapioca pudding creature. It's totally crazy!
Close-Ups by William Van Horn - even more boundary-pushing and experimental than most dream comics. Btw, Van Horn made two more dream comics: Perchance To Dream and Nothing Like It. It seems this topic is dear to him.
Topolino e la villa dei misteri by Silvano Mezzavilla and Giorgio Cavazzano - this is the comic that prompted me to start this thread. I first read it a couple of days ago and even though I knew the twist before reading it I still found it absolutely incredible. It might be my single favourite 3-tier Italian Disney comic ever. Btw, if there is one Disney comic I wish got remade, it's this one. I'm just not a huge fan of the art of Cavazzano. I mean if this exact story were redrawn by somone in let's say in the style of 1936 Gottfredson, it probably would be one of my top 5 Disney comics ever. Anyway, I hope this will be included in a future Cavazzano Disney Masters volume.
Honorable mentions: The Money Stairs and The Firebug by Carl Barks. (Are there other Barks comics involving dreams?)
Do you have any Disney comic recommendations involving dreams? All kinds of such recommendations are welcome but I am especially interested in ones in which the dream has a dreamlike quality.
1. Part of the story is confirmed to be a dream (example: The Dream of a Lifetime) vs. it's left ambigious whether part of the story was a dream or not (example: The New Laird Of Castle McDuck)
2. Part of the story being a dream is not a plot twist (example: Nothing Like It, in which it's revealed on like page 2 or 3 that Scrooge is dreaming) vs it is a plot twist (example: Close-Ups)
3. The dream sequence does not really have a dream like quality (example: Zio Paperone e il fatidico anniversario - I have not read this but in another thread it was mentioned some time ago that it's a fairly normal adventure comic until it's revealed that it was all a dream) vs. the dream segment is very much dream like (example: Pudding It Straight)
My favourite Disney comics involving dreams:
The Dream of a Lifetime by Don Rosa - needs no introduction. Btw, "Rocket Reverie" is another Rosa comic that involves a dream. Are that, The Dream of a Lifetime and The New Laird Of Castle McDuck (if we count that) the only three Don Rosa Duck comics involving dreams?
Pudding It Straight by William Van Horn - one of my favourite Disney comics. It's a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream. Scrooge dreams that he is Donald who has a dream in which he is Donald who has a dream in which he is Rumpus McFowl who has a dream in which he is Rumpus who has a dream in which he is Rumpus. All dream levels involving a tapioca pudding creature. It's totally crazy!
Close-Ups by William Van Horn - even more boundary-pushing and experimental than most dream comics. Btw, Van Horn made two more dream comics: Perchance To Dream and Nothing Like It. It seems this topic is dear to him.
Topolino e la villa dei misteri by Silvano Mezzavilla and Giorgio Cavazzano - this is the comic that prompted me to start this thread. I first read it a couple of days ago and even though I knew the twist before reading it I still found it absolutely incredible. It might be my single favourite 3-tier Italian Disney comic ever. Btw, if there is one Disney comic I wish got remade, it's this one. I'm just not a huge fan of the art of Cavazzano. I mean if this exact story were redrawn by somone in let's say in the style of 1936 Gottfredson, it probably would be one of my top 5 Disney comics ever. Anyway, I hope this will be included in a future Cavazzano Disney Masters volume.
Honorable mentions: The Money Stairs and The Firebug by Carl Barks. (Are there other Barks comics involving dreams?)
Do you have any Disney comic recommendations involving dreams? All kinds of such recommendations are welcome but I am especially interested in ones in which the dream has a dreamlike quality.
