Bookshelf #7

This week's bookshelf is probably pretty self-explanatory, given how apparent the organizing principle for it is, and how big and clear the spines are.

To the left is, obviously, various Fantagraphics Disney books, most of which come from their Complete Carl Barks Disney Library series, of which I'm missing a lot. There are also the two Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas books (Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald: Mickey's Craziest Adventures and Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Donald's Happiest Adventures), a pair of books from the Complete Don Rosa Library (of which I am also missing many volumes yet), a pair of Disney Masters books and the first volume of the Floyd Gottfredson Library (I'm more of a duck fan than a mouse fan, personally).

Perhaps the most interesting of these Disney books from Fantagraphics though is The Return of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, as it's such an outlier.

Also, there's one non-Fantagraphics books I stuck among the others, as it's Disney-related, even if it's just a little too long for this particular shelf and juts out in a way that is unsatisfying to look at (Although you probably can't tell from this picture). That's Walt Disney's Christmas Classics, a 2017 release from IDW that collected 33 special daily comic strips produced between 1960 and 1997 that were offered to newspapers to run during the holiday season. 

Because Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck had their own comic strips already, these strips tended to feature characters from Disney feature films and unusual crossovers. I reviewed it for Good Comics for Kids when it was released, if your curious about its contents. It's definitely an interesting book.

Then, on the right of the shelf, we have a handful of works from Osamu Tezuka: Unico, Princess Knight, The Mysterious Underground Men and Triton. Shelving Tezuka side by side with Disney seemed to make sense at the time, but, as you can see from the latest Donald Duck volumes being stacked atop the older ones, I've run out of space, and will have to eventually find a new place for the Tezuka books to make room for the rest of the Disney books...especially if I manage to fill in all the holes in my collection of Barks' duck books.