Mickey Mouse: The Magnificent Doublejoke

by Jonathan H. Gray, Thad Komorowski, Noel Van Horn

When a bizarrely trollish crimefighter hits Mouseton, neither Mickey nor Pegleg Pete know what to expect--except one crook-smashing practical joke after another! Then Mickey and Eega Beeva meet -The Clones of Channel 3000- ...and further battles are joined with ever-greasy Mortimer and a most peculiar mousenapper!
Collects IDW's Mickey Mouse issues #19-21.

124 pages, Paperback

Published January 23, 2018

About the author

Jonathan H. Gray is a cartoonist from Birmingham, Alabama who has studied animation and illustration extensively, having worked in the art field since 1997. Currently he is a cover artist for IDW Publishing’s line of Sonic the Hedgehog comics, doing the occasional interior story. He is also a Principles of Cartooning teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Jonathan briefly attended Tennessee State University where he served as TSU’s first cartoonist and eventually, its Visual Arts Manager on the editorial board of its college newspaper “The Meter.” From there, he earned his bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Art and Animation from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. Completing his matriculation at SCAD, he continued his education further by earning his master’s degree in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he finished his schooling and entered the workforce.

Jonathan is a prolific comic artist on beloved kid and humor related properties. His numerous publishing credits involved working with Archie Comics, SEGA and Capcom for almost 10 years on their respective Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Universe, Sonic Boom and Mega Man video game comic book series’ as an artist, occasional writer, production assistant and eventually, Assistant Editor for all of the titles in the Archie Action line plus assorted trades and crossovers.

Jonathan has also worked for 10 years with higher profile comic companies such as Fantagraphics, Egmont Norway, Boom Studios and IDW Publishing on their many licensed Disney Comics series. He has contributed monthly localization and translations, written historical articles about Disney Comics history for at least one Eisner-Award winning library series and drawn an assortment of covers for well-known series’ such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Duck Avenger, Uncle Scrooge, DuckTales, Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories, Walt Disney Showcase, Snow White and many, many more.

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never expected a Mickey Mouse version of a Batman story, but that's what this reminded me of, one of the kind where The Riddler goes straight. Of course, just as in a Batman story, it's more complicated than that, as Doublejoke uses the powers of humor for both good and evil.
The story "The Clones of Channel 3000" was delightfully strange, as Mickey needs his detective skills to reason his way out of a nightmarish scenario.
Those two tales were both from the Italian Disney comics, but others in this volume came from England, France, and 1950s American comics.