Silly Symphonies Volume 4: The Complete Disney Classics 1942-1945

Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics #4

by Hubie Karp, Bill Walsh, Bob Grant (Illustrator)

Collect the complete Silly Symphony Sunday newspaper strips for the first time!

The artwork for these rare strips has come straight from the Disney vaults, each page meticulously colored using as a guide the original file copies that belonged to Walt Disney himself!

This concluding volume of the series features an adaptation of Bambi , plus the rarely seen Sunday pages featuring The Three Caballeros stars José Carioca and Panchito from 1942 to 1945. With these stories, the complete Silly Symphony newspaper strips are collected for the first time! It's a symphony of fun and adventure from Disney's classic period.

Genres: Humor, Comics

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 17, 2019

Reviews

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adquiri este quadrinho na Joreli com o intuito de pesquisar a retratação do Zé Carioca em suas primeira tiras de jornais feitas por estadunidenses. A sessão Silly Simphonies dividia espaço dos jornais com as tiras do Mickey Mouse e teve como estrelas diversos personagens do universo Disney. Zé Carioca e Panchito estrearam nas tiras em 1942 um ano antes da estreia do filme Saludos Amigos nos EUA (no Brasil, estreara em 1942). As tiras foram uma forma de preparar terreno para o filme, que servia como propaganda estadunidense na política da Boa Vizinhança da Segunda Guerra Mundial. As tiras de Zé Carioca e o personagem brasileiro são mais bem elaborados que Panchito, o personagem mexicano e suas histórias. Para se ter uma ideia dessa diferença, Zé tinha histórias que continuavam semana a semana, enquanto o galináceo recebia apenas piadinhas pontuais por semana. Nesta tiras também começou a se desenvolver o universo de história do malandro papagaio que viria a ser mais desenvolvido por artistas brasileiros aqui mesmo, como Ivan Saidenberg e Renato Canini.

[YikesDepartment · Rating 5 out of 5]

these comics are so cute

[Gijs Grob · Rating 4 out of 5]

The fourth and last volume of the Silly Symphonies Sunday pages is devoted to Bambi, José Carioca and Panchito. Of these the comic strip version of 'Bambi' is the least interesting. The story is told with a lot of text but no dialogue, and never comes near the magic of the screen version. Much more fun, and the undisputed highlight of the volume are José Carioca's gag rich adventures. Although every Sunday page ends with a gag, Carioca's undertakings form almost one continous contuinity, in which the penniless freeloader tries to court María, the beautiful daughter of a rich banker, Rae, a bubble dancer posing as an opera star, Gloria, the daughter of hunter, and finally Mimi, a horse-loving girl.

The last adventures also star Panchito, the Mexican horse-riding rooster, but the interplay between him and José Carioca are certainly less engaging than José's solo outings. This becomes clear when Panchito becomes the solo star. Gone are the longer continuities, and the gags are less engaging. Writer Bill Walsh can indulge in his favorite supernatural subjects, like ghosts. The artwork, by four different artists, is outstanding throughout, and the panels simply burst with the colorful characters.