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Mickey's Craziest Adventures
It s a lost 1965 Disney epic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in tantalizing fragments... or is it? When Pegleg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge s Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down in what is really a brand-new album-length thriller by comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas: told in an amazing indy style and presented like a treasure suspended in time!"
48 pages, Hardcover
First published December 13, 2016
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Lewis Trondheim
525 books241 followersThe phenomenal Lewis Trondheim is never where you next expect him. As an artist and writer, Trondheim has earned an international following as one of the most inventive, versatile, and prolific graphic authors. From autobiography to adventure, from bestselling fantasy and children's books to visual essays, Trondheim's unique, seminal imagination consistently dazzles. His work has won numerous awards, including the Angoulême prize for best series with McConey and he also co-created the titanic fantasy epic Dungeon with Joann Sfar.
He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.
Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.
He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.
Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.
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December 30, 2020
Craziest adventures? I think I've read too much Carl Barks, Don Rosa, Floyd Gottfredson, and Paul Murry for this story to possibly be competitive in that category. But it is still a perfectly fine Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck team-up story with much running around, shrinking, running around, discovery of lost cities, and running around.
August 9, 2018
Really great and surprisingly hilarious at times.
Quite the enjoyable read although so very short.
Quite the enjoyable read although so very short.
October 27, 2018
A fun little book! The art is so un-Disney house style, reminding me of some of the wilder Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes strips.
Is there really no hope of seeing more of these?
Is there really no hope of seeing more of these?
October 14, 2018
Mickey's Craziest adventures es sin duda un gran descubrimiento. Esta recopilación de pequeñas viñetas de los años 60 están llenas de humor y situaciones ridículas que ponen a nuestros dos protagonistas, Mickey y Donald, en un aprieto cada vez mayor.
La historia gira principalmente en la busqueda de Pete Pata Palo quien ha robado la fortuna de el Tío Gilito. Esta aventura los lleva por cientos de ciudades perdidas llenas de tesoros, una selva que continuamente intenta matarlos, al redescubrimiento de los dinosaurios e incluso a la luna!
Se puede ver como el tiempo a cambiado la forma de dibujar a nuestro querido señor Mouse, en estas viñetas tiene un aspecto menos comercializado, sigue llevado sus característicos pantalones rojos y sus guantes blancos, pero cada viñeta su aspecto cambia ligeramente dependiendo del dibujante y la escena, no es un personaje estático. Aquí es cuando me quejo de la evolución del mercado gráfico y añoro los tiempos antiguos.
La única falla es que no se haya podido recuperar la tirada entera. Faltan bastantes planchas pero aún así se puede seguir la historia sin ningún problema.
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La historia gira principalmente en la busqueda de Pete Pata Palo quien ha robado la fortuna de el Tío Gilito. Esta aventura los lleva por cientos de ciudades perdidas llenas de tesoros, una selva que continuamente intenta matarlos, al redescubrimiento de los dinosaurios e incluso a la luna!
Se puede ver como el tiempo a cambiado la forma de dibujar a nuestro querido señor Mouse, en estas viñetas tiene un aspecto menos comercializado, sigue llevado sus característicos pantalones rojos y sus guantes blancos, pero cada viñeta su aspecto cambia ligeramente dependiendo del dibujante y la escena, no es un personaje estático. Aquí es cuando me quejo de la evolución del mercado gráfico y añoro los tiempos antiguos.
La única falla es que no se haya podido recuperar la tirada entera. Faltan bastantes planchas pero aún así se puede seguir la historia sin ningún problema.
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February 3, 2024
This is an interesting off-brand spin on Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck that was yanked from the Disney archives, but resurrected after being found at a yard sale. At least that’s what they claim in the foreword but I think that they’re pulling our leg, which is part of the fun. 🤔.
It’s definitely PG, a bit politically incorrect, Mickey is a bit of an a$$ lol-and the drawing-while good-obviously wasn’t done by the A Team at Disney. It was wacky but pretty funny and I enjoyed it. Someone went totally rogue on the brand, Disney threw it in a drawer, but “somehow” it got out! Comes with all the scanned stains, and oxymoronically- with all rips, tears, and missing pages intact!
It’s definitely PG, a bit politically incorrect, Mickey is a bit of an a$$ lol-and the drawing-while good-obviously wasn’t done by the A Team at Disney. It was wacky but pretty funny and I enjoyed it. Someone went totally rogue on the brand, Disney threw it in a drawer, but “somehow” it got out! Comes with all the scanned stains, and oxymoronically- with all rips, tears, and missing pages intact!
February 6, 2019
Tavallaan olisin odottanut, että hulluimmissa seikkailuissa olisi ollut kantava juoni, joka vie piiitkälle yllättäviin paikkoihin... Mutta menee tämä näinkin, sekoiluna.
December 3, 2016
Stopped by the comic shop on my way home today specifically to take a look at this, and found too much to resist (as always); other reviews probably forthcoming. But this book went down quickly, a pleasant half-hour of nostalgia-infused wackiness scripted by the most reliably entertaining living humor-adventure comics creator in the Western world and drawn by Keramidas, an artist whose work I haven't spent a lot of time with but on this showing is a solidly competent mainstream French artist with a real flair for exaggerated action and worldbuilding design.
The conceit of the book, that it's a forgotten and only partially recovered serial originally published in a regional edition of Walt Disney's Comics & Stories (which really did run from the 40s to the 70s), allows Trondheim to jump around in space and time without having to bother about getting his heroes (a far wittier and more abrasive Mickey and Donald than ever appeared in the original Disney comics) from point A to point F; just tick the chapter number up a few digits and presto, something else entirely is happening. Keramidas' character design is way off-model, but his loose line and dense, lush compositional sense make up for the thinness of the premise by the sheer joy of what is on the page. The translation is excellent -- from the credits, it looks like it was translated by one person and then rendered into dialogue by an actual Disney comics writer, so period slang and Americanisms that wouldn't have been in Trondheim's script are peppered throughout, and there are only a few times when the characters wax philosophic enough to remind you that yes, it was written in French.
The book is as much a tribute to the headlong one-or-two-pages-at-a-time French comics serials of Trondheim's own childhood in Spirou or Tintin as it is to the Disney comics of the same period, which never serialized work like this (at least in the US); but Brigitte Findakly's exemplary color design in imitation of traditional dot-layering comics colors (and of the wear-and-tear, stains, and discoloring of age on old pulp paper) does a lot of hard work selling the retro aesthetic that neither the script nor the art particularly bother to achieve. Trondheim's script is recognizably Trondheim; the squabbling, easily distracted Mickey and Donald could be Lapinot and Richard, or any two characters from the Donjon megaseries, and his particular combination of slapstick and verbal comedy is as always a delight to read.
It's a goofy, silly one-off, a lark between installments of more seriously-intended series from both creators both separately and together (almost none of which are in English), but thanks to the steamrolling Disney juggernaut, it managed to wriggle into English, and I'll take any Trondheim I don't have to take pains over that I can get.
The conceit of the book, that it's a forgotten and only partially recovered serial originally published in a regional edition of Walt Disney's Comics & Stories (which really did run from the 40s to the 70s), allows Trondheim to jump around in space and time without having to bother about getting his heroes (a far wittier and more abrasive Mickey and Donald than ever appeared in the original Disney comics) from point A to point F; just tick the chapter number up a few digits and presto, something else entirely is happening. Keramidas' character design is way off-model, but his loose line and dense, lush compositional sense make up for the thinness of the premise by the sheer joy of what is on the page. The translation is excellent -- from the credits, it looks like it was translated by one person and then rendered into dialogue by an actual Disney comics writer, so period slang and Americanisms that wouldn't have been in Trondheim's script are peppered throughout, and there are only a few times when the characters wax philosophic enough to remind you that yes, it was written in French.
The book is as much a tribute to the headlong one-or-two-pages-at-a-time French comics serials of Trondheim's own childhood in Spirou or Tintin as it is to the Disney comics of the same period, which never serialized work like this (at least in the US); but Brigitte Findakly's exemplary color design in imitation of traditional dot-layering comics colors (and of the wear-and-tear, stains, and discoloring of age on old pulp paper) does a lot of hard work selling the retro aesthetic that neither the script nor the art particularly bother to achieve. Trondheim's script is recognizably Trondheim; the squabbling, easily distracted Mickey and Donald could be Lapinot and Richard, or any two characters from the Donjon megaseries, and his particular combination of slapstick and verbal comedy is as always a delight to read.
It's a goofy, silly one-off, a lark between installments of more seriously-intended series from both creators both separately and together (almost none of which are in English), but thanks to the steamrolling Disney juggernaut, it managed to wriggle into English, and I'll take any Trondheim I don't have to take pains over that I can get.
December 23, 2016
Really funny, but lost points when I understood this book isn't really based on old comic strips. Since Trondheim & Keramidas made this, couldn't they have made it complete instead of leaving parts out?
December 30, 2017
Η αλήθεια είναι πως και εγώ στην αρχή αναρωτήθηκα όταν είδα την πρώτη σελίδα με την αναφορά στην "παλιά ιστορία" αλλά το εξώφυλλο μου θύμισε πολύ έντονα μικροσκοπικό τσιγκούνη οπότε και κατάλαβα τι και πως. Έστω και έτσι το όλο παλιακό στιλ είναι πάρα πολύ ωραία δοσμένο με τα κεφάλαια που και καλά λείπουν καθώς και τις στάμπες από καφέδες/σχισμένες σελίδες κλπ. Με το κόμικ κατέρριψα δύο πρωτιές, η μία ότι διάβασα πρώτη φορά ντίσνεϊ μετά από σχεδόν 4 χρόνια και η δεύτερη ότι πρώτη φορά είπα "να μια αξιοπρεπής έκδοση για Disney" (από όσες έχω πιάσει στα χέρια μου έστω). Πολύ καλό χαρτί, ψαγμένο design εξωφύλλου, καλόγουστη γραμματοσειρά και πάει λέγοντας.
Ως προς το κόμικ, Ντίσνεϊ το λες μόνο στο όνομα και στο ότι δανείζεται τους ήρωες του σύμπαντος, μιας και δεν μοιάζουν και τόσο με αυτά που ξέρουμε. Επιτέλους είδα την αποδόμηση του πολυπράγμονα Μίκυ που περίμενα τόσα χρόνια. Δεν μπορούσα πλέον τον Μαγκάϊβερ με τα στρογγυλά αυτιά. Είδα τον Ντόναλντ να έχει ιδέες και τις πραγματοποιεί, έστω και με τον γκαφατζίδικο τρόπο του και τα υστερικά του νεύρα. Είδα την Μίννυ μικροαστική νοικοκυρούλα του Πικνικ που ζηλεύει τον Μίκυ. :P Μύριζαν όμως όλοι οι χαρακτήρες αυτό το Γαλλικό αέρα και την πιο φιλελέ νοοτροπία των BD. Ότι δηλαδή περίμενα, γι'αυτό και μπήκα στη διαδικασία να πάρω μια ξένη έκδοση Disney αντί για οτιδήποτε άλλο, γουστάροντας από την αρχή με το σουρεαλιστικό εξώφυλλο.
Θα ήθελα λίγο παραπάνω σκρούτζ, ευελπιστώ για κάποια νέα ιστορία των δύο που του δίνει μεγαλύτερο ρόλο. Και των μικρών εξερευνητών που εμφανίζονται φευγαλέα. Το σκίτσο ήταν βρώμικο καρτουνίστικο χωρίς περιορισμούς. Αλλιώς εμφανιζόταν το ράμφος του ντόναλντ στη μία σελίδα, αλλιώς στην άλλη. Το σενάριο είναι Trondheim, γεμάτο με έμμεσο χιουμοράκι και σάτιρα. Donjon με παπιά και ποντίκια δηλαδή. Ελπίζω να δώσει ένα έναυσμα σε όσους το πάρουν μόνο και μόνο επειδή είναι Disney, να ψάξουν και κάτι διαφορετικό και να διευρύνουν τους ορίζοντές τους.
Εγώ το ευχαριστήθηκα πολύ και σίγουρα θα το ξαναδιαβάσω. :)
Ως προς το κόμικ, Ντίσνεϊ το λες μόνο στο όνομα και στο ότι δανείζεται τους ήρωες του σύμπαντος, μιας και δεν μοιάζουν και τόσο με αυτά που ξέρουμε. Επιτέλους είδα την αποδόμηση του πολυπράγμονα Μίκυ που περίμενα τόσα χρόνια. Δεν μπορούσα πλέον τον Μαγκάϊβερ με τα στρογγυλά αυτιά. Είδα τον Ντόναλντ να έχει ιδέες και τις πραγματοποιεί, έστω και με τον γκαφατζίδικο τρόπο του και τα υστερικά του νεύρα. Είδα την Μίννυ μικροαστική νοικοκυρούλα του Πικνικ που ζηλεύει τον Μίκυ. :P Μύριζαν όμως όλοι οι χαρακτήρες αυτό το Γαλλικό αέρα και την πιο φιλελέ νοοτροπία των BD. Ότι δηλαδή περίμενα, γι'αυτό και μπήκα στη διαδικασία να πάρω μια ξένη έκδοση Disney αντί για οτιδήποτε άλλο, γουστάροντας από την αρχή με το σουρεαλιστικό εξώφυλλο.
Θα ήθελα λίγο παραπάνω σκρούτζ, ευελπιστώ για κάποια νέα ιστορία των δύο που του δίνει μεγαλύτερο ρόλο. Και των μικρών εξερευνητών που εμφανίζονται φευγαλέα. Το σκίτσο ήταν βρώμικο καρτουνίστικο χωρίς περιορισμούς. Αλλιώς εμφανιζόταν το ράμφος του ντόναλντ στη μία σελίδα, αλλιώς στην άλλη. Το σενάριο είναι Trondheim, γεμάτο με έμμεσο χιουμοράκι και σάτιρα. Donjon με παπιά και ποντίκια δηλαδή. Ελπίζω να δώσει ένα έναυσμα σε όσους το πάρουν μόνο και μόνο επειδή είναι Disney, να ψάξουν και κάτι διαφορετικό και να διευρύνουν τους ορίζοντές τους.
Εγώ το ευχαριστήθηκα πολύ και σίγουρα θα το ξαναδιαβάσω. :)
April 7, 2025
The art is great. It was the reason I decided to buy the books. I read them online and they looked great and so ordered physical copies. The design of course is impeccable and the coloring was on par with Winluss’ Pinocchio from Last Gasp though less gritty. Heavy paper stock for these short stories.
I read the Donald one first and found that one a lot more coherent. I thought the translation was a little choppy at times. Some of the dialogue was slightly off for some reason. I almost wished there wasn’t a punchline at the end of every page because sometimes the humor didn’t deliver on every page. Donald seemed a little sillier and more naive. Mickey was more triggered and determined. Even got a little more physical than I was expecting which was refreshing. I I think the Donald Happiest Adventures was better.
I read the Donald one first and found that one a lot more coherent. I thought the translation was a little choppy at times. Some of the dialogue was slightly off for some reason. I almost wished there wasn’t a punchline at the end of every page because sometimes the humor didn’t deliver on every page. Donald seemed a little sillier and more naive. Mickey was more triggered and determined. Even got a little more physical than I was expecting which was refreshing. I I think the Donald Happiest Adventures was better.
December 31, 2022
"Album ten to tak naprawdę taka ciekawostka wśród dotąd wydanych przygód Myszki Miki oraz Kaczora Donalda. Nie wiem, jak odbiorą go inni czytelnicy, lecz dla mnie był on całkiem ciekawy i przyjemny w odbiorze – właśnie poprzez tę jego inność wyrażoną w sposobie wydania zmuszającym momentami czytelnika do pewnych domysłów. Fajne jest w nim również to, iż niepozbawiony został pewnych literackich odniesień, a także aktualnych dla nas tematów, do wyśledzenia których gorąco zachęcam was, gdy już zdecydujecie się na lekturę."
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March 8, 2024
**ARC provided by NetGalley for honest review**
Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald: Mickey's Craziest Adventures by Lewis Trondheim was a collection of lost scenes from the old Disney Mickey comics. It was very nostalgic and fun at first, but I was a bit confused reading because I didn't realize going in that the story wasn't complete, so it jumped around a lot, skipping many scenes to get to the next part. It was fine, but I would only recommend if you're a hardcore Disney history fan and won't mind some holes in your story experience.
Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald: Mickey's Craziest Adventures by Lewis Trondheim was a collection of lost scenes from the old Disney Mickey comics. It was very nostalgic and fun at first, but I was a bit confused reading because I didn't realize going in that the story wasn't complete, so it jumped around a lot, skipping many scenes to get to the next part. It was fine, but I would only recommend if you're a hardcore Disney history fan and won't mind some holes in your story experience.
January 22, 2022
Amazing stuff. I would have loved this as a kid, and I sure like it now.
Many of the jokes and "modern" lingo are over the top ... but all the action and motion in color are over the top, and they're awesome. The only real downer is that more of the comics weren't discovered from days of yore. Those preserved here are great.
MPA ratings: G
Many of the jokes and "modern" lingo are over the top ... but all the action and motion in color are over the top, and they're awesome. The only real downer is that more of the comics weren't discovered from days of yore. Those preserved here are great.
MPA ratings: G
March 17, 2025
Oh boy, what did I just read? This is amazing. I love Trondheim's humor in his other works, and it is different than typical Disney humor but it works oh so well. An annoyed and sometimes even mean Mickey dealing with an even more obstinate and lazy Donald.
January 18, 2018
Har en sjeldent bevisst ironisk humor til å være Andeby-serie; dette føles litt påtrengende i starten, men blir en vanesak og endog litt morsomt etter hvert.
February 13, 2017
Ranskalaisten Lewis Trondheimin ja Keramidaksen yhteistyön tuloksena syntynyt Mikki & Aku -seikkailu perustuu idealle, jonka mukaan kaksikko olisi löytänyt pariisilaiselta kirpputorilta kasan kadonneita ja tyystin unohtumaan päässeitä Disney-sarjakuvia 1960-luvulta ja tehnyt niiden pohjalta tämän sarjakuvan.
Koska kaikki lehden numerot eivät muka ole säästyneet, puuttuu tästäkin retrotyyliin tehdystä julkaisusta sivuja niin, että tarinassa on aukkoja ja välillä sivusta saattaa puuttua palanen alareunasta; kyseessä on siis eräänlainen sarjakuvallinen vastine vuonna 2007 valmistuneelle Robert Rodriquezin Planet Terror -elokuvalle.
Vinkeästä ideasta on syntynyt hulvaton tarina, jota mielikuvituksen rajat eivät kahlitse, vähän Floyd Gottfredsonin alkuperäissarjojen hengessä. Lapset eivät välttämättä saa tästä irti ihan kaikkea hienoutta, mutta aikuisen mielestä lopputulos ei ole yhtään hassumpi.
Koska kaikki lehden numerot eivät muka ole säästyneet, puuttuu tästäkin retrotyyliin tehdystä julkaisusta sivuja niin, että tarinassa on aukkoja ja välillä sivusta saattaa puuttua palanen alareunasta; kyseessä on siis eräänlainen sarjakuvallinen vastine vuonna 2007 valmistuneelle Robert Rodriquezin Planet Terror -elokuvalle.
Vinkeästä ideasta on syntynyt hulvaton tarina, jota mielikuvituksen rajat eivät kahlitse, vähän Floyd Gottfredsonin alkuperäissarjojen hengessä. Lapset eivät välttämättä saa tästä irti ihan kaikkea hienoutta, mutta aikuisen mielestä lopputulos ei ole yhtään hassumpi.
January 4, 2024
A quirky, fun romp with universally recognized and beloved characters.
This fun tale takes readers on a fantastical adventure with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, almost in an Indiana Jones manner.
Add this fun and fast-paced adventure to your shelf immediately.
Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book for free and provide my honest review.
This fun tale takes readers on a fantastical adventure with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, almost in an Indiana Jones manner.
Add this fun and fast-paced adventure to your shelf immediately.
Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book for free and provide my honest review.
January 2, 2024
I received an ARC copy of this book via Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
This might be more for collectors than for actual reading or enjoyment. There’s too many jumps in the storyline. I get it that it’s supposed to have been lost and then found again. But in that aspect I think they took it too far if that’s what they wanted to do. Overall, I did not enjoy. It was too jumpy and the storyline just wasn’t for me. And I’m a diehard Disney fan. Again, these are just my opinions.
This might be more for collectors than for actual reading or enjoyment. There’s too many jumps in the storyline. I get it that it’s supposed to have been lost and then found again. But in that aspect I think they took it too far if that’s what they wanted to do. Overall, I did not enjoy. It was too jumpy and the storyline just wasn’t for me. And I’m a diehard Disney fan. Again, these are just my opinions.
February 21, 2017
Kaikkein hauskinta tässä kirjassa on idea: (mukamas) epätäydellinen kokoelma (mukamas) vanhoja Aku ja Mikki -seikkailuja. Ja että Disney Enterprises suostuu julkaisemaan tällaisen taiteelliselta haiskahtavan kokeilun. Onko niin, että isot brändit ovat oppineet nauramaan itselleen (vrt. Jeffrey Brownin Star Wars -hupailut) ja siksi antavat helpommin lupia tällaisille sovelluksille?
Itse tarinoilta odotin enemmän. Onhan näissä hyvää vauhtia ja vinoa huumoria, mutta kyllä tästä törmäyksestä olisi voinut syntyä jotain vielä suurempaakin. Toisaalta tuntui siltä, että tämä oli liian kaukana Ankkalinnasta, eli että ei ollut merkitystä sillä, että hahmot olivat Aku ja Mikki. Ja toisaalta taas irtiotto olisi voinut olla rajumpikin. Ehkä Disney ei kuitenkaan taipunut ihan mihin vain.
Itse tarinoilta odotin enemmän. Onhan näissä hyvää vauhtia ja vinoa huumoria, mutta kyllä tästä törmäyksestä olisi voinut syntyä jotain vielä suurempaakin. Toisaalta tuntui siltä, että tämä oli liian kaukana Ankkalinnasta, eli että ei ollut merkitystä sillä, että hahmot olivat Aku ja Mikki. Ja toisaalta taas irtiotto olisi voinut olla rajumpikin. Ehkä Disney ei kuitenkaan taipunut ihan mihin vain.
September 14, 2023
I love the art and I really love the idea of this in theory but in practice it fails to keep my interest. I ended up reading just a few pages at a time. It feels like reading a Sunday comic strip sporadically, that somehow you only end up reading chapters with the same busy energy and the pace never alters.
January 1, 2024
This was really disappointing. I was excited about it because I’m a big Disney fan, but I don’t know what I just read. I love Disney stuff but this was just weird. I also don’t understand if this is actually an old comic or if it’s just like supposed to seem old but either way it’s definitely outdated even if it was made this year. Boomers will like it, probably. Not my thing.
October 12, 2017
Incredible book. Well done exploration into an "alternate" world of Disney comics that every fan should enjoy reading. The artwork is stunning as well.
December 26, 2017
so different and funny. too bad about the missing pages
January 1, 2019
The unique premise of this 2017 offering from IDW Publishing is that a pair of cartoonists discovered a lost Disney Comic at a flea market. When originally published in 1965, the comic was deemed too wild for readers and lost for decades in the Disney Archives. Here Mickey and Donald team-up to retrieve Uncle Scrooge's money which has been stolen by arch fiends Peg-Leg Pete and the Beagle Boys!
I really enjoyed this unique graphic novel. The story is 'recreated' from old and damaged comics. It's also incomplete meaning that there's jumps in time throughout the tale. Plus the pages have scenes torn out or littered with moisture damage and mold. There's even a coffee ring stain on one page!
Created by French cartoonists Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas, I read this 50-page over-sized graphic novel in one whirlwind sitting. It's filled with all of your favorite Disney characters including Donald's nephews, Pluto and Gyro Gearloose.
Since IDW Publishing obtained the rights around 2015 to publish comics based on Disney's most popular properties, I've been a little critical. While I have enjoyed just about everything IDW has put out Disney, I have wondered why the publisher has only been releasing never-before-seen reprints from across the globe. My demands were finally answered in this publication. While Mickey's Craziest Adventures is by two French creators, and from a rumored 'lost' comic, this is an all-new story!
I hope we'll see more of such a thing from IDW. I also hope that there will be even more crazy adventures of Mickey by Trondheim and Keramidas. This was so much fun to read. Classic-style Disney with just a slight 2010 edge to it!
IDW- act quick and get Trondheim and Keramidas back to that flea market! I am sure there's more undiscovered Disney comics in need of finding!
I really enjoyed this unique graphic novel. The story is 'recreated' from old and damaged comics. It's also incomplete meaning that there's jumps in time throughout the tale. Plus the pages have scenes torn out or littered with moisture damage and mold. There's even a coffee ring stain on one page!
Created by French cartoonists Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas, I read this 50-page over-sized graphic novel in one whirlwind sitting. It's filled with all of your favorite Disney characters including Donald's nephews, Pluto and Gyro Gearloose.
Since IDW Publishing obtained the rights around 2015 to publish comics based on Disney's most popular properties, I've been a little critical. While I have enjoyed just about everything IDW has put out Disney, I have wondered why the publisher has only been releasing never-before-seen reprints from across the globe. My demands were finally answered in this publication. While Mickey's Craziest Adventures is by two French creators, and from a rumored 'lost' comic, this is an all-new story!
I hope we'll see more of such a thing from IDW. I also hope that there will be even more crazy adventures of Mickey by Trondheim and Keramidas. This was so much fun to read. Classic-style Disney with just a slight 2010 edge to it!
IDW- act quick and get Trondheim and Keramidas back to that flea market! I am sure there's more undiscovered Disney comics in need of finding!
September 28, 2025
surprisingly boring-the concept of "[fictional] old disney comics being recovered in a 'best of' compilation" is a cute idea, but it only reminded me that:
1. old comics can be monotonous as hell, relying on punchlines so basic they hardly register as jokes.
2. actual "best of" compilations are inherently disorienting, as each "page" often skips multiple issues into the future and leaves you wondering where you even are in the overall story.
i think this idea could've been pulled off in a clever way, even without going into a meta direction (though i'll admit i'm surprised the book never went that way either, considering there are some hints of it with artificially torn and faded pages), but the result here truly FEELS like you're reading a curated selection of an old run of comic strips, aka the sort that make you wonder why you picked up such a pointless product in the first place.
transitioning to the artwork: the backgrounds, monsters, and other incidental details are all charming, utilizing moody, era-appropriate limited color palettes and shading, which is particularly notable on the cover art. but as for the characters... while donald duck's old design is, of course, extremely adorable (this is where i'll admit i picked this up from the library because he's in it), most other characters look uncanny and lifeless, especially mickey's open-mouthed-vacant-expression that never leaves his face. this lack of emotion makes trying to unearth any personality or humor from its vintage writing style even more difficult than it already was.
1. old comics can be monotonous as hell, relying on punchlines so basic they hardly register as jokes.
2. actual "best of" compilations are inherently disorienting, as each "page" often skips multiple issues into the future and leaves you wondering where you even are in the overall story.
i think this idea could've been pulled off in a clever way, even without going into a meta direction (though i'll admit i'm surprised the book never went that way either, considering there are some hints of it with artificially torn and faded pages), but the result here truly FEELS like you're reading a curated selection of an old run of comic strips, aka the sort that make you wonder why you picked up such a pointless product in the first place.
transitioning to the artwork: the backgrounds, monsters, and other incidental details are all charming, utilizing moody, era-appropriate limited color palettes and shading, which is particularly notable on the cover art. but as for the characters... while donald duck's old design is, of course, extremely adorable (this is where i'll admit i picked this up from the library because he's in it), most other characters look uncanny and lifeless, especially mickey's open-mouthed-vacant-expression that never leaves his face. this lack of emotion makes trying to unearth any personality or humor from its vintage writing style even more difficult than it already was.
March 3, 2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liked it, fun while I was reading it
When Peg Leg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down… across lost cities, ancient lands, under the sea, in the air, and…into space?!? In a hilarious satire that will entertain all ages, Mickey’s Craziest Adventures introduces its epic tale as if it were a rare 1965 Disney classic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in fragments — but in fact, modern comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas have created an exciting all-new album-length stand-alone Disney thriller, drawn in a kinetic indie-comics style and presented like a classic vintage work, hiding the fact that it's actually shamelessly spoofing Silver Age comics clichés!
Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia, for a time when I wasn't even a glimmer in my parent's eyes yet. This really is for the true Disney fan. It's actually a modern spoof trying to look like a 1965 Disney Classic. Pages are missing, you can see the decay on some of the panels, making it look more believable and super fun! You can follow the story even with the "holes" and I liked that it was for all ages.
Thank you to Fantagraphics Books, NetGalley, and author Lewis Trondheim for providing me with a digital ARC copy of this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review. Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald: Mickey's Craziest Adventures is out February 27, 2024.
When Peg Leg Pete and the Beagle Boys shrink and steal Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin, Mickey and Donald must track them down… across lost cities, ancient lands, under the sea, in the air, and…into space?!? In a hilarious satire that will entertain all ages, Mickey’s Craziest Adventures introduces its epic tale as if it were a rare 1965 Disney classic, deemed too wild for publication and saved only in fragments — but in fact, modern comics masters Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Keramidas have created an exciting all-new album-length stand-alone Disney thriller, drawn in a kinetic indie-comics style and presented like a classic vintage work, hiding the fact that it's actually shamelessly spoofing Silver Age comics clichés!
Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia, for a time when I wasn't even a glimmer in my parent's eyes yet. This really is for the true Disney fan. It's actually a modern spoof trying to look like a 1965 Disney Classic. Pages are missing, you can see the decay on some of the panels, making it look more believable and super fun! You can follow the story even with the "holes" and I liked that it was for all ages.
Thank you to Fantagraphics Books, NetGalley, and author Lewis Trondheim for providing me with a digital ARC copy of this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review. Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald: Mickey's Craziest Adventures is out February 27, 2024.
January 1, 2024
Don’t let the title mislead you - these are NOT your classic Disney heroes, and this is NOT a book for kids. It’s a French spin-off full of French humor, featuring a Mickey and a Donald from some alternate French universe. And don’t take anything from it at face value, especially not the introduction - “Mickey’s Craziest Adventures” were never forgotten, because they were never released between 1962 and 1969. They never existed, obviously.
That being said, I liked the idea - a whole album that’s simultaneously a collection of one-page gags and a long story with a bunch of missing pages, leaving to the reader the task of filling in the blanks.
I was less taken by Trondheim’s very wacky and uneven humor, though (some gags are puerile, others are downright adult, some made me fall off my chair laughing, others went huh?), and the only reason this gets three stars from me is Kéramidas’s punkish art. Oh, and Mickey going all Bruce Lee on the hapless Beagle Boys.
Disclaimer: I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. This didn't influence my opinion in any way.
That being said, I liked the idea - a whole album that’s simultaneously a collection of one-page gags and a long story with a bunch of missing pages, leaving to the reader the task of filling in the blanks.
I was less taken by Trondheim’s very wacky and uneven humor, though (some gags are puerile, others are downright adult, some made me fall off my chair laughing, others went huh?), and the only reason this gets three stars from me is Kéramidas’s punkish art. Oh, and Mickey going all Bruce Lee on the hapless Beagle Boys.
Disclaimer: I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. This didn't influence my opinion in any way.
January 21, 2024
Fantagraphics Books provided an early galley for review.
One of my earliest comic book memories was reading the colorful adventures of many Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. So, a book like this is like taking a nostalgic trip back to my childhood.
This is supposed to simulate classic story which ran as a one-page-per-month serial in the 60's. Trondheim and Keramidas made it as if they had "recreated it" from the pages they "found in comic bins". Some of the pages are "torn" while others have various discoloration or stains. The presentation gives it a true feeling of old comics.
The story has some holes indeed (there are only 44 pages here of a much larger tale 80 plus page tale), but that aspect simulates comic collecting back when I was a kid in the 70's. You found back issues wherever you could. You consumed parts of stories and even read issues out of order. It was a treasure hunt. And that is what this story is too in a way. The mechanic of "missing chapters" might throw off some readers. Even with "holes", the reader can easily piece together this grand adventure.
Overall, it was fun and captured an older comic vibe with some satiric elements to boot.
One of my earliest comic book memories was reading the colorful adventures of many Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. So, a book like this is like taking a nostalgic trip back to my childhood.
This is supposed to simulate classic story which ran as a one-page-per-month serial in the 60's. Trondheim and Keramidas made it as if they had "recreated it" from the pages they "found in comic bins". Some of the pages are "torn" while others have various discoloration or stains. The presentation gives it a true feeling of old comics.
The story has some holes indeed (there are only 44 pages here of a much larger tale 80 plus page tale), but that aspect simulates comic collecting back when I was a kid in the 70's. You found back issues wherever you could. You consumed parts of stories and even read issues out of order. It was a treasure hunt. And that is what this story is too in a way. The mechanic of "missing chapters" might throw off some readers. Even with "holes", the reader can easily piece together this grand adventure.
Overall, it was fun and captured an older comic vibe with some satiric elements to boot.
January 26, 2024
This book was a very cute concept and I loved how the authors wanted to share with readers the old mickey and Donald comics they found at a garage sale. Each comic was unique, short/to the point, and continued from the last one to show the whole story. I thought this was so fun and really cool to be able to see how the old Disney comics were made. I will say, after a while I got kind of bored. It felt like it didn’t have depth to it. It was just one adventure to the next, which I know was the point of these comics, but I wish it flowed together a little bit better and maybe had more detail like a graphic novel would. I think these are perfect for what they are, but reading it back to back in one sitting was a little boring and got old fast. As a huge disney fan though, this is a great piece of memorabilia. Thank you to the publisher for allowing me the ARC to read in exchange for my honest review.
February 21, 2024
This book was created specifically to tug at your nostalgia - and that's not a bad thing.
I loved the concept. The introduction in the book tells us this is a presumably lost series of one-pagers about Mickey and Donald, complete with wear, tear and missing pages. Don't believe everything you read! In reality this was created intentionally from scratch to mix in the adult jokes and less-than-official Disney art style reminiscent of classic French comics.
It's a marvelous short journey back to a time when Disney comics were everywhere. It reminded me of inhaling entire volumes borrowed from my cousin at full speed, then starting them all over again to experience the stories in a new light. I'm grateful to the authors for creating and sharing this spin-off for us adults who grew up with these stories.
If you're a fan of classic Disney and French comics, give this excellent mash-up a go!
✨ Disclaimer ✨ I received a free copy of this book and this is my honest review.
I loved the concept. The introduction in the book tells us this is a presumably lost series of one-pagers about Mickey and Donald, complete with wear, tear and missing pages. Don't believe everything you read! In reality this was created intentionally from scratch to mix in the adult jokes and less-than-official Disney art style reminiscent of classic French comics.
It's a marvelous short journey back to a time when Disney comics were everywhere. It reminded me of inhaling entire volumes borrowed from my cousin at full speed, then starting them all over again to experience the stories in a new light. I'm grateful to the authors for creating and sharing this spin-off for us adults who grew up with these stories.
If you're a fan of classic Disney and French comics, give this excellent mash-up a go!
✨ Disclaimer ✨ I received a free copy of this book and this is my honest review.
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