About the Author

Hired as a short-term replacement on the fledgling Mickey Mouse daily strip in 1930, Floyd Gottfredson (1905-1986) went on to draw the feature for the next 45 years. He created the most famous Mickey tales ever told in print. He is a Disney Legend and was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2006. David Gerstein is an animation and comics researcher, writer, and editor best known for his work with The Walt Disney Company and its licensees. His published projects include Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library (Fantagraphics, 2014-2018) and Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History (with J.B. Kaufman; Taschen, 2018). He lives in North Carolina. Gary Groth is the co-founder of The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle.

Reviews

...[A] revelation. As in his contemporaneous animated cartoons, this Mickey is a feisty, wisecracking daredevil... Gottfredson's charmingly old-fashioned drawings accentuate the gags and briskly propel the plotlines.--Gordon Flagg "Booklist"

...[A]s amazing as it sounds David Gerstein and Fantagraphics have managed to do it again: they have produced at the same time the best Disney comic book of 2011 and one of the best Disney history books of the year.--Didier Ghez "Disney History"

Can you believe that the tapioca-plain Mickey Mouse was... once a high-spirited adventurer...? He was in the original comic strips... It's one of the classics.--David Allen "Inland Valley Daily Bulletin"

Gottfredson's comics are as classy, funny and as slick as the Disney shorts from the same period.... A fine package, a full meal, and a perfect follow-up to volume 1, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 2: Trapped on Treasure Island fills a gap long-neglected in animation history. Buy it.--Jerry Beck "Cartoon Brew"

Over time, Mickey's personality becomes more refined...; scrappier, tougher and more determined to seek justice (or an adventure) regardless of the odds. ...[T]his series is rich with detail, both in the strip itself and in the editorial handling of the material, [in a way] that puts other reprint projects to shame.--Chris Mautner "Robot 6"

The stories are dense, packing plenty of dialogue into the strips -- and the themes are darker than the bright-eyed, factory-sealed tales of today.... The reproduction is crisp -- the black inks are meticulous in their separation.... This dynamic look is a revelation in the life of the character who started it all for Disney.--Alex Carr "Omnivoracious (Amazon.com)"

The Mickey Mouse books from Fantagraphics... feel like the Criterion Collection DVDs translated into comic strip compilations, a prime example of how to give the readers more than their money's worth.... With Mickey Mouse: Trapped on Treasure Island, I'm already eager to see what Gottfredson did next. I'm in for the long haul.--Greg McElhatton "Read About Comics"

These Floyd Gottfredson-created adventure strips... are everything you want from a feature like this: exuberant, lovely-looking and a lot of fun.--Tom Spurgeon "The Comics Reporter"