If you are going to a boring meeting, this is the only briefcase you need 😊 Inside this great packaging you'll find Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History published by TASCHEN books just in time for Mickey's 90th Anniversary.
The image above doesn't show the size that well, but this book is HUGE! Just to show how large it is, I put a regular comic book on top of it to compare.
Inside we have almost 500 pages packed with illustrations of everything from sketches for the movies, posters, comics, photos and other rare items. A lot of it supposedly shown on print for the first time and there's definitely a lot of things I've never seen before.
Check out TASCHEN's own webpage for an image gallery showing some of the stuff inside.
But the book is not all about images, there's also a lot of text with background information. I've had the book a few weeks now, but it will take some time get through all of it – I've just read bits here and there yet. But the good thing about this book is at that you don't need to read from the beginning all the way to the end – you can just flip through it and read parts at random places.
When I first heard about this book I didn't expect it to have too much information about the comics, but I'm positively surprised at the amount of comic book history inside it! The book is divided into three parts, "The Golden Age", "The Silver Age" and "The Modern Age" – all with several chapters dedicated to the comics. And they are not just about the American comics, we have sections like "First Italian comics" and "Egmont's new Mickey", lots of scans from early British stuff etc.
Here are some low-res images with examples from the comic book chapters, just showing the layout and what kind of things are talked about:
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| From the chapter "Mickey comes to the comics (1930-1931)" |
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| From the chapter "The Comic Adventurer (1931-1941)" |
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| From the chapter "Password: Mickey Mouse (1941-1945)" |
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| From the chapter "Modernizing Mickey (1950-1960)" |
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| From the chapter "Cosmopolitan Mickey (1960-Today)" |
I think this is the most expensive single book I've ever bought, but for me it was worth it. I'm not going to be "done" with the book anytime soon. And if you are interested in Disney history, Mickey Mouse or even just Disney comic history I can highly recommend this book! My thought after flipping through the entire book was "how can they top this for Mickey's 100th Anniversary in 10 years?"
Would you like be so very kind to count how many pages that are comic related and come back with a number? :)
ReplyDeleteI did a quick count while flipping through the book again and counted 95 pages mostly or only about comics. This includes pages entirely filled with a cover scan and such too, not all of them have text.
DeleteThank you, that was very helpfull.
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