Category Archives: Disney Afternoon

Goofy and Clownish Holiday Fare

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas – I kept seeing this recommended on Disney Plus, so I figured I might as well give it a shot. From 1999, it’s a collection of three different Christmas-themed cartoons, each featuring one of the … Continue reading

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Duck and Cover

Today, I’m looking at two more Carl Barks comic collections. Uncle Scrooge: The Twenty-Four Carat Moon – The title story here has a rather wacky plot, Astronomers discover another moon behind the regular one that’s made entirely out of gold. … Continue reading

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A Foray Into Animated Enchantresses

A few days ago, Tavie brought up how both Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons have witches named Witch Hazel, both voiced by June Foray, and said I should write a post about that. From the brief research I did, it … Continue reading

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Life’s Good for the Multiplujillionaires

Uncle Scrooge: The Lost Crown of Genghis Khan, by Carl Barks – The library system now has another volume in Fantagraphics’ series of reprints that I hadn’t yet read. I’m not totally sure whether I should keep the ones I … Continue reading

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The Taming of the Scrooge

The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck, Volume 2, by Don Rosa – You may remember I read the first volume almost two years ago, but the collection is out of print and the library didn’t have the second. Now … Continue reading

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All in the Disney Afternoon

One thing the Internet is good for is finding information on cartoons you haven’t watched in years. Back in 1994, when the Disney Afternoon was a thing, Disney Adventures magazine did an ongoing story that incorporated all of the shows … Continue reading

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