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Buy Now On Amazon	Silly Symphonies Volume 4: The Complete Disney Classics A remarkable reprint series from the Library of American Comics, presenting the full historic run of the Silly Symphony Sunday comic pages in full color, concludes with this fourth and final volume. This installment covers the last three years of the strip, with a faithful rendition of Disney’s classic Bambi and the extended adventures of Donald Duck’s Latin American pals, José Carioca and Panchito. Introduction by Fernando Ventura; individual section intros by JBK and David Gerstein.
Buy Now On Amazon	Silly Symphonies Volume 3: The Complete Disney Classics The third entry in a four-volume series from the Library of American Comics, presenting the full run of the delightful Silly Symphony Sunday comic pages, reproduced in full color. This volume covers the years 1939-42. The cinematic Silly Symphonies came to an end in 1939, but the comic strip continued at full strength with a retelling of Pinocchio, a star turn for Pluto, and cartoon adaptations including a version of Little Hiawatha that ran for nearly two years. Includes an introduction by JBK and David Gerstein.
Buy Now on Amazon	The Walt Disney Film Archives: The Animated Movies, 1921-1968 This huge, sumptuous volume from the legendary European publisher Taschen celebrates the Disney studio’s entire output of animated films, from the beginning through the end of Walt’s life. Individual chapters are contributed by a gallery of Disney scholars, and illustrated with a lavish array of film stills and production art, reproduced in rich color, much of it never published before. Includes JBK chapters on Bambi and the Latin American films of the 1940s.
Buy Now on Amazon	Silly Symphonies Volume 2: The Complete Disney Classics The second entry in a four-volume series from the Library of American Comics, presenting the full run of the delightful Silly Symphony Sunday comic pages, reproduced in full color. This second volume covers the period from summer 1935 to early 1939, including such highlights as the comics version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first Disney feature-length film, and a 15-month “trial run” starring Donald Duck, which led to Donald’s own solo comic strip. Includes an introduction by JBK.
View on Amazon	Silly Symphonies Volume 1: The Complete Disney Classics The first entry in a four-volume series from the Library of American Comics, presenting the full run of the delightful Silly Symphony Sunday comic pages, reproduced in full color. This will be the first complete collection of the strips in English since their original publication, more than eighty years ago. This first volume showcases the birth of the strip in 1932, and continues into the summer of 1935, including such highlights as the first appearance of Donald Duck in a comic strip. Includes an introduction by JBK.
View on Amazon	50 Years in the Mouse House: The Lost Memoir of One of Disney’s Nine Old Men Edited by Didier Ghez and Joe Campana, this volume contains the manuscript of Eric Larson’s previously unpublished autobiography, along with a wealth of supporting materials. Includes the JBK essay “Larson in Mexico.”
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 10: Films Produced in 1919-1946 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Kevin Brownlow. This volume covers the last decade of Griffith’s career and later related projects, and includes JBK’s notes on The Country Flapper, the sound prologue to Dream Street, His Darker Self, Topsy and Eva, the remake of The Battle of the Sexes, San Francisco, and One Million B.C.
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 9: Films Produced in 1916-1918 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Scott Simmon. This volume covers the years 1916-18 and includes JBK’s notes on the Griffith-supervised The Devil’s Needle and Fifty Fifty.
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 8: Films Produced in 1914-1915 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Paul Spehr. This volume covers the years 1914-15 and includes JBK’s notes on the Griffith-supervised Enoch Arden, The Martyrs of the Alamo, Old Heidelberg, and Double Trouble, as well as aspects of his controversial The Birth of a Nation.
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 7: Films Produced in 1913 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Kevin Brownlow. This volume covers the year 1913 and includes JBK’s notes on the Griffith-supervised Liberty Belles and A Fair Rebel, as well as Griffith’s first feature, Judith of Bethulia.
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 6: Films Produced in 1912 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Scott Simmon. This volume covers the year 1912 and includes JBK’s notes on Oil and Water, An Adventure in the Autumn Woods, The Tender-Hearted Boy, A Chance Deception, and When Love Forgives.
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 5: Films Produced in 1911 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Eileen Bowser. This volume covers the year 1911 and includes JBK’s notes on The Indian Brothers, Her Sacrifice, The Thief and the Girl, The Blind Princess and the Poet, Fighting Blood, and The Last Drop of Water.
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 4: Films Produced in 1910 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Scott Simmon. This volume covers the year 1910 and includes JBK’s notes on The Marked Time-Table, A Child’s Impulse, The Purgation, Muggsy’s First Sweetheart, and A Midnight Cupid.
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 3: Films Produced in July-December 1909 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Tom Gunning. This volume covers the last six months of 1909 and includes JBK’s notes on The Test, A Trap for Santa Claus, In Little Italy, The Day After, To Save Her Soul, and Choosing a Husband.
View on Amazon	The Griffith Project, vol. 1: Films Produced in 1907-1908 Paolo Cherchi Usai, editor A volume of program notes specially prepared for the legendary “Griffith Project” at the Pordenone festival, featuring the writing of such top D.W. Griffith scholars as Russell Merritt and Scott Simmon. This volume covers the beginnings of Griffith’s film career in 1907-08 and includes JBK’s notes on A Famous Escape, King of the Cannibal Islands, The Music Master, Hulda’s Lovers, The King’s Messenger, The Sculptor’s Nightmare, When Knights Were Bold, Mixed Babies, ’Ostler Joe, and The Invisible Fluid.
View on Amazon	Mickey Mouse Color Sundays, vol. 2: “Robin Hood Rides Again” This entry in the excellent “Gottfredson Library” series, collecting the vintage Mickey Mouse comic strips of Floyd Gottfredson, is the second volume of Mickey Mouse Sunday pages in full color. This volume contains Gottfredson’s color Mickey pages from 1936-38, along with various later pages from other strips. Edited, like the rest of the series, by David Gerstein and Gary Groth, this volume includes a foreword by JBK.
View on Amazon	Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: Color Sundays Vol. 1 “Call of the Wild” This entry in the excellent “Gottfredson Library” series, collecting the vintage Mickey Mouse comic strips of Floyd Gottfredson, is the first volume of Mickey Mouse Sunday pages in full color, dating from 1932-35. Edited, like the rest of the series, by David Gerstein and Gary Groth, this volume includes a foreword by JBK. Fantagraphics Books, 2013.
View on Amazon	Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood Edited by Daniel Goldmark and Charlie Keil, this is an anthology of essays about the relationship between animation and comedy. Includes JBK’s essay “The Heir Apparent,” about Mickey Mouse’s role as the heir of the American comedy tradition in the 1930s. University of California Press, 2011.