Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics
Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics is a book series which reprints Walt Disney's "Silly Symphony" Sunday comic strip, drawn by several different Disney artists from 1932 to 1945. The strip was published by King Features Syndicate. The strip often introduced new Disney characters to the public, including its first comic character, Bucky Bug. The series was published by The Library of American Comics from 2016 to 2019. Background. From 1929 to 1939, the Walt Disney Company produced 75 original animated short features under the "Silly Symphony" line. These shorts were designed to  be standalone whimsical pieces without any reoccurring characters. These shorts helped Disney push the limits of what could be done with animation in terms of character effects and storytelling, and inspired the invention of the multiplane camera, a recording device allowing animated films to create tracking shots, which in turn made it possible to tell stories in new ways. The "Silly Symphonies" shorts were a great success, winning the Academy Award for "Best Animated Short Films" seven times. It also branched out to include a series of children's books, comic books and a newspaper Sunday comic strip. The comic  strip was syndicated into the 1950s, the same decade when Dell Comics started to publish 100-page compilation comic books under the "Silly Symphony" brand, these featured new stand alone stories which was not a continuation of the material the Sunday newspaper strip had featured. In total, Dell Comics published nine of these comic books. The first issues of the series were initially published in black-and-white, but transitioned to color print. In April 2016, IDW Publishing and The Library of American Comics began reprinting the Sunday comic strips. Format. The books are hardcover with a sewn binding, a  sewn linen bookmark, and a dust jacket. They measure 12 × 8.5 inches, approximately 305 × 216 mm, and are set in a landscape format. This format allows each Sunday page to be as close to the original size as possible. The comics are scanned from the original Disney proofs, which have been archived in vaults located in Glendale and Burbank, California, U.S.A. Each print is in full color throughout the volumes, identical to the comic strips, originally published in full color. Each volume of the series has about 210 pages, in which approximately ten pages are supplementary material including  introductions by the film historian and author J. B. Kaufman. Volumes from the series were sold separately. The release schedule for the series was one volume every ten months.