David Gerstein (born February 6, 1974) is an American

comics author a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicat ...

and editor as well as an

animation historian Animation, the method for creating moving pictures from still images, has an Early history of animation, early history and a modern history that began with the advent of Celluloid, celluloid film in 1888. Between 1895 and 1920, during the rise of ...

. Gerstein has five books and countless comic book credits to his name. He has written many

Disney comics Disney comics are comic books and comic strips featuring characters created by the Walt Disney Company, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck. The first Disney comics were newspaper strips appearing from 1930 on, starting with t ...

stories, usually featuring

Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large shoes, and white ...

and/or

Donald Duck Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. Donald is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit, sailor shirt and cap with ...

and provided American English script doctoring for Mickey and Donald stories that were originally written in a different language. Past employments include Egmont Creative A/S, a Danish comics studio, and

Gemstone Publishing Gemstone Publishing is an American company that publishes comic book price guides. The company was formed by Diamond Comic Distributors President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Geppi in 1994 when he bought Overstreet. Gemstone published lic ...

. His current work is with various affiliates of Egmont, and

Fantagraphics Books Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and (formerly) the Erotic comics, erotic Eros Comix imprint. They have managed sev ...

. Recurring gags in Gerstein's writing (both original stories and script doctoring of others') include quotations from Shakespeare,

Gilbert and Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created. The two men collaborated on fourteen com ...

, and

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, often paraphrased in a humorous manner.

Book work

As author/editor (or co-editor): *Donald Duck: The Ultimate History (with J. B. Kaufman; TASCHEN, 2024) *Donald Duck: The 90th Anniversary Collection (Fantagraphics Books, 2024) *The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Deluxe Edition (Fantagraphics Books, 2021) *Disney Afternoon Adventures—Darkwing Duck: Just Us Justice Ducks (Fantagraphics Books, 2021) *Disney Masters—Donald Duck: Follow the Fearless Leader (Fantagraphics Books, 2020) *Disney Masters—Donald Duck: Scandal on the Epoch Express (Fantagraphics Books, 2020) *Mickey Mouse: The 90th Anniversary Collection (IDW Publishing, 2019) *The

Don Rosa Keno Don Hugo Rosa (), known as Don Rosa (born June 29, 1951), is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his comics about Scrooge McDuck and other Disney comics, Disney characters. Many of his stories are built on characters an ...

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Old Castle's Other Secret (Fantagraphics Books, 2018) *Mickey Mouse: The Greatest Adventures (Fantagraphics Books, 2018) *Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History (with J. B. Kaufman; TASCHEN, 2018) *Disney Masters—Donald Duck: The Great Survival Test (Fantagraphics Books, 2018) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Three Caballeros Ride Again! (Fantagraphics Books, 2018) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Mysterious Dr. X (Fantagraphics Books, 2018) *Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3 (IDW Publishing, 2018) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Escape from Forbidden Valley (Fantagraphics Books, 2017) *Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3 (IDW Publishing, 2017) *Donald Duck: Timeless Tales, Vol. 3 (IDW Publishing, 2017) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Treasure of the Ten Avatars (Fantagraphics Books, 2017) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Mickey vs. Mickey (Fantagraphics Books, 2017) *Donald Duck: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2 (IDW Publishing, 2017) *Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2 (IDW Publishing, 2017) *Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 2 (IDW Publishing, 2016) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Universal Solvent (Fantagraphics Books, 2016) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Planet of Faceless Foes (Fantagraphics Books, 2016) *Mickey Mouse: Timeless Tales, Vol. 1 (IDW Publishing, 2016) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Richest Duck in the World (Fantagraphics Books, 2016) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Rise of the Rhyming Man (Fantagraphics Books, 2016) *Uncle Scrooge: Timeless Tales, Vol. 1 (IDW Publishing, 2016) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Last of the Clan McDuck (Fantagraphics Books, 2015) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Tomorrow Wars (Fantagraphics Books, 2015) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Treasure Under Glass (Fantagraphics Books, 2015) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: March of the Zombies (Fantagraphics Books, 2015) *Learn to Draw Mickey Mouse & Friends Through the Decades (Walter Foster Publishing, 2015) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: Return to Plain Awful (Fantagraphics Books, 2014) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Lost in Lands of Long Ago (Fantagraphics Books, 2014) *The

Library—Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Son of the Sun (Fantagraphics Books, 2014) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot (Fantagraphics Books, 2014) *Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Manuel Gonzales (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2013) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays: Robin Hood Rides Again (Fantagraphics Books, 2013) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Color Sundays: Call of the Wild (Fantagraphics Books, 2013) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: House of the Seven Haunts! (Fantagraphics Books, 2012) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: High Noon at Inferno Gulch (Fantagraphics Books, 2012) *The Katzenjammer Kids—100 Years in Norway (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2011) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Trapped on Treasure Island (Fantagraphics Books, 2011) * The Floyd Gottfredson Library—Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: Race to Death Valley (Fantagraphics Books, 2011) *Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Floyd Gottfredson II (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2010) *Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Dick Kinney and Al Hubbard (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2009) *

Walt Disney Treasures Walt Disney Treasures is a series of two-disc DVD collections of Disney cartoons, television episodes and other material. They cover material from the studio's earliest days to its more recent work. There were nine waves, each containing two ...

—Uncle Scrooge: A Little Something Special (Gemstone Publishing, 2008) *

—Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation (Gemstone Publishing, 2006) *Mickey and the Gang: Classic Stories in Verse (Gemstone Publishing, 2005) *Donald Duck: 70 Years (Egmont Serieforlaget A/S, 2004) *The Walt Disney Centennial Book (Egmont Serieforlaget A/S, 2001) *70 Years With Mickey Mouse (Egmont Serieforlaget A/S, 1998) *Nine Lives To Live: A Classic Felix Celebration (Fantagraphics, 1996) * Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies (Fantagraphics, 2023) As contributing author/editor: *Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow (Fantagraphics Books, 2023) *Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee (Fantagraphics Books, 2022) *Mickey All-Stars (Fantagraphics Books, 2021) *Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy of the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 (Sunday Press Books, 2013) *Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Al Taliaferro (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2013) *The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons (Insight Editions, 2010) *Kalle Anka & Co – Den kompletta årgången 1965-02 (Egmont Kärnan AB, 2010) *Mickey Mouse Classics series (Boom! Kids, 2010) *Donald Duck & Co-De komplette årgangene 1965 del V (Egmont Serieforlaget, 2009) *Animation Art: From Pencil To Pixel (Harper Design International, 2004) *Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide (Dorling Kindersley, 2003) *Black Images in the Comics (Fantagraphics, 2003)

Comics and magazine work

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'', sometimes abbreviated ''WDC&S'', is an American Comics anthology, anthology comic book series featuring characters from The Walt Disney Company's films and shorts, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Micke ...

(Gemstone Publishing/Boom! Kids) (As archival editor and contributing writer) *Anders And & Co. (Egmont Serieforlaget A/S) (As contributing story editor) *Walt Disney's Christmas Jubilee Present (Egmont Serieforlaget Norway) (As editor and contributing writer) *

Uncle Scrooge ''Uncle Scrooge'' (stylized as ''Uncle $crooge'') is a Disney comic book series starring Scrooge McDuck ("the richest duck in the world"), his nephew Donald Duck, and grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and revolving around their adventures in ...

(Gemstone Publishing) (As archival editor and contributing writer) *Comic Book Marketplace (Gemstone Publishing) (As writer)

References

David Gerstein's resume

External links

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David Gerstein's Virtual Inkwell
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