"Date with a Munchkin"

I tell you, it's positively disgusting how open-minded I'm becoming these days with regard to duck comics. I have a very hard time imagining that I'll ever be interested in these dumb superheroes stories (if I show any signs of moving in that direction, it's VERY important that you put me out of my misery first), and I still don't care much for the excessively loosey-goosey art style favored by the late Romano Scarpa and his ilk (I'm pretty sure he has an ilk of some description), but other than that, I'm willing to at least try almost anything.
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"Close-Ups"

Fair warning: this entry is only incidentally about "Close-Ups." It's really just an excuse for me to maunder on at great length about William Van Horn. Sorry!
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"The Three Caballeros Ride Again"

In 1941, Disney, at the behest of the US government, went on a goodwill tour of South America with the purpose of making a movie and encouraging the Latin Americans not to join the Nazis. The resulting movie, Saludos Amigos, is no one's idea of a classic--a vaguely amusing but mostly mediocre collection of four cartoons interspersed with live action footage. However, it was successful enough that the company decided to do another film on the same theme, 1944's Three Caballeros.
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