David Gerstein


David Gerstein is an American comics author and editor as well as an animation historian. Gerstein has five books and countless comic book credits to his name. He has written many Disney comics stories, usually featuring Mickey Mouse and/or Donald Duck 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. His current work is with various affiliates of Egmont, and Fantagraphics Books.
Recurring gags in Gerstein's writing include quotations from Shakespeare, Gilbert and Sullivan, and T.S. Eliot, often paraphrased in a humorous manner.

Book work

As author/editor :
As contributing author/editor:
  • Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow
  • Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee
  • Mickey All-Stars
  • Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy of the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915
  • Walt Disney's Hall of Fame: Al Taliaferro
  • The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
  • Kalle Anka & Co – Den kompletta årgången 1965-02
  • Mickey Mouse Classics series
  • Donald Duck & Co-De komplette årgangene 1965 del V
  • Animation Art: From Pencil To Pixel
  • Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide
  • Black Images in the Comics

Comics and magazine work